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[ca032769]

i'm having trouble installing games from disc with ANY of my usb loaders - USB Loader GX, wiiflow, and CFG Loader all have this problem. basically it'll just get stuck around the 1% mark (seems to vary depending on game size - the smaller the game is, the more progress it'll make before getting stuck. 1% is with Mario Galaxy 1, a smaller game like Wii Music made it to around 24% before getting stuck). I've tried tons of different flash drives, all either 13GB or 32GB (all of them SanDisk except for one, which is a Verbatim one.)

Don't use a flash drive, they have too many issues, use a HDD instead.

 

[pearlfect]

Don't use a flash drive, they have too many issues, use a HDD instead.

I have a 1tb hard drive, but USB Loader GX refuses to recognize it (it'll recognize it when loading up as it doesn't say anything when initialising USB drive, but once i get into the actual menu it'll act like there isn't one), and no matter what I'm installing WiiFlow will say it doesn't have enough space.

 

[Illuminaticy]

I have a 1tb hard drive, but USB Loader GX refuses to recognize it (it'll recognize it when loading up as it doesn't say anything when initialising USB drive, but once i get into the actual menu it'll act like there isn't one), and no matter what I'm installing WiiFlow will say it doesn't have enough space.

Is your HDD Fat32 or NTFS?

 

[jeannotte]

Hello,

@ pearlfect:

Post a syscheck report here, helping you with this tutorial ==> https://gbatemp.net/threads/posting-a-system-check.300279/


Are your d2x cios installed? Is your hack up to date?

Do not use usb keys, they work badly or not with the Wii, prefer an external hard drive (in FAT 32) for better connectivity.

 

[pearlfect]

Hello,

@ pearlfect:

Post a syscheck report here, helping you with this tutorial ==> https://gbatemp.net/threads/posting-a-system-check.300279/


Are your d2x cios installed? Is your hack up to date?

Do not use usb keys, they work badly or not with the Wii, prefer an external hard drive (in FAT 32) for better connectivity.

Sorry for the late replies
My d2x cios is installed, what do you mean by 'hack' being up to date?
I do have a 1tb hard drive but it's formatted as NTFS and so far I've had no luck getting it to be recognised on my Windows 10 computer
The problem with installing games is also different now, somehow... rather than getting stuck at certain percentages, as soon as I press install it'll jump to 100% and then just like before, the pop up won't close (even if i press cancel) and the wii menu music will still play in the background and i'll still be able to move the cursor around.
I did a syscheck for both my Wii and vWii on Wii U, since I'm having the issue on both.
syschecks :

Wii :

Spoiler

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: 12.18.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 138616357
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United Kingdom (110)
Boot2 v4
Found 105 titles.
Found 47 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
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 (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 5120): Stub
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 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS249[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10 (DIOS MIOS 2.8)
Report generated on 11/09/2018.

Wii U vWii

Spoiler

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on vIOS58 (rev 6432).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v610)

Drive date: 07.12.2012
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 613942042
Console Type: vWii
Shop Channel Country: United Kingdom (110)
Boot2 v0
Found 93 titles.
Found 33 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
vIOS249[56] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt-vWii): NAND Access, USB 2.0
vIOS250[56] (rev 21010, Info: d2x-v10beta52-vWii): NAND Access, USB 2.0
vIOS512 (rev 7): No Patches
vIOS513 (rev 1): No Patches
Report generated on 11/09/2018.

 

[jeannotte]

Hello,

For the Wii:

Install the version of the cios d2x v10 beta 52 as-this on these three cios ==> cios 249 base 56 and cios 250 base 57 and cios 251 base 58

For the vwii mode of the Wii u:

Install this version d2x-v10-beta52-vWii ==> cios 249 base 56 and cios 250 base 57

For the external hard drive, format it in fat32 and manage your games with ==>https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-backup-manager-for-windows.188295/

 

[pearlfect]

Hello,

For the Wii:

Install the version of the cios d2x v10 beta 52 as-this on these three cios ==> cios 249 base 56 and cios 250 base 57 and cios 251 base 58

For the vwii mode of the Wii u:

Install this version d2x-v10-beta52-vWii ==> cios 249 base 56 and cios 250 base 57

For the external hard drive, format it in fat32 and manage your games with ==>https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-backup-manager-for-windows.188295/

my wii and wii u are finally installing games like normal. thank you!

