Anyone know what they're doing with Wii softmodding?I softmodded my Wii a while back because my disc drive failed and I had no other way to play my games, this was fine until the 23rd and worked perfectly.Come the 25th and I bring it over to my family's house so we can all play Wii Sports on Christmas for something to do, and the SD card won't read for some reason It works perfectly fine on my PC right now but not in the Wii.When inserted into my Wii it detects that there's a card there but can't seem to identify what's on it. What can I do to fix this? I'm not good with this modding stuff.
>>1553360Have you done anything to your SD card since it last worked?Anywho, run Modmiihttps://modmii.github.io/You should already have HBC and a usbloading channel on your Wii, right? So you should probably skip most of the steps involved with modding your system, reformat your SD card to fat32, copy on the files you need (usbloadergx at least) and transfer games onto it with Wii Backup Manager
>>1553373>Have you done anything to your SD card since it last worked?No, absolutely nothing. When I tried to load the games via the homebrew channel as usual, the first time it loaded for a good while and acted a bit odd, it gave a message but I don't remember what it was now. After that message all it loads now is the stuff that's on the Wii's main menu.>So you should probably skip most of the steps involved with modding your system, reformat your SD card to fat32, copy on the files you need (usbloadergx at least) and transfer games onto it with Wii Backup ManagerCopied everything from the card, reformatted it, copied my shit back. Hopefully this works but I probably won't find out for sure until Thursday.
>>1553386>After that message all it loads now is the stuff that's on the Wii's main menu.Ohh, now I get what is going on, ignore my last advice. Also>Copied everything from the card, reformatted it, copied my shit back. Hopefully this worksProbably won't work. Basically you booted USBLoaderGX, it derped, and for whatever reason didn't see your stuff, and then it just shows the stuff it can see. That's a possible error on USBLoaderGX, and it's annoying because USBLoaderGX will just show show you the same stuff it did last time you used it as a feature, instead of reloading everything from scratch each time. By virtue of you being able to boot up USBLoaderGX, it means your SD card was working fine, USBLoaderGX is sitting on itI forget the correct way to fix this, it's been years since I touched this stuff. You might be able to dig through it's configurations to reset it or something? My easy suggestion would be to pop open its folder on your SD card and look if it has an obvious .cfg file or something like that, and delete it. Failing that, delete its entire folder and reinstall ithttps://github.com/wiidev/usbloadergx/releasesAlso, I asked>You should already have HBC and a usbloading channel on your Wii, right?And your answer clearly suggests you don't have a loader channel. There's no reason to pop open HBC when you want to play stuff, take thishttps://files.catbox.moe/2q39ux.7zPut the .wad in your WAD folder and use a wad manager to install it. It'll add a channel to your Wii menu that'll check some common filepaths for loaders and launch yours with a single click
>>1553399>My easy suggestion would be to pop open its folder on your SD card and look if it has an obvious .cfg file or something like that, and delete it.So what, I should delete one or all three of these specific files?
>>1553426Can't hurt to toss them all, those don't come with a fresh download, so it creates em as needed
>>1553465Alright, thanks. I'll try and see how it goes tomorrow.Having a program permanently choose to pick a wrong result after one error seems like a really odd design fault that could have been avoided btw.
>>1553476I know, right? If you have your stuff on a USB HDD, and boot up without the HDD you automatically fall into this situation
>>1553399>>1553465>>1553496Here's the result of everything / deleting those three files and reformatting my card and putting all the files back on it. The menu doesn't even come up now.
>>1553571>Failing that, delete its entire folder and reinstall it>https://github.com/wiidev/usbloadergx/releases
>>1553572As I'd like to not blindly guess, especially when it takes me 1 to 2 days to check for results due to transport logistics, what do you mean by "entire folder"?The root directory? The folder I took>>1553426pic in? Some other folder?
>>1553576It's installed by just placing a usbloadergx folder inside your apps folder. I *think* it doesn't write any settings outside of that folder. A brand new copy of it just has 3 things sitting in that folder, so maybe it needed more than those .CFG files deleted to reset >I'd like to not blindly guessSorry, wish I had a Wii handy to test things. I am just making educated guesses
>>1553579Done, I'll find out how it goes the next time I can transport my SD card back there.
