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USB Loader GX: Play Wii Games From a Hard Drive


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So I randomly came across this Wii hombrew app called USB Loader GX this past weekend and had to give it a go. To install this application you must have a Wii with the Homebrew Channel installed.

This application allows you to load Wii game .iso files from a FAT32 formatted Hard drive. So basically you can have a hard drive full of your Wii game backups and conveniently load them from a nice menu. This can be pretty helpful if you have a setup similar to my own where the Wii console is in a different room than the TV dsiplay. From the comfort of your couch you can switch games.



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  • Fallback
    07/10/2009
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    Wrong. The iso's ARE on the HDD. The iso's ARE loaded from the HDD directly. Yes its partitioned af fat32 but thats just a file format and the iso's are and still loaded from the drive.
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  • monkey
    07/23/2009
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    I think Loki's point was that the ISO images are loaded from a WBFS partition, but the rest of the stuff is on the FAT32 partition (optional). At a minimum, the USB drive must have a single WBFS-formatted partition from which it can read the games
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  • kdot
    08/18/2009
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    there is not enough space on disk. write error: only ntfs file system….. blah blah blah…. i don't understand wat i'm ddoing wrong someone please help with a step by step tutorial
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  • Tcmd
    08/19/2009
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    all cover art, themes and program are on your sd card. If you installed Usb Loader gx as a channel that would be on your wii if cover art and themes still on the sd card. As far as the HDD all that is on there is Wii games (ISO) and the Hdd is formatted to WBFS, there is no fat32
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  • Billy
    08/28/2009
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    That's just how you set it up. You can have a separate fat32 partition on the same drive to hold the cover art if you want.
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  • coop
    02/04/2010
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    can this be done on 4.2?
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  • OuiWii
    02/05/2010
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    Yes, it can.
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