Step 1. Format your SD Card
A. Make sure your SD Card isn’t locked and put it into your laptop or computer.
B. From ‘My Computer’ or ‘Computer,’ right-click your SD card and select Format.
C. Make sure its set to FAT32 and that Quick Format is checked off and click START>OK>OK>Close.
Step 2. Install USB Loader GX to your SD Card and update it via Wi-Fi
A. Download USB Loader GX here.
B. Having both your SD card and the USBLGX download open, Copy all the files in USBLGX to your SD card by “dragging and dropping.”
C. Take the SD Card out of your computer or laptop and put it into the Wii.
D. Connect your Wii to your USB Drive by inserting the USB Cable into the bottom USB slot:
E. Make sure your Wii is connected to wireless internet. Turn on your Wii and go to the HBC.
F. Select USB Loader GX>Load.
G. At the lower left corner, select Settings.
H. Press Right on your D-Pad (Directional Pad) to get to the next section.
I. Select: Update>USB Loader GX>All.
J. If your Wii crashes when USB Loader GX tries to restart, just manually reset it.
Step 3. Play your .ISOs with USB Loader GX
Note: Have your SD card in your Wii when using USB Loader GX or any other application.
Note: You will have no cover or disc art. Go over Part 6 on the next page to learn how to download them.
A. Load USB Loader GX.
B. Simply select the game title, then select the spinning disc to play it.
Note: About a third of the existing Wii games aren’t fully functional until you change the settings in USB Loader GX for them, so you’re bound to run into glitches at one point. For example, your game could be in black and white, or it could simply get stuck at the loading screen (like COD:BO). If it crashes, just manually reset it. Go over Part 6 on the next page to learn how to fix these glitches.
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Hi
Really appreciate all the effort. I just had one small problem along the way. When i downloaded the USB Loader GX all i recieved was the 1) apps file, 2) HBC Forwarder.dol and 3) USBLoader Forwarder.dol….In your video there appears to be a “hacks” file?
I’m not sure if this is related but there were no updates available went into the USB Loader Gx> settings>updates. Could you help me with this please?
SCRATCH THAT!…I got it!! bring on Mario Galaxy 2! Thanks again for the great instructions!!!
Yeah these videos are pretty old, so the files are different. I am going to release new videos soon to clear up confusion.
Hi,
is there any difference between PAL and NTSC games? Will this work for both?
There is a difference, but it doesn’t matter since this works for both.
I’m using a sandisk 8 gb usb, and used wbfs manager, got the new zelda game. I plugged it in and loaded the usb loader, and get the message ‘usb not found’ What am I doing wrong?
It loads the usb loader, waits for a usb hd, but can’t find it, and throws me to system menu
Check the USB drive compatibility list in the troubleshooting section.
got it all working. thnx for the instructions.
Can wiiconnect24 be turned on again after softmod?
Yes.
Now playing the Sims3! Thank you for the guide.
Can’t get my wii to recognize my usb hdd.
I have a Eagle Tech 320GB USB 2.0 White External Hard Drive ET-CS2320FSU2-WH
Do you know if this is compatible with the wii?
I couldn’t find your HD on the USB Loader compatability list, so I don’t think it is.
After I’m done can I delete the files on my SD card? The usb loader stuff.
No, don’t delete them. You need your SD card in your Wii when you want to use any homebrew apps.
Wow, I finally hacked my Wii! Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial and all the videos. They were very easy to follow and everything worked without a single problem.
Thanks again for the awesome work!
Cheers from India
HI, What happens if i don’t update usbgx via Wifi? we don’t have wifi in my house.
thankz in advance.
You don’t really have to, unless you run into problems with USBLGX.
Hi, i have downloaded the forwarder channel as above but how do you install it so the USB loader is on the main Wii screen?
Thanks
Put those two forwarder .dol files on the root of the SD card (SD:\) and it should load the USBLGX channel.
im having a problem when select Update>USB loader GX>All.it then says no updates found.
I think the USBLGX is up to date now, so no need to update.
Thank you for your detailed guide.
Just one question – how can I have the ‘USB Loadser’ on the Wii menu instead of opening HBC and load USB loader ?
You can download the forwarder channel and put it on the root of your SD card. You can download it here.
I have a big problem my USB port 0 is broken.
is there a way to change USB Loader GX/ USB loader to use the UPPER port, NOT the one on the bottom?
“PLEASE HELP”
THANKS,
Ashraf
I found this here. Looks like you need to buy some things to fix it.
