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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Hacking how to use freeloader?

Thread starter woody0
Start date Mar 25, 2008
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woody0

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Mar 25, 2008

iv recently downloaded freeloader. my wii is chipped and when i put it in my wii it says that there is a gamecube game in. i press start and all i get is a black screen. what do i do?

m0ve

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Mar 25, 2008

Just put the DVD in your Wii, w8 for about 10 sec -> then ur tv screen should go crazy 2times -> eject the DVD and insert the game u want 2 play.

woody0

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Mar 25, 2008

ok thanks.

Skullrider

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Mar 25, 2008

It isn't going crazy here :s
I only get the gamecube thing, waited like 20 secs.
When I put ntsc in it shows the game and than gives black screen when I click start.

The game is battalion wars 2 NTSC, but I removed the update and patched it to pal.
Could that be the problem?

spectral

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Mar 25, 2008

You're not supposed to click the disc channel when it changes to gamecube. You put the freeloader disc in, the screen will go blurry twice then you just take out the freeloader, put your game in and load as normal.