Hacking USBLoader GX how to change WBFS path?

[shadowprince116]

Sorry for Noob post here, but I've got a new external hard drive and chucked everything from my USB onto it to use on my Wii. Problem is USBLoaderGX isn't displaying my Wii games now.

At first it was both Wii and Gamecube not showing up, but turns out my Hard Drive isn't showing up in "usb1:/" and only in "usb2:/". Knowing this I changed my Gamecube path to usb2:/games/ but I can't seem to find an option to do this for wii games, I'd assume it's still set to look in usb1:/wbfs/ but I see no way to change this.

Anyone got a way to make my Hard Drive show up in usb1:/ or change the Wii games path?

Cheers

EDIT: Thanks to Cyan, it all worked out. Thanks everyone!

 

[GreyWolf]

Is it plugged into USB port 0? It's the port closest to the edge of the console.

 

[shadowprince116]

Is it plugged into USB port 0? It's the port closest to the edge of the console.

Yeah it is, doesn't show up otherwise. I've always used the same USB port so it's strange that it would come up as usb2:/ in the system. I honestly don't know it's such a weird problem.

 

[GreyWolf]

Try renaming the GXGlobal.cfg file so it creates a new one with the default settings.

 

[Cyan]

where are located your wii games and which filename are you using?
did you copy them yourself manually or did you use WiiBackupManager?

 

[shadowprince116]

where are located your wii games and which filename are you using?
did you copy them yourself manually or did you use WiiBackupManager?

I just copied everything from my USB over to my Hard Drive, I've been using my USB for over a year now. I have a wbfs folder located on the root of the drive, inside there's the game folders named "Game Name [GameID]" with their files inside named their GameID again.

 

[Cyan]

ok, that's fine.

the problem is probably because you changed your drive, and the loader expect the same partition type/format/location than the previous one, and couldn't find it.
if you want, instead of deleting/renaming your config file, you can force a partition detection.

Settings > HDD menu > click on the first option to force a HDD remount and partition detection.
select the proper partition if you have more than one.

 

[shadowprince116]

ok, that's fine.

the problem is probably because you changed your drive, and the loader expect the same partition type/format/location than the previous one, and couldn't find it.
if you want, instead of deleting/renaming your config file, you can force a partition detection.

Settings > HDD menu > click on the first option to force a HDD remount and partition detection.
select the proper partition if you have more than one.

That worked, I've never partitioned anything so I never would've thought of that. Thank you.

For some reason there was two options and it was set to some partition with 0.19GB so I'm not sure what's up with that... I'm not sure if that was the space I had left on my old USB or not but it doesn't matter now. Multiple partitions is turned off still so I'm not sure what's going on there but doesn't matter anymore either since it's working.

It still detects the Hard Drive path as "usb2:/" but it's not bothering me anymore just a really weird thing since any other homebrew can't seem to tell the difference.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it.

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Try renaming the GXGlobal.cfg file so it creates a new one with the default settings.

Thanks for your help, I tried yours but it didn't work unfortunately. Thankfully Cyan came along and their solution worked out though.

Thanks again for your help though.

 

[Cyan]

it means your drive has 2 partitions :
usb1:/ and usb2:/, loaders can mount up to 8 partitions.
(do not mix that with USB Port number 0 and 1)

usb1:/ is probably a hidden partition that your computer doesn't list. It could contains rescue tools or specific tools from the drive's manufacturer (seagate or WD).
so, even if hidden to computer, the Wii still find it and name it "usb 1st partition", and your games are therefor located on "usb 2nd partition".
if the first partition is FAT32 or exFAT, it can cause issue if you try to play gamecube games as most loaders attempt to load games from the first found FAT32 or exFAT partition.
if the first partition is anything else (raw, ntfs, ext, etc.) then that won't be a problem.

 

[shadowprince116]

it means your drive has 2 partitions :
usb1:/ and usb2:/
(do not mix that with USB Port number 0 and 1)

usb1:/ is probably a hidden partition that your computer doesn't list. It could contains rescue tools or specific tools from the drive's manufacturer (seagate or WD).
so, being hidden to computer, the Wii still find it and name it "usb 1st partition", and your games are now located on "usb 2nd partition".
if the first partition is FAT32, it can cause issue if you try to play gamecube games as most loaders attempt to load games from the first found FAT32 partition.
if the first partition is anything else (raw, ntfs, ext, etc.) then that won't be a problem.

Makes sense.

It's actually a repurposed PS4 500GB Internal Hard Drive I chucked in a shell after recently replacing it with a 2TB drive, not sure what brand it would've been but I have reformatted it. Figured I might as well use it for something.

Thanks again for your help, I'm feeling pretty enlightened now.