Clarification:
DML ONLY works from SD Card/SDHC Card, nothing else, no USB. There won't be a USB version someday.
So Yeah, this "Clarification" is incorrect, crediar was able to do it


What you'll need:

• IF YOU WANT TO PLAY FROM SD
• The Latest DIOS-MIOS (Lite) package from here (older versions here).
• DML WAD Creator (for older versions)
• IF YOU WANT TO PLAY FROM USB
• FOR DML and DIOS-MIOS
• GameCube ISO Compress, fstfix, DiscEX or GCReEX (your choice, read below first and decide what you want to use)
• A WAD Manager (for example WAD Manager 1.7)
• A SD Card or a USB Device (D'OH!)
• Gamecube Controller and Memory Card

How to:

1. If you have downloaded the newer version go to step 6, if you picked the older ones follow this.
2. Extract the DML package in a folder with the same name as the package (for example DMLr13 for DMLr13.zip). If there is just a iosmodule.elf of the latest DML available then copy it into a new DML folder and rename it to DML.elf.
3. If you already have a RVL-mios-v10.wad, copy it into the DML folder. Then the creator don't need to download the file.
4. Extract the DML WAD Creator into the DML folder. Then run the "create_wad.bat" and type "DML" to create the DML wad, if you don't have the RVL-mios-v10.wad it will be downloaded.
5. If the DML WAD Creator asks you which version you want to build type it in like '13' for DMLr13.
6. Now let's convert some gamecube games! If you downloaded the new DML versions or DIOS-MIOS just start reading here.
7. You'll need the gamecube games in iso or gcm format.
8. If you want to use DiscEX and downloaded the older DML versions, the DiscEX files needs to be in the same folder as the DML WAD creator. Just open the WAD Creator, type "C" to enter the convert menu, drag and drop the game into it and say if you want to compress it or not. If you use the newer DML versions or DIOS-MIOS, open up a command prompt and enter "DiscEX -c gamename.iso" if you want compression, replace "gamename" with the name of your iso file. If you dont want compression just drag and drop the iso file into the DiscEX.exe. Mostly compression will work fine, some games need to stay uncompressed, see here.
9. You can also use Gamecube ISO Compressor for the job, easiest way is there to just drag and drop your ISO file into the Compressor exe file. You can also just double click the exe file to see which options you can also use to compress the ISO files, they are more modes in it.
10. If you have downloaded the new DML versions, you can also use GCReEx, there you can use "GCReEx.exe -x game.iso", this will create no new ISO file but a folder which contains the extracted files, this way saves most space on the sd card.
11. There is also the possiblity to use fstfix instead to compress the games, use it like "fstfix game.iso" or "fstfix game.iso t" and drag and drop the resulting new iso in DiscEX. DiscEX will may stop at a certain percentage to copy the game, it will may also say the game is underdumped/overdumped. Both things come because the image haven't got the orignal size anymore, so you can ignore these messages.
12. After using one of the above ways to convert your games, copy the newly created folder of the tool to sd:/games if you want to play from SD and to usb:/games if you want to play from USB.

On your Wii:

1. Install the DML/DIOS-MIOS WAD with a WAD Manager, this will overwrite the current MIOS/cMIOS. Retail gamecube discs will still work since DMLr19. If you had a cMIOS installed before to play disc backups it wont be possible anymore until you re-install the cMIOS which will overwrite DML.
2. You can play the games either with DIOS-MIOS Booter, NeoGamma, postLoader4, Wiiflow, USB Loader GX or Configurable USB Loader. Make sure you have a disc inserted, otherwise your Wii will simply reset if you try to play a game.
3. The easiest one is DIOS-MIOS Booter, it works with all DML and DIOS-MIOS versions, just start it, select the game you want, set new options with the B button if you want, and launch the game.
4. To boot games using Wiiflow switch the coverflow mode to the gameube coverflow mode by pressing the icon down-right near the home icon a few times until you see the games. You can also download covers for them in the settings, it's the gear icon down-left. Wiiflow also supports all DML and DIOS-MIOS versions with all options.
5. To boot games using postLoader just press home to enter the menu, select "Switch to Game mode". In game mode just press up on the wiimote to enter the DML menu or press home, select "Game options" and then "Show DML menu". Then select the game you want to play.
6. For USB Loader GX you just need to go to the display icon and select display gamecube games too, then you can set options in the menu and play them.
7. In Configurable USB Loader they are just displayed together with the other wii games, there you can also set the options and launch them.
8. The other ways described now are currently not optimized for the new DML versions, doesnt work with DIOS-MIOS and my not work properly.
9. To boot games using NeoGamma go down to "Load Games from: " and select "Load GC Games via DML". Then go up and press A to search games. Select the game you want to play and press A to start it. NeoGamma doesnt have options to set for DML because its made for old DML versions.
10. If you want to remove DML/DIOS-MIOS again either reinstall a cMIOS or the RVL-mios-v10.wad. If DML doesn't work for you make sure you have a clean BC, to get it run the "create_wad.bat" in the DML wad creator package again and type "BC". Then just install the RVL-BC-v6.wad on your wii and try it again.

