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vWii - How to use USB microphones for karaoke games (from HDD)
Unless I checked back on everything that Cyan wrote, I don't recommend following this for now. I will hide my original guide in spoiler tags.
You may ask what this tutorial is all about since you just plug in your mics and start singing, right? Wrong!
It's complicated and confusing to get them working. However, after a huge amount of trying different USB ports and different cIOS setups, here's what finally worked for me.
I assume you're vWii* is already hacked and you already have the Homebrew Channel and USB Loader GX installed. This should probably work with other loaders like WiiFlow the same way though.
* this guide is for vWii (Virtual Wii mode on the Wii U) only. DON'T FOLLOW THESE STEPS ON YOUR NORMAL WII CONSOLE!
Here's the hardware setup:
And here are the steps to setup the software:
It's complicated and confusing to get them working. However, after a huge amount of trying different USB ports and different cIOS setups, here's what finally worked for me.
I assume you're vWii* is already hacked and you already have the Homebrew Channel and USB Loader GX installed. This should probably work with other loaders like WiiFlow the same way though.
* this guide is for vWii (Virtual Wii mode on the Wii U) only. DON'T FOLLOW THESE STEPS ON YOUR NORMAL WII CONSOLE!
Here's the hardware setup:
- The HDD with the games has to be plugged into the upper back port of the Wii U
- The microphones can be into a USB hub (I have this one) and to into the bottom back port of the Wii U
And here are the steps to setup the software:
- Make sure you delete everything (c)IOS related from sd:/apps
- Go to this site and download the cIOS installer
- Put it on your SD card
- Insert the card, enter the Homebrew Channel and wait until the WiFi symbol at the bottom right stops blinking (it should be permanent instead)
- Now start the cIOS installer and exit the first screen by pressing A.
- Here comes the magic. While we stick relatively close to the guide that I linked in 2. we install the d2x-v10-beta53-alt-vWii instead of the non-alt beta52
- So install the beta53-alt with base 57 to slot 249 and then another time with base 56 to slot 250 (installing always takes some time, be patient)
- Leave the cIOS installer and start USB Loader GX
- Go to any karaoke game like We Sing, SingItStar or what ever you like, click on it and open its settings
- Change the loader IOS to 250 (default should be -1 so delete that and type in 250) and then make sure that emunand is disabled for this game (unfortunately karaoke games have problems in emunand)
- Save and you're good... now you should be able to launch the game and use the microphones if you have plugged in everything as written above before you started USB Loader GX
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