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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Homebrew homebrew browser error

Thread starter gajeut
Start date Nov 11, 2008
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gajeut

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Nov 11, 2008

hi,

when i want to enter the homebrew browser, it gives me the following: "not a valid wii application". I don't know whats wrong, i can still use the backup loader
but all the other stuff don't work anymore (wad manager,... homebrew browser).

I do know my brother accepted an update, can this be the reason for this to happen? and is there a cure for it?

gajeut

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Nov 11, 2008

solved

this can be closed.

for anyone in the future.

just google for this: homebrew browser beta 9 download, put on sd, and its solved.

djtaz

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Nov 11, 2008

i was about to post that

djdynamite123

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Nov 11, 2008

lol someone who doesn't read about the hbc9 update.

gajeut

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Nov 11, 2008

yeah lol

tsssssssssssssss

djdynamite123

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Nov 11, 2008

QUOTE said:
yeah lol tsssssssssssssss

lol

Hitto

MKDS Tournament Winner

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Nov 11, 2008

Hey, at least he gave feedback; might prevent some other fuck-ups in the future.
Wisdom would dictate that everybody who doesn't want to convert any files should just wait about updating anything at all.