To be honest, I have never really played that game but to help one of my children and we didn't get too far. You gotta tell me what the crash spot is and I will try to get there. And yes, I have the gameconfig file to allow patches to that game.

It was just a quick test. I tried to boot a few games, see if they did and checked the debug.txt file afterwards. I would like to take some screenshots to compare but I don't really know what games o screens would be best suitable to check. Should I look at edges or something like that? backgrounds? 2D, 3D, game settings menu?

I have a PAL Wii as well. I don't know the year but gotta be one of the first batch as I could install bootmii as boot2. 1080p TV, official component cable, 480p wide screen option for Wii games (to play emulators I change it to 4:3 as I get a sharper image that way)

 

with the USB Loader GX v1271 UNLOCKED, I highlighted a game pressed the 2 button on Wii remote and the screen that comes up with the bigger icon picture of the game is there but in the screen that's supposed to show more info it just shows a blank white screen and seems to do this on a handful of others I checked (I did not check them all but I am assuming they all do this).

that even remained the same AFTER I ran another update of the wiitdb file a moment ago today. because not long ago I think I was checking that stuff and there was some info there like you said but after the clean install, and updates etc, nothing is there anymore.

even with your 'games option' it IS "0 (everyone". basically the .xml does not seem to be doing anything.

I took a guess where this was at, and I found this stuff. but on games that are say TEEN or MATURE etc they all report as... "Parental Control = 0 (Everyone)" for each individual game.

I accessed that "Parental Control = 0 (Everyone)" from... main menu, select a game with hand(pointer) and press A, then Settings, then 'Game Load', then scroll down and then I see that "Parental Control = 0 (Everyone)" thing which I have to manually change to it's proper rating for the parental controls to work properly.

but anyways, playing around with it a bit, it appears this works so far as to do a quick test with the USB Loader GX in a UNLOCKED state, which shows ALL of the games on the hard drive like expected, then I found one MATURE, TEEN, EVERYONE (10+) rated game, and then manually adjusted the 'Parental Control = 0 (Everyone)' under each games 'Game Load' section to it's proper rating (i.e. the 'Everyone 10+' is 'Parental Control = 1 (Child 7+)' etc), and then tested the main parental control setting under USB Loader GX's settings by changing the main parental control (i.e. Settings > Parental Control > controllevel etc) and then locking it and it filters things how I would expect it to as the total game count, along with the games I changed, disappear from the menu (as in NOT shown). so given that basic test, when I only allow the '0 (Everyone)' option it removes the three games I tested, which is expected, since you got one EVERYONE 10+, one TEEN, and one MATURE. but then I shift the main parental control to 'Controllevel 1 (Child 7+)' and then LOCK the system it removes the TEEN and MATURE game like expected. then I shift the main parental lock to 'controllevel = 2 (Teen 12+)' and at this point it will only filter out games rated Mature or Adult Only, which works as expected.

so in other words... this manual way seems to work reliably so far ; but the .xml file seems not to work AT ALL as it shows a blank screen where it should show some info etc. if you want a screenshot I can probably take one for you?

or is there anything else I should test in relation to that .xml file etc? ; because that does not seem to work at all as months ago it was working after I did a few things like explained in my previous posts but none of that seems to do anything now as even after the clean install the other day, I updated the .xml file, and the filters did not do anything at all when locking the system like they should have and even updating it again today, it claimed update of the .xml was successful, and NOTHING is filtered at all as it's like the .xml file is not even there and even pressing the 2 button on remote when highlighting a game, it shows the game cover there but in the square screen next to it, shows just a white screen with no text or anything else.

 

@leseratte Your version seems to work perfectly for me, although I don't have a lot of Wii backups to test with

@Extrems said that GameCube games at 480p will also require a patch. So am I to assume that my patched Nintendont won't launch games with an improved image because it needs a similar patch applied to the games?

If Nintendont does require a similar patch for GC games then It'd be awesome if you'd look into it.

 

which version of USB Loader GX are you using? Did you try latest/older versions and do they work the same?
I have been using ULGX all the way from r1180 up to r1268 without any problem.

 

I'm on r1271 currently. I might try older versions to see if it makes a difference.

 

OMG you can play 3DS games on the Wii???!!!!!!1111

Warning: Spoilers inside!

Sorry, I had to do it. IlI' see myself out.

 

Whilst I'm here, and I apologise if this isn't the place to ask, but I'm having problems with Bomberman Blast. It won't run at all under USB Loader GX, nor will it run under neek2o, or my real NAND. Every time it just boots to a black screen. Both the PAL and NTSC WADS exhibit the exact same behaviour. Any ideas?

EDIT: Never mind. Just patched it with the wiimmfi patcher and it works fine now.

 

Well currently it's on v1271 and is working on my last update of the .xml some months ago now. but just to see what happens I updated the .xml a moment ago, it said update was successful, and it reacts the exact same way as the Wii with the issue that I recently clean installed v1271 to in that the game info is all blank when highlighting a game and pressing the 2 button on the Wii remote and after locking the system it no longer filters anything like it should be doing. so there is definitely something going on with the more recent updates of the wiitdb xml file as it was working fine doing what I said some months ago but not anymore.

so since the current stuff is pretty much shot... you said to download a older version of the loader and see if I got access to the 'game info' etc. so I downloaded the 'USBLoader_GX_V2_3_AllinOnePackage_IOS249.zip' (I assume this is okay?) and installed that (I completely removed the 'usbloader_gx' folder (which is v1271) from the apps folder before installing this older version so everything is in a clean state), downloaded the covers for the games, and then proceeded to update the wiitdb xml (of which it said 'successfully updated'), adjusted parental control to show only 'Everyone' and 'Everyone 10+' games, locked the USBLoaderGX and nothing was filtered and I even checked the 'game info' by highlighting a game and pressing 2 on the Wii remote and it reacts exactly the same as the newest USBLoaderGX v1271 in that it shows the cover art for the game but in the white screen next to it (to the right) it's a blank white where normally, when things were working in the past you could see some game info along with rating of the game etc.

so does this suggest that something is wrong with the XML? ; because, correct me if I am wrong, but you were wondering whether it's a system memory issue (like not enough RAM on the Wii) not being able to load that XML file into memory and that by me using a older version of USBLoaderGX, which I assume uses a bit less RAM than the newer verisons do(?), but yet it still does not work, does that seem to suggest it's the XML at fault and not USBLoaderGX v1271 etc?

any other suggestions?

EDIT: on a side note... I was looking at my SD card backup and checked the size of the wiitdb XML and on that one it was "25.4 MB (25,363,598 bytes)". so it grew roughly 4MB in size since about Nov 2018.

I do play some Gamecube games. so I imagine it's best for me to stay on the newest versions, which I am currently using v1271.