Hacking USB loader gx freezing with vc titles

[evantaylor1990]

I seem to have a problem worth emunand titles on us loader gx, as most that I load freeze at startup or soon after. Some get to the spinning n64 logo which continues to spin for a rather long time before freezing. I am not sure what I should do to fix this. I used showmiiwads to load them into the directory and am using dx2 v6 because I'm scared of newer versions which did not work with my vwii on the Wii u. I have been unable to find a download of dx2 v8 or 10 so if that would help if appreciate a point in the right direction. Thanks!

 

[XFlak]

You could try building a fresh nand using ModMii, or uneek, or both

 

[evantaylor1990]

Is USB loader bad at making nand dumps?

 

[Cyan]

hmm, two things :
you can update to d2x v8 without problem, don't be scared about it.
v6 is now old, and some game works only starting from v7 (lot of games using wiimotion+, and older ones like metroid prime trilogy, ssx, sam&max, etc.)

you don't need to update to v10 (beta), just go with v8 final, which is the one provided by modmii.
So, you can get slot249/250 from modmii if you want then use a wad manager, or use a d2x installer homebrew and update the slots directly from the console. (if you don't know how to do, you can ask)


N64 VC are known to having compatibility issue with emuNAND cIOS mode.
a lot of N64 VC need a EmuNAND Neek mode instead.
if you want more information about emuNAND cIOS/neek mode : https://gbatemp.net/posts/6592730
you can also check the cIOS compatibility : http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/Wii_cIOS_EmuNAND_Compatibility_List
Some games work only on specific cIOS version or base.


USBLoader should be good at making NAND dump, but it might differ based on the IOS you are using when doing the dump.
IOS58 and cIOS are using different naming method for FAT32.

I think Xflak just suggest that you make a new NAND from modmii because yours might be bad/corrupted, it's not related to the way you did it.
you can try to make a new dump from a loader, or another FSdumper too.
I'd recommend you make the dump using d2x v8 if you plan to launch channels in cIOS mode (as they will also use d2x v8's filename decoding while playing).
making the dump using the IOS you'll use is better.

If you plan to use neek, maybe using IOS58 is better than cIOS. modmii is good for neek too.

 

[evantaylor1990]

Thanks, sir! I installed the v8 cios so I could play my backups of Skyward Sword and some other stuff and everything seems to be working as it should! I don't think I'll have to fool around with anything for a while!

 

[evantaylor1990]

hmm, two things :
you can update to d2x v8 without problem, don't be scared about it.
v6 is now old, and some game works only starting from v7 (lot of games using wiimotion+, and older ones like metroid prime trilogy, ssx, sam&max, etc.)

you don't need to update to v10 (beta), just go with v8 final, which is the one provided by modmii.
So, you can get slot249/250 from modmii if you want then use a wad manager, or use a d2x installer homebrew and update the slots directly from the console. (if you don't know how to do, you can ask)


N64 VC are known to having compatibility issue with emuNAND cIOS mode.
a lot of N64 VC need a EmuNAND Neek mode instead.
if you want more information about emuNAND cIOS/neek mode : https://gbatemp.net/posts/6592730
you can also check the cIOS compatibility : http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/Wii_cIOS_EmuNAND_Compatibility_List
Some games work only on specific cIOS version or base.


USBLoader should be good at making NAND dump, but it might differ based on the IOS you are using when doing the dump.
IOS58 and cIOS are using different naming method for FAT32.

I think Xflak just suggest that you make a new NAND from modmii because yours might be bad/corrupted, it's not related to the way you did it.
you can try to make a new dump from a loader, or another FSdumper too.
I'd recommend you make the dump using d2x v8 if you plan to launch channels in cIOS mode (as they will also use d2x v8's filename decoding while playing).
making the dump using the IOS you'll use is better.

If you plan to use neek, maybe using IOS58 is better than cIOS. modmii is good for neek too.

actually could you tell me how to make my usb loader gx into a channel? If I do that, will I have to reset everything? And will that make it so I can boot directly to usb loader gx??

 

[XFlak]

Grab any USB loader forwarder channel wad and forwarder dol. You can download a Usb loader forwarder channel from modmii if u want or find some other source.

To autoboot into the forwarder you will need to install a forwarder dol as a file in priiloader, then set priiloader's autoboot instructions to file.

You can extract the dol right out of your forwarder channel wad using an app like customize mii, or you can build a forwarder dol using Modmii's advanced downloads menu.

 

[Cyan]

you can find the forwarder channels here :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbloadergx/files/Releases/Forwarders/

use the 5.1 specific for your console. (5.1 = Wii, 5.1vwii fix = WiiU vwii)

If you want to autoboot into the loader from priiloader, instead of installing the forwarder.dol (it works, but only with cIOS), it's better to install the UNEO booter dol (which will launch the forwarder instead of the boot.dol) and works fine with IOS58 too.
It's useful to kep the AHB access (unlocking the full GUI and banner layout mode) if you set "loader's IOS" setting to 58 because your HDD is not initiated correctly with slot 249.

there's no need to extract the dol from the channel, they are available here :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbloadergx/files/Releases/Forwarders dols/

xFlak, I don't know if you already updated them, but you can use these these files in modmii.
Always the latest official stable release : https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbloadergx/files/latest/
Forwarder 5.1 for wii : https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbloadergx/files/Releases/Forwarders/USB Loader GX-UNEO_Forwarder_5_1_AHBPROT.wad
Forwarder 5.1 for vWii (not sure you'd want it) : https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbloadergx/files/Releases/Forwarders/USB Loader GX-UNEO_Forwarder_5_1_AHBPROT_vWii (Fix).wad

Priiloader's dol if you don't have the forwarder installed : https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbloadergx/files/Releases/Forwarders dols/ForwarderV5.1.dol (not recommended, slower and not fully supported)
priiloader's forwarder booter (recommended) : https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbloadergx/files/Releases/Forwarders dols/UNEO Channel Booter for Priiloader.zip (it's zipped, it has sourcecode inside)

 

[GreyWolf]

The dol for loading the forwarder directly from Priiloader is in this post.

 

[XFlak]

Thanks. I'm pretty sure mine are using the latest one. And modmii can build forwarder dols to launch a channel title ID or directly to the SD/USB location, so should be able to accomplish the same things you described. But all good, only difference is the channel animation and title ID (ID is IDCL if I remember correctly, or something like that, and will load all the standard USB loaders, not just gx)

 

[GreyWolf]

Yeah, my dol just loads the installed UNEO title from NAND. That ensures it's already on IOS58 and has AHB_PROT disabled so no permissions problems crop up. I think the source is in the zip, too.

 

[XFlak]

What I discovered, way back when, was that you can actually modify the dol directly in a hex editor to customize path(s) or title IDs. Modmii's got some template dols bundled that it will just copy and hexedit based on the custom info you provide it with.