softmodded wii with dvd drive problems

[Hellion654]

Okay so i will start with this

i bought a new Nintendo wii and i wanted to play some backed up games on it so i searched on internet and came across a certain guide for it.
i followed all the steps one by one got homebrew channel, usbloader and neogama so when i was done i was eager to test my backed up and i found myself with a problem it seems that my wii has one of those lenses (d3-2) that cant read backed up games or so i found in the internet in many pages where i search the error number.
well the guide said i could read backed up games for wii and GameCube so i tried both and none work
so i went to a... lets say workshop....kinda and as i knew my problem was lens related i wasnt planning on opening my wii so i read about using uloader to load the game from an external DVD drive so i got uloader installed and bought
this DVD drive

I/OMagic — DVD-ROM USB 2.0 Slim External Drive (http://www.iomagic.com/collections/accessories/products/portable-8x-dvd-rom)

and i consider it a piece of crap and a waste of money the quality of the product seems so low but it was the only one that worked on my wii but well
at the end of this my wii was supposed to work as the following

for my not backed up games or originals i use the disc channel
for my backed up i use uloader
my wii is version 4.1u

-the first problem is that when i start the uloader i have to reconnect the DVD drive each time i start the channel
and is annoying so i was thinking maybe is a problem with my configuration or the problem is with the DVD drive

-the second problem is that i am playing fire emblem radiant dawn backed up and i want to use my fire emblem path of radiance game to increase my character stats but it seems like it will not load and i dont know if it is a problem related to the dvd drive or the uloader or my fire emblem path of radiance game and this leads to the third problem

-the third problem i cant play my backed up GameCube games on the DVD drive using uloader so i cant check my fire emblem path of radiance save-file

also i would like to learn to burn GameCube games isos on DVD so that i could play my backups on wii

and i would like to know how to use a pen drive to play games on usbloader i know that the d3-2 lens does not impede you from playing games on usb drives but i have quite the problem and i dont know how to transfer the 4.7gb iso to the fat32 formatted pen drive as the pen drive must be formatted as fat32 to work on usbloader it also becomes impossible to transfer files which are bigger than 4gb in size by the way i have a 32gb pen drive so capacity is not a problem i want to know what program or what process must be done in order to transfer a file bigger to 4 gb to a fat32 pen drive

so my objectives are:

-not having to reconnect the DVD drive to the wii each time i start uloader
-being able to use fire emblem path of radiance save file data to increase my character stats on fire emblem radiant dawn
-being able to play backed up GameCube games on my wii
-learning to burn GameCube isos to DVDs and them working on my wii
-transferring files bigger than 4gb in size to a fat32 unit in order to play it in wii

additionally i am sure a lot of persons have this kinda problem

Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English and disorganized post

[ck-ok]

Okay so i will start with this

i bought a new Nintendo wii and i wanted to play some backed up games on it so i searched on internet and came across a certain guide for it.
i followed all the steps one by one got homebrew channel, usbloader and neogama so when i was done i was eager to test my backed up and i found myself with a problem it seems that my wii has one of those lenses (d3-2) that cant read backed up games or so i found in the internet in many pages where i search the error number.
well the guide said i could read backed up games for wii and GameCube so i tried both and none work
so i went to a... lets say workshop....kinda and as i knew my problem was lens related i wasnt planning on opening my wii so i read about using uloader to load the game from an external DVD drive so i got uloader installed and bought
this DVD drive

I/OMagic — DVD-ROM USB 2.0 Slim External Drive (http://www.iomagic.com/collections/accessories/products/portable-8x-dvd-rom)

and i consider it a piece of crap and a waste of money the quality of the product seems so low but it was the only one that worked on my wii but well
at the end of this my wii was supposed to work as the following

for my not backed up games or originals i use the disc channel
for my backed up i use uloader
my wii is version 4.1u

-the first problem is that when i start the uloader i have to reconnect the DVD drive each time i start the channel
and is annoying so i was thinking maybe is a problem with my configuration or the problem is with the DVD drive

-the second problem is that i am playing fire emblem radiant dawn backed up and i want to use my fire emblem path of radiance game to increase my character stats but it seems like it will not load and i dont know if it is a problem related to the dvd drive or the uloader or my fire emblem path of radiance game and this leads to the third problem

