Hacking USB Loader GX and playing .wbfs games?

[XC-3730C]

I have a soft modded Wii, and USB Loader. I used to use WBFS manager to format my 32gb USB stick and install game ISOs onto it, but I recently acquired a collection of games with a wbfs extension. I tried one USB stick formatted in FAT32 format, and the same kind of USB stick formatted in NFTS format, created a wbfs folder on the root, and drag-and-drop copied the gamws with a .wbfs extension to the USB stick(s), but when I load up USB Loader GX, it just goes to a black screen, and I have to turn off my Wii.

Any help to get .wbfs games working would be appreciated. Perhaps I need a different USB loader, or concerns .wbfs format gamws to another format? My gamws are named like this: Mario Party 8 [RM8E01].wbfs

 

[Cyan]

the .wbfs files need to be in correct folders, with correct filenames.
You can't just place all files in the same folder with random names.

/wbfs/sub-Folder/wbfs file(s) here

/wbfs/Game's Title [GameID6]/GameID6.wbfs

example:
/wbfs/New super Mario Wii [SMNP01]/SMNP01.wbfs
/wbfs/Mario Party 8 [RM8E01]/RM8E01.wbfs


Now you might think "how the hell would I get the gameID?"
you don't. there are tools to rename the files and folders correctly and copy everything in the proper place for you.

Download WiiBackupManager (NEVER USE WBFS manager anymore! it's a bad program)

1 Go to "settings>FAT32" tab
select "layout format : "Title [ID]"
select "automatically rename folder name convention at mount"
select "use subfolders"

2 go to "settings>Title" tab
Download Wiitdb file
enable "use wiitdb names for folders"

Exit the settings.

Now, mount your drive in the "drive" tab and ALL your games in /wbfs/ folder will be moved and renamed correctly in 1 second.
try the drive again in the loader.


to add games, use that program again. Open the ISO and select "transfer" to copy/rename/split the file into wbfs format.