#Just wondering how to actually play dumped wii games on this thing

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azure chasm
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what did you use to dump them

peak verge
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i uh

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didn't

azure chasm
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don't say so in the title then

icy canopy
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part of the wii modding guide was to install cIOS

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did you install cIOS?

peak verge
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Oh what? I didn't see that part, no i haven't

azure chasm
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well if you want to use a usb loader you have to

icy canopy
peak verge
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"Once you have downloaded all three IOS, there will be a folder named titles in the same folder as the NUS Downloader. Open the folder and navigate through them until you locate the three WAD files you downloaded. Place each of WAD files on the root of your SD card or USB drive." when it says wad files does it just mean the 3 folders it created?

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nevermind

peak verge
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I can't get usb loader to work right now

icy canopy
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It means the actual .wad file in each of the 3 folders.

peak verge
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Yeah i got that

icy canopy
# peak verge I can't get usb loader to work right now

To help troubleshoot your issue please run Syscheck and test all IOS on your Wii by following this guide:
https://wii.guide/syscheck

When it's done it will generate and display a syscheck.csv file.

If you have an SD, power down the Wii and insert the SD into a PC. Drag and drop the syscheck.csv file from the root of your SD into chat.

If you don't have an SD, you might get an error. Just continue until the report is displayed. You will need to upload the report and link the URL to chat or take photos of the entire report.

peak verge
icy canopy
icy canopy
peak verge
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I don't think usbloader is booting correctly or something, i'm gonna take pictures so you can see what i'm talkin' about

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Thank you for the help by the way

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I appreciate it, honestly.

icy canopy
peak verge
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removable drive e is my sd card with all the homebrew stuff on it

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the other one is where the games are at

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And when i run usb loader GX it just takes me to this screen and i don't see any of the games on the list, i also don't see snes9x GX anywhere at all

icy canopy
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.rvz files are not supported by Wii hardware

peak verge
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D:

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OHHHH

icy canopy
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First make sure your USB drive is formatted correctly

peak verge
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it has to be a WAD or something right?

icy canopy
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The drive should be 2tb or smaller, formatted to MBR and have a single primary FAT32 partition with 32kb (32768) or 64kb (65536) cluster/allocation unit size.

Double check the partition style is MBR: https://www.howtogeek.com/245610/how-to-check-if-a-disk-uses-gpt-or-mbr-and-how-to-convert-between-the-two/

Drive is 64gb or less: Format it to FAT32 with 32kb (32,768 bytes) cluster / allocation unit size.
Drive is larger than 64gb: Format it to FAT32 with 64kb (65,536 bytes) cluster / allocation unit size.

If the drive is larger than 32GB, you will need third party software like GUIFormat or Wii Backup Manager to format your drive to FAT32
Wii Backup Manager: https://wii.guide/wiibackupmanager
GUIFormat: http://ridgecrop.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

icy canopy
peak verge
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Oh

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Okay hold on let me do this stuff to the flash drive

azure chasm
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ehh

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dont think they need to redownload

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use dolphin to convert to iso

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also i might be missing context i just came home

icy canopy
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Yeah they could totally convert the rvz to iso then use the iso with Wii Backup Manager

peak verge
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Okay, i've formatted the flash drive in the way you specified, i'm copying the games and stuff back over there

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Just remembered you said i needed to convert the wii games

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fuck

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How do i do that through dolphin?

azure chasm
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add the directory with the rvz to the game paths in config > paths

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right click the game when it shows up and select convert file

peak verge
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do i want to "remove junk data"

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when i do it

azure chasm
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if you want smaller file size yes

peak verge
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weird, this is a 15 gb flash drive but i can't put a 4 gb game on it

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after i did the reformatting thing

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OKAY THOUGH

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Whatever, i got a wii game on it, it's in the iso format

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it's formatted correctly

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This should work now right?

icy canopy
peak verge
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Yep, i'm doing that

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I'm about done transferring everything i want over

