Hi, all, I am somewhat new to posting in this forum but I've gotten a lot of good info from here over the years. I've spent the whole week trying to solve this problem but haven't found an answer yet. I've had my original 4.3U Wii softmodded for a long time and using USBLoaderGX to play games from a usb drive. I've never had any problem with games as they were originally released and I mostly play Mario, Skylanders, and Wii Sports. This is my first time attempting to play modded Wii games, specifically Mario Kart Retro Rewind and NSMB Retro Remix. I didn't know about them until a couple of weeks ago and I'd really like to try these. For MK RR I've followed the tutorial here several times to patch my iso file but I can't get the resulting file to work. No matter what I try it either returns me to the Wii home screen or hangs on a black screen. NSMB RR is a pre-patched .wbfs I found online instead of patching my iso and I get the same result. My MK and NSMB isos are ripped from my own discs, and for MK I also tried patching an un-modded .wbfs found elsewhere, but still no joy. I've tried with the channel forwarder and directly from USBLGX. I've tried running from two different flash drives and two different SD cards, all formatted as FAT32. And I've tried two different versions of USBLGX, 3.0r1281 that I've been using for a long time and a recent download of 4.0r1283. The same usb drives and SD cards have no problem playing un-modded games such as original Mario Kart or Wii Sports, including with both USBLGX versions. Is there any cios that is required for modded games to work? I have an old file from the syscheck app if you need to what cios I have installed. My Wii was softmodded with LetterBomb and Hackmii 0.8. I can say that I have d2x-v10-beta52, and since this syscheck report I've only added PriiLoader 0.10.0 and updated Homebrew Channel from 1.0.8 to 1.1.4.

Wii Preloader stuck

mr_ghostfacexsc · 2026-05-26T21:46:52+00:00

Hi! so I bought this Wii from marketplace, and when i turned it on it just showed the preloader menu. What should i do?

WiiWare off USB Loader GX

Duckychan808

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Jan 25, 2023

Cyan said:
yes, and I said sorry and excused myself on the next message I posted.
If you know me (which you might not, because you are new here), I posted tons of guides and helped thousands of people, they often come to me to ask for help. I'm useful 999 times out of 1000, that message was the bad one, after a bad day, because I'm not a robot.
It's nice of you to feel sorry for other people wanting help and getting irony instead, because they don't read and do the opposite of what you tell them and they tell your advice was wrong and made things worse.

I hope you'll react better than me for the time among us
Your first message being a criticizing comment, I'll just take it as a thought that you only seek peace and want to help everyone, not being accusing and mean.
Welcome to GBAtemp, and please be kind to your fellow users.

I downloaded wiiware games on usb loader but when I load them the screen goes black. Any reasons why this happen and how to fix it?