Hacking USB Loader GX not launching games after Wii U updates games installed via wup_installer_gx2

[xMatt-Attackx]

I have been searching for a while and cannot find any thread that solves my problem, I apologize if this question has already been answered.

I have a Wii U and have successfully homebrewed the Wii U and the vWii. I did this while my Wii U was on 5.5.3 U. I used disc2app to put all my games on an sd card, then installed the games to a USB drive with wup_installer_gx2. I then homebrewed my vWii and got USB loader GX and put all of my Wii games on a separate USB. After this, I tried to launch one of the WIi U games I had installed and it said it required an update. I had seen in a youtube video (I didn't know that I shouldn't follow youtube tutorials) After updating every single Wii U game I went to go try a vWii game. USB loader GX loads properly and recognizes all of my games. It even gets to the loading screen of a game where you can select "Start". But as soon as I hit start it kicks me back to the Homebrew menu. I have checked and have now realized that the Wii U has updated (most likely during the game updates) and is now running 5.5.5U and I am assuming that this is why USB Loader GX won't run my games. I have a general understanding of the IOS's thanks to a detailed guide posted by Cyan. I am not sure if updating has just overwritten a file? I have read on other forums that this causes a "stub" I performed a Syscheck and it found 0 stubs. So now I am lost and unsure what to do. I would really appreciate help or a redirect if this issue has already been solved.

Syscheck:

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on vIOS58 (rev 6432).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v609)

Drive date: 07.12.2012
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 615095868
Console Type: vWii
Shop Channel Country: Canada (18)
Boot2 v0
Found 43 titles.
Found 31 IOS on this console. 0 of them are stubs.

vIOS512 (rev 7): No Patches
Report generated on 09/07/2021.

 

[jeannotte]

then installed the games to a USB drive with wup_installer_gx2

Hello,

use an external hard drive with a Y cable and you will be fine.

with only one USB port for the USB key, is not enough (you usually have to use two USB ports at the same time, for it to work properly with the Wii U )

 

[xMatt-Attackx]

Hello,

use an external hard drive with a Y cable and you will be fine.

with only one USB port for the USB key, is not enough (you usually have to use two USB ports at the same time, for it to work properly with the Wii U )

Are you suggesting a Y cable in order to only use one storage device? or do you think a Y cable will solve the USB Loader gx issue?

 

[jeannotte]

No I do not offer a Y cable for the USB key.

get yourself an external hard drive FAT32 ==> see with a Y cable and everything will be fine.

 

[JaapDaniels]

Are you suggesting a Y cable in order to only use one storage device? or do you think a Y cable will solve the USB Loader gx issue?

No I do not offer a Y cable for the USB key.
get yourself an external hard drive FAT32 ==> see with a Y cable and everything will be fine.

she means each usb port of the wii(u) offers a too low juice, i mean amps by that for an external drive to give it stabillity.
use an y cable, use 2 usb ports (or sometimes even a low budget usb charger) to power a HDD (not a SSD, and not a pendrive for it's impossible to get you that one magic drive that keeps working like they say).
a hdd formatted FAT32 i forgot the magic cluster size (there is a performance incresing clustersize for at least gamecube support), yes there are claims for pendrives that work (but then about one year later it isn't anymore), yes there's NTFS format reading suport limited added, but it fails now and then, and yes there is WBFS format, which will get a noob crazy.

 

[xMatt-Attackx]

she means each usb port of the wii(u) offers a too low juice, i mean amps by that for an external drive to give it stabillity.
use an y cable, use 2 usb ports (or sometimes even a low budget usb charger) to power a HDD (not a SSD, and not a pendrive for it's impossible to get you that one magic drive that keeps working like they say).
a hdd formatted FAT32 i forgot the magic cluster size (there is a performance incresing clustersize for at least gamecube support), yes there are claims for pendrives that work (but then about one year later it isn't anymore), yes there's NTFS format reading suport limited added, but it fails now and then, and yes there is WBFS format, which will get a noob crazy.

Powering my hard drives is not the issue Im having at all tho. this isnt related to my question. I am trying to play games on my vWii with USB loader GX and I cant, I think its cause I did an update on the Wii U. Is there anyway I can rehack the vWii? or do I have to start over?

 

[JaapDaniels]

@xMatt-Attackx Powering my hard drives is not the issue Im having at all tho. this isnt related to my question. I am trying to play games on my vWii with USB loader GX and I cant, I think its cause I did an update on the Wii U. Is there anyway I can rehack the vWii? or do I have to start over?

you'll have to reinstall the (v)cioses if you updated your wii(u), the rest should still work

 

[xMatt-Attackx]

you'll have to reinstall the (v)cioses if you updated your wii(u), the rest should still work

Which software do I use to do that? just D2X CIOS installer? Isn't that one only for the wii, not vWii? Also, which slots do I reinstall? is there a guide for this?

