Homebrew Problems

[Wajora]

Hey y'all. I'm using a partitioned USB hard drive and the GC games on the FAT32 partition run with no issues (and so do the WiiU games) but I'm having problems getting Wii games to work. I see them listed in WiiFlow but for almost all games I get the black screen when I tried to launch them (usually testing on RE4 and Skyward Sword ). I already tried reinstalling both USB Loader GX as well as WiiFlow (prefer the latter) via libreshop as well as putting it on the SD manually, I already tried all different cIOs and I double checked the hashes of my rips but so far no luck. Not really sure where to go from here.

Here is my syscheck (I just saw that my date settings are wrong, but this is from today)

SysCheck ME v2.5.0 by blackb0x, JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on vIOS58 (rev 6432).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v610)

Drive date: 06.28.2011
Homebrew Channel 1.1.3 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 613132511
Console Type: vWii
Shop Channel Country: Germany (78)
Boot2 v0
Found 74 titles.
Found 35 IOS on this console. 0 of them are stubs.

vIOS9 (rev 1290): No Patches
vIOS12 (rev 782): No Patches
vIOS13 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS14 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS15 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS17 (rev 1288): No Patches
vIOS21 (rev 1295): No Patches
vIOS22 (rev 1550): No Patches
vIOS28 (rev 2063): No Patches
vIOS31 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS33 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS34 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS35 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS36 (rev 3864): No Patches
vIOS37 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS38 (rev 4380): No Patches
vIOS41 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS43 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS45 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS46 (rev 3863): No Patches
vIOS48 (rev 4380): No Patches
vIOS53 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS55 (rev 5919): No Patches
vIOS56 (rev 5918): No Patches
vIOS57 (rev 6175): No Patches
vIOS58 (rev 6432): USB 2.0
vIOS59 (rev 9249): No Patches
vIOS62 (rev 6942): No Patches
vIOS80 (rev 7200): No Patches
vIOS248[38] (rev 21011, Info: d2x-v11beta3-vWii): ES Identify, NAND Access
vIOS249[56] (rev 21011, Info: d2x-v11beta3-vWii): NAND Access, USB 2.0
vIOS250[57] (rev 21011, Info: d2x-v11beta3-vWii): NAND Access, USB 2.0
vIOS251[58] (rev 21011, Info: d2x-v11beta3-vWii): NAND Access, USB 2.0
vIOS512 (rev 7): No Patches
vIOS513 (rev 1): No Patches
Report generated on 10/04/2024.

 

[mawggers]

Hi. Currently experiencing this same issue, but I did find a workaround for USBLoaderGX.

Open up USBLoaderGX, go to Settings, then Loader settings, then change the Loader IOS and Games IOS to 251. Move the USB stick to the bottom USB port on the rear of the Wii U, then it should read and launch game backups from the USB stick. Having the USB stick in that port might make Nintendont stop working though, I haven’t tested that as I don’t have a GameCube controller or adapter.

 

[tmnr1992]

Check that the first partition is set as primary, partition table MBR, formatted as fat32 with cluster size 32kb. Also make sure you're using a Y cable, the data connector goes to the bottom rear port, and the power connector goes to either the other spare port or a powered USB hub. If you have something connected to the front ports, like the GameCube controller adapter, you will need the powered USB hub, as the hard drive won't be able to get enough power from the console alone.

Also, are the games that give you problems PAL or NTSC? Since your console is PAL, for NTSC games you need to go to USB Loader's settings and select force PAL.

 

[snsclziklost]

Check that the first partition is set as primary, partition table MBR, formatted as fat32 with cluster size 32kb. Also make sure you're using a Y cable, the data connector goes to the bottom rear port, and the power connector goes to either the other spare port or a powered USB hub. If you have something connected to the front ports, like the GameCube controller adapter, you will need the powered USB hub, as the hard drive won't be able to get enough power from the console alone.

Also, are the games that give you problems PAL or NTSC? Since your console is PAL, for NTSC games you need to go to USB Loader's settings and select force PAL.

dont plug the power branch of the y cable into another hub or machine, only the other port(s) on the wii u
That's exactly why no such cords are technically USB compliant.
You can fry machinery that way.

two host sources may fight each other, causing dangerous backfeeding, overvoltage, or ground loops

 

[Wajora]

Check that the first partition is set as primary, partition table MBR, formatted as fat32 with cluster size 32kb. Also make sure you're using a Y cable, the data connector goes to the bottom rear port, and the power connector goes to either the other spare port or a powered USB hub.

Yes to all of those. I use a Y connector with no other USB devices and until now I had the data cable in the top (0) port but I tried the bottom port just now and it's the same result. All games show up in the loader as they should, GC games work but Wii games just boot into a black screen.

The games are all PAL games that I dumped myself and I used TinyWiiBackupManager to create the backups

 

[snsclziklost]

games showing in the loader but none of them getting into game is odd, especially if you've checked your cIOS were the typical.

is the loader using the default IOS 249? if the loader is set to use either port, update it to port 0 only and restart. some big games take about 40 seconds before they show the health screen. If you have block ISO reload on you don't want to use it for most games.

your data should be in port 0.

other random things to just rule out
is your y-cable cheapo?
is your y-cable usb c?
is your drive an ssd?
are you including a usb hub in this you haven't told us about?


the only thing I'd say after all that is just test another drive, formatted the same, even a small one, with one of the same games. Might just not like your drive.

 

[Wajora]

It's a HDD (Seagate Firecuda), the Y cable isn't super cheap or USB-C, no HUB.
Also here are my loader settings in case someone spots something:

 

[snsclziklost]

is the drive itself (or the partition) larger than 2 TB?
I don't really know what else to do after that.
There's an issue with drives larger than 2TB. I don't know if this is actually true for USB loader. Seems like it's more true with WiiVC installed to the WiiU. So I dunno.


Can still try another drive to test; those settings look okay as far as i know.

 

[mawggers]

I'd still recommend giving Game/Loader IOS 251 a shot (for Game just change it from Auto then it lets you switch it to 251) and USB1 (the lower port) just to see if maybe that'll be what does it. Also curious how you have your drive/partition set up (partition size and sector size in particular).

Glad to see you check in with us! I know this is an old thread

 

[Wajora]

I'd still recommend giving Game/Loader IOS 251 a shot (for Game just change it from Auto then it lets you switch it to 251) and USB1 (the lower port) just to see if maybe that'll be what does it

Yeah this is what I tried as well when I said I tried the the other port earlier.
This is how my drive is set up:

 

[snsclziklost]

in Minitool partition wizard, I aligned my partition to MB when creating it. I don't know if this matters, or how to tell on an already created partition, or what alignment even means, or if you have to do it while creating or can do it later. I know that aligning to MB is more legacy than modern, but I have no idea if that would matter for this. It's just the default option in minitool. Your setup looks like it should be working.

Oh, I'm remembering something.
BEFORE next step, try dumping a wii disc within usb loader gx and see if it'll play afterward.
If it ever slows way down try a less scratched disc.

I had an incident where I dumped elsewhere, moved them to drive, and they showed but black screened, and it was because I had messed up the folders/naming.