Clarification:
DML ONLY works from SD Card/SDHC Card, nothing else, no USB. There won't be a USB version someday.
So Yeah, this "Clarification" is incorrect, crediar was able to do it


What you'll need:

• IF YOU WANT TO PLAY FROM SD
• The Latest DIOS-MIOS (Lite) package from here (older versions here).
• DML WAD Creator (for older versions)
• IF YOU WANT TO PLAY FROM USB
• FOR DML and DIOS-MIOS
• GameCube ISO Compress, fstfix, DiscEX or GCReEX (your choice, read below first and decide what you want to use)
• A WAD Manager (for example WAD Manager 1.7)
• A SD Card or a USB Device (D'OH!)
• Gamecube Controller and Memory Card

How to:

1. If you have downloaded the newer version go to step 6, if you picked the older ones follow this.
2. Extract the DML package in a folder with the same name as the package (for example DMLr13 for DMLr13.zip). If there is just a iosmodule.elf of the latest DML available then copy it into a new DML folder and rename it to DML.elf.
3. If you already have a RVL-mios-v10.wad, copy it into the DML folder. Then the creator don't need to download the file.
4. Extract the DML WAD Creator into the DML folder. Then run the "create_wad.bat" and type "DML" to create the DML wad, if you don't have the RVL-mios-v10.wad it will be downloaded.
5. If the DML WAD Creator asks you which version you want to build type it in like '13' for DMLr13.
6. Now let's convert some gamecube games! If you downloaded the new DML versions or DIOS-MIOS just start reading here.
7. You'll need the gamecube games in iso or gcm format.
8. If you want to use DiscEX and downloaded the older DML versions, the DiscEX files needs to be in the same folder as the DML WAD creator. Just open the WAD Creator, type "C" to enter the convert menu, drag and drop the game into it and say if you want to compress it or not. If you use the newer DML versions or DIOS-MIOS, open up a command prompt and enter "DiscEX -c gamename.iso" if you want compression, replace "gamename" with the name of your iso file. If you dont want compression just drag and drop the iso file into the DiscEX.exe. Mostly compression will work fine, some games need to stay uncompressed, see here.
9. You can also use Gamecube ISO Compressor for the job, easiest way is there to just drag and drop your ISO file into the Compressor exe file. You can also just double click the exe file to see which options you can also use to compress the ISO files, they are more modes in it.
10. If you have downloaded the new DML versions, you can also use GCReEx, there you can use "GCReEx.exe -x game.iso", this will create no new ISO file but a folder which contains the extracted files, this way saves most space on the sd card.
11. There is also the possiblity to use fstfix instead to compress the games, use it like "fstfix game.iso" or "fstfix game.iso t" and drag and drop the resulting new iso in DiscEX. DiscEX will may stop at a certain percentage to copy the game, it will may also say the game is underdumped/overdumped. Both things come because the image haven't got the orignal size anymore, so you can ignore these messages.
12. After using one of the above ways to convert your games, copy the newly created folder of the tool to sd:/games if you want to play from SD and to usb:/games if you want to play from USB.

On your Wii:

1. Install the DML/DIOS-MIOS WAD with a WAD Manager, this will overwrite the current MIOS/cMIOS. Retail gamecube discs will still work since DMLr19. If you had a cMIOS installed before to play disc backups it wont be possible anymore until you re-install the cMIOS which will overwrite DML.
2. You can play the games either with DIOS-MIOS Booter, NeoGamma, postLoader4, Wiiflow, USB Loader GX or Configurable USB Loader. Make sure you have a disc inserted, otherwise your Wii will simply reset if you try to play a game.
3. The easiest one is DIOS-MIOS Booter, it works with all DML and DIOS-MIOS versions, just start it, select the game you want, set new options with the B button if you want, and launch the game.
4. To boot games using Wiiflow switch the coverflow mode to the gameube coverflow mode by pressing the icon down-right near the home icon a few times until you see the games. You can also download covers for them in the settings, it's the gear icon down-left. Wiiflow also supports all DML and DIOS-MIOS versions with all options.
5. To boot games using postLoader just press home to enter the menu, select "Switch to Game mode". In game mode just press up on the wiimote to enter the DML menu or press home, select "Game options" and then "Show DML menu". Then select the game you want to play.
6. For USB Loader GX you just need to go to the display icon and select display gamecube games too, then you can set options in the menu and play them.
7. In Configurable USB Loader they are just displayed together with the other wii games, there you can also set the options and launch them.
8. The other ways described now are currently not optimized for the new DML versions, doesnt work with DIOS-MIOS and my not work properly.
9. To boot games using NeoGamma go down to "Load Games from: " and select "Load GC Games via DML". Then go up and press A to search games. Select the game you want to play and press A to start it. NeoGamma doesnt have options to set for DML because its made for old DML versions.
10. If you want to remove DML/DIOS-MIOS again either reinstall a cMIOS or the RVL-mios-v10.wad. If DML doesn't work for you make sure you have a clean BC, to get it run the "create_wad.bat" in the DML wad creator package again and type "BC". Then just install the RVL-BC-v6.wad on your wii and try it again.

