Hacking USB Loader GX

[Pacman`]

Anybody noticed the following bug?

Games that are dual-layer like Metroid Prime Trilogy and SSBB play ok on a WBFS drive in r904, but fail when the game is extracted as a .wbfs iso and played from a NTFS drive.
I tried converting one (MPT) back from NTSC to WBFS and it worked again, so it's not the iso.

When you select these games, you don't hear any music when the disc cover appears and the screen goes black after you click on the disc cover to begin play.

Hope this bug gets squashed, cause I'm tired moving 82 games back and forth from WBFS to NTSC to WBFS

EDIT: Forgot to mention I used this wonderful util called Wii Game Manager v1.5.0.1 to do the extractions/conversions (works extremely well!)

 

[GDT]

I'm on build 904, fat32 formatted hd. Keeps on crashing while scrolling titles. Istantly crashes when click on "audio" button under Settings menù. I'm using italian language file, and I've got a 4.2E wii with wanin rev17 and hermes v4.

 

[giantpune]

EDIT: Forgot to mention I used this wonderful util called Wii Game Manager v1.5.0.1 to do the extractions/conversions

so there's a chance that the game manager is causing the bug? did you try to load the same ISO and .wbfs files in CFG loader to see if you get the same error?

 

[SaintSeiya]

Still incompatible with hd with 4096 sectors, hope they will fix it.

 

[spotanjo3]

Is r907.dol safe ?

 

[mousex]

If you don't want to test it you better just use the "stable" updates from GX's update features.

 

[Pacman`]

EDIT: Forgot to mention I used this wonderful util called Wii Game Manager v1.5.0.1 to do the extractions/conversions

so there's a chance that the game manager is causing the bug? did you try to load the same ISO and .wbfs files in CFG loader to see if you get the same error?

Ok, I went ahead and installed cfg v51 to test your theory. nada.
CFG v51 played both dual-layer .wbfs games from NTFS perfectly. In fact, CFG v51 had NO delay in displaying my 83 games (GX makes you wait 10 full seconds).

Now although CFG seems better, I always did prefer using GX, cause GX is more intuitive and simpler to use and configure.
Now, please find that bug and SQUASH IT!

 

[GDT]

Tried build 907. Same problems. I tried to delete my configuration files and games bitmaps and now when usbloader gx starts it asks me to select a partition and as soon as I click my partition it crashes.

 

[noctune]

It seems USB Loader GX isn't fully compatible with my LG HXD2U50 320GB hard drive. I can't get GX to recognize wbfs files placed in it when it's file system is NTFS.

All transfers were made using WiiBackupManager034r4.

GX actually recognizes the HD as NTFS, reads its full size correctly but displays no games and crashes whenever i try to install a game from a disc.

Fortunatelly, it works when WBFS formatted through the loader and installing games from discs, but I'm not sure how I'll get cover art and the info database to work since I don't have wifi and EASEUS Partition Manager doesn't run on 64-bit PCs.

Am I doing something wrong or is NTFS support not stable yet?

 

[spotanjo3]

It seems USB Loader GX isn't fully compatible with my LG HXD2U50 320GB hard drive. I can't get GX to recognize wbfs files placed in it when it's file system is NTFS.

All transfers were made using WiiBackupManager034r4.

GX actually recognizes the HD as NTFS, reads its full size correctly but displays no games and crashes whenever i try to install a game from a disc.

Fortunatelly, it works when WBFS formatted through the loader and installing games from discs, but I'm not sure how I'll get cover art and the info database to work since I don't have wifi and EASEUS Partition Manager doesn't run on 64-bit PCs.

Am I doing something wrong or is NTFS support not stable yet?

Did you install cIOS 222 ? I have both NTIFS and Fat32 WB 320 GB hard drive and it works fine for me. Installing cIOS 222 if you didnt that yet.

 

[noctune]

It seems USB Loader GX isn't fully compatible with my LG HXD2U50 320GB hard drive. I can't get GX to recognize wbfs files placed in it when it's file system is NTFS.

All transfers were made using WiiBackupManager034r4.

GX actually recognizes the HD as NTFS, reads its full size correctly but displays no games and crashes whenever i try to install a game from a disc.

Fortunatelly, it works when WBFS formatted through the loader and installing games from discs, but I'm not sure how I'll get cover art and the info database to work since I don't have wifi and EASEUS Partition Manager doesn't run on 64-bit PCs.

Am I doing something wrong or is NTFS support not stable yet?

Did you install cIOS 222 ? I have both NTIFS and Fat32 WB 320 GB hard drive and it works fine for me. Installing cIOS 222 if you didnt that yet.

Yeah, I installed rev4, but something must have gone wrogn since I can't boot games from Softchip while using cIOS222/223. Is it really necessary to install it? Since USB Loader GX can work with 249...

