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Guide: Configurable USB Loader using FAT32 Partition (NO WBFS PARTITION NEEDED)
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JasonK94Z
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18. January 2010 @ 16:46 |
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Originally posted by larrylje:
Originally posted by JasonK94Z:
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.
Is it that hard to start the loader each time you want to load a game?
I don't know how so if you want to know do some searching and find out.
It was just an idea and was curious if the option was already there and i just missed the boat on turning it on.
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VOLmaniac
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18. January 2010 @ 23:27 |
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Thanks Larry. I finally got it to work. You guessed correctly. The flash drive I was using was not compatible even though it was green on the chart. (It did not have any confirmations, but it was green on the list.) I tried a different flas drive today and it worked just as your tutorial indicates.
This is not directly related to the USB loading, but what is the largest drive I can get for formatting FAT32? I was going to try and format a larger drive to FAT 32, but it would not allow me to format FAT32 for a partition larger than 32 GB. Is there a way to store your backups on a NTFS partition of a large capacity HDD and have the smaller partition formatted to FAT32 for the loader?
Either way, thanks again. I read these threads a lot more than I post, and you offer a lot of good tutorials and information. I know the ones of us that are new can get on your nerves at times with "newbie" questions, but we do really appreciate your valuable input on here.
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19. January 2010 @ 10:02 |
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Originally posted by VOLmaniac:
Thanks Larry. I finally got it to work. You guessed correctly. The flash drive I was using was not compatible even though it was green on the chart. (It did not have any confirmations, but it was green on the list.) I tried a different flas drive today and it worked just as your tutorial indicates.
This is not directly related to the USB loading, but what is the largest drive I can get for formatting FAT32? I was going to try and format a larger drive to FAT 32, but it would not allow me to format FAT32 for a partition larger than 32 GB. Is there a way to store your backups on a NTFS partition of a large capacity HDD and have the smaller partition formatted to FAT32 for the loader?
Either way, thanks again. I read these threads a lot more than I post, and you offer a lot of good tutorials and information. I know the ones of us that are new can get on your nerves at times with "newbie" questions, but we do really appreciate your valuable input on here.
Use the application linked in this guide to format the drive to FAT32. There have been some that have used over 1TB drives.
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19. January 2010 @ 11:38 |
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Originally posted by larrylje:
Originally posted by JasonK94Z:
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.
Is it that hard to start the loader each time you want to load a game?
I don't know how so if you want to know do some searching and find out.
Hard? No, but it does waste time returning to the system menu, then re-launching the loader and waiting for it to start. May be talking only a minute, but it would be nice.
However, I doubt it's possibe (or at least easily) as you're talking about chaning a core function of the Wii GUI. The Home button always takes you back to the Wii system menu. Heck, I wish all games or the Wii itself had an option to take you back to the GAME menu from within a game vs having no choice but to return to the Wii menu. Most games I've played don't have this option & it can be annoying.
Even so, the massive convenience & functionality of the USB Loader far outweighs a little extra step or time required.
If you find a way then let us know!
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 19. January 2010 @ 11:49
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19. January 2010 @ 11:58 |
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Originally posted by VOLmaniac:
Thanks Larry. I finally got it to work. You guessed correctly. The flash drive I was using was not compatible even though it was green on the chart. (It did not have any confirmations, but it was green on the list.) I tried a different flas drive today and it worked just as your tutorial indicates.
This is not directly related to the USB loading, but what is the largest drive I can get for formatting FAT32? I was going to try and format a larger drive to FAT 32, but it would not allow me to format FAT32 for a partition larger than 32 GB. Is there a way to store your backups on a NTFS partition of a large capacity HDD and have the smaller partition formatted to FAT32 for the loader?
Either way, thanks again. I read these threads a lot more than I post, and you offer a lot of good tutorials and information. I know the ones of us that are new can get on your nerves at times with "newbie" questions, but we do really appreciate your valuable input on here.
