What would be the best application to use for ripping games to USBLoaderGX?

[frank anvil]

I have Witgui and CleanRip installed.

Also, is NTFS an OK drive format for USBLoaderGX?

[sour geyser]

Thats pretty much it unless you can use Wii Backup Manager instead for software

[proper mulch]

Format your USB drive: 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

[proper mulch]

Are you on Mac?

[frank anvil]

Yes, i do also have a windows computer

[proper mulch]

You should probably use the windows computer for homebrew related things. It will just be easier

You can do almost everything on Mac, but you can do 100% of everything on windows

[sour geyser]

Or use the Mac with a VM depending on what chip its running

Since you have a PC with a install though youd be better off using it instead

[proper mulch]

No need for a VM if they have windows.

[sour geyser]

Hence this

Then again you said it already so

[viral turtle]

USB loader gx itself is able to rip games

and they will appear automatically once done

so it does everything for you when talking about the file format and the file structure

[proper mulch]

Yeah but it’s not very good. Sometimes it will just dump the game and throw whatever it can into the dump whether the game will work or not. Which is why we recommend using cleanrip

[frank anvil]

If I use CleanRip, do I leave the files be there or organise them into folders?

[proper mulch]

Cleanrip, if you dump to a FAT32 device, splits the iso image into 2, in which you would have to combine them on a PC and then transfer using Wii backup manager back to the USB

[proper mulch]

https://Wii.guide/dump-games

[frank anvil]

@proper mulch Do I have to put these games in folders with the Game ID?

[proper mulch]

Wii backup manager does all of that for you

[main hull]

one thing you cannot do is get just dance and guitar hero dlc

[proper mulch]

The riiconnect24 patcher is available on Mac

You can’t make themes and you can’t use modmii

[main hull]

but its a different version

and im pretty sure you cant make a riitag

[proper mulch]

It doesn’t have wad2bin?

[proper mulch]

Yes you can

[main hull]

no it does not

[dull coral]

its on web iirc

[main hull]

you cant launch wad2bin in any way

[frank anvil]

I'm trying to use CleanRip with a 1TB WD My Passport hard drive formatted as FAT32 but every time I try to use the USB with FAT CleanRip fails with Error 00000000. USBLoaderGX dosen't read my hard drive either. same issue with NTFS. nvm I got it now. I can't get my game I've just ripped from CleanRip to USBLoaderGX but I can't fix that right now.

[frank anvil]

I’m using USBLoaderGX to import my games directly. How do I import a dual layer game like smash brawl?

[proper mulch]

Don’t dump your games with usbloader GX

[frank anvil]

Why?

[proper mulch]

Because it will just throw together what it can copy whether it works or not. Just use cleanrip