Thanks for another great Wii U mining video. I'm still holding out hope that one day they can just make a Wii U version of the USB loader GX that can launch from the Wii U title screen and it can somehow read both Wii U and Wii games so you can launch anything you want from one location.
Awesome video, thanks for making it! I think I recently read that it may be possible to run both Wii U and Wii from the SD slot using SDUSB. That would be really cool to see a tutorial on if that sounds interesting.
I believe you're right, instead of the USB partition patch.ipx there is another one that says SD partition patch. Interesting stuff! Might stress out the SD card though
People usually do the opposite, using usb loader gx to load wii games on vWii (Wii menu) and HDD for the Wii U games, using WUP installer GX (with this you can choose where to install the games from SD card to the HDD or in the nand which is not recommended)
When you're talking about the WiiFlow tutorial, I assume you mean your video titled "The Best Wiiflow Tutorial You're Going To See"? It would run in the vWii part of the WiiU off the USB instead of the SD card? And lastly, I assume that playing GameCube game on the WiiU via WiiFlow wouldn't work due to missing hardware? Sorry for the barrage of question, I've just began looking into making my WiiU into an emulating beast and I'm currently in the "gathering info" step, so this video is god tier timing. :D
No need to flip-flop drives if using USBLoaderGX, it works fine with Aroma and double drive setup. Wiiflow also works with double drive setup partially: I am able to load emulators but vWii games work only when WiiU drive is disconnected.
@vasjapupkin1710 with this tutorial now you don't need two drives, that's kind of the point. Depending on the drive you buy, you could be saving yourself $70 to $100 by just using one.
@@vasjapupkin1710 This is a known issue. It actually can work with both hdd (vWii and Wii U) plugged in, but there is a random issue where, depending on the harware ID of the harddrives, WiiFlow will sometimes choose the wrong HDD when launching games. For me I was able to see the games, but couldn't launch any Wii games (GHC worked fine). After swapping my 2.5 HDDs between the enclosures I was working, problem solved. It's random and super annoying, but just letting you know if can work in WiiFlow. Hopefully an update will fix the issue.
Heya, I have downloaded all the things necessary and put them as demonstrated on a video, but fw_img_loader isn't showing in payload menu for some reason. Any idea why it isn't present?
@@BelowAverageGaming Solved - When I initially installed aroma, I never downloaded the fw_img_loader payload - downloaded that to the SD card and viola. On to the next step. Hopefully this is helpful to anyone else that used a guide that didn't need it.
Question for the Wii U do you have have run the tablet thing always can games not be played without it? I am actually. Wii U has nice games Wii and GameCube too either I would do it this way or Emulation on a mini pc.
This is cool but so much work and there is a chance you will brick your WiiU if something happened to your SDcard during the step where your system runs only from your SDcard. I'll just stick to injection for now. Might take a while, too many Wii and GC games in my collection, but the steps are simple and without serious risk.
Your Wii U won't brick if you lose your SD card lol If you lose your SD card you will be stuck booting into the minute menu every time you want to use your Wii U and there would be not much to do about that without an SD card. Which is why the step right after that I show you how to install it directly into your system which negates that worry altogether. All in all, if you're somebody who's doing this for the first time, this should be the preferred method
It won't brick, without the SD and without anything on the SLC, it will just boot to the Wii U menu like normal (but a little bit slower). And you can just continue with a new SD card, by putting the files back on.
I already have an 2 TB hdd formatted for WiiU with all my games backed up. Is it possible to partion without losing everything or a way to back it up on a pc and then restore after the partition is set up?
You'll have to back it up and restore it search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fgbatemp.net%2Fthreads%2Fdumpsteru-wii-u-harddrive-dumper.568513%2F&Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4
Hello, and thanks for the great tutorial! Everything works great, except for me, the minute autoboot ini file seems to not be working. I have the minute folder on the root, with the ini inside, with the correct text. However, when I boot the console, the minute main menu loads, and no autoboot into aroma happens. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Did you type it in yourself or did you copy and paste it into the file? Make sure if you pasted it in. There's no spaces before the first letter of the text. Make sure minute is spelled correctly for "minute.ini" Try deleting the file and recreating the file. Make sure you have autoboot already enabled on your console running aroma normally
I just have to finish testing the vWii to see if this worked, at least I did pretty much all the steps and I only need to test 2 things, the SDCafiine plugin in Aroma AND the vWii side, which I have it ready with everything I have pretty much from another drive (which I probably I have to keep for my actual Wii, but I wonder if my Wii can use my WiiU drive without issues... most likely yes, because if that's the case... I can take advantage of my HDD to save stuff from my PC for backups and such), I'll edit this comment once I test the vWii side of things... especially if I want to use modded stuff for Smash Bros. Brawl as I have to switch SD to a 2GB or less card. Edit 1: I forgot to ask, is the last RAW file needed all the time on the SD drive?
