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I still don't understand why the usb loader doesn't lunch when I got a hdd drive plugged in. In order for it to work I got to unplug the hdd, lunch the usb loader, wait for it to give me a message...

So I formatted the drive completely to FAT32 but the problem is still there plus now usb loader GX wont lunch the game, after I click on the spinning disk it brings me back to the menu.

Ok il try to format it to fat32 then. I use an sd card to run all my homebrew of so what is the advantage of fat32 over ntsc?

I used mauifrog's "Softmod ANY wii" guide and hacked my 3.3u system successfully.
Then I used Gen3SF's "Loading and Playing Wii Backup Games from USB HDD (softmod only)" guide to format my Western...

Thanks for the article answered a lot of my question.
like stmcmurray76 said a paragraph about forwarders would be nice ;)

Yup its 3.3U tripped checked :)

FINALLY Got it to load the boot file!

All I did was extract the folder to the desktop and then copy the contents to the sd card and it worked :)
For some...

As a test I just loaded a picture the the SanDisk 2gb SD card and the wii was able to open the picture without any problems.
So the SD card and the card slot on the wii work fine.

The only thing I can format in the wii is the system memory. Dont see any option to format the SDcard

It works Perfectly on the pc

So any ideas on whats going?

I formated it to FAT32 using Windows and tried again without any luck :(

A standard one to be exact this is the one I just bought SanDisk 2GB SD Memory Card : Secure Digital (SD) - Best Buy Canada

I cant get passed Step 1 Part 1 and feeling kinda dumb right now.

The wii just doesn't see the boot.dol it doesn't see anything just shows me the empty channels.
Its a brand new SanDisk 2GB SD...

Thanks for the explanation!
Just got the 2gb SanDisk SD card adn about to begin the modding :)
Thanks to every one for all the help again :cool:

Alright then I'm going to pick one up right now then, cant wait for shipping got to mod the wii by tomorrow.

Sorry for the dumb question but what do you mean by "you will be having to buy one of...

The thing is I already got a 4GB SDHC card laying around so should I just upgrade the wii?
Or is it really important to use a 1-2GB SD card? If that the case Il just go and buy one.

Thanks!

So I ended up getting a white wii from my buddy instead of the black one, he made me an offer I couldn't refuse :P The system, 2 wiimots with the nunchucks, the wii fit board and some games for only...

Thanks for the quick reply!

You said that "that black consoles won't read backup discs some white consoles will" but will it read those backups from a hard drive that it wouldn't normally read...

Hey Guys

New here and to wii's so hello everyone!

I'm just doing some research on which wii to buy, the new black one at the local best buy store or an older used white one.

I would prefer...