I'm running into a problem where USBloadergx can see my wii games usb if it's in by itself, but if I put in both my USB's it won't initialize. I've checked and I have all the correct CIOS and I've hidden the wii USB with stealth. I'm out of ideas.
you'll know if ustealth is working, because it won't nag you about formatting on the wii u menu. are both drives powered or unpowered with y cables? I had a little issue a few days ago where it was a bit sluggish saving in new super mario bros. wii. the next two times I used my hdd, no issues, so it might've been a glitch.
to use USB Port1, you need compatible IOS :
- hermes cIOS v4 or v5.x
- d2x v9 beta
- d2x v10-alt
- IOS58
Then, setting "USB Port: both" and "multi partition : enabled" should be enough to mount both drives and list all partitions at the same time.
Did you try to user "USB Port : 1" (or 0). one at a time instead of "both" ?
when you change the USB Port, select the default partition to list (in case show multiple partition option is disabled) or the one to use to install games from disc.
Attention, if your drives have different partition numbers, or different folder setup, your settings might be broken as few paths will not point to the correct location anymore.
Please let me know if your drive are detected independently.
Another thing to know if you want to use dual partition is that Nintendont is using IOS58, and nintendont will mount the FIRST hdd it finds and the FIRST compatible partition from that HDD.
the issue is that IOS58 is mounting USBPort1 first, then USBport0. cIOS are mounting the drives in the other order, so if you plug the Gamecube HDD on port0 USBLoaderGX will see the games but nintendont will not access it, it will try to mount the gamecube iso from Port1 and will not find the file.
So, you need to connect drives in this order :
USB port 0 : Wii HDD
USB Port 1 : GC HDD
but when doing this, I think (I'm not sure!) you shouldn't set USBLoaderGX to use IOS58 inside the loader or it will also mount the drives and partition in reverse order, which means the gamecube games will be on usb1:/games/ (first mounted partition) and Wii games on usb2:/wbfs/ (second mounted partition).
When the loader will reload to cIOS and tell the cIOS to load the game on usb2:/wbfs/ that partition number will not match anymore as cIOS are mounting the partition in incrementing order and will expect the games on usb1:/wbfs/ instead.
Using a cIOS in USBLoaderGX should be fine, as it sends the path to the gamecube game without the partition number to nintendont, and sends the correct partition number to cIOS for wii games.
Setting a dual HDD setup is a little hard due to that init order difference.
Hi Cyan,the meta.xml arguments are used on the boot procedures only, before it loads the config file (which could be on USB even if you should use SD for that, so it needs to mount usb first), then replace all the settings with the loaded config file (replacing your meta.xml arguments with values set in the config file).
so be sure your internal loader settings are matching the xml too.
settings > hdd > dual hdd support + mount all partition
settings > loader settings > IOS (not IOS58)
if d2x doesn't work, try with one of hermes cIOS (like the message told you?).
I don't remember if it requires hermes, I think it should work with d2x r53 too.
note that I didn't touch that console for more than 3 years now. I'm probably rusty at providing advices.
I tried to remove the line manually (open it by notepad and delete it and save). But the result is same. My Wii cannot recognize the folder in USB port 1 (although I'm choosing USB2).did you try to actually remove the line telling you to do it ?
to make the argument work, you need to un-comment that part in the xml, by deleting these lines.
Like I said, I didn't touch the console for 3 years, I don't remember everything and I'm not sure how to help you.
=> Is it separate 4/4 for each port? Then should I separate wii game HDD to 4 partitions, then it can see the gamecube game in partition 5?up to 8 partitions can be mounted, over the two ports.
I don't understand this statement.If I use d2x V10r53, USB1 and USB2 only see the folders in USB port 0
Yes, this is exactly my problem.if it detects 1 HDD (not 2) in one single USB Port (for example USB Port0), with only ONE partition, it duplicated that partition.
Maybe we have many problem with Japanese wii version.
No it doesn't matter what partitions are on the drive.
If you are using r1226, it should edit the meta.xml automatically (if you have it) to set the dual port feature at launch.
You can verify that the meta.xml is correctly edited.
You must not have the comments lines starting with "<!--" anymore (the arguments section should not be commented)
and in the argument section, you should have <arg>--usbport=2</arg>
Be sure to use an IOS slot with either Hermes v4, v5.1, d2x v9, v10-alt installed. only these 4 cIOS are compatible with port1.