The interactive GUI is completely controllable with WiiMote, Classic Controller or GC Controller.įeatures are automatic widescreen detection, coverdownload, parental control, theme support and many more. You can install games to your HDDs and boot them with shorter loading times.
Finally I just gave up before I screwed up the other 99.9% of my games that do work.Description Loads games from USB-devices USB Loader GX is a libwiigui based USB iso loader with a wii-like GUI. It didn’t help that Bags is apparently not a very popular WiiWare title: I could only find one mention of it with regards to running through a loader with no details. I even tried Mighty Channels and Triiforce, but the game wouldn’t work through those either. I’d get the health and safety screen, and then the Incredible Technologies and N-Space “loading” screens, and then just a black screen and the Wii would hang. After hours of messing around with different IOS base version and slot combinations, loader settings, and reading forum threads, I could not (and still can’t) get this game to run from the extracted NAND through the loader. Following the instructions, I pressed Z+A+2 while in the Operations Guide for the game and that fixed it!īut getting Bags to work is when the rabbit hole appeared … and I fell in. The issue turned out to be the need for interlaced mode. If I pressed the Home button on my Wii remote, the video would appear behind the Wii system buttons. The game was still running, I could hear the background music and even start and “play” the game, I just couldn’t see anything. Magician Lord, my only Neo-Geo VC game, would load but not show any video. Only two of my games didn’t work right away: Magician Lord and Target Toss Pro: Bags. Just having the game icons in the loader doesn’t mean they will actually run, however, so next I had to test each one. (I had to create that 3D box art for Magician Lord on the far right by myself … the others were automatically downloaded by USBLoader GX) I thought I had really screwed something up until I happened to notice the lock switch and that solved the problem. It wasn’t enough to make the SD card read-only on my PC (which is why I didn’t notice at first) but it was enough to cause strange problems with certain homebrew apps like the d2x cIOS Installer to freeze. The ULGX devs have added sneek integration to their To-Do. Some of the larger N64/Virtual Console games dont play well with USB Loader GXs Emunand - youll have to either use neek2o (guaranteed to work, not well-integrated at all ), or install them to your real NAND as channels. With all the back-and-forth I was doing moving the SD card between the Wii and my PC, the lock switch moved ever so slightly down. Thats the optimal way to handle VC/WW games on USB Loader GX.
I had to reformat that as FAT32 (using EASEUS Partition Manager) in order for the extracted NAND folders to be accessible to the Wii.
Next I created the ISO forwarders for my Virtual Console and WiiWare games, and added them to the loader. Then I followed the steps in the guide to make a backup of my Wii’s NAND, extracted it, and put it on a separate partition of my USB hard drive.
Since it’d been a while since I last touched my homebrew setup, I first: While the guide itself is very clear and detailed, it still took me a few hours to wrap my head around the process and get everything functional. I’ve been very happy with my USBLoader GX setup, but it occurred to me that since my Wii always boots directly into the loader (thanks to Priiloader), I was neglecting my VC and WiiWare games! A quick Google search later and I found this WiiHacks guide for creating ISO forwarders to run that content like a disc-based game. Well, of course you can! The path can be confusing and frustrating, but the destination … well, it’s a cool destination. 
Please keep that in mind as it very well may contain broken links and/or outdated information.Īpparently I have a thing for doing homebrew stuff in April: almost exactly two years after softmodding my Wii so I could load my games from a USB hard drive instead of discs, I found myself wondering if I could do the same for Virtual Console and WiiWare content. this post is now about 11 years and 10 months old.