-the third problem i cant play my backed up GameCube games on the DVD drive using uloader so i cant check my fire emblem path of radiance save-file

also i would like to learn to burn GameCube games isos on DVD so that i could play my backups on wii

and i would like to know how to use a pen drive to play games on usbloader i know that the d3-2 lens does not impede you from playing games on usb drives but i have quite the problem and i dont know how to transfer the 4.7gb iso to the fat32 formatted pen drive as the pen drive must be formatted as fat32 to work on usbloader it also becomes impossible to transfer files which are bigger than 4gb in size by the way i have a 32gb pen drive so capacity is not a problem i want to know what program or what process must be done in order to transfer a file bigger to 4 gb to a fat32 pen drive

so my objectives are:

-not having to reconnect the DVD drive to the wii each time i start uloader
-being able to use fire emblem path of radiance save file data to increase my character stats on fire emblem radiant dawn
-being able to play backed up GameCube games on my wii
-learning to burn GameCube isos to DVDs and them working on my wii
-transferring files bigger than 4gb in size to a fat32 unit in order to play it in wii

additionally i am sure a lot of persons have this kinda problem

Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English and disorganized post

for playing gamecube games from sd card use Digital Kaos - Downloads - Neogamma R9beta56 with forwarder and mmm (http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/downloads/wii/16/neogamma-r9beta56-forwarder-mmm-2013/)

for transfering your iso files use Digital Kaos - Downloads - wii backupmanager 0.3.beta1 (http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/downloads/wii/16/wii-backupmanager-0-3-beta1-1496/)

install Digital Kaos - Downloads - ios58-64v6175 (http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/downloads/wii/16/ios58-64v6175-1874/) for usb 2 support should speed up your hdd but your problem is you have a usb powered hdd and not mains powered.

[happy_highlander]

He is using a usb powered external dvd drive ck not a usb powered hdd. Unless he stated further down he has now tried hdd..........I got bored after the first couple of paragraphs:confused: :p

[ck-ok]

He is using a usb powered external dvd drive ck not a usb powered hdd. Unless he stated further down he has now tried hdd..........I got bored after the first couple of paragraphs:confused: :p

your right h-h it is a dvd drive was in a bit of a hurry before work.
so hellion654 buy yourself a powered hdd and send the dvd rom back problem sorted.

[Hellion654]

Well again I apologize for my long and disorganized post before. but I already have IOS 58-64 v6176 not 6175 but when I tried installing it said "1 did not complete",1 wad.

I suppose version 6176 is better than version 6175 unless it isn't I would like to know how to uninstall the version 6176 so that I can have version 6175

Also I would like to point out that as stated in my previous post I need to run backups disc I mean burned disc in my DVD reader the one from the link and I don't care if I have to burn them again in a 12 cm DVD and I think I read in some other page about burning more than one game image per disc that would be great if possible, and if also this won't affect the disc switching in multiple disc games and the data loading and saving.
about the DVD drive is not slow the problem is that I have to reconnect it every time I load a game and sometimes more than once, the uloader shows "error: USB device disconnected try plugging/unplugging" the thing is that it is connected also the lights on the DVD drive are on because is USB powered I know is connected to the wii, also I want to know if this method of running games will affect in multiple disc games, are there any games I won't be able to run, or are there any I will run slow.

Finally, this HDD method is supposed to work with the HDD permanently connected to the WII as the DVD drive but I want to know if this HDD must be FAT32 formatted for it to be recognized by the specific mod how am I supposed to transfer my 4.3gb in size games to a FAT32 unit which by the way have a 4gb limit to individual file sizes.
I suppose the HDD drive works with GameCube games too right? as CK-OK stated that I can use the neogamma forwarder to run them from a SD card.

almost forgot, can i use the wii backup manager to transfer files to mi pendrive? even if it is fat32 formatted? or what should i do to use the usbloader on the wii using a memory i have a 32gb pendrive

sorry again for the long post and late reply I will try to reply again tomorrow

[ck-ok]

Well again I apologize for my long and disorganized post before. but I already have IOS 58-64 v6176 not 6175 but when I tried installing it said "1 did not complete",1 wad.

