Hacking USB Loader partition switching

[FGCinHB]

I am currently using USBLoaderGX with a 1tb WBFS hard drive and 500 games loaded on it. I have more then 500 games and am planning to get a 2tb hard drive but the Wii will not recognize more than 500 games. I want to split the 2tb drive into multiple WBFS partitions and load all my games onto them, is there a USB Loader that allows choosing which partition is loaded without restarting the Wii?

 

[nasune]

I can choose the partition in GX through options so you should be able to do so as well.

 

[FGCinHB]

so it is possible to switch partitions without restarting the Wii?

 

[nasune]

Should be, look in options (I use both a wbfs and a fat partition and it can switch between those without any problems, so two wbfs partitions should work as well).

 

[Legend0081]

I'm using Usb Loader cfg v57
They have an option in the main menu to choose which of 4 partitions you want to use.

i'm also having a size issue
( see : http://gbatemp.net/t248316-all-worked-fine...to-bigger-drive )

 

[Pakatus]

Well..just for your information
Wiiflow allows you to change partitions on the fly

 

[PsyBlade]

I will never understand why people go though such lenghts when there is a filesystem which simply is not limited to 500 games.

 

[Krestent]

I will never understand why people go though such lenghts when there is a filesystem which simply is not limited to 500 games.

Some people (myself included) simply prefer WBFS for loading games. For me it's because there's no app to create .wbfs files for the Mac, while there is a WBFS manager.

 

[PsyBlade]

Some people (myself included) simply prefer WBFS for loading games. For me it's because there's no app to create .wbfs files for the Mac, while there is a WBFS manager.

Ok, thats a very good reason.

I was under the impression that there were tools for all important OS (win/mac/linux) to create *.wbfs files.
I did not check but I thought wiimms wit did both.

 

[FGCinHB]

I will never understand why people go though such lenghts when there is a filesystem which simply is not limited to 500 games.

Which file system is that and how do I do it? all my games are .wbfs files, thanks for the help

 

[PsyBlade]

I was referring to FAT
while I still prefer it NTFS bas become a possibility too in the meantime

if you already have *.wbfs files you can simply copy them by drag'n'drop

 

[FGCinHB]

I was referring to FAT
while I still prefer it NTFS bas become a possibility too in the meantime

if you already have *.wbfs files you can simply copy them by drag'n'drop

So if I format my drive to fat32 USBloaderGX will recognize more than 500 games? Do i just copy the .wbfs files to the root or do I have to put them in a certain folder?

 

[PsyBlade]

I only use CFGLoader
it expects the games in a folder named wbfs located it the root
and afaik supports 500+ games
but I have way less so I cant say for sure

check GX documentation
it could limit the number of games on its own
or not support FAT at all
I simply have no idea