You can format very large HDDs to FAT. Follow what Larry said & you'll be fine.
Note that you can have multiple partitions on your HDD whether FAT or NTFS, but as Larry already stated more than once, this quide is for a FAT drive/partition (both loader files and game .wbfs files. If you want to use another file system or multiple partitions then you can - search these forum or the web & you'll find instructions.
However, keep in mind that some other Wii apps require FAT, so plan accordingly if you choose otherwise (see pg 1 of this guide for more comments regarding FAT vs NTFS).
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19. January 2010 @ 12:23 |
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Originally posted by jayhkr:
Originally posted by larrylje:
Originally posted by jayhkr:
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!
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.
Great! There wouldn't be any files above 100mb probably. I can assume I can just make a separate folder on the drive and it won't mess up anything else when using it for the usbloader stuff. I plan on buying the Seagate FreeAgent Desk 500GB ST305004FD as that should give me sufficent storage for what I want. Again, very appreciated!
Just a suggestion, but I'd seriously think twice before going w/the Seagate. I bought that same drive first and never got it to work. It IS on the combatibility list, so maybe I just got a bad apple, but I returned it and spent the exta $20 for a WD Passport Essential that's been flawless (and doesn't require separate power, is super portable, etc.).
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tuna42
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20. January 2010 @ 01:40 |
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Hi all, I've followed the guide and checked the USB compatability list, I have a Seagate 500GB free agent drive and I've Formatted the entire thing to be FAT32.
Everything works until I try to go to the configurable usb loader on the menu screen of my wii, it goes black, then after a little while loads the main screen again.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
um... hello?
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20. January 2010 @ 09:23 |
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Originally posted by tuna42:
Hi all, I've followed the guide and checked the USB compatability list, I have a Seagate 500GB free agent drive and I've Formatted the entire thing to be FAT32.
Everything works until I try to go to the configurable usb loader on the menu screen of my wii, it goes black, then after a little while loads the main screen again.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
You may need to turn on the Wii System. Then after the Wii system has started unplug the seagate HDD and plug it back in. Then try running the USB loader.
If that doesn't work then you have something not properly set up or that drive is not compatible.
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slickric2
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20. January 2010 @ 10:02 |
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Originally posted by tuna42:
Hi all, I've followed the guide and checked the USB compatability list, I have a Seagate 500GB free agent drive and I've Formatted the entire thing to be FAT32.
Everything works until I try to go to the configurable usb loader on the menu screen of my wii, it goes black, then after a little while loads the main screen again.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
ah haaaaaaaaaaa, i've just had the same problem.
I've just modded my 3rd wii with the guides on here.
The first 2 I did were newer wii's which can't play disk backups, however these both work super with my WD passport drive with 30+ games loaded through CFG USb loader as per this guide.
The latest Wii I modded was an older one, which can play disks through neogamma, however CFG_USBLoader will not run on it, it just takes me back to the home screen.
This is using the same wd passport drive that works great on the other 2 wii's.
The 2 that work with CFG USB were modded last month, the other one which doesn't modded today.
Has anything changed or been revised in the guides since Dec 26th ?
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20. January 2010 @ 10:06 |
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Originally posted by tuna42:
Hi all, I've followed the guide and checked the USB compatability list, I have a Seagate 500GB free agent drive and I've Formatted the entire thing to be FAT32.
Everything works until I try to go to the configurable usb loader on the menu screen of my wii, it goes black, then after a little while loads the main screen again.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
how about actually reading this entire thread? This has already been asked & discussed. Heck, I actually mentioned this exact drive in the post right above yours!
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20. January 2010 @ 10:08 |
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Originally posted by slickric2:
Originally posted by tuna42:
Hi all, I've followed the guide and checked the USB compatability list, I have a Seagate 500GB free agent drive and I've Formatted the entire thing to be FAT32.
Everything works until I try to go to the configurable usb loader on the menu screen of my wii, it goes black, then after a little while loads the main screen again.