@@BelowAverageGaming Perfect, I'll make sure to keep that last raw to free that space on my SD, as a side note, this worked perfectly fine, is great to not keep changing the drive over and over.
Have you actually tried to load WiiU without SD card? Mine is not loading in to Aroma environment despite installing all necessary plugins in to SLC . With SD card plugged in WiiU loads fine into Aroma.
I don't think it's supposed to load you into the aroma environment without the SD card. It's just supposed to make it so your Wii U works in general since without the SD it would just be looking for the minute menu when it's not there. This is for the people who lose their SD card because at least they will still have a functioning console until they recover their files. My best guess would be you would have to somehow install the payloader from aroma directly into the Wii U for that to happen the way you're thinking
@@BelowAverageGaming I used another version of USB Plugin to be able to use USB drive Fat32 partition as SD card replacement: wafel_usb_partition_sd.ipx. I followed instructions from corresponding gbatemp thread. Still no success.
@@BelowAverageGaming Yes, but I followed someone else's tutorial video. ua-cam.com/video/V2AZjdz-Gj0/v-deo.html (at 9:49) I'm more than happy to follow yours if you have a video on properly installing these settings.
Hope havi'f this tuto mounth ago, actually i use 1to ssd and a 400go micro sd so no more need of espace for the moment on my wiiu.... Hope i won't forgot anything ? :)
1. why the nanddumper backup. It will be the same as the first backup from minute, only that it takes much longer 2. why format the hdd on the wii u first? If someone uses it for the vWii already, they might want to keep their stuff 3. if you leave settings, aroma won't load automatically, because you are still using the payload loader and not the payloader plugin. 4. why delete the small otp and seeprom backup, but keep the superblock and the much larger slc.raw on the sd?
1, because I was following the written guide and that's what it told me to do. 2, because not everyone is like you and has games on their hard drive already, some people are starting from scratch. Formatting it first. Lets you choose the partition style on the PC when you select it later. Either way, formatting the hard drive seems like a personal choice depending on the person. 3, I left the settings the way I did in the video and aroma seems to run fine for me, no issues 4, following the guide once again which makes no mention of deleting any of the files, didn't delete it because I didn't know I could. While the bin files, I knew I could.
Did you put the correct fw.image on the SD card? I would make sure your folder structure is correct and all the files are in the right place. Worst case I would restart what you did. Make sure you're running aroma as well
I'm sorry to bother you man but i encountered two issues: Usb loader gx on vWii doesnt seems to detect the games, but on a normal wii, it does (same versions) Wiiflow lite works fine so i guess im gonna using that for now Second issue is when exiting Wii U settings the console reboot but it doesnt reboot in aroma (just turn off and on again fix this but its a bit annoying) Regard usb loader gx i ecountered many problem like slowness or gets stuck for some seconds when you use the settings menu or press the home button with the wii mote
Honestly, I use Wiiflow more than USB loader GX so as far as troubleshooting goes, I'm not really sure what you can do other than tinkering with the settings. You could possibly try downgrading your version of USB loader GX to see if it's more compatible with the hack but that would be my best guess As far as your second issue of it not rebooting into aroma, did you have aroma set to autoboot originally before you did this mod?
I'll try older versions but yeah wiiflow is great, for the second issue yes aroma was on auto boot, maybe i can check if is still the case? Thank you for your response!
man i can't believe finallly we can use only 1hdd for everything do you know if reinserting the partitioned hdd on a wii and using usb loader gx works or not?
it depends on the drive: if it has 4K sectors (and exposes them), then up to 16TIB are no problem. With the standard 512byte sectors you are limited to 2TiB per partition. But since the Wii U has a 300 title limite and the games aren't that big, you won't need so much anyway
@@BelowAverageGaming Can i ask question how do we play retro games off hard drive? If the hard drive has a dedicated power plug can we use a usb hub that is powered by ac plug would that work?
yes! thank you, now i can get every gcn, wii/wiiware, and wii u game on my drives!
Thanks for another great Wii U mining video.
