Softmodded Wii Apps

[dritz33]

Hey all, I've just recently softmodded my Wii. I was wondering if anyone else from this site had a softmodded Wii and could point out some apps/homebrew that is interesting/useful to have in addition to the softmod. I've only began to scratch the surface, playing games off of my SD card. But, I was really wondering about some of the more interesting things that you can do with a softmod.

Anything posted will be looked into and would be greatly appreciated, so thank in advance

[Jazzmarazz]

Do not change your Wii to have a black dashboard.
To be honest, all I do is play games from HDD and emulators on SD card.

[dritz33]

Do not change your Wii to have a black dashboard.
To be honest, all I do is play games from HDD and emulators on SD card.

I've been playing games off of my SD card, but it's only an 8 gig one, so I only have room for about 2 wii games at a time. I had an old HDD lying around that I tried to set up to work with it but of course it's not compatable and the Wii can't pick it up to let me browse it :/

You wouldn't happen to know if there was a way to get multiplayer to work on downloaded games, would you? I downloaded Black Ops just for combat training, but it's under the Wi-fi connection option and when I click it it doesn't ever load. There a way around this for the Wii?

[Jazzmarazz]

I've been playing games off of my SD card, but it's only an 8 gig one, so I only have room for about 2 wii games at a time. I had an old HDD lying around that I tried to set up to work with it but of course it's not compatable and the Wii can't pick it up to let me browse it :/

You wouldn't happen to know if there was a way to get multiplayer to work on downloaded games, would you? I downloaded Black Ops just for combat training, but it's under the Wi-fi connection option and when I click it it doesn't ever load. There a way around this for the Wii?

What did you do to test whether or not the HDD was "compatible?"
Are you capable of formatting partitions on it? I can't see why ANY HDD would not be compatible if formatted properly.

Sprung, is FAT not supported now? Last I knew it was only WBFS, but Im getting old.

[Sprung]

What did you do to test whether or not the HDD was "compatible?"
Are you capable of formatting partitions on it? I can't see why ANY HDD would not be compatible if formatted properly.

Sprung, is FAT not supported now? Last I knew it was only WBFS, but Im getting old.

I'm pretty sure you can do all 3 filesystems now, but FAT will limit you as far as filesize. Large games will have to be split. I use WBFS because I can shrink them, instead of just copying over an ISO...I usually save 1 -2 GB's per game that way. And no splitting.

EDIT: I also first tried an external drive that was not compatible.

[Ragnar]

I'm pretty sure you can do all 3 filesystems now, but FAT will limit you as far as filesize. Large games will have to be split. I use WBFS because I can shrink them, instead of just copying over an ISO...I usually save 1 -2 GB's per game that way. And no splitting.

EDIT: I also first tried an external drive that was not compatible.

I just left my drive NTFS, so I can use it as a normal drive in addition to my Wii's drive. Transferring games to the drive with Wii Backup Manager converts .isos to .wbfs files, and gives the space savings, without any need to convert drives.

Edit: Oh, and it's nice to have a big NTFS drive, so you can use CleanRip easily I don't think it's compatible with WBFS.

[dritz33]

What did you do to test whether or not the HDD was "compatible?"
Are you capable of formatting partitions on it? I can't see why ANY HDD would not be compatible if formatted properly.

Sprung, is FAT not supported now? Last I knew it was only WBFS, but Im getting old.

Well to be honest I didn't actually check anywhere to see. I plugged the HDD to my computer and tried to format it to WBFS because I was only going to use it for games. It said it formatted fine, and when I put it in my Wii, the HDD didn't show up. I might be doing something wrong though, of course

[Jazzmarazz]

Well to be honest I didn't actually check anywhere to see. I plugged the HDD to my computer and tried to format it to WBFS because I was only going to use it for games. It said it formatted fine, and when I put it in my Wii, the HDD didn't show up. I might be doing something wrong though, of course

So you did...My only guess is that the drive is not getting enough power. Is it a 3.5" HDD or 2.5"?
If its a 3.5" you may need a different case that accepts wall power. Normally 2.5" drives are fine on USB power alone.

Also, it has to be in the USB slot closest to the edge.

[Sprung]

I use WiiMC to watch movies I have downloaded, and USBLoader, as Jazz suggested. Other than that, there's really not much.

