Usb Loader Gx Wii Install

Nintendo Wii Usb Loader Gx Install
Usb Loader Gx Wii Installer

If you followed my previous post on attaching a USB hard drive to your Wii, you now should have the convenience of loading games directly from your hard drive without ever having to worry about swapping discs. Yet having to load the Homebrew channel, then going through to your USB loader can feel cumbersome sometimes. Getting channels to go directly to the games, or the USB Loader is easier than you would think.

Insert your USB drive, and SD card if you’re using one, into your Wii and launch USB Loader GX from the Homebrew Channel. Getting Started. There is no “guide” to use the USB Loader GX app. This is intended to help you learn how to use it, by giving you a quick start. You should be able to figure out all the great features of USB Loader GX. DISCLAIMER:I Take No Responsibility on what happens to your Wii If this does not Work & Don't Pirate Video Games!Today we are going to install the USB Loader. Pease try in the USBLoader GX Settings - Loader Settings - change the Loader´s IOS to 249 (if you do not already tried it) and try the Install Option.If it works please do not forget to change it back to 58. Put the USB into the Wii. If the Wii is standing vertically and you're looking at it from above, the USB should go in the slot on the left, the one that's closer to the edge. Go to the Wii menu and launch the new USB Loader GX channel. If you have game discs, insert each disc and press + to copy the game disc to the USB drive.

You obviously need to have the Homebrew Channel plus a USB loader installed before you can do any of this. If you don’t, follow these steps then come back here once you’re done. Please note that the steps here can and might damage your Wii! I very highly recommend you install BootMii into boot2 and back up your NAND before attempting any of the following steps. Should anything go wrong, you have a backup you can fall back on, otherwise you are continuing at your own risk!

Prerequisite Steps

Download and install WAD Manager.
Create a “/wad” folder on your SD card (must be on the root of the card!) Any channels that you want to install must be placed here or else the WAD Manager will be unable to find them.

There’s two options from here on out, and you’re welcome to do both. You can just install a usb forwarder channel that will allow you to access your USB Loader from the main menu, or install channels for individual games so that they show up on the main menu.

Installing USB Loader Forwarder Channel

There’s quite a few USB forwarder channels out there, but they all do pretty much the same thing. A USB forwarder channel looks in specific directories for an installed USB loader and tries to run it. The advantage of this is that it makes it simple to upgrade your USB loader without ever having to mess with the forwarder channel, since you can just swap the boot.dol to a newer version.

To make things easier, you can download the one I use: Universal Forwarder Channel by Narolez. This forwarder looks in the following locations for a USB Loader boot.dol:

sd:/apps/usbloader_cfg/boot.dol
sd:/apps/usbloader/boot.dol
usb:/apps/usbloader_cfg/boot.dol
usb:/apps/usbloader/boot.dol

Forwarder Installation

Copy the .wad file to “sd:/wad”.
Load up WAD Manager in homebrew, find your wad, and choose to install.

You should now have the channel correctly installed, and should be able to access your USB loader directly from the main menu! If at any time you need to uninstall the channel from your Wii, you can follow the installation steps above, choose the same wad file, then choose to uninstall and the channel will be removed from your system.

Installing Channels for Individual Games

Installing games already on your USB hard drive is pretty simple, just be sure you already have the games loaded onto you hard drive via USB Loader. You also need to download CRAP in order to assist with the channel creation.

Channel Installation Steps

Plug in your usb hard drive to your computer.
Launch CRAP.
Select the drive letter of your USB hard drive, i.e. J:.
Choose the game which you wish to create a channel for.
Select a loader. Most of the time you should be fine with using USB Loader 1.6, but you may need to use a different loader depending on what options you want to apply to the channel.
Click on “create channel”
Your wad will be saved in the WAD directory of your CRAP folder, so you will need to copy/move this wad to your USB hard drive.
Plug your USB hard drive back into your Wii, load up WAD manager via homebrew, find the wad you just created and install it.
If at any time you need to uninstall this channel, simply load up the WAD manager, find your wad, and select “uninstall” instead of install.

You should now have a channel listed on your main menu for your game, and you can repeat the above steps for any additional games you wish to install.

Nintendo Wii Usb Loader Gx Install

There may be an occasional issue with a couple of games depending on what version of cIOS38 your are currently running. cIOS38 rev. 14 unfortunately breaks dual-layed disc compatibility, so games such as Smash Bros. Brawl or Metroid Prime Trilogy will not work in USB Loader. Wii Sports Resort will not work via the channel method if you >13 installed, so you may want to pick and choose what cIOS38 you are running based on what games you want to install as channels.

5.0 - Insert the USB hard drive into the Wii

Safely remove the USB hard drive from the computer.
Insert the USB hard drive into the USB port on the back of the Wii that is nearest to the edge (outermost).
These three apps are referred to as USB Loaders.
They allow you to backup and play Wii games using a USB hard drive / SD card, you will no longer need to load/play games from discs.
The steps below also include downloading offical game titles and cover art.

5.1 - Backup games with Configurable USB Loader

Load the Configurable USB Loader app via The Homebrew Channel.
Once the application loads, make sure that USB Mass Storage Device is selected, then press A to continue
Then press the + button on your Wii controller and insert the game disc that you want to backup.
Once the disc is loaded, press the A button when prompted, to continue with the backup.
After the backup has completed, press the 1 button to download covers for the game.
Once the covers have been downloaded, press the A button to eject the game disc.
Press the home button on your Wii controller and select the option to load The Homebrew Channel.
* Configurable USB Loader is also capable of playing the games that are located on the USB hard drive. *