Hacking USB Loader GX - Not your typical black screen error

[Dankestear]

Hey!

So here's my issue,

USB Loader GX loads fine and reads the USB. All the games and artwork show up. When I start the game, the game loads fine. I'm then able to play the game! But at some point, typically during a load screen a few minutes into playing, I get the famous black screen. Each game happens at a different spot but always happens at the same spot for each game.

For example, playing Wii Party board game with 4 players, the first round of mini-games works perfectly. All 4 players then can roll. Then at the start of the second round of mini games, I get the black screen and have to reboot the Wii. Never had any issues before using the same USB and game.

I typically play my games off the USB and have had zero issues doing so for the past year. Now I am now running into problems and haven't made any changes that I'm aware of.

I have tried troubleshooting and have now updated everything via ModMii. I'm still getting the same errors. I then tried to use a different USB and still the same errors. I also tried setting the loader back to defaults and still no luck. When trying to use Wii Flow I encounter similar results but the black screen would happen in different places.

I know many people say it could be the USB Drive (PNY 128G USB 3.0 the same one on the compatibility list). I find it strange however that it's been working fine until now and that the games will load and start to play. Before I get the black screen in the middle of playing, everything is working fine. I've now tried 2 different HDD and 2 different USB Drives. All have the same problem. Plays the game until a certain point.

Here's my SysCheck:

Spoiler

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

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)

Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 117948163
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 91 titles.
Found 46 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
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v65535
Report generated on 02/14/2019.

I'm hoping someone out there can help me! I feel like I've tried everything and am going crazy trying to figure out why it stopped working all the sudden.

Thanks for all the help in advance, and please let me know what other info would be helpful!!

 

[Cyan]

It also happen on a flash drive?
at first I thought it could be a HDD sleep timer problem, but it wouldn't affect flashdrives.

the "freeze at loading next level" is a typical sleep timer issue, the drive stop spinning while not accessed for a few seconds and the game doesn't have any USB command to trigger a USB re-spin.
it's usually fixed by using your brand's software and disable or maximize the time until the drive goes to sleep.

cIOS should have an anti-sleep set at 1min, or even 30sec, but maybe it doesn't work.


if it happens on multiple drives, I don't know the cause, sorry.
verify your ISOs on USB are good (wiibackupmanager's sha1 option)
that's all I can think for now. maybe someone else will have more ideas.

 

[Dankestear]

It also happen on a flash drive?
at first I thought it could be a HDD sleep timer problem, but it wouldn't affect flashdrives.

the "freeze at loading next level" is a typical sleep timer issue, the drive stop spinning while not accessed for a few seconds and the game doesn't have any USB command to trigger a USB re-spin.
it's usually fixed by using your brand's software and disable or maximize the time until the drive goes to sleep.

cIOS should have an anti-sleep set at 1min, or even 30sec, but maybe it doesn't work.


if it happens on multiple drives, I don't know the cause, sorry.
verify your ISOs on USB are good (wiibackupmanager's sha1 option)
that's all I can think for now. maybe someone else will have more ideas.

Thanks so much for responding Cyan!

I thought it was strange it was happening on multiple drives too. I'll go through all the steps again and triple check the ISOs. I must be missing something!

I'll post back if I stumble across any new discoveries.

P.S- Thanks for all the work and time you put into these forums. You help so many people! It's amazing! I've used these forums over the years and it's usually your answers that help me the most. I didn't think I would be lucky enough to get a response from the famous Cyan! Thanks for being so willing to share all your knowledge! ... and your cooking blog