Hacking USB Loader GX won't start games

[pt_2001xx]

Hi, yesterday I softmodded my Wii (so I'm very new to this), and I have
some game backups my uncle didn't need anymore. So I got USB Loader GX
and started it up, it recognizes my USB-Stick and all the games on it, but no
matter what game I try to play it just goes back to the Wii menu. How can I fix this?

SysCheck:

Spoiler

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

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 12.18.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 170324869
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Germany (78)
Boot2 v4
Found 74 titles.
Found 55 IOS on this console. 13 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
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, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
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
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[37] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS245[37] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[37] (rev 21006, Info: d2x-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 02/25/2019.

 

[Cyan]

two things :

1)
FLASHDRIVES DON'T WORK.

you might call it usb stick, usb key, thumb drive, even just "usb", or whatever else the world use. they are NOT COMPATIBLE WITH cIOS.
always use a real external HDD.

2)

either :
set the loader setting to use slot250
OR
reinstall your slot249 with d2x v8 final, or d2x v10 r52, and choose base56 instead of 37 AND still select slot250 in your loader because base57 is better.
OR
reinstall your slot249 with d2x v8 final, or d2x v10 r52, and choose base57.
sure, it'll be duplicate to your slot250, but you won't have to edit the loader's setting as it uses slot249 by default and will find "base57" in it.

 

[pt_2001xx]

two things :

1)
FLASHDRIVES DON'T WORK.

you might call it usb stick, usb key, thumb drive, whatever. they are NOT COMPATIBLE WITH cIOS.
always use a real external HDD.

2)

either :
set the loader setting to use slot250
OR
reinstall your slot249 with d2x v8 final, or d2x v10 r52, and choose base56 instead of 37 AND still select slot250 in your loader because it's better based on what you installed in it.

1) Ok, I will transfer the games to an HDD, guess that should work?

2) Will do both and report back!

 

[Cyan]

1) yep, that should fix your issue
be sure to plug it in USB Port 0 (bottom port on Wii)


the loader is compatible with FAT32 and NTFS.
be sure it's not formatted as exFAT.

best choice is FAT32 so it also work with all other homebrew.

2) for now, and to be faster, just go to usbloadergx settings> loader settings > loader's IOS and game's IOS : change 249 to 250

some HDD might have initialization issue with cIOS (20sec init screen will freeze or end without detecting the drive). If that happen, set the loader's IOS to 58, and be sure to re-select Wii games from top menu, 4th icon.

 

[pt_2001xx]

1) I am now using an 160GB HDD, plugged in to 0, formatted to FAT32
2) I have installed d2x v10 r52 base 57 in Slot 249, and selected 249 in Loader settings
3) d2x v8 final is not available to install for some reason? and i can not set the Loaders IOS to 58

But still when I'm starting a game, i get sent to the Wii Menu...

 

[Cyan]

if v8 is not available it's because you found an installer with only v10 inside.
that's fine, r52 is the same as v8. just don't use r53 (it's beta and has issues).


if it reset to wii menu, it means it couldn't find the game.
how did you install the game to HDD ? manually copied the file with your OS, or did you use WiiBackupManager the way it's meant to? (because some people just use it to convert, instead of transfer)
be sure to use that program, because manual copy is door to mistakes.

 

[pt_2001xx]

I just copied it to the drive, will do it with Wii Backup Manager now.
The problem is, i don't own a Windows PC so i will have to find a way to boot the exe on my Mac or do you know of a
Mac Version for this program?

 

[pt_2001xx]

Is there any alternative available for mac or an exact description of how I have to move it manually? I cant get it to start on my mac...

 

[Cyan]

mac has 2 good programs.
WijManager and WiiBaFu. I recommend WiiBaFu.
Same as WiiBackupManager, instead of using them to convert, be sure to use them to transfer/install the game to your HDD. it'll rename and place the game to the right layout.


But if you want you can do it manually.

the game must follow this rule:
usb:/wbfs/<title you want> [TitleID6]/TitleID6.wbfs

for example
/wbfs/New super Mario Wii [SMNP01]/SMNP01.wbfs


The TitleID is important because it's what the filename must be. the titleID in the folder's name is not important (but speed the loading). The filename must use the correct titleID.
if you don't know the titleID, you can either :
- search on Gametdb.com (be sure to match the correct region)
- open the ISO or WBFS in hex editor, look at the 6 first ASCII Letters/numbers of the ISO, or at 0x200 for wbfs. don't use the hex numbers, but their ASCII values. for example attached picture at 0x200 is "SMNE07"

if you have iso instead of wbfs, you'll have to use NTFS instead of FAT32. the advantage to using managers is that it extracts the game's content from the ISO (for example, the ISO is always 4.37GB, but New Mario wii is only 400MB once extracted in wbfs format and fit on FAT32 without problem).
I don't know if Mac can format in NTFS.

 

[pt_2001xx]

OMG thanks, finally works, my mistake was, the filename was: GameName[XXXXXX].wbfs