Recommendations:

• Format your SD Card to FAT16/FAT32 with 64KB cluster size to increase game speed
• If you want to use DIOS-MIOS format it to FAT32 with 32KB cluster size, also make the FAT32 the first one, primary and active
• If you want to use DML r21 I suggest the debug version since the regular version got small problems. Delete the DML.elf, rename the DMLdebug.elf to DML.elf and then create a new wad with it.
• If you have a problem you can try to rename/delete the "saves" folder on your sd card to everything you want, that can may fix it.
• Crediar created a small FAQ here that might help you as well with some general questions.

If you want to know game compatility check out the compatility list here:
http://wiki.gbatemp....patibility_List
http://crediar.no-ip.com/gc/
Don't forget to add the games you play to the list if they are missing

That's it! If you have questions just ask here. Have fun playing your gamecube games from SD!

 

[JN_big3]

Is there a NoDisc patch on WiiFlow? Or does DIOS-MIOS booter only have that option?

 

[Bombercules]

I was having black screen issues, got suggested to try DML on a smaller SD card, here's what happened

"alright found a 2 GB card, I used RVL-mios-v10 wad to go back to what I was before

then use bc v6 then DML 1.5 WADs

ran SSBM off that and still got the black screen issue"

so there was no disc light, nothing was plugged into USB, I really don't know what else to do

 

[ShinyLatios]

I saw there was an issue with kirby air ride on the Google code page, for discex, and so far I have yet to get it to work with discex without the -c, or with
GCReEx with and without the -x. I havent tried the other methods, though I heard kirby air ride doesnt work with any form of compression. If someone has it working, anyone mind giving me a tip?

you might have an underdumped version. try downloading the ISO marked as PROPER

 

[demon33]

beta 4 out !

 

[demon33]

I just figured that my 2 compilation disc don't work : legend of zelda collector edition / legend of zelda master quest .

They boot but when I select a game BANG! black screen &/or reeboot...

 

[Nocturno]

Hello guys,

Do you know when do we have to use DiscEX -c? Do we have to use -c with all games?

Edit: Sorry, I found out -c is to compress the games, nothing more.

Maybe you can answer me this, what's the "pad hook" option for? and where do I put the cheat codes? I'm using dios-mios booter.

 

[CortalRage]

Yeah my KAR iso was underdumped, I found my version from my gc iso site from years ago, and worked like a charm ^^ NOw if only I had a drive larger than 4 gigs... *sighs* My 2 TB External would have been perfect, but it doesnt like any form of parition manager, and the moment I try and re size a partition or change cluster size, ect, the drive like dies on me x.x I'm gonna have to back up my data on there and reformat the entire thing, then make my ntfs partition (since I have tons of files larger than 4 gigs, so fat32 is a no go) and my fat32 partition.

 

[Maxternal]

Hey there
i have been trying to load gamecube games on Configurable USB Loader R20 but it keeps crashing showing me white screen with error codes and returns to the menu in 60 seconds
i installed the latest DIOS V2 and used Gamecube Iso Compress for conversion
What is the cause of this issue ???

P.S I followed the guide properly and checked if anyone had the same issue but I couldnt find

I think the problem is with you using r20. Dios Mios only works with r35 beta 2 or higher.
Here's a link to r37 beta 2 which I think is the newest ATM.
http://www.mediafire.com/?vbgi03hhzzz7b5z

Is there a NoDisc patch on WiiFlow? Or does DIOS-MIOS booter only have that option?

In DM and in DML v1.x the NoDisk patch isn't controlled by a loader option anymore. It's simply controlled by whether there's a disk in the drive or not.
DIOS-MIOS booter just tried to be compatible with older versions of DML where it was an option.

 

[kingdomhearts17]

i have updated to the one you provided it still crashes when i choose a gamecube game and now if i go to the settings there is no Dios

 

[mrpinkeye]

well i got it working on a partitioned hdd. i used easeUS to split my ntfs and create fat32 for my gc games without loosing the data already on the hdd!

the fat32 section has to be primary and ntfs logical or cfg will show the dump screen and booter just crashes.

booter doesnt list the games alphabeticaly though which is a bit annoying but cfg does

possibly my last question is how to store (and load) multi disc games? whats the file path have to look like? am i right in saying atm only games which prompt a save before disc swapping will work?

iv tryed lots of games, most work great but a few have issues, where should i post these?

