im doing it now too and im wondering how do i get the games to even begin with, in other words: where/how do i get the games i want to have on my wii usb loader???
I had a butt load of disc games a few years ago, I lend them to a friend and he gave them to his aunt who had a wii, I asked for them back but he said they sold them to whomever, It was very devastating but it doesn't matter at this point for me because I have just went through step by step with this amazing video and let me say, you're a life savior. I wouldn't have trusted any other video then this one. everything worked great, smooth, got my games back, cover and gosh I can't express how thankful I am for this video!!
Watched even though your previous tutorials got me setup with Homebrewing and enjoying my Wii a couple months ago. I've been adding many games to my library and it's a labor of love but so satisfying to scroll through and being able to try new-to-me games while revisiting my childhood favorites is awesome. Thank you, Scott!! Have an awesome weekend! 🎮
Sorry but have some more question. When I have the Wad on the SD card and not on the usb drive, does it matter? And are there any themes that can brick my console? And can the Wii recognise a 64 GB USB-Stick?
@@Hue_like12 WADS work just fine on SD cards. I haven't messed with actual Wii themes but I've read that you can definitely brick your system if you don't do it properly. And finally, USB sticks are usable but not the best option. I've read that they're very likely to become corrupted. I started out with an SD card but upgraded to a 1TB external hard drive. Works amazingly and I have more than enough space for all the games I could want. I only keep the SD card in my system for wads, game saves and channels.
@@Lev427 Follow the guide, I don't even remember the whole process but I followed one of Scott's earlier guides and I got it. It takes time, lots of downloading and placing files, external storage and patience!
Where did you get the games from? Because I just found the Video and I wanna try it ( I‘m not the best at things like that) he already has like two games to setup. But i did not see where they are from
I done everything as per the video, and all worked fine. But when I went to add more games, using the same methods, they don't show up in USB loader gx, only the other games do. Very frustrating.
I just finished modding my Wii yesterday from your previous video. You have no clue how stoked I was to see you posted an updated one. Love your channel. Subbed right away!
Did this August can confirm it worked . The only different thing is I had to watch his other video to download cios offline worked very easy . Thanks ❤
I want to thank youfor this informative tutorial and it has worked on my Wii! I tried to install USB Loader (non-GX) roughly 10 years ago but failed because whenever I tried to install things with the d2x installer and others but it has always failed. Couldn't find workarounds or solutions back then. Either way, it finally works. The necessary files to install were on my SD card, WBFS files were on my USB drive. Just a pro tip for others: you can use a cheap 512GB USB drive for your games :)
Very nice. I can tell you're growing as a content creator. All ur tutorials are good but the ones this year show a lot of refinement to the style and they're even more helpful than before. Thanks a lot for your efforts. Really good stuff 👍🏾
Excellent tutorial! Thank you for the premade SD card files, just made life easier, and really glad it included the d2x cIOS v11 beta 1, managed to just format my previously softmodded Wii again with all the new cIOS :) Worked perfectly
@@taufiqonn538Ensure that if you are using an SD card, the lock switch is in the unlocked position, otherwise you will not be able to select the correct options in the installer.
This worked wonderfully for me though I had some issues, but I figured out how to fix them. Incase anybody is wondering I’m using a red edition wii with wii motion plus and it still worked out perfectly fine. At the part where you install usb loader gx I wrote in the wrong “codes” at first but I just wrote in the right after. Anyways this is definitely worth the struggle because when you’re done you can fill a whole library of different games, for free!
Just wanted to comment this down here: About a couple weeks ago I followed this tutorial and it worked ...for a couple weeks. A problem I had overtime was my apps not loading in homebrew channel or outside of the homebrew channel. Thankfully just unplugging and plugging the USB back in and restarting works. Though one day the apps just, didn't appear no matter what I did. The USB being used seemed to be unformatted and I had to redo the entire process. I've done it about three times, everything works except for USB Loader GX just freezing at "Reinitializing Devices" on start-up resulting in me not being able to use it. I'll most likely edit this if I find out a solution
@@melvin_pictures6598 Figured out the solution. I followed Lima112s video, pretty sure the video language is Portuguese so I'll try to explain how to do it here. What I did was backup what was on my USB to another folder that isn't on my USB (apps, wad, etc,.) and used an application from the site rufus,ie (replace , with .) I reformatted the USB with these settings: Non Bootable Boot Selection, Volume Label 32 GB, File System FAT32, and Cluster Size 32 kilobytes. After formatting I pasted my backup for apps, wad, etc, back into the USB and everything seems to be working properly now after plugging it into my Wii. I'm not sure if you need to redownload the cIOS and other stuff but I'm able to get into USB Loader GX with this
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Thanks! Amazing walkthough. Got all my kiddo's games on a flash drive so they are nice and backed up, for when they inevitably scratch them. I picked one of the flash drives you recommended.