Anyway, I Installed it following this guide, but didn't choose to do the last optional step. Is this guide supposed to work for 4.2U too? Since it talks about IOS60...

Thanks in advance

EDIT: reinstalled cIOS 222, 223 and 202. Still can't boot games from Softchip using 222/223, getting an Ioctl error (DI_ReadID). USB Loader GX now fails to boot with my HDD, hangs on the waiting for your slow device for 30 secs and then restarts.

 

[pippopelo]

It seems USB Loader GX isn't fully compatible with my LG HXD2U50 320GB hard drive. I can't get GX to recognize wbfs files placed in it when it's file system is NTFS.

All transfers were made using WiiBackupManager034r4.

GX actually recognizes the HD as NTFS, reads its full size correctly but displays no games and crashes whenever i try to install a game from a disc.

Fortunatelly, it works when WBFS formatted through the loader and installing games from discs, but I'm not sure how I'll get cover art and the info database to work since I don't have wifi and EASEUS Partition Manager doesn't run on 64-bit PCs.

Am I doing something wrong or is NTFS support not stable yet?

Did you install cIOS 222 ? I have both NTIFS and Fat32 WB 320 GB hard drive and it works fine for me. Installing cIOS 222 if you didnt that yet.

I have the same HD and with r899 work perfectly with ntfs partition and iso games, but from r900 can't start any game. But if I partitioning HD in wbfs all games works

 

[spotanjo3]

Did you try format HD to fat32 ? If your HD only have NTIFS.. Why not 3rd party program to format it to fat32 ? I tried it with my WB HD since it is NTIFS only so with 3rd party program and format to fat32 and it works for me.

 

[noctune]

Not really sure I should format to FAT32, what about games larger than 4gb? Are they automatically handled? Will load times be slower? Haven't really found any info on this on the guides.

Going to try r899 on NTFS later tonight.

 

[spotanjo3]

Its up to you and the load times didnt slow down for me as far as I know. Again, it's up to you. I stay with r899 for now. You could try it.

 

[noctune]

r899 worked for me. The easy installer had downloaded 874 automatically, and it's not even available on the google download area anymore.

Wonderful app!

 

[fgsfdsyo]

I've posted here before but I seem to can't put my finger on what's making my HDD freeze.
It's in the compatible list, there's no programs for it to go into spin-down.
It's just randomly in some games they'll just completely stop working.

Fatal Frame 4, she can never open a door (it's literally stuck loading, the dot doesn't even flash)
Muramasa, can't even start a new file.

et cetera

Any help at all or remedy?
IOS222/223 installed, CIOS249v17 installed

 

[smf]

Not really sure I should format to FAT32, what about games larger than 4gb? Are they automatically handled? Will load times be slower? Haven't really found any info on this on the guides.

On FAT32 you convert the iso's to wbfs files, which work similar to a wbfs partition. The games only take up the space they need, but if it's bigger than 4gb you get multiple files. FAT32 is less hassle than NTFS. There is absolutely no difference in performance during game play, loading the game list might be different.

 

[Kittymat]

I've posted here before but I seem to can't put my finger on what's making my HDD freeze.
It's in the compatible list, there's no programs for it to go into spin-down.
It's just randomly in some games they'll just completely stop working.

Fatal Frame 4, she can never open a door (it's literally stuck loading, the dot doesn't even flash)
Muramasa, can't even start a new file.

et cetera

Any help at all or remedy?
IOS222/223 installed, CIOS249v17 installed

I hope someone can help as I have the same / similar issue.

I have a compatible drive (WD Passport Essentials 320GB) working great, however I do get strange issues.

Fifa 09 - freezes when starting the match, it loads runs and lets me get to the match part then freezes, however this is not down to the game, my second hard drive loads and runs it perfectly, it is not first drive as if I reload it from drive 2 to drive 1 - it then works.

When it froze I tried to run it using uLoader and ConfUSB Loader - worked great with both loaders, tried again with GX - froze in the same place. Updated from 874 to 907 same issue.

So it is not the drive, the file or the Wii - hope you agree!

I had this issue with loads of games initially, however I used to keep adding and removing files, so I formatted the drive (WFBS) and reloaded, all games worked (apart from Fifa09).

It seems to be GX has issues with the reading at certain points - made much worse if you add and remove files from the drive - to get Fifa working I removed and reinstalled and it is now working fine.

Is this a known issue or is there a solution

Also tried from the channel - and forwarder, using different ios's still the same issue

Running 222v4 and 249v14

 

[old_darkness]

Hi,

is it possible to at the "Play time logging to message board (marc_max & Dr. Clipper)" from the Configurable USB Loader Thread?

od