I'm still holding out hope that one day they can just make a Wii U version of the USB loader GX that can launch from the Wii U title screen and it can somehow read both Wii U and Wii games so you can launch anything you want from one location.
That would be nice!
You kinda can by injecting titles with UWUVCI AIO. It works with Wii and Cube.
amazing tutorial ! I wish I did this as soon as I jailbraiked my wiiu.
I feel too lazy to redownload the games and reinstall them on the HDD😅
Awesome video, thanks for making it! I think I recently read that it may be possible to run both Wii U and Wii from the SD slot using SDUSB. That would be really cool to see a tutorial on if that sounds interesting.
I believe you're right, instead of the USB partition patch.ipx there is another one that says SD partition patch.
Interesting stuff! Might stress out the SD card though
hey man awesome video
thank you so very much
Personally I use the SD card for Wii games and an USB drive for Wii U games.
I read that some games can't do game saves etc on large cards, is that old info that no longer counts?
@MykGerard I have no idea, never heard of that honestly 😅
People usually do the opposite, using usb loader gx to load wii games on vWii (Wii menu) and HDD for the Wii U games, using WUP installer GX (with this you can choose where to install the games from SD card to the HDD or in the nand which is not recommended)
Helpful video. Question, can the FAT32 side be used for Gamecube plus Wii games as well?
Yep!
When you're talking about the WiiFlow tutorial, I assume you mean your video titled "The Best Wiiflow Tutorial You're Going To See"? It would run in the vWii part of the WiiU off the USB instead of the SD card? And lastly, I assume that playing GameCube game on the WiiU via WiiFlow wouldn't work due to missing hardware? Sorry for the barrage of question, I've just began looking into making my WiiU into an emulating beast and I'm currently in the "gathering info" step, so this video is god tier timing. :D
Gamecube games work fine with Wiiflow
Cool, this was always annoying! 🎉 Thanks for the tutorial.
Finally, but I'm assuming I have to format my drive with games already on it?
Yep! No way around that. The alternative is to just keep flip-flopping drives
No need to flip-flop drives if using USBLoaderGX, it works fine with Aroma and double drive setup. Wiiflow also works with double drive setup partially: I am able to load emulators but vWii games work only when WiiU drive is disconnected.
@vasjapupkin1710 with this tutorial now you don't need two drives, that's kind of the point.
Depending on the drive you buy, you could be saving yourself $70 to $100 by just using one.
Depends: if it is Wii U formatted than yes. If t is setup for the vWii, you can just shrink the existing partition and create the second one.
@@vasjapupkin1710 This is a known issue. It actually can work with both hdd (vWii and Wii U) plugged in, but there is a random issue where, depending on the harware ID of the harddrives, WiiFlow will sometimes choose the wrong HDD when launching games. For me I was able to see the games, but couldn't launch any Wii games (GHC worked fine). After swapping my 2.5 HDDs between the enclosures I was working, problem solved. It's random and super annoying, but just letting you know if can work in WiiFlow. Hopefully an update will fix the issue.
Heya, I have downloaded all the things necessary and put them as demonstrated on a video, but fw_img_loader isn't showing in payload menu for some reason. Any idea why it isn't present?
Is the file on the root of your SD card?
Did you rename FW encrypted to fw.img?
@@BelowAverageGaming I did this and it is still not showing up, for me
@RyanJewell try grabbing the fw_img_loader from
aroma.foryour.cafe/
And trying again
@@BelowAverageGaming Solved - When I initially installed aroma, I never downloaded the fw_img_loader payload - downloaded that to the SD card and viola. On to the next step. Hopefully this is helpful to anyone else that used a guide that didn't need it.
Question for the Wii U do you have have run the tablet thing always can games not be played without it? I am actually. Wii U has nice games Wii and GameCube too either I would do it this way or Emulation on a mini pc.
This would’ve been useful to me before I bought a separate Wii to both not have to switch drives, but also to get better picture quality
This is cool but so much work and there is a chance you will brick your WiiU if something happened to your SDcard during the step where your system runs only from your SDcard. I'll just stick to injection for now. Might take a while, too many Wii and GC games in my collection, but the steps are simple and without serious risk.
Your Wii U won't brick if you lose your SD card lol
If you lose your SD card you will be stuck booting into the minute menu every time you want to use your Wii U and there would be not much to do about that without an SD card.
Which is why the step right after that I show you how to install it directly into your system which negates that worry altogether.
