Hacking Configurable USB Loader

[matcon5]

Just a quick and simple question for now from me

Will an external enclosure and a 200GB IDE drive work alright? or is SATA more recommended?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dr. Clipper]

Just a quick and simple question for now from me

Will an external enclosure and a 200GB IDE drive work alright? or is SATA more recommended?

Thanks in advance.

Enclosures aren't recommended at all. They have a much lower compatibility rate than standalone drives.

 

[smf]

Enclosures aren't recommended at all. They have a much lower compatibility rate than standalone drives.

What is the difference? The only one I can think of is it's easier to know if it will work if you buy a branded one and it's on the compatibility list.

I bought a cheap 2.5" SATA caddy and put a drive that had come out of a laptop inside and it worked fine.
PATA should be ok as well. Only way to know for sure is to try it.

 

[Dr. Clipper]

Enclosures aren't recommended at all. They have a much lower compatibility rate than standalone drives.

What is the difference? The only one I can think of is it's easier to know if it will work if you buy a branded one and it's on the compatibility list.

I bought a cheap 2.5" SATA caddy and put a drive that had come out of a laptop inside and it worked fine.
PATA should be ok as well. Only way to know for sure is to try it.

I'm not sure what it is, but speaking from experience from troubleshooting a lot of drives in chat, the enclosures seem to have a much higher failure rate. For some of them, it's because they implement a hub interface; others like to only have certain formatting types and don't work well with the Wii drivers. Much of the time there's no clear reason why they don't work, but they don't. Now, I'd still say that there are more successes than failures via enclosure, but the success rate definitely seems lower than with drives.

 

[bert02]

enclosures are like cheap sd cards
some work but theres a chance they wont

 

[giantpune]

huh??? what do you think a external drive is? its a internal drive with an enclosure. open one up and see. they even have sata/ide connectors. and you can open up a external hdd and put another hdd in it.

 

[Dr. Clipper]

huh??? what do you think a external drive is? its a internal drive with an enclosure. open one up and see. they even have sata/ide connectors. and you can open up a external hdd and put another hdd in it.

Yes, but the types of enclosures that come with standalone drives don't have these features that are making the separate enclosures less compatible. They just seem to work better in combination with the Wii.

 

[Burton]

huh??? what do you think a external drive is? its a internal drive with an enclosure. open one up and see. they even have sata/ide connectors. and you can open up a external hdd and put another hdd in it.

Yes, but the types of enclosures that come with standalone drives don't have these features that are making the separate enclosures less compatible. They just seem to work better in combination with the Wii.

Dr. Clipper is right I have tested that myself and some enclosures were incompatible. On the other hand connecting the drive directly through a sata/ idle cable to usb and external power made the same drive more stable.

 

[Anusko]

Is it possible to autoboot disc games?

 

[julz1]

If you wanted to edit the wiitdb file to edit the games descriptions does config read the zip or will it read the xml file if you extracted then edited it. or do i have to extract it edit it. then re zip it

 

[daleybox]

Thus, if you use a coverflow GUI to view your games, you can have the full or 2D covers in combination with disc art when you select a game. All the console and gridflow views are limited to one type at a time, though.

I'm using the coverflow3D GUI style, so how can I make it show the disc art when I select a game? Right now all I see is the cover again...

 

[Vattu]

Is it possible to autoboot disc games?

yes, it's possible. but I don't think it's supported by cfg loader now. I'm fairly sure it's supported by the preloaders.

 

[Anusko]

I know it's possible with other backup loaders, I was just asking if this one supports it

I think it would be a nice addiction to the list of features, there are still many people who prefer to burn DVD and get the unmodded look and feel.

 

[mphoenixmq]

Hi All,

I follow this guide.
It work wonderfull for me.

Best Regards
MPhoenix

 

[jogydoby]

I have an odd issue I was hoping to find some help for.

I was looking for an alternative to USB Loader GX since it seems to get buggier with new features. However, when trying to boot games from my WBFS partitioned hdd, CFG USB Loader r51 sometimes hangs when the screen says "Booting Wii Game, Please Wait.." Other times, it will boot perfectly. Either way, I've never had this issue with USB Loader GX (though I've had tons of experience with 002, etc), and I did test it again and found the same.

Any ideas?

Which IOSes (249,222) are you using and which revisions of those IOSes (rev 17, v4, etc.)?

Have you been turning on the Anti 002 fix in options? (you probably shouldn't be, but it depends on your 249 revision)

I've used ciosre17 and 222r4.

It hasn't done it for the last few times. I suspected it might have had something to do with anti 002 and took it out last night. I'm trying to replicate it, however... with little success. So I guess my issue is fixed?

 

[aniemotion]

Heello,
I transfered No More Heroes 2 (.wbfs) at my 1TB NTFS drive with WiiBackupManager0.3.4r3, but the game ins not listed at CFG usb L game list... al my others transfered wbfs game are ok....

 

[Stigmatic]

Is there a way to get your own custom names for some games?
Like a custom_titles.txt file or something?

I have added a few things to Wiitdb, but I wouldn't edit names there for personal use.

For example I would like all Rock Band titles to start with Rock Band, and not The Beatles, or LEGO or whatever, so that I can find them all in the same place.

I think this should work:
If you're using sd:/usb-loader/ for all the config files and titles.txt
you can put your custom titles.txt to: sd:/apps/usbloader/titles.txt
both will be used with the second one overriding the original...

Thanks. This works like a charm!

 

[fig2k4]

@aniemotion
Check the folder names are compatible with the version of cfg you're using. To be sure, just update to the latest version. If you're using cfg 51a or below, and don't want to update, then you'll need to select "GameID_Title" in the storage convention options in WBM. You can then go to "Tools->FAT32/NTFS->Update storage convention" to make the folder names compatible.

 

[matcon5]

Is there a compatibility list for drives that work? I thought I saw a link to something like that, but seemed to have miss placed it.

Since it seems enclosures and IDE/SATA drives might be problematic.
Or can someone recommend what I could use. My Wii's laser is dying and I need a way to play my games

Thanks in advance.

 

[XFlak]

matcon,

the Western Digital My Passports (portable external HDs) or Western Digital My Books (external HD, not portable) have great compatibility. (these range in size)

u can find these at your local tigerdirect, bestbuy, costco, maybe futureshop etc.

here's an add for the My Passport on Costco's website