I installed USBLGX and try to load the game and it exit and return to HBC. Any idea?
I followed every steps in the tutorial. My Wii is 4.3U black one.
I’ll get back to you on this in 1-2 days while I do some research on Wii softmod issues. I’m gonna create a master list of issues and potential fixes.
and when i opened USB Loader GX on the HBC and i choose load, it loads til 100%, but then loading screen shows up and below that it writes : USB Loader GX requires at least cISO 222 or 245-250. sorry for writing 2 different comments.
thanks.
Download the required IOS here (IOS222 and IOS249), place it in your wad folder (SD:/wad) and run YAWMM again. That should install 222 and 249 and make USBLGX work.
Hi I noticed that the NTSC games turn black and white on my TV. Is there a solution to this?
It’s probably a specific game glitch that needs specific settings to run properly. Did you try forcing USBLGX to run NTSC and try different IOSes (222, 223, 249, 250)? You can find correct settings for the specific game by searching “game usb loader gx” or looking on the pirate bay comments or wherever you got your game from.
For those of you who could not load USBLGX or had problems, I accidentally deleted your comments. However, if you download these USBLGX forwarder files here and put them on the root of your SD card, you can restore the USBGLX channel onto the Wii menu and it should work. Let me know how it goes.
Ok so when i load up USb Loader its says waiting for your slow USB device then when the 30 sec runs out its asks if i want to retry with cIOS249 or cIOS222 or Go back to the Wii menuive tried both USB slots with both cIOS retries. Suggextions?
You may have an incompatible USB device. Check it here.
Just I wanna say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR WORK AND YOUR HELP.
ASHRAF
Glad I could help
Step 2:
E. Make sure your Wii is connected to wireless internet.
Not possible for me…any other way?
I found out that it’s not needed to use LetterBomb. You just might not be able to download cover art later on.
The game does work but it’s black and white coloured
I showed you in the guide how to find a solution to fix the initial game “glitches.” Apparently a lot of games don’t fully work until you change a few settings in USBLGX before launching the game. Google for your game and add “USB Loader GX” to the search to get information on what settings to use for it. Or visit The Pirate Bay and check out the comments for the game.
thanks but the uptade to all necesery or optinal cuz its was warking fine until i did the uptade to all
In that case, you should not update and see if you can play games from USB. I always like to think “if it’s not broken, don’t try to fix it.”
i have a prolem when i did the uptade to all the screen was going green at the top then its said error usb not found and the hardrive dosent apeear in the computer
What I would do is take your USB HD and plug it into a different computer and try to reformat it with WBFS manager. If that doesn’t work, you might have to use a different HD. Maybe you didn’t safely remove the USB drive and it has errors.
i was wondering if i can do this step from a usb drive or if it has to be a hardrive. im ordering a hardrive but i would like to get this done before it comes. also i was wondering if i have to have a WII iso on it or if i can use a gc iso and get the same result?
When I refer to USB drives, I mean any device that can store information via a USB interface, whether it’s just a USB stick or a HD. I am assuming you’re asking me if you can use the USB stick drive as opposed to a USB hard drive. You can use either, but like I said, I recommend a USB hard drive since it stores more memory for a lower price than the USB stick ones. You cannot load GC games through USB, only via burned DVDs. If you want to play GC games, you should make sure if your Wii supports playing burned DVDs. Click here to find out.
Note: If I assumed wrong and you bought a regular hard drive for your computer (SATA interface), then you would need to convert it into USB. I don’t know how, but Google sure does.
I got to the last step and when I clicked on settings and tried to update, I got a message “Console Locked. Unlock console to use this option.”
How do I do this?
Here, scroll down about 3/4 of the page of this link and there is a fix: USB Loader GX Missing Game Settings
when i try to load HBC after putting the usblgx on my sd card HBC wont load, it just sits on the screen with the bubbles. any ideas?
I have the same problem. Anyone know what to do?
Do you guys see USBGLX on the regular Wii menu? If you do, you can load USBLGX from there. If you don’t, then you should delete “HBC Forwarder.dol” and “USBLoader Forwarder.dol” from your SD card and see what happens when you go to the HBC.
I’m getting a message about no WBFS or FAT/NTFS partition found when I load up the USB Loader. Am I missing something somewhere?
You might have put it in the wrong slot or have an incompatible USB HD (assuming you formatted to WBFS already). Did you check to see if your HD was on the compatibility list?