Homebrew USB Loader GX and Nintendont not seeing hard disk

[Chris71Mach1]

So I've got an interesting issue going on with my console.

I'll preface this thread with saying that I've been successful doing this once already, so I know it's possible. I softmodded a Wii a few months ago, installed the homebrew channel, then put some emulators on the SD card, including Nintendont and USB Loader GX. I partitioned a 2tb USB HDD with one NTFS and one FAT32 partition, put a Wii library on the NTFS partition and a Gamecube library on the FAT32 partition. I was able to successfully play both Wii and Gamecube titles through the respective homebrew apps with both libraries living happily on the same physical disk but on different partitions to appease the emulator apps.

So fast forward to the fact that my son saw me do this for his cousins on their Wii console and now wants me to do it on my own so he can continue to play Wii titles and play some Gamecube games too. Bear in mind, this is the first console I ever softmodded, and I did the mod work many years ago, so the softmod job is possibly quite shoddy and in need of repair (though I don't know enough about it to effectively troubleshoot on my own). I've set the hard disk up the same way as was done on the console that works. (of course the hard drive's plugged into the correct USB port before anybody asks) The Wii games are on NTFS:/root/wbfs/<game> and then the Gamecube games are on FAT32:/root/games/<game>. Now when I open the Nintendont application, the app doesn't see the hard drive, or at least won't recognize the FAT32 filesystem. When I open the USB Loader GX app, I'm taken to what looks like the normal screen, but then I see all the Gamecube titles (no Wii titles visible, despite an extensive library on this drive) and attempting to play any Gamecube titles fails. Syscheck provided below:

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline Double_A R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6175).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 07.14.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 86725850
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 112 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 11 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): 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 (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): 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 6175): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Trucha Bug
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6943): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS202[57] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.0): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.0): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS223[37] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.0): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS236[36] (rev 65535 Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 20 Info: rev 20): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS250[37] (rev 20 Info: rev 20): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 12/08/2020.


All the other emulators work, but I just need to get the Wii & GC titles playable on this console. Any help at this point would be appreciated. TIA!!

 

[RunningSnakes]

Thanks for posting System Check. It looks like your softmod is outdated. I really recommend updating with ModMii. Follow instructions carefully and it should only take 20-30 minutes. Please post after you have done so and I'll try to help out if you are still having problems.

Also wanted to say having HDD partitioned NTFS/FAT32 the way you have it adds nothing. I really suggest making it all 1 partition using FAT32.

 

[Chris71Mach1]

Thanks for posting System Check. It looks like your softmod is outdated. I really recommend updating with ModMii. Follow instructions carefully and it should only take 20-30 minutes. Please post after you have done so and I'll try to help out if you are still having problems.

Thanks for lookin over that. I had a feeling it may be the older softmod patches that could be contributing to the problem. Believe it or not, ModMii might be a small problem since it's made for Windows and I actually have all Linux machines in my house right now. If there's a Linux alternative or variant of ModMii, I'm all ears. Until then I'll have to wait till I go back to my office (workin remote due to covid) before I can work on a windows PC. Thanks for the direction though. I'm going to try that out first chance I get.

 

[Chris71Mach1]

RunningSnakes, you magnificent bastard. I'd rather throw this out in open forum to give you public props than PM, but dude....THANK YOU. Anybody who takes time out of their day to read through as much BS as I've posted and provide viable solutions deserves to be called out like this.

Between the files you pointed me to so I could update all my outdated patches/WADs and the updated/current versions of the homebrew apps that you showed me, my console with the super-old mod job has been updated and my 7 yr old is happily playing GameCube ROMs from the attached hard disk. I need to find another N64 emulator apparently, cause Wii64 seems to be a bit choppy, but it's pretty clear that the hard part is done and it's all downhill from here. I can't thank you enough, as now I have a "gold standard" for the other Wii consoles in my house, and they'll be updated to this standard as soon as I can get the SD card out of this console (ie, when I can tear my son away from it, which I'm in no hurry to do).

You rock dude!!

 

[RunningSnakes]

Awesome you have it rollin. I'm glad I could help, that's what it all about my friend. Happy Holidays.

 

[adrianmole72]

Thanks for posting System Check. It looks like your softmod is outdated. I really recommend updating with ModMii. Follow instructions carefully and it should only take 20-30 minutes. Please post after you have done so and I'll try to help out if you are still having problems.

Also wanted to say having HDD partitioned NTFS/FAT32 the way you have it adds nothing. I really suggest making it all 1 partition using FAT32.

Hi, what do i use within modmii to update the mod? thanks

 

[Alexander1970]

Good Morning.

Hi, what do i use within modmii to update the mod? thanks

- Download and install ModMii on your PC please (If you do not already have done this Step.)
- Make a sysCheck please ( -> Manual and Download is here )
- Use your sysCheck.csv File with ModMii´s UPDATE Option please.
(Drag and Drop the "sysCheck.csv File on your "ModMii" or "ModMii Skin" Shortcuts on the Desktop please.
- Follow the Steps and Instructions please.

Good Luck
Thank you.