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[Remuz]

@XFlak
Games tested: Wii sports, Mario Kart, Lego Star Wars
Loaders tested: CFG Loader, USBLoader GX

Not yet tried fiddling with the IOS-settings in the loaders.

USB-stick is 128GB formated FAT32 16kb blocks. Same drive work in my friends Wii, softmodded and not updated for 12-13 years now. I also tried a 4GB FAT32 formated stick.

No NAND backup available sadly.

Current SysCheck after update with what ModMii told me too

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.1E (v54450)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 12.18.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 144965479
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Sweden (107)
Boot2 v4
Found 91 titles.
Found 56 IOS on this console. 6 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): 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 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): 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[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): 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[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): 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): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS90 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, Beer Ticket
IOS245[37] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 03/17/2021.

 

[XFlak]

syscheck looks good. I would get your friend to run a syscheck and see what cIOS he's got that's able to work with this particular USB drive. If it's different, we can try that cIOS for compatibility with this drive, and if it's the same or similar cIOS, I think maybe the likely issue is with the Wii's hardware, maybe underpowered USB ports?

We could also try saving your homebrew apps to an sd card and then format the drive as WBFS instead of FAT32. You lose lots of the benefits of a fat32 hdd, but it does generally improve compatibility with small thumb drives

edit: btw I can see remnants of your previous softmod, but nothing that really interferes with anything (e.g. IOS90, 236, 245-248, etc.)

 

[Remuz]

We could also try saving your homebrew apps to an sd card and then format the drive as WBFS instead of FAT32. You lose lots of the benefits of a fat32 hdd, but it does generally improve compatibility with small thumb drives

Didnt even know that you could format WBFS, so I found on google that you do it on the backupmanager and I tried. Downloaded wii sports to the USB stick (that my computer now cant read, guess WBFS is some strange format) and started the game on my console. IT WORKS. Thanks @XFlak

Will now try to load my other games on to the USB stick in WBFS format.

 

[raxadian]

We could also try saving your homebrew apps to an sd card and then format the drive as WBFS instead of FAT32. You lose lots of the benefits of a fat32 hdd, but it does generally improve compatibility with small thumb drives

You can learn something new every day I guess?

I am totally gonna try this, I am tired of only my emuhand being able to read my Wii roms.

 

[Remuz]

Update, all my Wii games work with the USB-stick in WBFS-format. Never would have found out if it not for this forum and extra thanks to @XFlak again!

 

[Alexander1970]

Good Morning.

We could also try saving your homebrew apps to an sd card and then format the drive as WBFS instead of FAT32. You lose lots of the benefits of a fat32 hdd, but it does generally improve compatibility with small thumb drives

You can learn something new every day I guess?

I am totally gonna try this, I am tired of only my emuhand being able to read my Wii roms.

It is a "Workaround" that @Cyan suggested a long time ago.
(As he has still hope with
this "A USB Stick/Flash Drive/Pen Drive/Thumb Drive is maybe working with USBLoader GX" Topic...I think...)

 

[raxadian]

Maybe you know it would be nice to explain that USBLoader GX needs a custom cios to work. Something neither Classic mode or Skin says but at least the HTML guide does if you click a link.

https://wii.guide/cios

 

[Alexander1970]

Maybe you know it would be nice to explain that USBLoader GX needs a custom cios to work. Something neither Classic mode or Skin says but at least the HTML guide does if you click a link.

https://wii.guide/cios

Also for this has @Cyan excellent (old but still good) Guides:

Creating and using EmuNAND with USBLoaderGX
cIOS - Neek - Neek2o

TUTORIAL FOR COMPILING NEEK

NEEK INSTALLATION GUIDE

I hope this helps you.
Good Luck.

 

[raxadian]

Also for this has @Cyan excellent (old but still good) Guides:

Creating and using EmuNAND with USBLoaderGX
cIOS - Neek - Neek2o

TUTORIAL FOR COMPILING NEEK

NEEK INSTALLATION GUIDE

I hope this helps you.
Good Luck.

I already have a emunand that I use for Wiiware; I will just use that one.

 

[Alexander1970]

Thank you.

I already have a emunand that I use for Wiiware; I will just use that one.

Maybe Cyan has a Look in the next Hours/Days for your Request.
Unfortunately I never used an emuNANDs except for the Save Game Option.

@XFlak is also a very kind and helpful Neek Expert.
@godreborn has many Experience with that (also I think more with the Wii U / vWii..)

I am sure you will get Help very soon from these awesome Guys.Please a little Patience.
Thank you.

 

[XFlak]

Maybe you know it would be nice to explain that USBLoader GX needs a custom cios to work. Something neither Classic mode or Skin says but at least the HTML guide does if you click a link.

https://wii.guide/cios

Modmii's usbloader setup guide can be standalone or as part of the main wizard guide.