Does anyone know what the problem is?
ah haaaaaaaaaaa, i've just had the same problem.
I've just modded my 3rd wii with the guides on here.
The first 2 I did were newer wii's which can't play disk backups, however these both work super with my WD passport drive with 30+ games loaded through CFG USb loader as per this guide.
The latest Wii I modded was an older one, which can play disks through neogamma, however CFG_USBLoader will not run on it, it just takes me back to the home screen.
This is using the same wd passport drive that works great on the other 2 wii's.
The 2 that work with CFG USB were modded last month, the other one which doesn't modded today.
Has anything changed or been revised in the guides since Dec 26th ?
I have modded both a new and old system and they both work. All I can do is give users the tools to do the mod. If the USB loader isn't being recognized then there isn't really anything I can do about it. As long as you follow both softmod guide and this guide properly and you have a compatible drive then it should work.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 20. January 2010 @ 10:11
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slickric2
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20. January 2010 @ 10:40 |
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Originally posted by larrylje:
I have modded both a new and old system and they both work. All I can do is give users the tools to do the mod. If the USB loader isn't being recognized then there isn't really anything I can do about it. As long as you follow both softmod guide and this guide properly and you have a compatible drive then it should work.
hmmmm I'll uninstall CFG and reinstall it see if it helps.
I dont think its the WD usb hardrive, as stated that works fine with the other wii's.
As far as the softmod goes, that worked a charm as we can load backup games through neogamma, it just seems CFG USB is crashing on startup on the older wii.
I'll have a play over the next few days and see what i can find.
The only difference between the newer Wii's which CFG USB works (apart from being newer) and the older one which it doesn't, is that 1)bootmii was installed as boot2 on the older wii,IOS on the newer ones
2)neogamma is installed on the older Wii, but was uninstalled on the newer ones(as don't play disk backups)
Let you know if I find anything !!!!!!!
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20. January 2010 @ 14:31 |
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Originally posted by slickric2:
Originally posted by larrylje:
I have modded both a new and old system and they both work. All I can do is give users the tools to do the mod. If the USB loader isn't being recognized then there isn't really anything I can do about it. As long as you follow both softmod guide and this guide properly and you have a compatible drive then it should work.
hmmmm I'll uninstall CFG and reinstall it see if it helps.
I dont think its the WD usb hardrive, as stated that works fine with the other wii's.
As far as the softmod goes, that worked a charm as we can load backup games through neogamma, it just seems CFG USB is crashing on startup on the older wii.
I'll have a play over the next few days and see what i can find.
The only difference between the newer Wii's which CFG USB works (apart from being newer) and the older one which it doesn't, is that 1)bootmii was installed as boot2 on the older wii,IOS on the newer ones
2)neogamma is installed on the older Wii, but was uninstalled on the newer ones(as don't play disk backups)
Let you know if I find anything !!!!!!!
Did you try using the other USB Slot to at least start the USB loader then switch slots to get a game going? I know a few have said they had to do this step to get it working properly. I don't know why it would do this but doing those steps fixed there issue.
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markdb77
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21. January 2010 @ 11:39 |
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most of the time when I click on the C-USB Loader, it resets. (black screen with grey boxes, not a FULL reset).
Then I click on it again, and it loads up fine.
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Harro_101
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21. January 2010 @ 23:24 |
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THANK YOU LARRY..I followed your mod completely and it works perfectly. There are just a couple of problems Im having: Most of my games convert to .wbfs fine, but there's one game that when I try to convert, the backup manager thinks that it's only 358MB in size when it's actually over 4 gigs! I disregarded it at first and converted it, but when I went to play the game it just played the intro sequence and then wouldn't let me into the first level. Any suggestions? The game is new super mario bros btw.
Also is it possible to save other files that are unrelated to the mod on the usb device as well, like movies and other games? Because according to it's properties my drive has over 400 gigs of free space left, but when I try copy a file on to it, I get a message saying that there's not enough space. My drive is a 500GB Seagate external desktop drive if that helps.
