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?

Wilbrand Launcher

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Wilbrand Launcher 10
v10 CHANGES.

NET Framework 2 isnt required anymore (Now uses .NET 4.6 and doesnt require any extra installation)
Compatible and tested with Windows 10 and 11
No Script error at open
Internet connection its now optional
Some minor interface and design fixes
English and spanish supported
Actar link pointed to their original post

HOW TO USE...

Power on the Wii and verify if your date on Wii is correct (if it isn't.. fix it)
Go to Settings -> Internet -> Console Information and take a look at the MAC Address.
Now start Wilbrand Launcher , type the MAC Address and the other info.
Create the exploit, then copy and paste the files into the root of the SD card. (if you don't copy directly)
Now you can place the SD card into the Wii.
Go to the Messageboard and navigate to Yesterday.
Click on the Green Letter....
And wait that Hackmii Installer start. =)

If you have any feedback about this or get an error please let me know

Based on the Actar's app source code, i didin't take full credit for the application.
Made with update purposes, i tried to keep the interface untouched and beautiful as we remember it

A couple of years later (too late), but I think this tool was the easiest offline way to do this process.
That’s why I used it, it helped me a couple of years ago and still helps today, hope help someone.

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