The Image you are trying to load, assuming it is a common game that anyone can load.Īnything that includes variables beyond this is not addressed in this troubleshooting tutorial.

Your loader software and its configuration.

Your SD card and whether it is configured correctly.

This guide is intended to check only certain things and how they are setup: …Like your Write-Protect lock on your SD card. We will spend some time eliminating things that you don’t need that might be causing the issue. A lot of these topics are easy to get wrong and easy correct. One troubleshooting technique is to minimize the amount of things that can go wrong. Getting Started / Minimize Your Variables. Running proper modern cIOS, updated versions of the software you need from authoritative sources, and the LATEST WII SYSTEM MENU. Lastly, this guide assumes you are fully upgraded. If you haven’t even begun to mod your Wii, whoa there Hombre, mod your Wii first. Remember these tutorials go out of date quickly, so please make sure that this tutorial is still being maintained by rWiiHacks. Resources pointing to the authority on the discussed topic will be posted. I will try to be as succinct and thorough as I can, this should cover nearly all issues with all usb loader software on all main-line model Wiis. Otherwise we’ll help you as best as you can. But then again, our community is focused around the Wii. This guide Wii-Centric, so if you have a vWii, or even a Wii Mini this guide may not help you fully. Please make sure you’ve reviewed everything in it before you ask a question that’s been asked a million times.Īny post that revolves around the inability to load a game Wii or GC on your Wii is subject to removal and referral to this post. Read this post if your Loader (USB Loader GX, WiiFlow, Nintendont) won’t load your game. Nice and easy.Ultimate Guide to ALL Loader Issues ¶ Intro / Is This Guide For You? ¶ This will let you copy any files you want from your computer over your wireless network, so you never have to unplug your hard drive from your wii ever again.

This is what I do, and I never have to connect my wii to my computer.Īlso, you can install WiiXplorer which will let you run an FTP server on your wii. You can also use a program called 'clean rip' to rip them right to your hard drive in your wii.

Wiiflow, or any other current backup loader will load them from the wbfs folder without problem. Most wbfs and ISO files have had all the empty space removed, and are smaller than 4gb.įinally, make sure you plug your USB drive into the USB plug that is closest to the 'bottom' of the wii (when the wii is sitting horizontally). You don't need the manager software anymore, except for files larger than 4gb. Then make a folder called 'wbfs' on the root of your driveįinally, put all your ISO and/or wbfs files into that folder using windows. Just format your hard drive to be FAT 32 (with 32kb clusters, if an option is provided) in windows.

Wii backup manager stuck at 4gb