Homebrew UsbLoaderGX crashes

[Omegalc]

Hi all. I hacked my wii and installed the homebrew channel. I also followed all the steps regarding d2x cios and usbloader gx. I used a 16gb USB and for a couple days had no problem playing various wii games. I then decided to buy a 128gb USB so I could store more games however now weird things happen. If the new USB has the same games as the old one everything works until the moment I press start on a game. Everything then freezes in place and I can't do anything except shut off the wii. On the other hand if the USB has new games USBloader gx will freeze while booting up, it will show a white screen and neither the games nor anything else appears. I would appreciate any help you guys can give me. Thanks

 

[r1vver]

The originals of the games are .iso images or .wbfs files?
How (using what) do you write games to your USB drive?
These freezes - is it a black screen or something else?
How (with help of what) is your USB drive formatted? Also what file system used, cluster size.
Is there an empty (unallocated) space before the beginning of the partition?

 

[Omegalc]

The originals of the games are .iso images or .wbfs files?
How (using what) do you write games to your USB drive?
These freezes - is it a black screen or something else?
How (with help of what) is your USB drive formatted? Also what file system used, cluster size.
Is there an empty (unallocated) space before the beginning of the partition?

I'm using wbfs files on a FAT32 USB. I just drag the games to the USB into a wbfs folder and using the game ids for the folders and wbfs files of each game. The freeze is either on the game menu when you press start and then it just stays there or a white screen when loading usbloader. I don't understand the last 2 questions too much sorry

Post automatically merged: Apr 15, 2023

I'm using wbfs files on a FAT32 USB. I just drag the games to the USB into a wbfs folder and using the game ids for the folders and wbfs files of each game. The freeze is either on the game menu when you press start and then it just stays there or a white screen when loading usbloader. I don't understand the last 2 questions too much sorry

All this was the same in the old USB which worked perfectly

 

[Sypherone]

As Preinfo -> Flash drives on USBLGX

I don't understand the last 2 questions too much sorry

Wich tool do you used to format the drive? fat32 formatter is recommened. On drives bigger 64gb the sectorsize should be 64kb and is set by the format tool.

Does the partition start at the beginning of the drive or is there space left? It can be seen under drive management in Windows or the format tool. To be sure you can flash zzblank image to the drive (it removes everything!!) and reformat by fat32formatter.

 

[CoolMe]

Hi all. I hacked my wii and installed the homebrew channel. I also followed all the steps regarding d2x cios and usbloader gx. I used a 16gb USB and for a couple days had no problem playing various wii games. I then decided to buy a 128gb USB so I could store more games however now weird things happen. If the new USB has the same games as the old one everything works until the moment I press start on a game. Everything then freezes in place and I can't do anything except shut off the wii. On the other hand if the USB has new games USBloader gx will freeze while booting up, it will show a white screen and neither the games nor anything else appears. I would appreciate any help you guys can give me. Thanks

Post a syscheck here.
Make sure you're using the latest version of usbloadergx.

 

[godreborn]

your problem is most likely using a flash drive. yeah, Nintendo is shitty, so flash drives do not work well with the wiiu or the wii.

 

[Sypherone]

Yeah, i love those guys which indicate flashdrives as the perfect ultimate solution if a discussion is going on about it. But strangly they never show up if a problem is reported, even when you mention them in the thread.

 

[r1vver]

I'm using wbfs files on a FAT32 USB. I just drag the games to the USB into a wbfs folder and using the game ids for the folders and wbfs files of each game.

i.e., all the operations are done manually, ok.
There is a suspicion that:
1. or (some of) the .wbfs files were originally corrupted or may have been corrupted in the process of downloading (retrieving from the internets),
2. or something corrupts them in the process of copying them to the new USB drive,
3. or the USB drive itself is crooked.

So, to check 1. and 2. - Figure out how to use it and start using the Wii Backup Manager for this process (if you are using a Windows computer).
It automatically assigns games to the correct folders and ID and splits the game file correctly if necessary.
But most importantly - it can check the integrity (absence of corruption) of game files.

For 3. - Check your USB drive with special checking utilities. Something like H2testw.

 

[Omegalc]

I should probably mention I'm using a mac so I'm not sure if I can do everything you guys say. Thanks for the info I will try doing what I can. I tried reformatting to fat32 but it still doesn't work. Also I'm not sure how to do the flash zzblank thing.

Post automatically merged: Apr 16, 2023

SysCheck ME v2.5.0 by blackb0x, JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)

Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 115184998
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: Spain (105)
Boot2 v4
Found 69 titles.
Found 48 IOS on this console. 15 of them are stubs.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
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 (rev 3072): Stub
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 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
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 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
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 65280): Stub
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 04/16/2023.

Post automatically merged: Apr 16, 2023

I don't think the wbfs files are corrupted since they worked on the other usb with less capacity. The new USB seems fine I tried running first aid on the mac and it didn't detect any errors.

 

[r1vver]

Ah, the obscure world of gnawed apples.
It doesn't make much difference, though.
Instead of Wii Backup Manager use Witgui or Wii Backup Fusion.
And I guess you'll have to check checksums manually somehow.
For this reason, I would recommend finding "games supplier" of .iso images (or at least in nkit.gcz format (and figure out how to restore them to .iso)) as the .iso images have preknown checksums.

Update: and H2testw alternative for macs is F3 (Fight Flash Fraud), the GUI version will most likely be F3XSwift.
Whether it will work on modern macs - I have no idea, I have not been interested in macs for a long time.

 

[Sypherone]

Also I'm not sure how to do the flash zzblank thing.

You need e.g. Win32diskimager to flash the zzblank image to the drive.

I tried reformatting to fat32 but it still doesn't work

If the other USB- Flash drive work, its probably the new USB-Flashdrive thats incompatible with the d2x patch in the cIOS. Try the different cIOS as loader IOS, also the IOS 58. Another try would be using wbfs as filesystem, but only Wii games can run from it.

 

[Omegalc]

Ok I'm going to try those 3 things. How can I format my USB to wbfs?

Post automatically merged: Apr 16, 2023

I formatted my USB to wbfs and added a game to try it but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to load usbloader gx now since there is no apps folder and I can't add it.

 

[Sypherone]

Hmmm why the Wii has a SDCard slot ?

 

[Omegalc]

It's working now, using an sd card to run usbloader and the usb formatted in wbfs with witgui. Thanks all.

 

[CoolMe]

Syscheck

You're missing Priiloader & BootMii. I highly recommend installing both, to do that either drag & drop your syscheck into ModMii (and it'll tell you what to do), or follow the Wii.guide pages here (BootMii & Priiloader).