Hacking USB Loader GX can't see HDD anymore

[ajh3000]

Hi. I put "letterbomb" on my Wii many years ago which allowed me to play SNES emulators etc. Then recently I tried USB Loader GX. I managed to rip and install Gamecube games on my SD card.
But installing Wii games in GX has been more challenging.
I am using a WD Elements 4TB HDD with a 100 GB partition.
I have only managed to dump one Wii game (Wii Sports), and that was after figured I needed d2x-v8-final (according to other posts).
The disc dump/install of Mario Galaxy 2 got to 100% ok but GX went into a crash loop after that, so I deleted those SMG2 files to recover.

Currently GX can't see my WD Elements HDD or another WD HDD, when it could before. It says "can't initialise USB". But cfg usb loader can see the HDD.
I think GX is using slot 249 when maybe it wasn't before ...


Here is my Syscheck output - can someone please point out where I might have gone wrong?

Spoiler: Syscheck output

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL (original region: AUS)
System Menu 4.3E (v514)

Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 51111131
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Australia (65)
Boot2 v4
Found 77 titles.
Found 45 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stubs.

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): 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
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS249[37] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 01/26/2019.

Thanks.

 

[ajh3000]

I did more reading and found I need to use base 57 , not base 37 ...
https://gbatemp.net/threads/d2x-and-cios-249-confusion.481871/

I updated slot 249 and that has seemed to work. GX can see the HDD again, and I SMG2 install got passed to 100% in GX.
The issue now is that SMG2 doesn't appear in the games list in GX ... might try a restart ...

EDIT: I reinstalled GX. Now can see the 3 games I dumped (Wii Sports, Mario Galaxy 2, WWE All Stars).
But only Wii Sports is playable. The other two games have black title intro/portal screens and crash gracefully back to HBL.
The file sizes of the games look odd relative to each other:
SMG2 170MB
WWE 417MB
Wii Sports 653MB (working)

Wii Sports was dumped using "base 38" d2x-v6 (I think)
The other two were dumped using "base 57" d2x-v8-final

Any ideas why the other 2 games don't work?

 

[jeannotte]

Hello

Bad (empty) or corrupt files

 

[ajh3000]

Hello

Bad (empty) or corrupt files

I dumped Skyward Sword using GX today - it came out as about 600 MB but it is not readable either.

These output wbfs files are not empty but yes corrupt I guess. Wii Backup Manager gives them red status.

Here is the "state" of the Wii for each dumped game:

Wii Sports 653MB (working), dumped with base 38 d2x-v6 in slot 249
SMG2 170MB (corrupt?) dumped with base 57 d2x-v8-final in slot 249
WWE All Stars 417MB (corrupt?) dumped with base 57 d2x-v8-final in slot 249
Skyward Sword 600MB (corrupt?) dumped with base 57 d2x-v8-final in slot 249

I guess the corrupt dumps are all a bit smaller than they probably should be, but they did reach "100% point, successful install" in GX, and appear in the list in GX.

I did try SMG2 and WWE disc dumps with base 38 but they didn't reach the 100% point.

What should I change to get the disc rips working in GX?

Here is my latest syscheck output showing updated slots 249 and 250.

Spoiler: syscheck

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL (original region: AUS)
System Menu 4.3E (v514)

Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 51111131
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Australia (65)
Boot2 v4
Found 77 titles.
Found 45 IOS on this console. 14 of them are stubs.

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): 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
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS249[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 01/27/2019.

 

[Cyan]

I doubt skyward word is only 600MB.

underdump or freeze are often due to using flashdrive instead of HDD, but you are using a proper external HDD so it shouldn't be the problem.
cIOS base/version you are using shouldn't be the problem either, but we never know.

as you found that v6/37 worked and v8/57 doesn't, you can try to reinstall v8/57.
maybe it was not installed correctly, but when it happens you usually get wiimote unsync at boot.
well, it's worth trying. Just reinstall the cIOS over the existing slot.

What you can do too :
go to USBLoaderGX settings > loader's settings > Loader's IOS : replace 249 with 58
reboot
dump your disc, now it'll use IOS58 to dump the disc, instead of cIOS.


edit:
what you can test if reinstalling 249/57 still creates underdumps, change the loader settings to 250 (instead of 249 or 58) reboots, and try again.
let me know if it dumps correctly using base56 but doesn't using base57, and it's reproducible with Wii sport. (though, it's a small game, it might not be big enough to detect a problem with base57)

 

[tswntk]

skyward word is greater than 4G and should be split into two wbfs files for FAT32 partitions.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is around 1.3G

make sure your partition have enough free space left. 100G is not that big. Also make sure you are pointing to the right partition and that partition does not spread beyond the 2T mark physically on the HDD. Wii might have problem accessing sectors beyond 2T