All in all, if you're somebody who's doing this for the first time, this should be the preferred method
if the fw.img isnt found on the sd or slc, isfshax will patch the iosu fw.img and boot it
It won't brick, without the SD and without anything on the SLC, it will just boot to the Wii U menu like normal (but a little bit slower). And you can just continue with a new SD card, by putting the files back on.
Quick question, I've seen a video where they launch wiiflow from Wii U home menu and its seamless. No need to navigate vWii at all. How do we do this?
Does this method work if I’m only using a 256gb sd card and no HDD?
I already have an 2 TB hdd formatted for WiiU with all my games backed up. Is it possible to partion without losing everything or a way to back it up on a pc and then restore after the partition is set up?
You'll have to back it up and restore it
search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fgbatemp.net%2Fthreads%2Fdumpsteru-wii-u-harddrive-dumper.568513%2F&Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4
good bomberman hero music
My favorite one!
Im assuming that if the wii u already formated the usb you cant do this?
If it's already formatted then you already have 1 step done lol
@@BelowAverageGaming Sorry, just asking before i whatch the hole video
Wow!
Hello, and thanks for the great tutorial! Everything works great, except for me, the minute autoboot ini file seems to not be working. I have the minute folder on the root, with the ini inside, with the correct text. However, when I boot the console, the minute main menu loads, and no autoboot into aroma happens. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Did you type it in yourself or did you copy and paste it into the file?
Make sure if you pasted it in. There's no spaces before the first letter of the text.
Make sure minute is spelled correctly for "minute.ini"
Try deleting the file and recreating the file.
Make sure you have autoboot already enabled on your console running aroma normally
That was alot of work lol. But nice tut. I have a 256 gig Sd card. Plenty of space for my Wii games.
I just have to finish testing the vWii to see if this worked, at least I did pretty much all the steps and I only need to test 2 things, the SDCafiine plugin in Aroma AND the vWii side, which I have it ready with everything I have pretty much from another drive (which I probably I have to keep for my actual Wii, but I wonder if my Wii can use my WiiU drive without issues... most likely yes, because if that's the case... I can take advantage of my HDD to save stuff from my PC for backups and such), I'll edit this comment once I test the vWii side of things... especially if I want to use modded stuff for Smash Bros. Brawl as I have to switch SD to a 2GB or less card.
Edit 1: I forgot to ask, is the last RAW file needed all the time on the SD drive?
As long as you backed up that last raw file, you can delete it
@@BelowAverageGaming Perfect, I'll make sure to keep that last raw to free that space on my SD, as a side note, this worked perfectly fine, is great to not keep changing the drive over and over.
What is the largest hdd you can use? I was told 2TB for wiiu and 2TB for vwii. So I'm guessing 4TB would be the biggest I should go?
Correct, I believe it's only 2tb partitions that it can read
@BelowAverageGaming thanks so much for your videos. Got my sub.
Have you actually tried to load WiiU without SD card? Mine is not loading in to Aroma environment despite installing all necessary plugins in to SLC . With SD card plugged in WiiU loads fine into Aroma.
I don't think it's supposed to load you into the aroma environment without the SD card. It's just supposed to make it so your Wii U works in general since without the SD it would just be looking for the minute menu when it's not there.
This is for the people who lose their SD card because at least they will still have a functioning console until they recover their files.
My best guess would be you would have to somehow install the payloader from aroma directly into the Wii U for that to happen the way you're thinking
@@BelowAverageGaming I used another version of USB Plugin to be able to use USB drive Fat32 partition as SD card replacement: wafel_usb_partition_sd.ipx. I followed instructions from corresponding gbatemp thread. Still no success.
So if i already modded my wii u would i still have to remod my console? Or would i just be doing the ftpiiu and forward?
That's what the prerequisites are for. It means you should have that before you start
If you have that done, no you don't need to redo anything
Everything worked well up until the point I try to launch a Wii game. When I start any game, it boots back into USB Loader GX. Any ideas how to fix?
Have you ever done the CIOS installer?
@@BelowAverageGaming Yes, but I followed someone else's tutorial video. ua-cam.com/video/V2AZjdz-Gj0/v-deo.html (at 9:49)
I'm more than happy to follow yours if you have a video on properly installing these settings.
