Originally posted by scrap69:

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Hey Larry,

Great Guide just finished your 4.2 soft mod guide then jumped on to to this. As usual for your tutorials it was all flawless. Im now using a seagate 1.5TB HD that was customized for usb as I put it in a usb case. USB Loader detects it fine no problems at all... Anyway just wondering how many games can the USB Loader detect from a single partition? I read somewhere that it can onlt detect 500.. is this true? Do you thing I should partition my 1.5tb to 3 500gb? or is it possible to keep filling up the 1.5tb with over 500 games?

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Originally posted by Azrea1:

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Hi guys i got this working and its great the only problem i have is with super smash bros brawl . i have the iso on my pc so i used the wii back up manager to transfer it to my 200 gig usb device and it pops up on the wii i downloaded tittles and covers fine. When i play the game the warning screen for the straps pops up then the online play screen pops up. But the disk light starts blinking and it goes to the black no loading screen and stays there for ever with the disk drive still blinking anyone know anyway to fix this? Thanks alot guys and Thanl you for the awesome guide.

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Originally posted by keypox:

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Should i follow this guide even if i have a wiikey? I just updated to 4.2 and it seems homebrew channel is still working...

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Originally posted by de049:

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Ok,

i followed the tutorial but when i run the USBLoader from the system menu, screen goes blank as if its trying to locate the software on the HDD and then returns to the system menu again. Doesnt loda the game.

I think its my setup, so here it is:

My HDD is split into 2 primary partitions (J:NTFS and K:NTFS)
I have all my personal data on J and the Wii usb loader software on K.

Can this be the reason? Also, when i run the CFGLoader configurator, i set the partition to NTFS as opposed to the default WBFS but although i click =create new config.txt and overwrite the old one, the settings remain as default if i check again.

Any ideas anyone? I really prefer to keep my USB HDD partitioned and both partitions as NTFS.

Hope someone can assist.

thanks loads

de049

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Originally posted by jayhkr:

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Can other files be put on the USB device or does it have to stay "wii" specific. I have been wanting to purchase a usb device for sometime now for other reasons. I thought if I could put other files on it along with the usb loading stuff I would feel better about the purchase. At the VERY least, if I wanted to use the USB drive for other purposes could I at least reformat the drive back to the way it originally was? Thanks to everyone for their help. Great guide!

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Originally posted by larrylje:

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Originally posted by jayhkr:

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Can other files be put on the USB device or does it have to stay "wii" specific. I have been wanting to purchase a usb device for sometime now for other reasons. I thought if I could put other files on it along with the usb loading stuff I would feel better about the purchase. At the VERY least, if I wanted to use the USB drive for other purposes could I at least reformat the drive back to the way it originally was? Thanks to everyone for their help. Great guide!

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You can place any file under 4GB on the drive. If they are above 4GB and it is for storage purposes you can always compress the file below 4GB.

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Originally posted by NateX:

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If you're having trouble with USBLoader mounting/recognizing your USB drive AND you've confirmed the drive is listed as compatible using the link in Larry's guide, here are a couple of troubleshooting tips (can't say whether they'll work for you or not).

I had a reported compatible HDD (Seagate FreeAgent Desk 500GB) that I was unable to get mounted using USBLoader or NG in either USB port, so I returned it and purchased a WD My Passport Essential that had over 20 confirmations of compatibility, but it, too, wouldn't mount. Either I received an error after timeout, or USBLoader would go to a black screen & the Wii would reboot.

I tried reconnecting the USB drive after the Wii booted, and also while USBLoader was launched, but neither worked. As a last-ditch effort I tried the other (wrong) USB port to attempt the suggested tip another user mentioned where they received the "wrong port" error and then swapped back to the "correct" port to get their HDD recognized. While the HDD was connected to the "wrong" port I launched USBLoader & it immediately auto-mounted my HDD drive and I have had no problems since keeping it connected to this "wrong" port (the inner/lower USB port). I don't know if this is something unique with my console (new LU70 serial) or I'm just confused about which USB port is the correct one, but it's worked for me and I was finally able to launch & rip games using USBLoader.

It's a fantastic ability and much thanks to Larry for another great guide!

BTW, I hightly recommend the WD My Passport Essential drive. Small, portable, no spindown issues (though I understand this should no longer be a problem as of IOS38_rev14), requires no separate power supply & you can find them with the drive dock included (super convenience).

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Originally posted by de049:

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No files over 4GB will work. Does that mean any game backups too?

I keep getting my Call of Duty backup black screening when i launch it via usb loader. I can see the game on the loader menu as i can the others, but this one in particular just goes black screen on mee and have to reset Wii manually.

Any ideas why this is? Is there a way of checking the integrity of the ISO i used to convert to wbfs? I transfered this file using the wii backup manager and at the same time also transfered another game. The other works great, this one doesn't.

Thanks.

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Originally posted by upsbrown:

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Larry, I need your assistance. My question relates to "TRANSFER GAMES ON WBFS FORMATED DEVICE TO FAT32 FORMATED DEVICE" Drive 1, corresponds with "WBFS formated USB Device" and Drive 2 corresponds with "FAT32 formated USB Device" When i select ALL on Drive 1 and i press Transfer to Drive 2 the process begins. But it arbitrarily ends! And i have no idea why? so far i have transfered 100 of the 270 files i currently have. But my question is what can i do to keep the process going. I mean why does it not keep continuing until it finishes? It just stops transfering and I have no idea why. Sometime, the process will last 5 minutes or many hours. Thank you.

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Originally posted by kaylapupp:

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Just followed this tut, and I must say it couldn't have been any easier. Thanks so much Larrylje.

Now that it is up and running I want to know if there are any themes or other tweaks to make it look better ?

If someone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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Originally posted by VOLmaniac:

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I have pulled my hair out trying to figure this out. I was having the same exact issue as Nate. I tried what he suggested and it did make the loader give me an "OK" status was mounting device was attempted rather than timing out, but now it seems to be another issue. (FWIW, I noticed that the FAT32 mount: was "none" before I swapped the ports during loading; and I was getting the 30 sec. timeout. Once I tried what Nate says above, the FAT32 mount: was USB-HDD with an "OK" status.)

Once I get the "OK," everything seems to freeze up and the blue light that surrounds the disc area of the wii begins to flash. I can press the reset on the Wii and everything boots back up fine, but that's the only way to get anywhere after I get the "OK" screen and I still am unable to get any copies loaded from the USB. Any help to get me past this?

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Originally posted by JasonK94Z:

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Is there a way to make the home button take you back to the games list in USB Config instead of the Wii's home menu?
Or, is there another button I am not aware of?

Basically i want to quit a game and go to the games list and not the Wii home menu. This way i can avoid having to start up USB Config everytime I switch to another game.

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