If part of the main wizard/guide, cios's are packed and users are instructed to install them. If a standalone guide, it is stated users are expected to have completed either modmii's main wizard or syscheck updater wizard before using other guides (like USB loader setup or region change). So as long as people carefully follow the guides/procedures, they should have a cios in place.

Edit: and I'm pretty sure I've added important notes on selecting different cios slots/bases for compatibility, or to try wbfs format on thumb drives if fat32 isn't working, etc

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

You can learn something new every day I guess?

I am totally gonna try this, I am tired of only my emuhand being able to read my Wii roms.

FYI, If u switch to wbfs format, this may get your USB loader on real nand to detect games off your thumb drive, but neek may not be able to see your titles any longer, unless u are inside a usbloader app inside neek and have a cios installed to emunand that supports wbfs partitions.

 

[raxadian]

If u switch to wbfs format, this may get your USB loader on real nand to detect games off your thumb drive, but neek may not be able to see your titles any longer, unless u are inside a usbloader app inside neek and have a cios installed to emunand that supports wbfs partitions.

Well good news is, the emunand can read the rom, bad news is; it reads only one Rom, I cannot select between them.

Edit: Wait this is with the FAT32 stick, gonna try with the other one.

 

[Cyan]

USBLoader GX needs a custom cios to work

Actually, the loader itself works fine without cIOS.
the loader, when you are inside the loader's interface, only require AHB access, which IOS58 provides.
The loader can be used as interface to boot gamecube games without cIOS.

cIOS is required only for Wii games from USB, or for emuNAND.
I think it's explained that you need cIOS. if you try to run a game without cIOS it should tell you that you need d2x cIOS.
Or ... maybe that message was removed ? I forgot


I know this is not explained in a very user friendly way inside the loader.
I wanted to update the interface to remove some features (like auto-switch to channel mode), and instead if the current gamelist is empty, inform the user and teach them that they can choose different sources, tell them where to click on the top-menu, possibly with graphical hints, and that they need cIOS to launch Wii games or emuNAND.

I also wanted to make a new scroll-able "prompt window" who can contain more texts, on multiple lines.
But the current translation file is not appropriate for that method.
Replacing all translations with reference_IDs would be a lot of work (for devs, and for translators). Maybe a mixed method could work, pot file for simple words, and another one (xml based) for multi-line texts.

it's one of the many ideas I had before I lost interest and enough time to do it.
I still hope secretly that one day I could maybe join effort with @blackb0x and merge everything to have only one official project
I have to find motivation and free time again.

 

[XFlak]

I still hope secretly that one day I could maybe join effort with @blackb0x and merge everything to have only one official project
I have to find motivation and free time again.

Do it! Getting the dream team together to work on GX is something I can get excited about! I'm sure many others would echo my excitement so hopefully that does something for your motivation (free time unfortunately I can't help you with, lol)

 

[raxadian]

I can't load Wii roms from the Sd card, and from USB only works with the wmunand on and only a single game -_-

 

[AndyCandy]

Hey!

Quick question, i was wondering if someone knew the answer.
I've been busy with modding my old wii. Its currently on version 4.3E. I have installed the homebrew channel and USBloaderGX. Everything works as normal when loading games from a HDD. The older games like mario kart wii and Wii sports / Resort work fine. But when it comes to loading other games like Wii Party and Mario Galaxy 2 or Mario party 9, my Wii seems to get stuck. It gives me a black screen and then have to hold the power button down to turn off the system and start again. Does anyone have a solution so i can play those other games? Thanks in advance!

 

[raxadian]

Hey!

Quick question, i was wondering if someone knew the answer.
I've been busy with modding my old wii. Its currently on version 4.3E. I have installed the homebrew channel and USBloaderGX. Everything works as normal when loading games from a HDD. The older games like mario kart wii and Wii sports / Resort work fine. But when it comes to loading other games like Wii Party and Mario Galaxy 2 or Mario party 9, my Wii seems to get stuck. It gives me a black screen and then have to hold the power button down to turn off the system and start again. Does anyone have a solution so i can play those other games? Thanks in advance!

Run SysCheck and post the results please.

Also you may need to update a few things.

 

[AndyCandy]

Run SysCheck and post the results please.

Also you may need to update a few things.

Will do!

 

[AndyCandy]

Run SysCheck and post the results please.

Also you may need to update a few things.

Here is my syscheck
SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Console ID: 75105461
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Netherlands (94)
Boot2 v4
Found 78 titles.
Found 54 IOS on this console. 5 of them are stubs.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, Flash Access, NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
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 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS80 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS90 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38+37] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, Beer Ticket
IOS245[37] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 03/21/2021.

 

[XFlak]

Most likely a bad rip. The games u are having issues with don't have any kind of extra special security compared to the games you do say are working. And your syscheck looks decent, no real issues there