Recommendations:

• Format your SD Card to FAT16/FAT32 with 64KB cluster size to increase game speed
• If you want to use DIOS-MIOS format it to FAT32 with 32KB cluster size, also make the FAT32 the first one, primary and active
• If you want to use DML r21 I suggest the debug version since the regular version got small problems. Delete the DML.elf, rename the DMLdebug.elf to DML.elf and then create a new wad with it.
• If you have a problem you can try to rename/delete the "saves" folder on your sd card to everything you want, that can may fix it.
• Crediar created a small FAQ here that might help you as well with some general questions.

If you want to know game compatility check out the compatility list here:
http://wiki.gbatemp....patibility_List
http://crediar.no-ip.com/gc/
Don't forget to add the games you play to the list if they are missing

That's it! If you have questions just ask here. Have fun playing your gamecube games from SD!

 

[demon33]

I'm sorry if my question is stupid but :

was there only one version of DM 2.0 ??

 

[Maxternal]

I'm sorry if my question is stupid but :

was there only one version of DM 2.0 ??

I think there were 3.
I'm judging this by the "update 2" on the download link on GoogleCode
I do know that the file I downloaded and installed first was a little smaller than the one currently available but that label makes me think there was another one that I missed.

 

[demon33]

thx maxternal

so I'll download the new one after work & keep my old one in case it's better with the old one.....

everything works great for me now but seem to have dsi errors on all my PAL games.

 

[Drkchaos999]

That might help in some cases but I have two partitions (although both are FAT32) and DM runs find off the first partiton.
There's also the point that some USB devices are just not compatible yet.

Other little bugs can be having an effect:
- Using extended partitions (The first partition has to be a primary partition)
- 64k clusters (it supports 32k or smaller clusters only)
- The first partition has to be FAT32 (FAT32 is the second and the first is NTFS, WBFS, etc. it won't work. I know it's also possible to have the first partition on the partition table be the second partition on the disk if, for example, you've been creating and deleting multiple partitions, that might cause problems but it at least could make it hard to determine which one is actually first.)

I think the rule of thumb here was : if you can boot UNEEK from the device, it will also work with DM.


P.S. Since the same problems keep coming up maybe the link to the FAQ and GameIssues Wikis on GoogleCode should be put in BOLD or something in the first post since they seem to be overlooked.

That probably true in most cases Maxternal, but for me it just wouldn't load up the games, like I said my HDD was partitioned as FAT32 w/32kb cluster and NTFS and the FAT32 partition was the primary and set to active and CFG Loader had no problems finding the games it just wouldn't load them (black screen, force shutdown).

So for my HDD (Seagate FreeAgent Go 250GB) Dios-Mios just doesn't like it to be multi-partitioned.

 

[Cyan]

my Seagate FreeAgent Go 250GB works fine, with two partitions : 1-FAT32 32k cluster primary active, 2-WBFS.

was there only one version of DM 2.0 ??

There were 3 version until today.
(r2) Version 2.0
(r4) Version 2.0 *update1*
(r5) Version 2.0 *update2*

r7 is not released as wad.

 

[Drkchaos999]

my Seagate FreeAgent Go 250GB works fine, with two partitions : 1-FAT32 32k cluster primary active, 2-WBFS.

was there only one version of DM 2.0 ??

There were 3 version until today.
(r2) Version 2.0
(r4) Version 2.0 *update1*
(r5) Version 2.0 *update2*

r7 is not released as wad.

Did you use to ModMii to format your Seagate HDD and how much space did you allocate to each partition?

 

[Cyan]

modmii didn't exist when I formated my drive.
I used Windows XP to partition and format my drive to FAT32, and I forgot which tool (an old one, on windows) to format as WBFS.