 

[NANASHI89]

Do Nintendont and USB Loader GX take exFAT? Hope to get an external hard drive for Wii and Gamecube Games.

 

[migles]

Do Nintendont and USB Loader GX take exFAT? Hope to get an external hard drive for Wii and Gamecube Games.

no, they only support fat32.
i believe usb loader GX does support NTFS but i can be wrong.

 

[NANASHI89]

no, they only support fat32.
i believe usb loader GX does support NTFS but i can be wrong.

So, is it even possible to fit Gamecube and Wii games on the same external hard drive?

 

[migles]

So, is it even possible to fit Gamecube and Wii games on the same external hard drive?

yes, there is no problem, i use the same drive with a fat32 partition to both wii and gamecube games
i use wii backup manager for the wii games, it automatically splits and converts the games into wbfs files

 

[HelpTheWretched]

Hallo! I haven't kept up with the Wii softmod scene for probably 5 years now. I've got USB Loader GX which works just fine and a couple backup launchers for Wii and GameCube games with varying compatibility. Playing backup discs from the Disc Channel was possible at the time but not something I had bothered to set up.

What I'm mainly wondering is, did anybody ever come up with a way to play GameCube ISOs from a USB drive or other memory? That was the last "holy grail" I recall, and there was even some discussion about somehow using the GameCube memory card slots.

 

[Kimboslice]

Nintendont Triforce controller support? Will a GC wheel work in Triforce games?

 

[jeannotte]

Hello,

@HelpTheWretched :

To support an external hard drive compatible with the wii for a better connectivity, you will have less problem than with the key usb (black screen).
Some usb keys work badly or not with the wii.

You can play Gamecube games from the SD with Nintendont.

Update your hack with Modmii ==> https://gbatemp.net/threads/modmii-for-windows-official-support-topic.207126/

 

[Snaper]

Hi Guys,

Just finished modding my WII, followed this tutorial :


Everything works fine, except 1 thing.
USBLoader can't see my HDD.
It is a brand new 120GB Kingston SSD, I formatted it to WBFS with WITGUI on Mac, copied all the games, now USBLoader can't recognise it.
Could you somebody help me out?

 

[ca032769]

Hi Guys,

Just finished modding my WII, followed this tutorial :


Everything works fine, except 1 thing.
USBLoader can't see my HDD.
It is a brand new 120GB Kingston SSD, I formatted it to WBFS with WITGUI on Mac, copied all the games, now USBLoader can't recognize it.
Could you somebody help me out?

Don't use a drive formatted as WBFS. That's a really old way & format that's not used anymore because of corruption issues. You'll want your drive formatted as FAT32 with 32k clusters. Use a program like EaseUS to make sure other remnants or partitions are merged on the drive, no matter how small. If there are just merge them into the main partition.

See this post from a while ago:
http://gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-gx.149922/page-1129#post-6662953

Step 1 talks about those remnants left on the drive as well as a link to the EaseUS software. The second picture in step 9 shows the ASTERIX referred to in step 1. I've come across all kinds of stuff on a drive just after formatting that still gets left behind and this can interfere with the loader seeing it if it's not merged with only one partition present. Merge anything weird as well as Unallocated space to help keep you trouble free.

 

[Snaper]

Formatted the drive to FAT32, USBLoader now sees the drive, but can't see he game.
I moved with WITGUI only 1 game.
It shows that the space is used for something just don't show up the game...

 

[Snaper]

Ok, here is the drive, looks good, yet, USBLoader don't recognise the game :

 

[ca032769]

Ok, here is the drive, looks good, yet, USBLoader don't recognise the game :

View attachment 156101

Do you have it in the folder WBFS?? Should look like WBFS/Super Mario Brothers...

All games go into the WBFS folder which is in the root of the drive.

Don't mix this up with the WBFS hard drive format, this is a WBFS folder on your FAT32k 32k cluster hard drive. Tends to get a bit confusing.

 

[Snaper]

Nope, it is on the root.
Will try this, but weird why WITGUI did not place them there...