Hacking WiiU USB game error

[balteck]

Happy new year!
And a happy new problem :-(

I've finally bought a USB disk drive for installing WiiU games (Samgung D3 Station 2TB) that it has own power supply.
I connected to WiiU, format it and I move 2 titles (tank,tank,tank and rayman challenge) from SysNand to USB, just for test.

Now the first problem:

TANK TANK TANK starts, but when I choose a specific level, WiiU crashes with "there is a problem with your USB mass storage: error 160-0105"

I've deleted it and re-downloaded from eShop. Installed from eShop the game worked as expected.

Then I've installed Just Dance 2017 and Sing Party with WUP Installer.
The installation was successfully and Just Dance works good.
Instead Sing Party, when I select a song to sing, chashes with "there is a problem with your USB mass storage: error 160-0105"

Again I've deleted it and re-installed again with WUP Installer. Now the same song where the WiiU crashes works and it seems that Sing Party is good now (I didn't try every songs and levels)

Maybe the disk is incompatible with WiiU?
Or I did something wrong?

In this way I cannot trust to install all my loadiine games (and to inject my sweaty saves)

 

[Cyan]

hello,
happy new pr year.

Your drive has power supply so it should be fine for this issue.
When the game was working on your second test, did you move all your games again from system to USB or install directly to USB with WUP installer?
Maybe the transfer wasn't done correctly. or like you said the drive has some incompatibilities, but it's strange that it's only once you are in the game and at specific spot.

I didn't find anything with that error number, except it's random and users thought it's a hard drive issue and bought another one.
You could try to remove the sleep mode :
Go to "Data Management" in the settings and hold the "+" and "-" buttons to display a hidden HDD menu. disable sleep timer.
I don't know if it will help, and as it seems random that can be hard to tell if it had an effect until you'll get that error again.

 

[CoolAlpha]

Hello, is the disk new? Maybe it has some bad sectors?

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[balteck]

Hello, is the disk new? Maybe it has some bad sectors?

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It is new disk never connected to PC. It is possible that the disk could be bad.
Today I can connect it to my PC, format it and do a surface scan



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[CoolAlpha]

Maybe you can copy back with ftp everywhere and compare the files

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[godreborn]

did u untick usb sleep mode? have u tried another usb cable? have u tried leaving the hdd connected to the pc over night to see if it disconnects?

 

[balteck]

When the game was working on your second test, did you move all your games again from system to USB or install directly to USB with WUP installer?.

I've only transfered from SysNand to USB the first game and I've thought that maybe the transfer wasn't done correctly.
But for the second game I always used WUP Installer. First time no good, second time seems good (I need to play every songs to be sure)

You could try to remove the sleep mode :
Go to "Data Management" in the settings and hold the "+" and "-" buttons to display a hidden HDD menu. disable sleep timer.

Already did it. But no luck

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did u untick usb sleep mode? have u tried another usb cable? have u tried leaving the hdd connected to the pc over night to see if it disconnects?

yes: for sleep mode
no: I used the cable from the box
no: I never connected it to PC, but I will try to format it and make a copy and delete to test every sector

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Maybe you can copy back with ftp everywhere and compare the files

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Good idea: I will install another little game hoping that it crashes the WiiU. When crashes will happen I compare the installed files with the decrypted ones

 

[godreborn]

trouble shooting always sucks. I can't tell u how many times I've bought cables and whatnot only to find something else was the culprit. I'd go down the list of hdd issues to rule them out. then, u can go to the wii u and trouble shoot there. first thing u should do is see if the hdd disconnects on ur pc.

 

[balteck]

Anyway I Always got the error on specific point of games:

with Tank Tank Tank when starting the multiplayer level on city
with Sing Star when I play with "I will survive" (singing or using mixer)

It is strange that a bad cable disconnect the disk in a specific point. Or am I wrong?

 

[godreborn]

@CoolAlpha may be right about bad sectors then or somehow the games' files got corrupted.

 

[MUDD_BR]

Did you try to plug this HDD with a "Y" USB cable?

 

[balteck]

Did you try to plug this HDD with a "Y" USB cable?

I don't have a Y cable, but this disk have it's own power supply

 

[MUDD_BR]

I don't have a Y cable, but this disk have it's own power supply

I know, but worth the try, won´t it? And you test it on PC, format with Easus software and test the sectors?

 

[balteck]

I know, but worth the try, won´t it? And you test it on PC, format with Easus software and test the sectors?

Now it is on PC and the test is in progress

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[KevinX8]

I know, but worth the try, won´t it? And you test it on PC, format with Easus software and test the sectors?

Y cable is purely for splitting power from data pins. If the usb plug has no power pins (since its externally powered) nothing will happen at all. You can't use an incorrect solution and just hope it works

 

[DocAmes1980]

Have you tried a different USB port? I had a similar error msg twice (if not the exact same one) when I had connected a new drive to the bottom back USB port (the top back port being ocupied by a smaller drive which I was using for Wii U backups and still have connected for Wii/GC backups). I tried the left front port but that port was weird in that it wouldn't recognize the drive if it was connected at boot but would recognize it if I hotplugged it. So I connected the drive to the right front port and have been using the two HDD without issue for two months.

 

[balteck]

I did a surface scan and I got 8 bad sectors.

New disk, only 6 hours of life and 8 bad Sector.
I'm just unlucky!

Now I will RMA and I hope the next one will be good

Thanks to all for any hints!