I have a Wii purchased in Thailand. It came with an external 500GB HD (USB) full of games.
The console was set up with 223-224 CIOS and has a channel called USB CFG LOADER.
It was working great, I could see all the games saved in the external drive (FAT32 formated).
But one game was not working at all, even when I tried to change the individual game settings in the USB loader.
Thus I search on the internet and I came to a 249/57 cIOS issue. With hopes to solve it quickly I loaded cIOS installer files to an empty SD and ran it from Homebrew channel.
Apparently I did it correct, the IOS was installed, but now the USB loader is not recognizing the WBFSs in the external drive. From the error lines it seems to be looking for it primarily at the SD or is asking me to format the external drive.
As I cannot back up all the 500GB in games I have I am not going further to format the drive.
Bottom line, I am stuck and have already tried a couple of times running the same CIOS installer from USB (yes, Homebrew is working 100% identifying the installations I put in that.
Although I am a complete newbie to this I have this feeling the best would be recover the Wii to the point before I tried to install the 57/249 thing to have Black Ops working. But from what I have been reading this is impossible now.
Looking for a solution I have just purchased a new external drive, to make a back up of the 500GB in games I have and I cannot loose by proceeding with the formatting my USB Loader is trying to do. But after I have it all backed up I am completely clueless of what to do!?
My hope is that this is a very basic issue and you will show how newbie I am to all this by offering an easy and obvious solution!
download WBFS manager 3.0, and have that format the external drive to WBFS.
for an all in one drive, have a primary FAT32 partition and a secondary WBFS partition. store all of the loaders/emulators on the FAT32 partition and use WBFS for all wii games. has never failed me yet.
and you shouldn't worry about losing the games. you have the original discs right there.
Originally posted by kittymat: Install several cios's, then select what cios you want CFG loader to run on and select special games (like Black Ops)in the game menu.
I use ModMii (google will find) as it will download and install all the recomended cios's giving you choices.
When you say Modmii will download and install you mean my Wii should be connected to internet, right? Well, in my case it is not connected!
Originally posted by cee43ja1: download WBFS manager 3.0, and have that format the external drive to WBFS.
for an all in one drive, have a primary FAT32 partition and a secondary WBFS partition. store all of the loaders/emulators on the FAT32 partition and use WBFS for all wii games. has never failed me yet.
and you shouldnt worry about losing the games. you have the original discs right there.
My only worry is all the hours I will need to have all these games ripped again!
But back to the howtos, what would be the step by step procedure, taking in consideration (as per post reply above) that I dont have access to internet in my Wii...????
Should I proceed with the formating and making of a new partition that the USB loader is asking without risk of loosing all the 500GB in ripped discs?!
Install modmii to your PC - it has instructions. Use the wizard and call your wii a virgin one (even though it isnt) add what firmware you have, then you transfer the contents of 1 folder and read the instructions then use the included program to the recomended cios's. ONLY ADD THE CIOS's do not use the program to update the firmware on your wii, if the Wii has been region changed then it may brick on a firmware upgrade.
Different cios's have different compatibility, try changing the main cios that cfg runs on to 222 or 249 once you have installed the cios's.
As it once worked and you then installed a cios and now it doesn't, there is no need to reformat the drive, just add the correct cios again. I suspect if you add 222 rev 5.1 Base 38 back into position 222 and use this to run cfg it will work. If you want to run Black ops then add 224 rev 5.1 base 57. ModMii will do this
Originally posted by kittymat: Install modmii to your PC - it has instructions. Use the wizard and call your wii a virgin one (even though it isnt) add what firmware you have, then you transfer the contents of 1 folder and read the instructions then use the included program to the recomended cios's. ONLY ADD THE CIOS's do not use the program to update the firmware on your wii, if the Wii has been region changed then it may brick on a firmware upgrade.
Different cios's have different compatibility, try changing the main cios that cfg runs on to 222 or 249 once you have installed the cios's.
As it once worked and you then installed a cios and now it doesn't, there is no need to reformat the drive, just add the correct cios again. I suspect if you add 222 rev 5.1 Base 38 back into position 222 and use this to run cfg it will work. If you want to run Black ops then add 224 rev 5.1 base 57. ModMii will do this
Hi kyttymat,
Thanks a lot for the clarification!
I have only some questions left before I go on with using Modmii:
1) How to know what firmware I have with me? Can I assume a version based on the date I acquired it?
2) What about the external HD with the games in the folder called "wbfs", should I move them to a back up and reformat the disk or dont do anything and trust the modmii will make it work as before?
3) Am I going to need to have the SD I prepared with Modmii always plugged to be able to run the games from my external HD?
Looking forward to hearing back from you and once again, thank you very much!
1) Firmware - go to your wii settings and it is in top right corner of the screen
2) Leave the hard drive it was working so once this is sorted should be fine again
3) The easiest way is when using the ModMii wizard ask it to add CFG loader, once you have added all the cios's you can remove some files from the SD. The files for cfg loader however have to be either on the Hard drive (if it is FAT32 this is possible) OR on the SD. Leave them on the SD to start with and see if you can get it working before trying anything new.
Modmii worked great and all is solved, the only issue is that I dont have the game labels anymore and, as I dont have wireless or cable internet connected to the Wii, I dont know how to download it...
You can either donload them individually from wiitdb.com, or use wii backupmanager v5 and it can download them to your pc (then transfer them to your sd card)