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Avinator
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21. January 2010 @ 23:36 |
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Originally posted by Harro_101:
THANK YOU LARRY..I followed your mod completely and it works perfectly. There are just a couple of problems Im having: Most of my games convert to .wbfs fine, but there's one game that when I try to convert, the backup manager thinks that it's only 358MB in size when it's actually over 4 gigs! I disregarded it at first and converted it, but when I went to play the game it just played the intro sequence and then wouldn't let me into the first level. Any suggestions? The game is new super mario bros btw.
Also is it possible to save other files that are unrelated to the mod on the usb device as well, like movies and other games? Because according to it's properties my drive has over 400 gigs of free space left, but when I try copy a file on to it, I get a message saying that there's not enough space. My drive is a 500GB Seagate external desktop drive if that helps.
if your hard drive's file system format is FAT32 only 4gb and lower files can be put into it. you can NOT put 4GB size file on a fat32 format.
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22. January 2010 @ 07:24 |
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As Avinator said if the file is over 4GB then you can not add it to the drive unless you compress it under 4GB.
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teejay21
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22. January 2010 @ 09:25 |
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good stuff.. havent been in this section for awhile.. good to know this!!
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ChodaBoy
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23. January 2010 @ 04:13 |
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Larry,
Thank you so much for this guide. Now that I've converted my ISOs to .wbfs on my portable drive, I'd like to delete them from my primary drive. If a need arises, is there a utility that will allow me to expand the .wbfs back to an ISO for burning?
Thanks
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23. January 2010 @ 10:08 |
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Originally posted by ChodaBoy:
Larry,
Thank you so much for this guide. Now that I've converted my ISOs to .wbfs on my portable drive, I'd like to delete them from my primary drive. If a need arises, is there a utility that will allow me to expand the .wbfs back to an ISO for burning?
Thanks
You can use Wii Backup Manager. Just choose the game you want to make into an ISO. Then go to transfer and choose ISO in the drop down list.
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ChodaBoy
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23. January 2010 @ 17:20 |
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Originally posted by larrylje:
You can use Wii Backup Manager. Just choose the game you want to make into an ISO. Then go to transfer and choose ISO in the drop down list.
Well that's certainly easy enough. Thank you again.
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Harro_101
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23. January 2010 @ 18:45 |
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Hey if I downlaod a gamecube iso and save it on to my drive with the backup manager as a .wbfs, will the CFG usb loader open the game???
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23. January 2010 @ 18:56 |
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Originally posted by Harro_101:
Hey if I downlaod a gamecube iso and save it on to my drive with the backup manager as a .wbfs, will the CFG usb loader open the game???
Game Cube games are not compatible with USB loaders.
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scrap69
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23. January 2010 @ 20:22 |
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Hi Larry,
I know this is a forum regarding the installation of the cfg loader but I posted my own question in the main room and nobody answered me... Anyway my problem is when I try to play the Motion Plus instructional video using a usb cfg loader it takes me back to the wii menu this is on all wii games that have motion plus. Also the controls don't feel very.... plus... Other than that the games all work except for watching the video. I would imagine that everyone is having this problem as well, maybe people just havent watched the video yet?
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23. January 2010 @ 20:32 |
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Originally posted by scrap69:
Hi Larry,
I know this is a forum regarding the installation of the cfg loader but I posted my own question in the main room and nobody answered me... Anyway my problem is when I try to play the Motion Plus instructional video using a usb cfg loader it takes me back to the wii menu this is on all wii games that have motion plus. Also the controls don't feel very.... plus... Other than that the games all work except for watching the video. I would imagine that everyone is having this problem as well, maybe people just havent watched the video yet?
No one probably watches it after the first time because there is really no need to. So I guess it is a CFG USB loader. I don't know why anyone would want to watch the video multiple times.
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