Some Wii Games run from WiiFlow Lite but others don't?

[stupid_town]

Hello all! Newbie here, I've been attempting to get my Wii softmodded all day but to no avail. The issue I'm having has to do with most Wii games not loading. Whenever I attempt to load most games from WiiFlow, it just kicks me back to the home screen, and USBLoaderGX doesn't even load the games that load in WiiFlow, they all just send me back to the home screen. The strangest part though is that WiiFlow can load *some* of the games, by which I mean two that I've found so far, Rhythm Heaven Fever and Super Mario All-Stars (the Wii version) (duh). The other ones that I've tried that all fail are Wario Land: Shake It, Super Mario Galaxy, and Super Paper Mario (I also had a separate issue with Punch-Out just crashing my Wii when I tried to click on it in WiiFlow). All the same files ran just fine when I loaded them in Dolphin on my PC. I would also like to note the visual difference between a failed load and a successful load in case that might help. Whenever I load a game in WiiFlow that actually does work, the entire screen goes black except for a loading bar that spans the length of the entire screen near the bottom, and whenever it fails I just see the WiiFlow loading icon like you see when you first open the app, before the screen goes black and returns to the home screen. All the games show up in both apps, with USBLoader not showing any game start screens or channel icons. I'm using a 256GB SD card formatted to FAT32 using GUI Format. GameCube games load fine through WiiFlow also. Now that I think about it all of the games that I attempted to load through WiiFlow that failed are all games that I have played previously via disc on my console, in case that's the issue.

Here is a list of solutions I've already tried (although forgive me if I skip any, I've been doing this all day and only now thought to ask for help):

• Uninstalling and reinstalling USBLoaderGX
• Uninstalling and reinstalling WiiFlow
• Using USBLoaderGX v1271
• Uninstalling and reinstalling HBC and BootMii
• Reinstalling all cIOSes
• Manually changing games cIOS from 248-251
• Changing my NAND Emulator settings in WiiFlow

I've posted my syscheck below just in case I did somehow mess up the cIOSes (which wouldn't surprise me). Thanks for taking the time to read!

Spoiler: syscheck

SysCheck ME v2.5.0 by blackb0x, JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199 and Nano
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 12.18.2008
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 141362962
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United States (49)
Boot2 v4
Found 127 titles.
Found 49 IOS on this console. 7 of them are stubs.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80[60] (rev 65535, Info: ModMii-IOS60-v6174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS248[38] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS249[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v11beta1): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 04/05/2024.

 

[Exidous]

I suspect differential performance on a single platform is a game-specific issue.

You didn't mention how you put the Wii games on the SD card. I use Wii Backup Manager (available via Modmii). You could try re'installing' the problematic games to the SD card. If that doesn't fix it, and the issue is not how they're arrayed on the storage, they could simply be bad dumps - bad in a way that Dolphin doesn't care about, but a Wii (backup loader) does.

 

[stupid_town]

I'm afraid you're right, I'm gonna try some different dumps to see if they work. I tried redownloading the games to the SD card using Wii Backup Manager but they still fail to open. New issue I've just noticed though, my disc drive either seems to be broken or not working? It was working before, but now whenever I insert a disc that I know works (I checked using a WiiU), it says unable to recognize, and when I try to open it through WiiFlow it says "Disc open failed".

This is turning out to be a massive headache

Post automatically merged: Apr 6, 2024

Good news! After bumping my Wii by accident the disc drive started making noise and it loaded up Mario Kart Wii on my home menu just fine. Yay!

 

[stupid_town]

Update update: I think my disc drive is kaput. In better news though, using cISO 251 worked to load the games that weren't working before for whatever reason!