Please Help - Issue loading .ISOs onto Hard Drive

[Matt Steiniger]

Hi,

I'm wondering if someone may be able to help me out with an issue I'm having.

I have a Wii with Homebrew, USB Loader GX and WiiFlow. Up until earlier this week I was just backing up discs using USB Loader GX. Everything was going perfectly until I tried to back up my Super Smash Bros Brawl (SSBB) disc - it got stuck at ~85%. I am assuming this is because my hard drive is WBFS (which I think has same max as FAT - ~4GB, as opposed to the larger limit on NTFS.

I've tried a few different things, but with no success.

1. Downloaded SSBB .ISO and tried to transfer onto my HD using WBFS manager (made sure to check setting to separate into two files, since over FAT file size limit) - Did not transfer
2. Downloaded SSBB .WBFS (split into two files) and archived into a single .RAR, tried to transfer onto my HD using WBFS manager - Did not transfer

*In both of these cases, the progress meter completed but the game did not transfer from the right side (files to be added to disc) to the left side with all of the files already on the disc.

3. Downloaded WiiFlow and tried to run the .ISO file directly there (got intro screen for the game prior to starting, but when i started the game it ran Wii Sports Resort).

4. Formatted drive to NTFS (deleting all of discs I've backed up), loaded SSBB .ISO directly onto that and tried to run via WiiFlow - got an error, can look up exact one when I get home


It seems like most games don't exceed the ~4GB threshold for FAT/WBFS, so maybe I should just not choose to back up SSBB and use the disc all the time instead. As I said above, backing up discs works fine as long as they are ~4GB. However, ideally I would have a backup and would probably need to load and run .ISOs in the future for other emulators/roms (SNES, etc.).

Do you have any suggestions? I've heard that "Configurable" loader may be a good solution, but not exactly sure how that would be better.


Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


Matt

I seem to have gotten it working now. Can load iso's and run through "configurable usb loader", but backing up a disc and playing does not work. Also USB Loader GX no longer works for me (hits black screen right away) and WiiFlow doesn't seem to display all of the games on the drive.

So basically all good except for backing up discs (need to do iso's instead, which I don't think is horrible).


Thank you.