that is amazing to hear! Also very smart to protect your discs but not limit the fun for them :) Thank you so much for the tip as well, I'm glad you found my guide useful! Happy Gaming to you and your children :D
thanks bro, loved the tutorial and was easy to follow just saved me a trip to the techstore to get a USB I thought I had lost my money buying a 32 gigs sd card
Hi. I have used an SD card for all the installation apps, and I used a flashdrive for the games, but the games doesn't appear on the loader. Should the loader be able to read the games from the USB? If yes, what possibly could I have done wrong? Is there a system or path I need to adjust? Thanks much.
@@Rachel-qc3dkFor me I just used my other Wii to make it work. I think I did this tho, I went into homebrew and then loaded up the usb loader gx and then went into settings and enabled sd card mode and then plugged my usb back in and restarted the usb loader gx
still works as of june 2024. this channel is by far one of the best i have come across for this. found my old wii and was wanting to mod it to give some new life to it, but got so lost with other tutorials. this was by far the easiest to follow along with.
@@daytona2874 Oh yea that also confused me for a second because they changed it from the website to a google drive. The google drive IS the zip file. just go towards the top right on it and click the download button. Hope this helps!
@@funkyscott47 Thanks for responding. So your previous video is what I have to follow and then come here. Please mention that clearly for newbies like me. Thanks for making such good tutorial videos.
I bought a second hand wii out of nostalgia and thanks to your guide is up and running! I noticed the themes website you mentioned is down, that's a bummer :/ You are awesome!
Works as of feb 2024 everything in the vid is up to date. I have never modded anything before and this worked for me so I recommend this guide for any new people🙏
I followed your guide perfectly but for some reason my games won't load? I can see the pictures and press play but then get a black screen my wii games are saved on a USB using wbfs format
I have had this issue. Here is a few reasons why this may occur Is there any spaces between the game ID and the ".wbfs" file. Did you get the correct region game ID Did you definitely check you got the right game ID.
I just want to say thank you for this. It worked perfectly, followed every step exactly and got my games loaded. I never did this years ago because I felt it was too complicated haha. Thanks!
I'm not sure why but whenever i get to a certain dialogue in Super Paper Mario the game makes that lobotomy crash noise and it freezes. All the other games work, and they are all downloaded from the same source.
Excellent tutorial and very thorough. I'll probably tackle this project this week.. I've got one question however, is the process the same for adding GameCube and WiiWare games? Or are they not possible to add to USB Loader GX?
Great guide! After lot of confusing and out of dated info found internet, I was able to simple insatall USB Loader GX: now works with my HDD. 26th May, 2024 - Thanks
Hey Scott, I have a external hard drive which has tons of games and I have the usb gx loader and wii homebrew channel on my wii but when I click on these channels it takes me back to the menu and it shows that I have internet but nothing shows up on the home brew channel.
i dont know i did everything word for word and when i load up usbloader on wii it just shows me my normal stuff (UPDATE:) THIS WORKS MAY 2024. YOU HAVE TO FILTER IN THE WII GAMES ON USBLOADER IF USING A SD CARD.
just bought a bunch off wii stuff for like 50 bucks and they gave me a wii they said didnt work because the disk drive broke. jailbroke it and used this tutorial to get more games than money can buy. great tutorial thank you!
For those who had an issue with the USB stick not being detected in homebrew, make sure that your USB is formatted to FAT32 AND use the MBR partition system instead of the GPT partition system. Hope it helps!
I had the same error but U can fix it by using offline mode he has a video on how to download d2x cIOS offline by downloading the wads and putting then in the root of the SD card or usb search his video
Just did this! And this was the only one that worked! the others were a bit unlcear for me to understand (since my main language is spanish) but this worked like a charm! Thank you so much for sharing this. 👍😎 And it took about 30-60 minutes, Worth the time! Edit: i forgot to mention i subbed with all notifications!
I just followed your tutorial, and it's big "thank you" from me". I purchased a usb stick (2Tb) from ebay not thinking it would work, but it did. Fantastic video, thorough and easy to follow. I used an SD card for all the Apps etc and a usb stick for the games. The only thing I did wrong was putting the covers folder in the sd card rather than the usb stick, easily resolved. Enjoy your coffee ;)
Hey i can‘t find games to download, where did you find them? Maybe I overheard it or i don’t really know but I do not have a w… folder to select and I also do not know where i can download those games…
@@timoblvck73 Once you have downloaded the games and used the Wiimanager program, once you transfer them, it will create the folder automatically. I'm sure it's not too difficult to type "wii wbfs games download" on a google search?
