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I am having a very frustrating issue with Nintendont all of a sudden where it will not boot any game all of a sudden. Had been working fine until a couple days ago, at first I thought my hard drive was at fault, but Windows finds no errors with the drive and Wii games and apps load absolutely fine.

When I try to launch the games from USB Loader GX, I just get a black screen and then am booted back to the loader menu after a few seconds. When I try to launch Nintendont through HBC from my USB hard drive, it loads until "Checking for storage devices", then the screen turns green and flashes for a few seconds before kicking me back to HBC. This process repeats every time I try to launch it.

When I try to launch Nintendont through HBC on my SD card, the first time I also get the green flashing issue, but then if I launch it a second time it works! However, when launching from SD I am unable to see any games I have installed to my USB hard drive.

Things I have tried so far:
  • Updating to latest cIOS/Nintendont/USB Loader GX
  • Completely reformatting HDD (FAT32)
  • Removing all games (Wii and GC) and saves (GC) from USB HDD
    • Still crashes in the exact same way, even with no games/saves on the hard drive
  • Reverting to older Nintendont versions (think I tried 5.460 and 4.45, still similar issues)
  • Try different display adapters (have tried component cables, HDMI w/ a cheap adapter for Wii, composite cables)

I am at a loss as to what could be causing this, does anyone have any ideas of what I could test? I will be trying to get a new HDD and a larger SD card to test if those work any better and will update in case it is an issue with my HDD.
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As an update for anyone finding this with similar issues where Nintendont flashes a green screen, I think the problem was with my hard drive. Bought a new 512 GB SSD and used a new USB HD, and both work. It is still surprising to me that it was the hardware, the HDD still seems to work fine for everything but loading Nintendont games
 
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I am having a very frustrating issue with Nintendont all of a sudden where it will not boot any game all of a sudden. Had been working fine until a couple days ago, at first I thought my hard drive was at fault, but Windows finds no errors with the drive and Wii games and apps load absolutely fine.

When I try to launch the games from USB Loader GX, I just get a black screen and then am booted back to the loader menu after a few seconds. When I try to launch Nintendont through HBC from my USB hard drive, it loads until "Checking for storage devices", then the screen turns green and flashes for a few seconds before kicking me back to HBC. This process repeats every time I try to launch it.

When I try to launch Nintendont through HBC on my SD card, the first time I also get the green flashing issue, but then if I launch it a second time it works! However, when launching from SD I am unable to see any games I have installed to my USB hard drive.

Things I have tried so far:
  • Updating to latest cIOS/Nintendont/USB Loader GX
  • Completely reformatting HDD (FAT32)
  • Removing all games (Wii and GC) and saves (GC) from USB HDD
    • Still crashes in the exact same way, even with no games/saves on the hard drive
  • Reverting to older Nintendont versions (think I tried 5.460 and 4.45, still similar issues)
  • Try different display adapters (have tried component cables, HDMI w/ a cheap adapter for Wii, composite cables)

I am at a loss as to what could be causing this, does anyone have any ideas of what I could test? I will be trying to get a new HDD and a larger SD card to test if those work any better and will update in case it is an issue with my HDD.
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As an update for anyone finding this with similar issues where Nintendont flashes a green screen, I think the problem was with my hard drive. Bought a new 512 GB SSD and used a new USB HD, and both work. It is still surprising to me that it was the hardware, the HDD still seems to work fine for everything but loading Nintendont games
I have the same issue, sunday i tried to play some gamecube games, and nintendont wasnt working anymore, whether from the loader or from the homebrew channel
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Try deleting ninconfig.bin from the root of your SD/USB
i deleted it, first it worked and i was able to launch nintendont, but now isnt working anymore
 
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Not booting a game from a hard drive is a very different issue than a player character not rendering in a game.
 

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