USB Loader GX not loading games after softmod update | WiiLink | Page 1

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:07 PM

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As title says.. GX will load fine but as soon as i try to launch a game, its black screen time...

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@graceful elbow

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📎 sysCheck.csv

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Syscheck I did after installing a fresh NAND, and following wii.guide for the 3rd time (maybe 4th, i lost count)

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:08 PM

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What usbloader GX version are you using

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:08 PM

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latest

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:09 PM

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1281?

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:09 PM

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r1281 is it

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think so

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:09 PM

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Well the good news is your syscheck is fine

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Does this happen with every game?

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:11 PM

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ive only tried one so far.. takes time to put em on the drive... its a 128gb sandisk formatted to fat32 with 65k block size

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but any game i was trying yesterday wasnt working

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:34 PM

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late anchor ive only tried one so far.. takes time to put em on the drive... its a 128gb san...

Make sure your drive is MBR as well and try different games

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:35 PM

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oh. how do i check this?

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doesn computer managemtn has this info?

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i believe it is...

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its Disk 3

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:41 PM

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late anchor oh. how do i check this?

Disc management

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:42 PM

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yeah its done, i believe it is MBR

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:42 PM

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It says gpt in that corner

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:42 PM

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but disk 3 doesnt have an asterix..

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:42 PM

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Disc 3 is your external hard drive?

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:43 PM

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Usb thumb drive yes

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it was working 2 days ago, its a brand new drive

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:43 PM

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late anchor Usb thumb drive yes

Well there’s your problem don’t use a thumb drive

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:43 PM

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late anchor it was working 2 days ago, its a brand new drive

Wiis will kill thumb drives

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:43 PM

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i dont think so

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over time maybe

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but its NEW

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its less than a week old

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:44 PM

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They are not very compatible at all

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:44 PM

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and as i said, before i updated my soft mod, it had like 20+ games on it, working

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:45 PM

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You could try reformatting

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Just take your games off first

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:45 PM

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i did

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a full format, not quick

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should i try wbfs or ntfs?

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:46 PM

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What do you mean

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Are your Wii games in WBFS

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:46 PM

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instead of formatting to fat32, should i try ntfs?

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or the old wbfs format?

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and yes, not iso

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:46 PM

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late anchor or the old wbfs format?

Oh

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No those won’t work as well

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:47 PM

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Well

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before i updated my soft mod thats what i was using...

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along with WBFS Manager 🤮

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hence why i wanted to update so bad...

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i had tried fat32 with my old softmod and that never worked

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i had to go through wbfs

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 10:51 PM

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best option is to buy a hard drive

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or use wii flow which i think is easier on usb sticks

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 10:52 PM

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tried wii flow, it wont load either

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ok lets says i dont care about updating now, i just want it to work... can i just flash my NAND from prior to my update and it would work again?

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not a fresh one, the one that had the old softmod working...

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will it bring back my mii, game data and channels?

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tried other games, and they dont work either

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fuck it im trying wbfs format... i hate wbfs manager 😦

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DUDE

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@graceful elbow no shot

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i just formatted to wbfs and added my games using wbfs manager

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it works

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 11:12 PM

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Well I mean if it works

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 11:12 PM

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So PLEASE, dont tell people to not use wbfs format, it may be old but sometimes, thats the only fix i guess

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i had seen a video about it

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 11:12 PM

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late anchor So PLEASE, dont tell people to not use wbfs format, it may be old but sometimes,...

We don’t tell people not to, we just say FAT32 is recommended

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 11:12 PM

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and i thought, ah no way

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yeah obv

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 11:12 PM

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late anchor i had seen a video about it

Don’t use video guides

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 11:12 PM

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No i dont want to

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the wii.guide is much more detailed

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it was just a video about how to fix usb loader not working, dude proposed to format back to wbfs instead of fat32

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 11:13 PM

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Both WBFS and NTFS are usable on usbloader but have issues

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 11:13 PM

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NTFS* 😽

graceful elbow Jan 10, 2023, 11:14 PM

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My fault

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I got big ass fingers

late anchor Jan 10, 2023, 11:15 PM

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np xD

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i guess time to retransfer all my games

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hopefully wii backup can do the transfer fine.. or else doing 1 by 1 titles on wbfs manager sucks xD

graceful elbow Jan 11, 2023, 12:03 AM

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Wii backup manager should work

late anchor Jan 11, 2023, 12:08 AM

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didnt work

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only games transferred using WBFS Manager works...

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dont know whats the diff.. one needs an iso to convert into a wbfs, the other straight up uses wbfs 😂

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its annoying, not i gotta convert all my selected games in iso

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then add them 1 by 1 on WBFS Manager, then transfer them xd

late anchor Jan 11, 2023, 2:31 AM

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so it was working for the 2 games i tested earlier, now only those games show up

graceful elbow Jan 11, 2023, 2:31 AM

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thats why its recomended to use FAT32

late anchor Jan 11, 2023, 2:31 AM

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but i cant

graceful elbow Jan 11, 2023, 2:31 AM

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and not a usb stick

late anchor Jan 11, 2023, 2:31 AM

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funny how it was working before and now its not.....

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after the update i mean

graceful elbow Jan 11, 2023, 2:32 AM

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prolly just coincedence

late anchor Jan 11, 2023, 2:33 AM

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mhm...

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so the christmas gift i did to my sibbling is basically a paper weight now

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Cool, thx!