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So

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I'm still trying to run these with usb loader right?

icy canopy
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Yeah

peak verge
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Okay, here we go

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maiden voyage

icy canopy
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hope it works. It's normally recommended to avoid flash drives as they often cause issues with the Wii

peak verge
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Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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It works

icy canopy
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Nice

peak verge
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I'm so pleased, thanks guys

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Technically i still wanna figure out how to get snes9x gx workin' and how to install janky wii ware stuff

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but i'm done for the night lol

icy canopy
peak verge
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Thank you, thank you

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I got my wiiware stuff i wanted workin'

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I've gotta do the snes9xrx

peak verge
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Okay, now i've done all that. Is there a way to play gamecube iso's also?

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Also how do playing those work, do we need a gamecube controller?

icy canopy
# peak verge Okay, now i've done all that. Is there a way to play gamecube iso's also?

To play GameCube games you will need to have Nintendont in your apps folder.
Download the .zip from here:
https://oscwii.org/library/app/Nintendont

Extract Nintendont.zip then copy its contents (apps and controllers folders) to the root of the same drive you keep your homebrew apps on.

With Nintendont installed, USB Loader GX or WiiFlow can now load GameCube games.
https://wii.guide/usbloadergx
https://wii.guide/wiiflow

You can only play GameCube games from a SD or USB drive formatted to MBR FAT32 with 32kb or 64kb allocation unit size. You can use 64kb allocation unit size when formatting if the drive is larger than 64gb.

Dump your GameCube game using CleanRip:
https://wii.guide/dump-games

GameCube games can be played on the Wii in NKit.iso or ISO (not NKit.gcz). NKit.iso takes up much less space and plays just the same so I recommend that. You can use the Nkit PC program to convert an ISO to Nkit.iso

Get Nkit by clicking Download button on this page:
https://gbatemp.net/download/nkit.36157/
Extract it to a convenient place on your PC.

You can then use GameCube Backup Manager to transfer the game to your drive. It can create the necessary folder structure and rename the files for you:
https://github.com/AxionDrak/GameCube-Backup-Manager

Otherwise do it by hand:

💾SD/USB:
┗ 📂games
┣ 📂GameName [gameID]
┃ ┗ 📜game.iso --note: this is LITERALLY game.iso, not the name of the game, or the game id, just game
┗ 📂GameName [gameID] --This example is for multi disc games
┣ 📜game.iso
┗ 📜disc2.iso

Note: the WBFS folder is for WII GAMES ONLY and the Games folder is for GAMECUBE GAMES ONLY

nkit.iso files should still be named literally game.iso

icy canopy
peak verge
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Alrighty, i'll get goin' on that when i get back to work.

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Thank you

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Also, I was getting the open shop channel or whatever it's called

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and i threw it on my sd card and popped it in there and it kept shooting me some error

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something something failed to read -6

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i think it's because i don't have it hooked up to the wifi

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because i'm afraid to do that cause i don't want it to break everything

azure chasm
icy canopy
peak verge
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Okay, thanks

peak verge
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Okay, i've got allllllllllllll that stuff

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i have a new question, under usb loader gx in the sound settings apparently i can set a different song to be played when i'm browsing my game collection

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What format does the song have to be in for the thingy to see it?

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Additionally, i got the open shop channel thing working and the wii connected to the internet, at which point i downloaded the gamecube game thing

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Can i just put those on the HDD or do i have to use wii backup manager to like, load them in that way?

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Also for gamecube games, does the file type matter?

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Also, anything else cool i should get on here lol

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I'm sorry, one more

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I saw a bunch of link cable emulator stuff, and a gameboy link cable server thing too

azure chasm
peak verge
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If i had friends that also had modded wiis would that let us play OG crystal chronicles wirelessly from our own homes

azure chasm
peak verge
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Soooo, i don't have to use wii backup manager?

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I can just put them in there like that and it'll work?

icy canopy
peak verge
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I will do that then