Hacking USB Loader GX

[fury28]

Hello,

@ Fury28:

Yes you can start your games from the SD, but you have to go into the parameters of your loader and tell him to learn about SD.

the SD must be in fat32

ok can you give the path to get that setup? i believe the sd card is already in fat32 from the letterbomb and apps setup correct

currently USB GX doesn't seem to want to load unless usb is plugged in.. would be nice just to run sd card for the few games my kids play and not have to deal with hdd usb

 

[Cyan]

USBLoaderGX is not compatible with Wii games on SD card. Why give wrong information ?is that on purpose? (not the first time jeannotte!)
Wiiflow and CG Loader can both launch Wii games on SD:/wbfs/ folder.

it has been requested many times, but it's not possible (yet).
though, USBGX can load gamecube or Wiiware from SD.


but your problem is USBLoaderGX or Wiibackupmanager ?

You can tell USBGX to not look at the USB at all, but you won't be able to play wii games :
settings > hdd menu > mount usb at boot : disabled.

if it doesn't save that setting, be sure you have a good meta.xml file in your loader's folder.
you can edit the argument manually if you want, but the loader should do it for you if you have a good meta.xml

 

[jeannotte]

@ Cyan:

I read on forums that USB loader gx could play games.

But I misread, and I realized after it was other games.

Excuse me for this impediment.

Regards, Jeannotte.

 

[akramff]

Hey guys
So i used to play wii games on vwii with usb stick using usb loader gx then i tried to use my pin drive to install wiiu games just for curiousity then i had to format it via wiiu format tool i backdup my wii data and after that i formatted it as earlier copied the files once again but it didnt work it hangs on " initialize usb device" and nothing more tried to format the pin drive many times with new games but with no hope i even updated the usb loader gx but no use changing the ios rom 249 to 58 also didnt help i hope someone can help me
Thanx for listening

 

[Cyan]

be sure you formatted to FAT32 and not exFAT.

when you formatted the drive to wiiu format, it deleted the partition table info.

which partition table did you use when you formated the drive back to FAT32? MBR or GPT?
try the other one, usually MBR is better, but if you already have MBR then try GPT.

 

[akramff]

be sure you formatted to FAT32 and not exFAT.

when you formatted the drive to wiiu format, it deleted the partition table info.

which partition table did you use when you formated the drive back to FAT32? MBR or GPT?
try the other one, usually MBR is better, but if you already have MBR then try GPT.

thank you for the fast reply
but i dont get it what does this mean i use windows format tool simply 32fat and quick format

 

[GreyWolf]

thank you for the fast reply
but i dont get it what does this mean i use windows format tool simply 32fat and quick format

Can you take a screenshot of the disk properties in Disk Management? Right-click on the drive (not partitions) in DM and go to Properties>Volumes.

Note this is my one my Windows drives to show what I'm talking about, not what your Wii drive should look like.

 

[akramff]

Can you take a screenshot of the disk properties in Disk Management? Right-click on the drive (not partitions) in DM and go to Properties>Volumes.

Note this is my one my Windows drives to show what I'm talking about, not what your Wii drive should look like.
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so how can i convert it to gpt?

 

[GreyWolf]

Hmm. The partitioning looks ok. It could be an issue with it being a removable/flash drive.

Converting to GPT won't fix anything. There's less homebrew compatible with GPT than there is MBR. (Right-clicking on it should give you that option, though. I think the disk needs to be offline for the option to be available.)

 

[akramff]

then why did it earlier work normally and after the wiiu format doesnt work thats weird also it works fine wit cfg usb loader but its no more supported and have no forwarder and the cheat seems a but difficult to use
so isnt there any solution?

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i tried to convert it and it seems that its inconvertable

 

[GreyWolf]

Try unmounting it with the "Offline" menu option first for conversion. You may not be able to convert MBR>GPT with the disk management tool, though.

I'm not sure about the disparity between ULGX and CFG. They may not use the exact same drive initialization.

 

[akramff]

Sorry but i dont have exprience in such topics
Would help explaining it
I tried to do it via ms cmd using disk list command but it refused it

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Also what do you mean by offline
Which one should be offline?

 

[GreyWolf]

Sorry but i dont have exprience in such topics
Would help explaining it
I tried to do it via ms cmd using disk list command but it refused it

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Also what do you mean by offline
Which one should be offline?

The drive you want to convert. I don't think it can do it while it's online (mounted).

 

[akramff]

The drive you want to convert. I don't think it can do it while it's online (mounted).

And isnt there any way to mount it in offline?

 

[Cyan]

did you try IOS58 for loader's IOS setting?

 

[akramff]

did you try IOS58 for loader's IOS setting?

Didnt work as well
So if i buy a new usb stick how can i be sure that it will work because i cant refund it

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Also i want to know should i give up?

 

[Cyan]

if you buy something new, don't pick an USB stick, but a HDD.

 

[akramff]

if you buy something new, don't pick an USB stick, but a HDD.

Sorry i know this took too long but all the hdd are usb 3.0 and the wiiu doesnt support it i think thats why i would want to buy a pin drive

 

[GreyWolf]

Sorry i know this took too long but all the hdd are usb 3.0 and the wiiu doesnt support it i think thats why i would want to buy a pin drive

Actually, Nintendo themselves say flash drives are not recommended or supported on the Wii U. They never officially supported any external storage on the Wii. (link)

 

[Cyan]

Sorry i know this took too long but all the hdd are usb 3.0 and the wiiu doesnt support it i think thats why i would want to buy a pin drive

USB3.0 are compatible, you just need to use IOS58 as default IOS for all your homebrew.