 

[godreborn]

You shouldn't have to update the cios. At least, I didn't have to after updating from 5.5.1 to 5.5.5. Everything worked still on both wii u and vwii.

 

[xMatt-Attackx]

You shouldn't have to update the cios. At least, I didn't have to after updating from 5.5.1 to 5.5.5. Everything worked still on both wii u and vwii.

Mine doesn't, Like I said in the original post, USB loader GX loads up fine and even gets to the start screen of each game. but when I hit start it just kicks me back to the homebrew menu. Do you have any suggestions for me? did you need more info from my Wii u? other than that system check?

 

[godreborn]

I'm not sure what's wrong. @blackb0x may know, but there shouldn't be any reason to reinstall the cios. at least, no reason due to updating the wii u. I updated on purpose when I updated, and everything I tried worked, and I did test everything. even my vwii theme was still there.

 

[blackb0x]

USB loader GX loads up fine and even gets to the start screen of each game. but when I hit start it just kicks me back to the homebrew menu.

It think it does that either when a wbfs file has been made read only or if a cIOS reload failed.

The Syscheck doesn't contain all of the required info, so I'd suggest reinstalling the cIOS even if they're already installed.

https://wiiu.hacks.guide/#/vwii-modding

 

[JaapDaniels]

You shouldn't have to update the cios. At least, I didn't have to after updating from 5.5.1 to 5.5.5. Everything worked still on both wii u and vwii.

mostly when updates kill usbloader-gx after an update by nintendo the update replaced the main cios locations with stub update ioses.
these are just overwritable the same way you installed them the first time, but since you've got wiiu make sure you'll use vwii versions. you can install them any way you like, by wad manager, dop-mii, cios installer.
could still be the settings file of usbloader-gx is corrupt or outdated (you can just remove it)

 

[xMatt-Attackx]

mostly when updates kill usbloader-gx after an update by nintendo the update replaced the main cios locations with stub update ioses.
these are just overwritable the same way you installed them the first time, but since you've got wiiu make sure you'll use vwii versions. you can install them any way you like, by wad manager, dop-mii, cios installer.
could still be the settings file of usbloader-gx is corrupt or outdated (you can just remove it)

I would typically agree that it would have stubbed my files but the thing is (you can see from the original post) there are zero stubs when I did the syscheck. thats why I am confused

 

[godreborn]

post the full syscheck. what's odd is that I'd think the games wouldn't work at all if it was a cios problem.

 

[xMatt-Attackx]

It think it does that either when a wbfs file has been made read only or if a cIOS reload failed.

The Syscheck doesn't contain all of the required info, so I'd suggest reinstalling the cIOS even if they're already installed.

https://wiiu.hacks.guide/#/vwii-modding

For what you have suggested, would I only put the D2X CIOS installer on my SD card and then skip to the "Installing cIOSes" part of the guide?

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post the full syscheck. what's odd is that I'd think the games wouldn't work at all if it was a cios problem.

The first one I posted was sysCheck, there was another file that I copied over from the SD card called IOSsyscheck. This is what it looks like:


IOS513 base hash:
55 b9 ca 5e, 37 fc ec fb, 28 46 bd 20, 98 63 70 f6, 8c 13 3a 35

IOS512 base hash:
2a 35 73 f2, f1 b6 a6 4b, ab d5 7c bd, 7f 75 a9 cd, 54 28 1b 52