 

[Drkchaos999]

Thanks Cyan, but for some reason even after formating my Seagate HDD to a single FAT32 32k cluster active primary it still won't load the games.

CFG Loader still lists them so I know that they are formatted correctly because I can play them off of a 8GB SanDisk Cruzer I had lying around.

If anyone can recommend a good tool that can format HDD's larger then 32GB i'd appreciate it, thanks.

 

[demon33]

I used EaseUS Partition Master 9.1.1 Home Edition works nice

it is free

 

[ShinyLatios]

Thanks Cyan, but for some reason even after formating my Seagate HDD to a single FAT32 32k cluster active primary it still won't load the games.

CFG Loader still lists them so I know that they are formatted correctly because I can play them off of a 8GB SanDisk Cruzer I had lying around.

If anyone can recommend a good tool that can format HDD's larger then 32GB i'd appreciate it, thanks.

I used EASEUS Partition manager myself, it can format larger than 32GB. I'm using a 500GB partition
got ninja'd

 

[Drkchaos999]

Thanks guys that's what I was already looking into using so I guess thats what i'll use.

 

[Maxternal]

I used Wii Backup Manager to format if I remember correctly.

If you figure this out, post your results. It could be of great help to all those that are having a horrible time with this.

 

[PsyBlade]

"mkdosfs -f 1 -F 32 -n WiiDisk -s 64 /dev/sdX#"
("-s 8" for 4KiB drives)
has the additional advantage of using only one file allocation table
(since most wii homebrew would only silently ignore (and thus corrupt) the second (backup) one anyway)

 

[mrpinkeye]

i think my problem was my usb wasnt fat32. iv tryed a flash drive and it worked. need help partitioning my 1tb ntfs hdd though, its got my wii games on

Download ModMii and from there, download FAT32 GUI Formatter. (DL page 2)

Actually, that will format the drive and he will LOOSE all his Wii game backups.
I think he was looking for something to convert NTFS to FAT32 with 32k clusters without loosing his games.
I know those exist but I can't think of anything specific off hand.

yes, im trying to create a partition without loosing the data on my hard drive. either that or i just use my usb stick until i can buy a new hdd! lol

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[Maxternal]

will i be able to use EASEUS to partition a drive with data on it and still keep the data?

From the description on the website, I think it can only go from FAT32 to NTFS
This is one of the first things Google pops up with.
http://www.aomeitech...s-to-fat32.html

Nevermind. The free version has a 8gb partition size limit.

 

[mrpinkeye]

omg this sounds right doesnt it!?

http://blog.easeus.c...g-Data-279.html

couldnt i resize ntfs then create fat32?

 

[Maxternal]

omg this sounds right doesnt it!?

http://blog.easeus.c...g-Data-279.html

couldnt i resize ntfs then create fat32?

That would work but it would be a lot of work.

I also found this
http://esd.element5.com/product.html?cart=1&productid=300383407&cookies=1&affiliateid=200115010
but yet again it isn't free software.
There has to be something that will do the trick in one step without having to pay for it.

 

[mrpinkeye]

omg this sounds right doesnt it!?

http://blog.easeus.c...g-Data-279.html

couldnt i resize ntfs then create fat32?

That would work but it would be a lot of work.

I also found this
http://esd.element5....ateid=200115010
but yet again it isn't free software.
There has to be something that will do the trick in one step without having to pay for it.

isnt the easeus software free? also, how would it be hard work? iv never partitioned a drive so i just assumed it would be easy....lol

 

[Maxternal]

isnt the easeus software free? also, how would it be hard work? iv never partitioned a drive so i just assumed it would be easy....lol

Okay, HARD work, perhaps not. It just might be time consuming and it's annoying when one partition fills up and the other one has space in it still for me anyway.

Last try, says it's free and will do the job, partition magic
http://partition-magic.soft32.com/
if that doesn't work then you're right, re-sizing is free. converting, you have to pay cash.

 

[mrpinkeye]

isnt the easeus software free? also, how would it be hard work? iv never partitioned a drive so i just assumed it would be easy....lol

Okay, HARD work, perhaps not. It just might be time consuming and it's annoying when one partition fills up and the other one has space in it still for me anyway.

Last try, says it's free and will do the job, partition magic
http://partition-magic.soft32.com/
if that doesn't work then you're right, re-sizing is free. converting, you have to pay cash.

i dont think the demo will have the functionality

also, i think the easeus program only works on drives up to 800gb....