[Zorlon]

I have a 2TB drive for my Wii

I partitioned the drive to have 2xWBFS partitions and 1xFAT partition all my emulators and roms are in the FAT partition and 500 Wii games in each WBFS partitiion

apx 900GB per WBFS partition and what was left is the FAT partition

On the Wii both the WBFS partitions act as 1 you don't need to select between partitions all games from both partitions are shown

You can't have more than 500 Wii games per partition

I only use that HDD with the Wii besides it's jam packed full so wouldn't want to use it with anything else

You can partition the HDD at any point and reformat as much as you like

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools\Computer Managment\Storage\Disk Managment\

Format whatever you like (I'm sure you need to format in a PC format before re-formatting to WBFS, it's been a few years so I could be wrong) and use WBFS tools to format after if you want to use WBFS format

[Alakazander]

First, if you don't already know about them, I would recommend both the WiiBrew Wiki and GBAtemp to keep up-to-date with new releases.
Also, I'd recommend the Homebrew Browser, which allows you to download from a repository straight onto your SD card through your Wii, so you don't need a computer.
And, you are eventually going to need something like Wii Mod to load cIOS, WADs, etc.

As already mentioned, WiiMC is awesome.

And of course, there are all the loaders: NeoGama, Mighty Loader, USBLoader, USBLoader GX, WiiFlow, uLoader, etc.
IIRC, only USBLoader GX and WiiFlow have full NAND emulation, and Mighty Loader is considered the easiest to use.

Also, I've been out of the scene for awhile, but if DIOS MIOS or DIOS MIOS Lite development ever continues, you may want to look into that (playing GameCube games off of either a USB external drive or SD card respectively).

Speaking of which:


It's a little out of date, but it should get you started.

[dritz33]

First, if you don't already know about them, I would recommend both the WiiBrew Wiki and GBAtemp to keep up-to-date with new releases.
Also, I'd recommend the Homebrew Browser, which allows you to download from a repository straight onto your SD card through your Wii, so you don't need a computer.
And, you are eventually going to need something like Wii Mod to load cIOS, WADs, etc.

As already mentioned, WiiMC is awesome.

And of course, there are all the loaders: NeoGama, Mighty Loader, USBLoader, USBLoader GX, WiiFlow, uLoader, etc.
IIRC, only USBLoader GX and WiiFlow have full NAND emulation, and Mighty Loader is considered the easiest to use.

Also, I've been out of the scene for awhile, but if DIOS MIOS or DIOS MIOS Lite development ever continues, you may want to look into that (playing GameCube games off of either a USB external drive or SD card respectively).

Speaking of which:


It's a little out of date, but it should get you started.

Thanks for the apps, will for sure be checking those out And I'd used Diosmios lite a couple of times (since all I had was an SD to boot from) So now I'm working on getting the normal one set up. I've got RE1 on my wii now and am trying to boot it up (after working with this basically all morning) So hopefully it works out...

I did have a question I ran into that I couldn't find the answer for on google. When you download a gamecube game from here, it gives you something like a .gcn file. Are you supposed to convert the .gcn file wth DiscEX, or something else?

[Alakazander]

When you download a gamecube game from here, it gives you something like a .gcn file. Are you supposed to convert the .gcn file wth DiscEX, or something else?

Well, if it doesn't load the .gcn file, then I'm pretty sure you can just change the .gcn to .iso, I remember reading about people doing that so there burning software would recognize it.

If you can't do that, I'm sure Zorlon will tell you what you need to do

[dritz33]

Well, if it doesn't load the .gcn file, then I'm pretty sure you can just change the .gcn to .iso, I remember reading about people doing that so there burning software would recognize it.

If you can't do that, I'm sure Zorlon will tell you what you need to do

If alese fails, I'll give that a shot. Right now I've got RE1 on my HDD and I converted from .gcn to .iso using discEX, and whn I try to load it it just gives me a black screen. I'm working on looking through some videos for some steps I may have missed, so I'll see how this goes.

Still black screening when I try to boot it, going to take a break from this for a bit and then try to just change the file extensions and see if that will work any better

[Zorlon]

RE1 was released for the Wii aswell anyway an I beleive you can use GC controllers with it anyway

as it happens I run GC software directly from the CD/DVD drive of my Wii but I do have the 1st version Wii

If you like though I can dig out more info for you

P.S. .gcm is exactly the same format as .iso just change the file name, don't convert what doesn't need converting