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found an old revision of GX

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ima give that a try

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r1272

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thats funny

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now they show up

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let me add more and test

late anchor Jan 11, 2023, 3:02 AM

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Didnt work, imma just revert to my backup NAND when my stuff was working

graceful elbow Jan 11, 2023, 3:04 AM

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dont do that

late anchor Jan 11, 2023, 3:05 AM

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and why not

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i flashed a fresh nand without issue

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whats the point of doing backup if you cant go back to it?

graceful elbow Jan 11, 2023, 3:10 AM

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fine do whatever you want at this point

late anchor Jan 11, 2023, 3:12 AM

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you keep saying dont do that but dont actually answer my question

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i asked if the NAND contained channels, mii and game data? and why would it be bad to use my old NAND when it was working fine before?

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If you want i go through the risky process twice, flash a freshy again, then flash my backup?

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:31 AM

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@sullen girder

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got one

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📎 sysCheck.csv

sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 1:32 AM

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Your syscheck looks good

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:33 AM

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it might look cleaner than if it had previous softmod, i did flash a fresh nand thinking that could help, then proceeded to follow wii.guide, to no avail, USB sticks wont load games it just black screen

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i think my problem is the usb stick at this point..

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people who had the same issue seem to have resolved it by using ext hdd, so i just bought one

sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 1:34 AM

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ah yeah just use that flash drives are a pain on the wii

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:34 AM

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but thats my issue lol, it was working fine before i updated, tho it would only see WBFS format drives..

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i had iOS236 patched and stuff. tutorial i had watched back then was 2012, to give you an idea lol

sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 1:35 AM

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WBFS format is known to make flash drives work when they wouldn't as FAT32

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:35 AM

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aaaaaaaah

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that would make sense

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thx

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my wii never liked fat32, but then again i never tried ext hdd

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If the ext hdd fails using FAT32, should i try WBFS lol?

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And should i update to v11? or is it too early?, i also see 2 diff cIOS guide?

sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 1:39 AM

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late anchor If the ext hdd fails using FAT32, should i try WBFS lol?

no lol u really shouldn't need it

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:40 AM

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dont think so.. i did a friend wii couple days ago, but she had a 256gb usb stick as FAT32 and that worked fine

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mine is the same brand and model but 128..

sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 1:40 AM

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late anchor And should i update to v11? or is it too early?, i also see 2 diff cIOS guide?

You can if you want.

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:41 AM

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i think id like to lol, might aswell get the latest..

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would you recommend the 1st or 2nd cIOS guide?

sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 1:41 AM

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The one that says For Wii

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:42 AM

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but 2nd one says for both vWii and Wii?

sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 1:44 AM

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u can do that too

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:44 AM

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ok

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i gotta not forget about ModMii stuff

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ive seen it patch a couple stub last time i tried it

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maybe it could help

sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 1:45 AM

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late anchor but 2nd one says for both vWii and Wii?

I haven't tested if it works well with WiiFlow but it's probably fine

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:46 AM

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i actually prefer USB loader GX

sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 1:46 AM

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late anchor i gotta not forget about ModMii stuff

if you want. It's also not that important unless u randomly decide to region change or downgrade Wii sysmenus

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:46 AM

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but it wasnt loading games for me, and got glitched, so i deleted the usb_load_gx folder and dl a fresh version, ill test that when the new hdd comes in

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 1:47 AM

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sullen girder if you want. It's also not that important unless u randomly decide to region cha...

ooh thx! i like infos like that! instead of someone just telling me do this, do that...

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^^

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oh question.. i enabled a few more options than what the guide recommend in Priiloader, could that affect anything?

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i have Block Disc Updates
Block Online Updates
Auto-Press A at Health Screen
Replace Health Screen with Backmenu
Move Disc Channel
Wiimmfi Patch v4
480p graphics fix in system menu
Remove NoCopy Save File Protection
Region Free EVERYTHING
all enabled

sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 2:13 AM

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late anchor i have Block Disc Updates Block Online Updates Auto-Press A at Health Screen Rep...

None of that should really cause any issues

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 2:14 AM

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ok

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now im unsure about extracting the zip for v11 tho, the file arrangement is much diff, idk where do i extract it?

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sullen girder Jan 12, 2023, 2:17 AM

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Closed the other thread

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Pls just ask your questions in this one

late anchor Jan 12, 2023, 2:18 AM

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ofc

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was mostly asking the other guy how he had done it, didnt wanna bother you too much.. but thx alot, your answers were rly helpful!

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ill keep my thread up while my ext hdd arrives and see if it works, but thx again!

late anchor Jan 14, 2023, 6:13 AM

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📎 sysCheck.csv

late anchor Jan 14, 2023, 9:03 AM

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Omfg I can't believe it it works !!!!!!

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I just loaded the biggest game I had from the ext HDD!! It took a few seconds but it loaded!!!

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sullen girder Jan 14, 2023, 3:31 PM

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late anchor Omfg I can't believe it it works !!!!!!

Yay congrats. Do GameCube games work?

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Just wanted to double check you formatted hard drive to MBR FAT32

late anchor Jan 14, 2023, 5:27 PM

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Yep using guiformat, 65k alloc size

sullen girder Jan 14, 2023, 5:27 PM

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nice

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i'll close thread then u seem like you are set

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glad everything is working

zealous sage Jan 14, 2023, 6:34 PM

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I have the same issue with USB LoaderGX when I start a game it kicks back to wii menu, can someone help me please? I can load my syscheck.

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📎 sysCheck.csv

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@sullen girder would you be able to help me with similar issue please?

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