Hi, all, I am somewhat new to posting in this forum but I've gotten a lot of good info from here over the years. I've spent the whole week trying to solve this problem but haven't found an answer yet. I've had my original 4.3U Wii softmodded for a long time and using USBLoaderGX to play games from a usb drive. I've never had any problem with games as they were originally released and I mostly play Mario, Skylanders, and Wii Sports. This is my first time attempting to play modded Wii games, specifically Mario Kart Retro Rewind and NSMB Retro Remix. I didn't know about them until a couple of weeks ago and I'd really like to try these. For MK RR I've followed the tutorial here several times to patch my iso file but I can't get the resulting file to work. No matter what I try it either returns me to the Wii home screen or hangs on a black screen. NSMB RR is a pre-patched .wbfs I found online instead of patching my iso and I get the same result. My MK and NSMB isos are ripped from my own discs, and for MK I also tried patching an un-modded .wbfs found elsewhere, but still no joy. I've tried with the channel forwarder and directly from USBLGX. I've tried running from two different flash drives and two different SD cards, all formatted as FAT32. And I've tried two different versions of USBLGX, 3.0r1281 that I've been using for a long time and a recent download of 4.0r1283. The same usb drives and SD cards have no problem playing un-modded games such as original Mario Kart or Wii Sports, including with both USBLGX versions. Is there any cios that is required for modded games to work? I have an old file from the syscheck app if you need to what cios I have installed. My Wii was softmodded with LetterBomb and Hackmii 0.8. I can say that I have d2x-v10-beta52, and since this syscheck report I've only added PriiLoader 0.10.0 and updated Homebrew Channel from 1.0.8 to 1.1.4.

Wii Preloader stuck

mr_ghostfacexsc · 2026-05-26T21:46:52+00:00

Hi! so I bought this Wii from marketplace, and when i turned it on it just showed the preloader menu. What should i do?

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external dvd drive question

Thread starter Shgofc
Start date Mar 29, 2024
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Replies 3

Shgofc

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Mar 29, 2024

is hermes uloader the only program to support external dvd drives? because it is a very obsolete program

jeannotte

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Mar 30, 2024

yes, there is another loader allowing you to read burned DVDs (Neogamma) ===>
https://wiidatabase.de/downloads/usb-und-disk-loader/neogamma/

Shgofc

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Mar 30, 2024

jeannotte said:
yes, there is another loader allowing you to read burned DVDs (Neogamma) ===>
https://wiidatabase.de/downloads/usb-und-disk-loader/neogamma/

i know about neogamma but it does not support external *DVD* drive also known as dvd usb

KleinesSinchen

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Mar 30, 2024

This is a very rarely used functionality – albeit a cool one. As far as I know it has never been ported to anywhere else than uLoader.
A little problem is that uLoader is too old to support newer Wii Remote. Other than that is still works fine.