Googled and saw on Reddit>In the top bar, the fourth option from the left allows you to show/hide Wii games, and I think it turns on of it doesn't detect a hard drive (or just randomly lol). Check if it's off, and if it is, turn it on>Edit: Off means hidden, On means shown
>>1553587All right, I'll try to remember to try that at the same time, thanks.
>>1553579Phoneposting with the Wii Infront of me rn, I got "Error: usb device not initialized." And it's back to listing everyone votes channel, forecast channel, homebrew channel, internet channel, etc etc. Not sure what to try now.>>1553587I'm not seeing a top bar, which is odd because I feel like I remember one when things were working correctly.
>>1553648>I got "Error: usb device not initialized."There should be a settings/gear icon somewhere? Click on that and see if you can change your source away from USB to your SD card?
>>1553648>I'm not seeing a top bar, which is odd because I feel like I remember one when things were working correctly.That is odd, so I skimmed over https://github.com/wiidev/usbloadergx/releasesAnd noticed >Updated the theme to support quick switching between Wii, GameCube, NAND, and EmuNAND gamesSo there may be some GUI changes, and that specific change is what you want. You're currently seeing nand stuff I believe?
>>1553671Gear(settings)>hard drive settings>SD card mode is 'ON', for shits and giggles I tried turning it off and it actually acted like it did on the first time last week, waiting to load a usb and not finding one. Whether in usb or SD card mode it seems to give the exact same menu.>>1553673I'm not sure what the band stuff is exactly but I think so. I have all four turned on but no changesWhen I do get home I'll flood the thread with the pics I've taken of various menus and stuff.
>When I do get home I'll flood the thread with the pics I've taken of various menus and stuff.
That's all for now.
>>1553678>0b of 0b freeYeah, so it doesn't see your SD card at all. When it did at >>1553571 Personally I wouldn't store games on the SD card. I know the Wii's hardware on it are crap and there's a USB 2.0 port on the back that can handle waaay faster transfer speeds. Like the worst thumb drive on the market is probably better (while thumb drives discouraged on every guide), walk into Best Buy/Walmart and see what they have sitting there.
>>1553685>Yeah, so it doesn't see your SD card at all.Yeah after that pic I tried mounting the card again and it saw it again as seen here:>>1553679
...I......I think I've solved the problem.Maybe.I'll find out a bit later.If it's this and indeed the problem is solved, I'm going to fucking kill myself.
>>1553734Well, it works now. I almost wish it didn't.Thanks for the help everybody.
>>1553772?You were running partitions? Or did you buy different drives?
>>1553783Okay so, a bit of important context:I keep my Wii and my other consoles in a set of special shelves for them that my TV sits on top of, and the wires for each one come through a hole in the back of the cabinet to the TV so they're not trailing all over the place. In particular the Wii is on the bottom shelf and tricky to see and get at compared to a higher shelf.So after testing the day before that the Wii was working just fine, in order to bring it over I reached behind the Wii and simply pulled all of the wires and stuff out of the back of it so that I could take the Wii out of the front of the cabinet and then pull the wires from the back out of the hole.While pulling the wires out of the back of the Wii, I also pulled out the little USB that was sitting in the back of it, the little USB that had all of my games on it, and did not remember it existed at all until early this morning. This morning I finally had a post nut clarity or something and looked for it, finding the little USB sat there on the bottom shelf of the cabinet where the Wii usually is. For the last week I genuinely thought that all of my games were on the SD card because I recently softmodded my 3DS and put all of my games onto the SD card, the experience of which blended together for my Wii and my brain at no point in the last week registered taking out the USB from the back or any sort of knowledge that I was using one with the Wii, until this morning.Fuck.
>>1553794Aha, well that makes perfect sense, could happen to anyone. I need to make a thread here myself because I've been digging over my consoles and I've discovered 3 cables that I simply don't know what are. Like I don't know what they connect to, and I can't just throw them away...
>>1553804Got a link? I've a decent number of consoles, I may be able to help you identify them. Unless one is a USB in which case I won't know what sort of strange alien artifact I'm looking at.
>>1553806>Got a link?If you can spare a moment >>1553813I expect no help!