I suppose version 6176 is better than version 6175 unless it isn't I would like to know how to uninstall the version 6176 so that I can have version 6175

Also I would like to point out that as stated in my previous post I need to run backups disc I mean burned disc in my DVD reader the one from the link and I don't care if I have to burn them again in a 12 cm DVD and I think I read in some other page about burning more than one game image per disc that would be great if possible, and if also this won't affect the disc switching in multiple disc games and the data loading and saving.
about the DVD drive is not slow the problem is that I have to reconnect it every time I load a game and sometimes more than once, the uloader shows "error: USB device disconnected try plugging/unplugging" the thing is that it is connected also the lights on the DVD drive are on because is USB powered I know is connected to the wii, also I want to know if this method of running games will affect in multiple disc games, are there any games I won't be able to run, or are there any I will run slow.

Finally, this HDD method is supposed to work with the HDD permanently connected to the WII as the DVD drive but I want to know if this HDD must be FAT32 formatted for it to be recognized by the specific mod how am I supposed to transfer my 4.3gb in size games to a FAT32 unit which by the way have a 4gb limit to individual file sizes.
I suppose the HDD drive works with GameCube games too right? as CK-OK stated that I can use the neogamma forwarder to run them from a SD card.

almost forgot, can i use the wii backup manager to transfer files to mi pendrive? even if it is fat32 formatted? or what should i do to use the usbloader on the wii using a memory i have a 32gb pendrive

sorry again for the long post and late reply I will try to reply again tomorrow


no need to delete ios58 you can install it over the previous version. for the ltest wad use http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/downloads/wii/16/modmii-4-3-4-1405/ for the latest version.

yes you can use wiibackup manager to transfer iso's over 4gig it will split them for you and it will transfer them to a fat32 drive. but you need to use a different usb loader like gx or cfg and wiilow all these can use wbfs or fat32.

the multi game disc is for game cube games only.

you cant play gc games from a hdd only sd card.

[Hellion654]

Well I already had download modmii and I have the latest version so I'm giving up on that it seems I will have to live reconnecting each time my DVD driver.
wii backup manager will help me hopefully with future games that may not work correctly by burning I can always relay on my pen drive.
and about the GameCube games I know that Multigame ISO creator merges your GameCube ISOs into one and gives them an interface in which you choose your game to load. also I found that if you burn in the same disc the images of disc 1 and disc 2 (for double disc games only) you can make them work, just saying so all who reads this knows


for now it seems like i have no more question so thanks for all and see ya later.

[Hellion654]

well after i backed up some GC games i had i burned them as a multi iso and installed the gcbackup launcher but it seems like the GCbackuplauncher works only on the DVD slot of the wii and not on the external DVD drive that i bough so now I want to know is there any way to play the backed up GameCube disc on the external DVD drive i know i can play on a SD card but i don't wanna i want to use disc so i mean ANY way

[ck-ok]

well after i backed up some GC games i had i burned them as a multi iso and installed the gcbackup launcher but it seems like the GCbackuplauncher works only on the DVD slot of the wii and not on the external DVD drive that i bough so now I want to know is there any way to play the backed up GameCube disc on the external DVD drive i know i can play on a SD card but i don't wanna i want to use disc so i mean ANY way

have you installed cmios first?
http://sites.google.com/site/completesg/gamecube

[Hellion654]

okay i already did what the guide told me soo i though maybe it will work now but i tried on the gc backup launcher and nothing then i tried in the hermes uloader and i got dvd error -1 i looked it up and got this:

Wad Install Error:Most likely you have cIOS installed incorrectly, out of date, or missing.Your SD card is not Formatted as FAT16 or FAT32 properly, reformat it. If a file was needed, then it was not in the correct folder.Each application needs its files in specific folders, so pay attention to that. Can also be a bad wad or not enough space on the Wii. (example: If your installing cios38rev17 offline make sure you have ios38-64-v3867 on the root of your sd)

so i don't know what is wrong i got that error before i did the guide when i tried my gc backup.

[Hellion654]

well after my last post i searched for uloader wad install error to see if i could track it and got into a page that had a installation package for the hermes uloader version 5.1e which was the one i had before so i though i would reinstall it.
to my surprise it didn't work i could not read GC disk and got the same DVD error -1 but the good news is the read speed improved and i didn't had to reconnect my driver for it to start reading the game so is a half fix it didn't damaged anything and fixed a minor issue, still i can't play my gamecube backups and don't know what to do now.