Try the official written guide
search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwii.hacks.guide%2Fcios.html&Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4
Hope havi'f this tuto mounth ago, actually i use 1to ssd and a 400go micro sd so no more need of espace for the moment on my wiiu.... Hope i won't forgot anything ? :)
1. why the nanddumper backup. It will be the same as the first backup from minute, only that it takes much longer
2. why format the hdd on the wii u first? If someone uses it for the vWii already, they might want to keep their stuff
3. if you leave settings, aroma won't load automatically, because you are still using the payload loader and not the payloader plugin.
4. why delete the small otp and seeprom backup, but keep the superblock and the much larger slc.raw on the sd?
1, because I was following the written guide and that's what it told me to do.
2, because not everyone is like you and has games on their hard drive already, some people are starting from scratch. Formatting it first. Lets you choose the partition style on the PC when you select it later. Either way, formatting the hard drive seems like a personal choice depending on the person.
3, I left the settings the way I did in the video and aroma seems to run fine for me, no issues
4, following the guide once again which makes no mention of deleting any of the files, didn't delete it because I didn't know I could. While the bin files, I knew I could.
@@BelowAverageGaminglink to the written guide?
All links are in the description.
search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fgbatemp.net%2Fthreads%2Fhow-to-set-up-isfshax.642258%2F&Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4
Why not just inject the games? Much easier and you can use the gamepad.
PLEASE HELP!!!! When I try to run FW img loader it just freezes up on me.
Did you put the correct fw.image on the SD card? I would make sure your folder structure is correct and all the files are in the right place. Worst case I would restart what you did.
Make sure you're running aroma as well
If I already have games on my external.hard drive can I psrtition it without losing my wii u games and then download wii games on it?
No, you cannot partition without losing it
@@BelowAverageGamingoh well.
Isn’t it that you can also use an ssd hard drive with a SATA cable so you don’t need to use a Y cable?
Not sure! The splitter cable is only needed for power really
Usb loader says my hdd isnt initialized after putting game in wbfs folder and moving back to reformaany suggestions
*back to wii u.
My hdd died lol false alarm
After booting with slc the screen is stuck on "Jumping to IOS... go go go", fixings?
Did you already have autoboot enabled on aroma prior to this?
Try turning your console off, back on and trying again
I'm sorry to bother you man but i encountered two issues:
Usb loader gx on vWii doesnt seems to detect the games, but on a normal wii, it does (same versions)
Wiiflow lite works fine so i guess im gonna using that for now
Second issue is when exiting Wii U settings the console reboot but it doesnt reboot in aroma (just turn off and on again fix this but its a bit annoying)
Regard usb loader gx i ecountered many problem like slowness or gets stuck for some seconds when you use the settings menu or press the home button with the wii mote
Honestly, I use Wiiflow more than USB loader GX so as far as troubleshooting goes, I'm not really sure what you can do other than tinkering with the settings.
You could possibly try downgrading your version of USB loader GX to see if it's more compatible with the hack but that would be my best guess
As far as your second issue of it not rebooting into aroma, did you have aroma set to autoboot originally before you did this mod?
I'll try older versions but yeah wiiflow is great, for the second issue yes aroma was on auto boot, maybe i can check if is still the case? Thank you for your response!
hi i got it working with the autoboot but i have to open the health app to use aroma
That means you didn't follow the prerequisites at 0:58
man i can't believe finallly we can use only 1hdd for everything
do you know if reinserting the partitioned hdd on a wii and using usb loader gx works or not?
I would imagine it does!
@@BelowAverageGaming i'll test it
@@BelowAverageGaming now usb loader gx on the wii U does not recognize the hdd, any solution?
Are you using a compatible drive with a Y splitter cable?
@@BelowAverageGaming yes I'm using a well tested drive that works with both Wii and wii U and a Y split cable on the 2 USB ports on the back
Anybody know how to use Wii64 on the Wiiu with the wiiu gamepad? I'd like to play N64 roms with the Wiiu gamepad. Thanks.
create a virtual console inject with uwuvci
Just use the injection method
Does this work with Haxchi?
No, if you're still running that I would upgrade
Can i use 10tb drive ?
I believe so! The partitions would have to be 2 TB each though and no higher than that
it depends on the drive: if it has 4K sectors (and exposes them), then up to 16TIB are no problem. With the standard 512byte sectors you are limited to 2TiB per partition. But since the Wii U has a 300 title limite and the games aren't that big, you won't need so much anyway
@@BelowAverageGaming Can i ask question how do we play retro games off hard drive? If the hard drive has a dedicated power plug can we use a usb hub that is powered by ac plug would that work?
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