IOS80 base hash:
17 6c 61 67, 32 21 32 87, 87 95 75 0a, 84 ad 4e 1b, 70 86 7b 3c

IOS62 base hash:
c6 30 ec c3, 24 5e 8c d1, e2 cd 25 a9, 2f 55 28 b4, 3a 9c 0f 01

IOS59 base hash:
20 f8 f6 64, 8a 1c 56 42, 3a 31 77 fa, a8 56 31 a4, 09 5b ae 0f

IOS58 base hash:
ed ce 29 22, 86 d5 40 cf, 1e b0 0f dc, 09 68 7a ae, ca ba 4f 60

IOS57 base hash:
9b cd 04 d5, 4d b1 65 be, f0 7a 09 35, 9a 5e ea 68, c5 6f e2 21

IOS56 base hash:
1a d5 62 38, 10 fd 14 4b, 94 fd 24 a9, 65 5b 16 65, a2 d1 cb 5b

IOS55 base hash:
7b 8e 33 ae, ad e9 79 ca, bf b2 bb d6, 20 ca 08 a7, ea c8 2e ff

IOS53 base hash:
89 bf 1a 35, 2b d8 e1 43, a6 e1 fd 47, 59 69 02 f3, ae 24 86 4d

IOS48 base hash:
c3 a1 ff bc, 6f 2b 26 49, 0a 76 73 30, 95 9f f1 df, ba 8d 01 b2

IOS46 base hash:
ca b6 c4 3f, 4d 4c df 49, 17 86 ee 08, 26 63 b1 6a, d9 3f 8e 0a

IOS45 base hash:
3a 60 8c 3e, c3 5a e2 b1, 70 f5 7b e4, 0c f6 4a 2b, d1 cf 98 6d

IOS43 base hash:
54 f5 9a 45, 91 f8 7a 50, 80 51 db 3f, 1e cf 51 7c, 85 9c 38 a2

IOS41 base hash:
5d 52 4f 58, 21 df 26 e7, 55 7b 6f e7, 60 25 68 d9, b1 79 8e 46

IOS38 base hash:
48 6e 21 de, 40 16 a4 d7, 9d 7e 2b b5, a3 b8 ac 91, 73 91 5a 00

IOS37 base hash:
66 81 b0 ce, d6 3a 69 71, 7f da 96 e4, ac d0 83 65, f7 6a 20 6f

IOS36 base hash:
fc c6 8c f6, 96 46 3d 48, 4b 62 a3 d6, 82 10 ba c0, 56 27 b6 dd

IOS35 base hash:
f6 01 9c d4, 4f 43 5e ca, 0a 7b c8 6e, ae a6 d7 27, 42 1d c7 1f

IOS34 base hash:
cf 9e c3 1e, 5f 1d c9 78, 02 22 63 ef, 73 1c 19 f3, ff 44 17 07

IOS33 base hash:
b2 b3 6a d9, 70 b9 6c 52, 11 50 a3 07, d7 0b 86 4e, 87 11 08 ee

IOS31 base hash:
3f 08 b3 bb, d4 0e ca 36, dd 7c a5 4f, 18 fa 4c b3, f3 af 6b 3d

IOS28 base hash:
18 44 bb a1, 70 1e ec fa, 59 f6 49 b2, 92 2f 17 8f, 8f 37 76 c2

IOS22 base hash:
b6 37 fd 6e, 63 89 d4 56, 3e ea 7f b8, 3a 00 e8 9e, bf 91 b5 c2

IOS21 base hash:
5f 74 e5 99, f6 ff 78 b3, 03 db 1d 9e, 41 de 0e 44, 70 0a 0b be

IOS17 base hash:
51 6a 92 f8, 42 5a 50 2e, 45 16 cd 0c, e1 a4 b1 88, ca 91 16 40

IOS15 base hash:
bf e8 7f c4, 55 6b 69 20, fb 1a b7 be, 99 20 a1 b9, 7d 3f 33 68

IOS14 base hash:
57 8a 2b 74, 4d e6 d6 b3, b7 d1 84 7c, f1 e9 6b 8c, 9a 43 99 29

IOS13 base hash:
b9 f0 5c cb, 5b 0f 6f 50, f1 f6 78 15, 54 50 5f 42, fe 73 46 ae

IOS12 base hash:
1b f4 f9 fc, 04 a7 c0 4d, 14 37 1e bf, a2 2f 89 06, cd 68 7b 37

IOS9 base hash:
5f eb d0 50, e5 1b 4c d7, f3 ac ce e4, b7 7a 66 74, 5a 94 4e 92

 

[blackb0x]

For what you have suggested, would I only put the D2X CIOS installer on my SD card and then skip to the "Installing cIOSes" part of the guide?

Yes.

 

[xMatt-Attackx]

Yes.

Thank you for all your help, I just want to clarify once more. I don't need "compat_installer.elf" or "payload.zip" or "Patched_IOS80_Installer_for_vWii.zip" the only thing I need to add onto my SD card is the D2X CIOS installer.

Also, should I wipe my SD card before doing this? or will it be fine to leave all my current hacking files on there?

 

[blackb0x]

Thank you for all your help, I just want to clarify once more. I don't need "compat_installer.elf" or "payload.zip" or "Patched_IOS80_Installer_for_vWii.zip" the only thing I need to add onto my SD card is the D2X CIOS installer.

You shouldn't need anything but the d2x installer, since you've already got the homebrew channel installed.

I don't have a WiiU, so I can't make a ton of suggestions. For all I know you've semi bricked your vWii by applying that WiiU update.

Also, should I wipe my SD card before doing this? or will it be fine to leave all my current hacking files on there?

You can leave everything on your SD card.

 

[kineticUk]

Wii U updates don’t semi-brick vWii but cIOS isn’t setup correctly looking at your iOS check.

Install cIOS as described in the guide linked previously (slots 249, 250 and 251) and you’ll be good.