Hacking Emulation USB not being detected by anything but USB Loader/Wiiflow?

[WaffleGM]

Apologies if this is being posted in the wrong category; I'm new to posting on GBATemp in general and couldn't find a dedicated support thread.

Basically, I'm modding a wii for a friend and picked up a 1TB SSD to store all the ROMs in so that I could give them every game they would need. Everything was working fine until it was time to test the Wii games with USB Loader. For some reason, after installing it, while the Wii/GC games loaded fine, all of the retro emulators stopped being able to access the USB device. It was detecting it, as programs like WiiXplorer let me look at the files I had on there, but for some reason couldn't load the directory. I checked the settings of each emulator, ensuring they were set to USB and port 0 (even trying different ports just to try it), clean reinstalling emulators at their latest versions, checked to see if there were any extra partitions, reformatted the USB (in FAT32), and changed the ROM directories to their default (inside the actual apps' ROM folders), but nothing seemed to be working. Even after uninstalling USB Loader, using cmd's 'clean all' command, and reformatting again (in FAT32), the USB drive couldn't be accessed. I tried everything again with the WiiFlow Master Plugins Pack, and while NES games would oddly show up, nothing else did (except for the Wii/GC games again). And the NES games wouldn't even play, they'd just try to load and boot me back to the system menu.

At this point, I just want everything to be playable and feel bad making my friend wait, but have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I've modded multiple Wiis and WiiUs before over the years, though it was a long time ago and using only an SD card; this is my first time using an external drive, but I want to make sure my friend can experience the most out of her Wii. I'm not really sure where to go from here and was wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue that they've been able to solve.

For now, I've included examples of my issue, pictures of my SysCheck results, current SD card contents, and current SSD content, but please let me know if there's anything anyone can do with any further information. Thank you and hopefully this can be solved!

Syscheck:

Spoiler

SysCheck HDE v2.4.0 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 59194084
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 68 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 6 of them are stubs.

IOS4 (rev 404): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 404): Stub
IOS11[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 404): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 404): Stub
IOS52[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS248[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 07/25/2023.
http://syscheck.rc24.xyz/view.php?id=UltStaej

 

[tmnr1992]

Maybe you're missing ios 58, try installing it and see if that helps: https://wiibrew.org/wiki/IOS58_Installer

 

[morning_glory]

Looks like you've put all apps & games onto your USB SSD ?
No mention of an SD card being present or it's use ?
It also sounds like all the other rom emulator apps worked before you installed USBL GX & Wii & GC games ?

 

[WaffleGM]

Maybe you're missing ios 58, try installing it and see if that helps:

Tried and successfully installed ios 58 and still get the same result

Post automatically merged: Jul 26, 2023

Looks like you've put all apps & games onto your USB SSD ?
No mention of an SD card being present or it's use ?
It also sounds like all the other rom emulator apps worked before you installed USBL GX & Wii & GC games ?

I have images of both my USB and SD card. The USB only has the ROMs, WBFS, and Games folder.
The SD card has all my apps, bootmii files, and emulator folders.
And yes, the emulators were working before, which is why I thought uninstalling, removing the Wii/GC games, or wiping the drive would help, but nothing seems to be working.

The only thing I can think of that I haven't mentioned is that I've installed d2x cios, but I don't think that would cause my emulators to stop working.

Maybe tomorrow I'll try wiping the SD and seeing what happens.

 

[morning_glory]

I'm only going by the old norm where ....
All wii apps, emulators & GC games are on the SD card. You may need obtain a bigger SD card. If you need more info on a larger SD, ask. I used a 512Gb & 256Gb with total ease. (I used micro SDXC in SD adapters).
Wii games on USB (WBFS folder) & tick USBL GX for Wii games. For HDD - Fat32-32k clusters, & make sure it has sufficient power (needs a Y cable ?).

I'm not into other emulators (just Wii & GC games). Period.

Perhaps consider that the 1Tb HDD you're using is not up to scratch (power &/or full compatibility).

Very strange that all other emulators work fine, till you put Wii & GC games.
I strictly only run GC games (& only apps) from SD & directly with Nintendont (USBL GX only for double disc games).

Are your all your emulators on SD, or.... ?

I would put Wii games on USB 1st, GC games (on SD) 2nd, & other emulators (slowly) one-by-one (with testing in-between) with each addition. You may stumble on the culprit (or whatever is causing the headaches).

Also post a Syscheck. The problem may be detect there.

 

[fringle]

It might seems silly but make sure you plugged your drive back into USB port 0. Plugging it into port 1 can cause games and other things not to show up. Port 0 is the one closest to the edge or the bottom one if laying flat.

 

[WaffleGM]

I'm only going by the old norm where ....
All wii apps, emulators & GC games are on the SD card. You may need obtain a bigger SD card. If you need more info on a larger SD, ask. I used a 512Gb & 256Gb with total ease. (I used micro SDXC in SD adapters).
Wii games on USB (WBFS folder) & tick USBL GX for Wii games. For HDD - Fat32-32k clusters, & make sure it has sufficient power (needs a Y cable ?).

I'm not into other emulators (just Wii & GC games). Period.

Perhaps consider that the 1Tb HDD you're using is not up to scratch (power &/or full compatibility).

Very strange that all other emulators work fine, till you put Wii & GC games.
I strictly only run GC games (& only apps) from SD & directly with Nintendont (USBL GX only for double disc games).

Are your all your emulators on SD, or.... ?

I would put Wii games on USB 1st, GC games (on SD) 2nd, & other emulators (slowly) one-by-one (with testing in-between) with each addition. You may stumble on the culprit (or whatever is causing the headaches).

Also post a Syscheck. The problem may be detect there.

Yeah, it seems like my only option would be to move all the non-Wii/GC roms to SD and get a bigger SD card. I updated the post to include the syscheck, as I forgot to add it.

Post automatically merged: Jul 26, 2023

I tried

It might seems silly but make sure you plugged your drive back into USB port 0. Plugging it into port 1 can cause games and other things not to show up. Port 0 is the one closest to the edge or the bottom one if laying flat.

I tried both multiple times, but it never worked :/