just wanna warn anyone doing this, although it worked fine when i made the first partition i soon ran out of space on it. so i merged the new partition with some unalloacted space. all the data is still there, its fat32 and primary, cfg and booter show the games BUT they wont load! so im back to using my usb stick. basically, if your gonna do it get all the space you need first time! i cant figure out whats gone wrong

 

[Maxternal]

just wanna warn anyone doing this, although it worked fine when i made the first partition i soon ran out of space on it. so i merged the new partition with some unalloacted space. all the data is still there, its fat32 and primary, cfg and booter show the games BUT they wont load! so im back to using my usb stick. basically, if your gonna do it get all the space you need first time! i cant figure out whats gone wrong

Just a hunch, try using partInfo (http://www.terabyteu...ds/PARTINFO.ZIP) to see if the partition really still is listed as the first partition. Something about merging it might have changed the order in the MBR. Even if it is the case I'm not sure how to fix it right off hand without a little googling.

EDIT : I'm not even sure the situation I just mentioned can really cause problems for DM booting but the way I found to put them in same order it's physically on the disk is using MBRWizard (http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.php?id=68928) with the command mbrwiz /sort

 

[mrpinkeye]

just wanna warn anyone doing this, although it worked fine when i made the first partition i soon ran out of space on it. so i merged the new partition with some unalloacted space. all the data is still there, its fat32 and primary, cfg and booter show the games BUT they wont load! so im back to using my usb stick. basically, if your gonna do it get all the space you need first time! i cant figure out whats gone wrong

Just a hunch, try using partInfo (http://www.terabyteu...ds/PARTINFO.ZIP) to see if the partition really still is listed as the first partition. Something about merging it might have changed the order in the MBR. Even if it is the case I'm not sure how to fix it right off hand without a little googling.

thanks. will check it out

 

[Zaertix]

So I finally have it all working. The games are detected and they load just fine.

I'm using one of the old Pelican Turbo 3rd party controllers. The only button that ever shows any response is Start, but not in-game. Just the green light showing it's being pressed.

Is it because it's a third party controller? Do I need a regular GC controller?

 

[mrpinkeye]

just wanna warn anyone doing this, although it worked fine when i made the first partition i soon ran out of space on it. so i merged the new partition with some unalloacted space. all the data is still there, its fat32 and primary, cfg and booter show the games BUT they wont load! so im back to using my usb stick. basically, if your gonna do it get all the space you need first time! i cant figure out whats gone wrong

Just a hunch, try using partInfo (http://www.terabyteu...ds/PARTINFO.ZIP) to see if the partition really still is listed as the first partition. Something about merging it might have changed the order in the MBR. Even if it is the case I'm not sure how to fix it right off hand without a little googling.

EDIT : I'm not even sure the situation I just mentioned can really cause problems for DM booting but the way I found to put them in same order it's physically on the disk is using MBRWizard (http://www.simtel.ne...rs.php?id=68928) with the command mbrwiz /sort

well i thought id try swapping primary and logical and then back the other way but when i tryed to swap the ntfs partition easeUS said something about a corrupt partition and possible loss of data if i swapped it! so....i didnt lol. nevermind, iv put all my ngc games on another hdd now just gotta get a memory card asap!

 

[insidexdeath]

My apologies if this was already mentioned, didn't want to go through 32 pages of questions to find my own answer... I have USB Loader GX 3.0 which viewed my games when I had Dios Mios Lite (SD Loading), but when I tried Dios Mios (USB Loader) none of my games even show even though I did the exact same steps as the Dios Mios Lite procedure.

Thank you.

 

[wilso]

im trying to run pokemon xd on dml 1.5 but it runs the game thats in my wii =(

 

[Maxternal]

My apologies if this was already mentioned, didn't want to go through 32 pages of questions to find my own answer... I have USB Loader GX 3.0 which viewed my games when I had Dios Mios Lite (SD Loading), but when I tried Dios Mios (USB Loader) none of my games even show even though I did the exact same steps as the Dios Mios Lite procedure.

Thank you.

Not sure if this is your only problem but
DM support (USB) was added AFTER the release of GX 3.0. Try GX r1193 mod2 which is the latest.
Otherwise the only thing I can think of is to change your main gamecube folder in custom paths in the settings over from SD to USB1 if you haven't done that already.

 

[tommyv]

quik question: When I install the new DIOS MIOS with USB support I assume I will Lose support of retail GC discs, if I want support back could I install DML? so DML will replace DIOS MIOS so I can have retail disc support + backups from SD, and if I want USB support I could go back to DIOS MIOS?

 

[ddetkowski]

yes, you can always revert back, by reinstalling DML, and going back to DM if you need to.

 

[tommyv]

yes, you can always revert back, by reinstalling DML, and going back to DM if you need to.

Thanks, lets say I would like to go back to "factory setting" no DM or DML what steps would I have to take?