I'm so glad I found this. I came to the unfortunate discovery that the reason why my Smash Bros. Brawl disc doesn't work anymore (but my other games still do), is because it's a dual layer disc. And apparently over time the disc drive just stops reading those... UPDATE: Pleased to report that as of 2/25/24, this video is still up-to-date. Very happy I was able to get Brawl running again since my Wii no longer reads the disc.
@@TheAmbianceWorld I'm having problems once again, can't seem to run YAWMM on the wii, everytime I open it, screen goes black, wii mote disconnects, and takes me straight back to the homebrew channel?
for some reason after following your wii mod setup i cannot get it to launch (it sees them) wii games off the usb drive. mind you that drive worked on the wii consoles i had modded prior to this new version of the mod (using d2x with beta1). gamecube games launch no issues. and if i play from an sd card it has no issues. just specifically wii games from usb
I've got the same problem and still its not working. The Games will not launch and i can't figure out why :( I followed step by step exactly how it was explained...
@@Devillsgaming i finally figured out the setting bud, thought id pass it along. solved today 9/17/2023 go to usbloader gxand make sure to TURN OFF SD card Mode in the "hard drive settings" tab. for some reason it wont read from both usb OR sd card.
Hey Scott, I was doing great and everything was going smoothly, but for some reason, when I try to use the Wii Backup Manager, my files don't appear. I've tried using an SD and USB both, and even tried deleting and redownloading the Backup Manager, but still can't figure out where I went wrong. Great video, any response would be greatly appreciated.
I was able to get Backup Manager to work on one game. I checked to make sure it worked on the Wii, it did, went back to download and transfer other games to my SD card and I'm having the same issue. No games show up on my drives, except the one game that works. Just when I thought I had it figured out!
@@taliabaker3259 make sure the files for the game within the wbfs folder have been extracted. This can be achieved by left-clicking on the folder for the game and selecting Extract All. Hopefully this can help you out.
Ensure that if you are using an SD card, the lock switch is in the unlocked position, otherwise you will not be able to select the correct options in the installer.
Ok so it took me a minute to actually get it to work and I had to watch like 6 different RU-vid videos but at the end of the day this video was the most helpful. Really detailed and informative. There were a couple issues but at the end it seems to be working fine. 4.9/5 definitely recommend following this guide
Brooooo!!! I've watched other videos for hours. But with this tutorial you made it so easy to do and after following each and every step, i do now understand how it works. Thank you very much!! You should become a teacher hahaha lol
Great video. I recently got a new laptop, which unfortunately runs Windows 11 and I can't figure out how to format my SD card to FAT32, as it only gives me the options for exFAT and NTFS. Do you know if exFAT will work in place of FAT32, or am I screwed? Either way, great video!
To be honest i just love it thanks for the tutorial now i can play without those Disk problems , even tho the downloads will take long but i am patient , so i appreciate it
I tried this, and the Wii isn’t detecting my USB, YAWMM mod doesn’t detect my usb and won’t install in any of the ports, and ULGX doesn’t detect any of my games, but somehow it let me install cios the first time I plugged it in. I don’t know what is going on, if anyone knows what happened with my system please let me know
I keep getting a black screen everytime I try to play a game, can anyone help with this? I watched tons of tutorials and can’t figure out why it’s doing that
When I installed USBLoaderGX on my wii and I open it, from the wii menu it starts to load and them the screen goes black and sends me to the Wii home menu, anybody has the same issue? I need a solution.
To anyone going absolutely crazy getting "d2x cIOS v11 beta 1" to appear, make sure your USB Flashdrive has a short name like "USB" or "LOAD". A long name or numbers causes an issues.
Hey FuckyScott47, your tutorials have been a huge help! I prefer your videos to any other guides available. I was wondering if there's any chance you could do a emuNAND tutorial demonstrating how to setup, install/play wiiware, and forward game saves to/from an SD card. I haven't found any other guides except text-based forums, which I find difficult to comprehend. All the best, and I hope you have a great new year!
What do I do if my controller turns off when entering the homebrew channel and I can't turn it back on? That's all that's stopping me from being able to play
Just did this today in 2024 and it works flawlessly everything is where it should be and if you follow what he says you are golden. Just a heads up make sure you change your DNS settings if you got the homebrew channel via DNS, I had a problem with the iso portion until I figured that out
