Hacking How to set up hard drive for launching both GC and Wii backups (for use w/ CFG Loader)

[hvsep]

Hello all, forgive me for the really noobish question but I haven't touched my Wii in a long while until today. My old hard drive with backups broke a few years ago and I'm looking into getting a new one real soon to get back into my Wii. I was wondering how I should be setting up a hard drive (preferably using only a single partition) to launch Wii and GC iso's.

I downloaded CFG loader v70r78 which comes with Nintendont/Dios Mios support. Are there any special instructions for using either of those (I read that Nintendont > Dios Mios but I'd still like to hear what you guys think)?

By set up I I mean what format should the partition be and if I would be able to have two separate folders for "Wii" and "Gamecube" iso's on the root of the hard drive (I'm kind of OCD about that stuff).

I've also done a syscheck and used Modmii to see if everything is up to date and the only WADs it was telling me to install were 2 d2x v8 final cios's, if that matters at all.

Syscheck below:

Spoiler

sysCheck v2.0.1 by Double_A
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).
Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.1U (v449)
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 85990674
Boot2 v4
Found 96 titles.
Found 50 IOS on this console. 5 of them are stub.
IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): No Patches
IOS60 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS80 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS202 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS222 (rev 4): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS223 (rev 4): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS224 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS249 (rev 21010): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS250 (rev 21010): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v5
MIOS v10
Report generated on 2015/07/14.

 

[migles]

format it to fat32
use wiibackup manager to copy the wii games
use dios mios tool for the gamecube games
both will stay on their folders

 

[Adeka]

Format the entire drive fat32

Put wii games in /wbfs/gamename/xxxx.wbfs

put gamecube games in /games/gamename/game.iso

If you need to split larger wii games, do it with wii backup manager

You can download Nintendont in the first link in my signature too.

 

[hvsep]

Thanks for the fast response

Do the wii games need to be converted to wbfs, because I think I recall using .iso before with CFG loader and it used to work fine. I just don't remember if I was able to have the iso's anywhere I want on the hard drive. My memory might be crappy though...

And do I need to have Nintendont on my sd card if the USB loader has a plugin for it? I thought having it on the sd card was to launch GC backups directly from Nintendont without using a different loader.

 

[migles]

Do the wii games need to be converted to wbfs

wiibackup manager does that automatically

 

[Adeka]

Thanks for the fast response

Do the wii games need to be converted to wbfs, because I think I recall using .iso before with CFG loader and it used to work fine. I just don't remember if I was able to have the iso's anywhere I want on the hard drive. My memory might be crappy though...

And do I need to have Nintendont on my sd card if the USB loader has a plugin for it? I thought having it on the sd card was to launch GC backups directly from Nintendont without using a different loader.

To use .iso format then your drive has to be formatted as wbfs. This is old and outdated

You can convert iso to wbfs in wiibackup manager too.

Nintendont is a stand alone application like cfg usb loader. You can launch the gamecube game through cfg usb loader and it will forward it to Nintendont!

 

[hvsep]

Okay, thanks everyone I'll give it a go once I get a hard drive and I'll post here in case something goes wrong