For the longest time, I was loading games from a 3.5" HDD in one of those clunky drive docks (externally powered) and it was working fine. I soft-modded my wii over a decade ago and I have no strong memory of all the intricate details of how I did it and I haven't touched anything since, other than playing some games from time to time, so please bear with me as I'm a bit rusty with all this. I'm in the process of organizing my whole game console/tv setup and wanted to get a smaller portable drive to take up less space. I bought a 1tb WD My Passport External USB 3.0 drive (WDBYVG0010BBK-WESN) and a USB Y-Splitter. I used Macrium to clone the entire old drive to the new WD My Passport drive (it has a 250gb FAT32 partition with the games and a 750gb NTFS partition with some other data). But plugging it in using the y-splitter, the old WiiFlow (I think it was v2.1 that was installed) didn't seem to recognize the drive and would just complain to plug a drive into port 0. If I switched back to the old drive/dock, it worked.
After a bunch of googling, I think I read that later versions of WiiFlow would have more support for HDDs, so I grabbed the latest version of wiiflow lite and updated the app data in the root "wiiflow" folder of my SD card (it was already installed on the homescreen). Sure enough, after WiiFlow Lite started, it immediately started updating/converting the cover art, and then loaded all the games, but starting any of the games resulted in the Wii crashing (and I had to force restart the Wii)
I also tried USB Loader GX which I also had a (likely very old) version installed. Starting any of the games from USB Loader GX seemed to crash it and return to the Wii System Menu.
I also updated HBC to the latest, but I'm at a loss. Using the old drive with the old WiiFlow that I had installed seemed to work still, so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if it's just a compatibility issue with the drive. I'm a little reluctant to admit that because both WiiFlow Lite and USB Loader GX seem to read the contents of the drive properly, they just can't seem to play any games.
Is there a process/guide for updating everything? Should I?
After a bunch of googling, I think I read that later versions of WiiFlow would have more support for HDDs, so I grabbed the latest version of wiiflow lite and updated the app data in the root "wiiflow" folder of my SD card (it was already installed on the homescreen). Sure enough, after WiiFlow Lite started, it immediately started updating/converting the cover art, and then loaded all the games, but starting any of the games resulted in the Wii crashing (and I had to force restart the Wii)
I also tried USB Loader GX which I also had a (likely very old) version installed. Starting any of the games from USB Loader GX seemed to crash it and return to the Wii System Menu.
I also updated HBC to the latest, but I'm at a loss. Using the old drive with the old WiiFlow that I had installed seemed to work still, so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if it's just a compatibility issue with the drive. I'm a little reluctant to admit that because both WiiFlow Lite and USB Loader GX seem to read the contents of the drive properly, they just can't seem to play any games.
Is there a process/guide for updating everything? Should I?
