How to play GameCube games off a USB HDD.

Welcome to my guide! This will teach you to "backup" your games that you TOTALLY legally own. Right?
This guide is completely compatible with Windows, Mac (Wine), and Linux (Wine). I do not have access to an Apple machine, but theoretically, it should work. Please note that this guide requires you to format your HDD, however you can still use it for storage after we're done, so just back it up before we begin.


NOTE BY A MODERATOR :

There are different methods to play Gamecube games off a USB HDD, and this outdated guide will only tell you ONE method.
It will not explain to you how to run gamecube games from USB HDD, but instead will tell you to do things blindly and install specific outdated files and use a specific outdated USB Loader version.
It doesn't cover other USB HDD methods or other Gamecube loaders.
Don't follow this guide if you want updated informations, updated loaders or if you want to use a different gamecube loading method.

You can follow it only if you want DIOS MIOS 2.8 (outdated) and CFG Loader v70 r36 (outdated).
Thanks for reading,
Cyan

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You will need:
-An SD Card
-A USB HDD
-Wii Mote
-GameCube Controller
-A Wii with Homebrew Channel installed
-A GameCube iso

Download Links:

COMPUTER:


1.) Download WiiFlow from the Download List above. Put it in the apps folder of your SD Card.

2.) Download the DIOS MIOS v2.8 RAR. Go to 'DM', then move 'DIOSMIOS_2.8' to the root folder of your SD card, or for easier installation put it in a folder on the root titled 'wad'.

3.) Download MMM, and put it in your apps folder.

4.) In the DM folder in the RAR, there will be a file named DMToolbox.exe, run it, select your games iso file, and choose where you want the game's folder to go (Desktop will do.). Hit 'Install', and the folder will appear where you wanted it to, it will be named the game's ID, which will, to you, appear to be a bunch of random characters.

5.) Download and Install EaseUS Partition master, and open it. Find your HDD, and right click it, and select 'format'. Format it as FAT32 with 32KB Clusters. *DON'T IGNORE! Press OK, and then "Apply".

6.) Look at your empty HDD, and make a 'games' folder. Put the folder with the Game ID in there.

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WII:




1.) Plug in your HDD in USB Slot 0. Turn on your Wii. Launch Homebrew Channel. Then launch MMM.

2.) Choose WAD Manager on the menu and install DIOSMIOS_2.8.wad

3.) After you're done, exit MMM. Launch WiiFlow.

4.) Go to Settings, and change game partition to USB1

5.) Press 'B', and select the Gamecube icon

7.) Choose a game and press Start. Every time you add new games, you have to hit the home icon, and hit update cache, and your game list will refresh.

Congratulations! You can now play GC games from your USB HDD!

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CFG USB LOADERv70 r36:

COMPUTER:
Follow steps 3-7 in the COMPUTER guide above.

WII:

1.) Follow step 3 in the guide above.
2.) Install DIOS MIOS using MMM.
3.) Launch CFG USB Loader.
4.) Click the icon with tools on it
5.) Set "DML Version" to DM.
6.) Launch your game!
 
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Question: Does this save onto the Memory Card, USB, or SD card. I have my Melee save in my memory card.
 
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I'm pretty sure GCN games save only to the GCN memory card.
Thanks. Wanted to play my Melee save after both the disc and disc reader broke. :) Glad to know this solution exists for GameCube games. Since I'm using a 4GB USB, I don't think I'll be able to play Wii games, so thank you for the Wii U, Nintendo. Now I hope that one doesn't break and they don't detect the Homebrew Channel. :ninja:
 

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Question: Does this save onto the Memory Card, USB, or SD card. I have my Melee save in my memory card.
Actually it depends on what options you have set in your loader. If you have NMM turned OFF it saves to the Memory card. If it has NMM turned ON it saves to SD or USB (whichever one the game's on)
 
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Because I'm paranoid, what should I do now? I only have one iso for Melee.
 

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Okay, so I've been playing gamecube games off of my SD card and noticed the same long load times as my USB had. Now I was loading Disney Pixar Cars, and it took a whole 5 minutes for it to load on the actual in-game loading screen. Is there anything I can do? My SD is a 32 GB Class 10 Lexar Platinum card formatted to FAT32 with 32k cluster size.
 

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Okay, so I've been playing gamecube games off of my SD card and noticed the same long load times as my USB had. Now I was loading Disney Pixar Cars, and it took a whole 5 minutes for it to load on the actual in-game loading screen. Is there anything I can do? My SD is a 32 GB Class 10 Lexar Platinum card formatted to FAT32 with 32k cluster size.
Bump.
 

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Do you mean it being the "active primary" partition?
I'm not entirely sure, but I've been told it has to be the first partition and that I'd have to remove everything from my hdd in order to create the partition, and then move everything onto the second partition formatted to NTFS. If you have no files on your hdd, or have a way of backing everything up (I sure don't have 600GB to spare) then I'd say give it a try.
 

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Can I get some help on a dual partition? I set the first partition as fat32 primary and active (for GC games), and I want to set the second one as NTFS for various reasons that don't include GC games. After I mark the fat32 as primary and active, do I set the NTFS partition as primary but not active?

One more thing, I have split wbfs files on a separate harddrive set as fat32, can those split files also work on USB Loader GC from the NTFS partition of the new drive I'm formatting?
 

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I'm not entirely sure, but I've been told it has to be the first partition and that I'd have to remove everything from my hdd in order to create the partition, and then move everything onto the second partition formatted to NTFS. If you have no files on your hdd, or have a way of backing everything up (I sure don't have 600GB to spare) then I'd say give it a try.

The first one?
Can you change which is the "first" one?
 

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Ok, I've installed Wii Flow as well...and it doesn't work there either.
Same thing. black screen when I try to load my games.
All I can really suggest is to make sure it's in the USB slot closest to the rubber foot and to make sure you install DIOS MIOS and not DIOS MIOS Lite. Other than that, someone else is going to have to reply to help you out.
 

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All I can really suggest is to make sure it's in the USB slot closest to the rubber foot and to make sure you install DIOS MIOS and not DIOS MIOS Lite. Other than that, someone else is going to have to reply to help you out.
Oh, sorry i was attempting to post in my own thread about it.
 

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