hoosier_d said:
Ive been using disks for about 2 years with little trouble. Over the Thanksgiving black friday sale I managed to get a 750 gig western digital passport and since have put about 60 wii iso's onto it...........now the problem.......sometimes they will just freeze 20 minutes or so into the game and in some instances (samurai warriors 3) I just cant figure out how to load them. Im loading them through neogamma and uloader.
Hello buddy.
I hope I can help you with your issue.
I am new at USB Loaders too, and I have the exact same hard drive you have.
WD are GREAT, and actually our hard drive is listed as compatible in most forums.
When I softmodded, I had no problems at all, everything went just fine.
There is one issue with our specific hard drive (and I assume with most WD HDD) as explained above, the power saving option.
I SoftModded my Wii like 2 weeks ago, and I been surfing around the web ever since then to try to fix my issue with USB Loaded Games, with 85% luck.
To fix the issue with the hard drive going to sleep, you NEED to download WD Smartware from here:
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/wdsmartwareupdate/ install it, got to drive settings -> hibernate (or sleep or power saving I do not remember the exact term) and change the default time to NEVER, that way you will be modifing the default sleep time for that HDD. Give it a try. It worked for me.
Also, very important, apparetly the Wii tries to connect to the internet every "X" amount of minutes, and it may cause your USB games to freeze, so make sure to completely DELETE all your internet connections if using USB Loaded Games.
On the other hand, to continue with the topic (hopefully someone can assist me), I am running on a 4.3U LU73Wii, FAT32 partition, games injected using Wii Partition Manager, USB Loader GX (+Wii FLow + ULoader + etc etc), and not all games are working.
I am only using LEGAL backups that I personally made with CleanRip.
Firts, I was having issue with my Mario Kart Wii game...
When the following selection was made, the game used to get stuck:
2 players game -> banana cup -> stage One = game used to freeze. Now, I do not know why, it is working like a charm.
Now, here is my current issue (no matter what flavor of USB loader I use):
The Michael Jackson Experience:
Load the game, see the intro, and when the MJ standing on the tip of his feet logo appear, the game freezes, nothing happen if I unplug an plug the usb cable from Wii...
Days ago it used lo load just fine, but it used to get stuck on Billie Jean (after I will say 2 minutes of gameplay). Now it wont even go to the main screen...
WWE SmackDown vs RAW 2011
Game freezes after I win a match, or when I go to talk to a character (in history mode), so I have to unplugg the usb cable from the Wii, and plug it back again, after that the game comes back to life, but I have to keep doing that after every match.
House of the Dead 2 & 3 return:
If I try to play HOTD 2, it freezes, it seem to work fine with HOTD 3
All of the above run great from the original dvd
Games working 100% GREAT (again, LEGAL backups only)
DK Country Returns
Mario Party 8
Tatsunoko vs Capcom
I hope someone can help me with my issue.
Big Ups to all the gbatemp community!
P.D. I can post a SysCheck log if needed, maybe that will help someone to help me... :-)