Hacking HELP, Sin And Punishment 2 gives a black screen on USB Loader

[CrazyPachamama]

Hello there! I got a modded Wii less than a month ago, and it has been kind of a rollercoaster. One of the first games I tried was Sin and Punishment Star Succesor, which worked just fine. But now it is just not working: booting the game sends me to a black screen and the only way to turn off the console is manually. I'll leave some data:
- First time I booted it I did it on a 12GB usb stick, now I have upgraded to a 64GB one, which makes this black screen weird because every other game worked.
- I used d2x cIOS installer following a tutorial off youtube, I have d2x v6, cIos base 37, on slot 249.
I feel like a total asshat because maybe I screwed something up with the d2x cIos installer, I didn't see anyone else with this problem in other boards, so any help is useful. Thanks in advance!

 

[jeannotte]

Hello,

post a syscheck report here, please, following this guide ==>SYCHECK

for cios you can use this guide ==>CIOS guide

Strongly recommend ==> use a real FAT32 external hard drive (often USB keys give screens or never start.

you can try the WBFS format with your usb key (s), but that may not necessarily work.

use several loaders to launch your games (wiiflow, usb loader gx, or Configurable loader v78.11), you will decide what loader you want.

 

[CrazyPachamama]

Hi there! It's been a long time. Unfortunately, I could never make the game work again, it always goes to a black screen and after that the system needs a reboot. I tried the latest cios from the guide that you provided me with.
I'll leave the syscheck report here, maybe it could help:

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 65535).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 12.18.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS61

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 134038943
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Argentina (10)
Boot2 v5
Found 111 titles.
Found 56 IOS on this console. 4 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS12 (rev 269): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 273): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 520): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 523): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS20 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS21 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS22 (rev 1037): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS30 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS34 (rev 3348): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS36 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS38 (rev 4123): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS41 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS43 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS45 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS46 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS48 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS50 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS53 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS55 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS56 (rev 5661): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5918): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS61 (rev 5918): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS80 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS90 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4.0): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38+37] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[37] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, Beer Ticket
IOS245[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[37] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 01/29/2023.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

- First time I booted it I did it on a 12GB usb stick, now I have upgraded to a 64GB one, which makes this black screen weird because every other game worked.

I can see two posibilities.

Either, a bad dump of the game, or the stick is not playing nicely with the wii.

Sticks aren't exactly reliable.

So for the first one, try to get a new dump of S&P:Star successor and check.

I had a similar issue with metroid prime 3 corruption, and it was a bad dump.

 

[CrazyPachamama]

Hey there! I just tested the game on my other usb stick and still takes me to a black screen. Weird, because, again, that was the original stick with which I played it. I still can't get out of my mind that maybe it is an ios thing. But for now I'll try with another dump of the game. Thanks!

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Hey there! I just tested the game on my other usb stick and still takes me to a black screen. Weird, because, again, that was the original stick with which I played it. I still can't get out of my mind that maybe it is an ios thing. But for now I'll try with another dump of the game. Thanks!

don't stick also to just USB loader GX, try wiiflow and CFG mod.
Its not always relevant, but there might be a setting you changed in GX that's also part of the cause. Having multiple avenues to test is well worth the hassle of swapping between three different loaders.

Some games might not work due to inherent settings of the loader IE Wiiflow doesn't lets you turn off entirely NAND emulation and some games (Metroid Prime Trilogy) aren't really compatible (as of yet) with NAND emulation.

 

[jeannotte]

don't stick also to just USB loader GX, try wiiflow and CFG mod.
Its not always relevant, but there might be a setting you changed in GX that's also part of the cause. Having multiple avenues to test is well worth the hassle of swapping between three different loaders.

it's a very good idea, that's what I do, I switch between the three loaders to obtain very positive results.

cheers

 

[CrazyPachamama]

Ok, I tried another dump and it worked! Thank you so much, guys!