[ck-ok]

well after my last post i searched for uloader wad install error to see if i could track it and got into a page that had a installation package for the hermes uloader version 5.1e which was the one i had before so i though i would reinstall it.
to my surprise it didn't work i could not read GC disk and got the same DVD error -1 but the good news is the read speed improved and i didn't had to reconnect my driver for it to start reading the game so is a half fix it didn't damaged anything and fixed a minor issue, still i can't play my gamecube backups and don't know what to do now.

try playing a gc game from the sd card to make sure you have everything you need to play them.

[Hellion654]

sorry for the late reply had some problems
now what should i use to run a gc game from a sd card, the usbloader or the neogamma?

[ck-ok]

sorry for the late reply had some problems
now what should i use to run a gc game from a sd card, the usbloader or the neogamma?

neogamma is your best bet,on the main neogamma screen change load game from dvd to sd and you should be able to play your gc games from there.

[polazo]

Good info, thanks

[Hellion654]

sorry for no replying in so long but i was in exams now i tried what you said when i finally found a 2gb sd card i copied a gc game on the root folder and put in on my wii but it didn't woked so now i wanna know if there is an specific folder for the channel i wanna use let's say neogamma also do i need to make a wbfs partition and if i have to how do i do it

[Keithuk]

now i tried what you said when i finally found a 2gb sd card i copied a gc game on the root folder and put in on my wii but it didn't woked so now i wanna know if there is an specific folder for the channel i wanna use let's say neogamma also do i need to make a wbfs partition and if i have to how do i do it

So what size was your original SD card?

If you extracted all the files\folders from Letterbomb.zip to a FAT32 formatted 2GB SD card then that should be recognised when you click the red envelope.

Which Windows are you using to format the SD card?

Neogamma is an app that plays burnt games to a DVD now your Wii maybe 4.3 now but do you know what it was originally?

If you type in the Wii serial number into Wii Drive Chip Database (http://www.wiidrives.com/list) as Wii's after 2009 won't play burnt games with Neogamma.

[Hellion654]

Well is obvious you didn't read my first post in this tread as it was an explanation of my wii condition

First of all yes it does have a d3-2 dvd drive which impedes me from playing burnt backups, i use an external dvd drive and hermes uloader to load wii backed up games.

Second i already softmodded it and it has the homebrew channel and all the basic stuff as i followed mauifrog's guide.

And finally i want to be able to load GameCube game disc on my wii it doesn't mater if i have to burn them on a 12cm DVD as a multigame iso or if i have to use my external DVD drive i just wanna be able to play GC backups from disc.

My previous sd card was 1gb and a gc iso didn't fit in it i was trying from the sd as CK-OK recommended so that i could see if i had everything installed already

Also i have windows 7 and the sd card is formated as FAT32

[happy_highlander]

Well is obvious you didn't read my first post in this tread as it was an explanation of my wii condition

First of all yes it does have a d3-2 dvd drive which impedes me from playing burnt backups, i use an external dvd drive and hermes uloader to load wii backed up games.

Second i already softmodded it and it has the homebrew channel and all the basic stuff as i followed mauifrog's guide.

And finally i want to be able to load GameCube game disc on my wii it doesn't mater if i have to burn them on a 12cm DVD as a multigame iso or if i have to use my external DVD drive i just wanna be able to play GC backups from disc.

My previous sd card was 1gb and a gc iso didn't fit in it i was trying from the sd as CK-OK recommended so that i could see if i had everything installed already

Also i have windows 7 and the sd card is formated as FAT32
You have answered your own question there mate that having the d3-2 chip you will not be able to play a multi game iso backup disc no matter whether it's gc games or wii iso and no you cannot play gc games from an hdd or not that i'm aware off.
You will have to get a bigger sd card if you can load them from that if that's a reliable option. You do have another option of dios mios and sneek+di to load from sd but you will need to google it. I'm not sure if uneek+DI will launch them fromm hdd but it's not reported as working anywhere.

[Hellion654]

you mean that even if i have an external dvd drive i won't be able to play GC multiisos from it?

[happy_highlander]

you mean that even if i have an external dvd drive i won't be able to play GC multiisos from it?

Not sure about that one. It will still be recognized as a usb device and I don't know of any external dvd drives that will read a wii/gc disc.

[Hellion654]

i play my wii backup games on my external dvd drive, the link to it is in the first post, but i wanna play GC multigame disc
and the external dvd drive is connected through a usb