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Hacking USB Loader GX

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Just installed the latest versions of USBLGX and CIOSes on my Wii and WiiU - excellent work - everything worked out of the box!

One wish (it might even be a setting nowadays) but could it be possible not to disable wii games after failed HDD scan? I tend to put the HDD in wrong port or switch it on and it's a bit of hassle to tick Wii games back on after restarting USBLGX :)
 
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RetraCarteR said:
Try setting "Aspect Ratio" to "Force 4:3" and "Dol Video Patch" to "All". If that doesn't work, set "Video Width" to "Framebuffer". If that doesn't work, go to "Features" in the global settings menu and set "Wii U Widescreen" to "Off". I don't have a Wii U myself, so I can't test it out, but I'm willing to bet that at least one of those three solutions will work.
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Thank you for your help. Neither the "Force 4:3" + "Dol Video Patch" or "Video Width" solutions worked, but the "Wii U Widescreen" one did the trick. In fact, this last option changes the aspect ratio of the USB Loader GX itself.
 
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zigoraty said:
I also noticed that when I load SD mode and go back to USB, if I load an emunand wiiware game, when I exit I'm thrown to the Wii U menu. I'm using emunand on SD and the games work fine, but via USB(Ustealth) when trying load some emunand game, it doesn't load and goes to homebrew. Lastly, I noticed that the displayed SD storage is bugged.
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Maybe it's resetting the console back from the emuNAND, but on the Wii U this causes it to reset back into Wii U mode?
The return to WIi U Menu "channel" does something similar of just restting the console and back into Wii U mode.
 
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After some days of using new version (and finally updating cIOS) I can say it's the most stable version released. Last version could crash during boot from time to time - new version hasn't crashed even single time. Good job and thanks @blackb0x!

Anyone has sucessfully runned We Dare? I've read this game is changing IOS while running, so option to block IOS changes has to be enabled. Despite this, game is hanging on the begining (scene with sofa). Any other options should I change? It's the only game I have problems with.

Another question: some games (Broken Sword, Fortune Street) have image narrower than normal (resulting two black lines on both sides on screen) - is there any patch to make them display correctly?

@blackb0x - what are real pros and cons of both of IOS configuration you recomend (except fact, that one is optimal, and other one should give more compatibility - so what's wrong with this one?)?
 
rexus_pl said:
After some days of using new version (and finally updating cIOS) I can say it's the most stable version released. Last version could crash during boot from time to time - new version hasn't crashed even single time. Good job and thanks @blackb0x!

Anyone has sucessfully runned We Dare? I've read this game is changing IOS while running, so option to block IOS changes has to be enabled. Despite this, game is hanging on the begining (scene with sofa). Any other options should I change? It's the only game I have problems with.

Another question: some games (Broken Sword, Fortune Street) have image narrower than normal (resulting two black lines on both sides on screen) - is there any patch to make them display correctly?

@blackb0x - what are real pros and cons of both of IOS configuration you recomend (except fact, that one is optimal, and other one should give more compatibility - so what's wrong with this one?)?
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I have no problems with We Dare Pal
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249 base 56
 
rexus_pl said:
@blackb0x - what are real pros and cons of both of IOS configuration you recomend (except fact, that one is optimal, and other one should give more compatibility - so what's wrong with this one?)?
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As I understood, the differences are:

The Optimal one spends the least time changing from Cios to Cios to work properly, so it's faster and I guess less prone to mistakes or failures.

The other one is for the couple games that need a specific less used CIOS. I only know of the games We Sing 2 and one of the Spongebob games. So it is only necessary if you want to play one of those very specific games. But because of changing the recommended spot of base 38, it might take longer to load games?

Hiitech said:
Lately I've been playing Opoona, a Wii RPG. I bought the game back in the day and did a backup iso to play on USB Loader GX for convenience. I don't want to burn the Wii U lens out more than the necessary.

Here is the issue. Opoona has a 4:3 aspect ratio, but when I load it in USB Loader GX the image is stretched to fill the screen and the aspect ratio goes to waste. My system settings are in 16:9 so at first I thought it was the Wii U fault, but lately I tried to run the game using the disc channel and the game shows fine. The Wii U add two bars to the side of the screen so the aspect ratio is perfectly preserved.

So I wonder if there is some way to get the same aspect ratio the disc channel achieves on Usb Loader GX. I've tried some of the loader options but I am not having any results.

I should note that I'm using the last version of the app (v3.0-r1281).
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What strange but lovely game, and what a fantastic soundtrack. I should make the time to replay it again. Glad you found out the fix!

I tried on my end, and with my WIi on 4:3 it seemed like forcing 16:9 / 4:3 worked. PAL system and Game, just in case, although I did not see much difference between modes, in fac 4:3 seemed to show a bit more vertically.
 
Maeson said:
What strange but lovely game, and what a fantastic soundtrack. I should make the time to replay it again. Glad you found out the fix!

I tried on my end, and with my WIi on 4:3 it seemed like forcing 16:9 / 4:3 worked. PAL system and Game, just in case, although I did not see much difference between modes, in fac 4:3 seemed to show a bit more vertically.
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Yeah it's a very special and enjoyable game. Currently I find myself listening to the Artiela track one time after another. Great OST!

I'm playing it on a Wii U, at some time I configured the system video settings to 4:3 and the game showed fine. The problem is that for configuring the aspect ratio at 4:3 (with black bars at the sides) on a Wii U you have to set the resolution to 480p and I noticed a downgrade on video quality. People says the Wii U upscale for Wii games is average to say the best but in my monitor the game looks better at 1080p that at 480p. I suppose my monitor is not very good haha. So I was looking for a way to play it in 4:3 with 1080p settings on USB Loader GX, thankfully there is one.
 
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@blackb0x Thank you so much for these awesome releases and keeping USB Loader GX alive!!

You said that you will be working on some UI updates next. It'd be great if you can consider introducing some form of tabs like the tabmod has. I remember you saying this breaks compatibility with existing themes so it can, instead, be a UI setting for those who prefer this version of the UI and don't mind using the standard theme for it.

Now I feel I need to make a tradeoff of either using the latest and greatest release or the tabbed UI that keeps my games more organized.

Thanks again for all your hard work!
 
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Agusum said:
@blackb0x Thank you so much for these awesome releases and keeping USB Loader GX alive!!

You said that you will be working on some UI updates next. It'd be great if you can consider introducing some form of tabs like the tabmod has. I remember you saying this breaks compatibility with existing themes so it can, instead, be a UI setting for those who prefer this version of the UI and don't mind using the standard theme for it.

Now I feel I need to make a tradeoff of either using the latest and greatest release or the tabbed UI that keeps my games more organized.

Thanks again for all your hard work!
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I'd be interested in this as well!
 
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zigoraty said:
I installed d2x-v11-beta1 on the Vwii and everything went well, I also reinstalled the Patched IOS80 Installer for vWii, performed the syscheck (I had never used it before) and the IOS80 appears as "no patches", It's normal ?
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Hi there,

does it matter which revision I install dx2-v11-beta? rev65535 or rev21011?
I have a NTSC-U Wii on system menu 4.3U

I see that on the screenshot posted for the vWii its showing rev21011.
Thank you all in advance for your help.
 
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RetroPas74 said:
Hi there,

does it matter which revision I install dx2-v11-beta? rev65535 or rev21011?
I have a NTSC-U Wii on system menu 4.3U

I see that on the screenshot posted for the vWii its showing rev21011.
Thank you all in advance for your help.
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And has the option of rev65535 ? when I installed it, it didn't appear.
 
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