You can press the 1 Button on your Wii Remote to open up a dialog to download game covers and artwork from GameTDB.Try to exit out of the app, and then relaunch it after you put the USB drive in the other port of the Wii. If USB Loader GX says “Waiting for HDD…” with a 20 seconds countdown, it’s likely that it can’t find the USB drive.

You should be able to figure out all the great features of USB Loader GX by using it. This is intended to help you learn how to use it, by giving you a quick start. There is no “guide” to use the USB Loader GX app.

Insert your USB drive, and SD card if you’re using one, into your Wii and launch USB Loader GX from the Homebrew Channel.

Extract USB Loader GX and put it in the apps folder on your USB drive or SD card.

Do not format it as other types such as extFS or WBFS, the latter is an old format of storing Wii games. Make sure your USB drive is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Flash drives should be usable too, but external hard drives are recommended as they are more reliable, and can store more games. To play games, we recommend using an external hard drive for your Wii. If you are not copying games using Wii Backup Manager, Witgui, or Wii Backup Fusion, make a folder on the root of the USB drive or SD card named “wbfs” and put the games in there. You can also use a development build of Dolphin, right click on a game, and use “Convert File” to convert it. If you want to play games that are in NKit format, use this program to convert them to ISO first. We recommend you copy games over with Wii Backup Manager if you use Windows, Witgui if you use macOS, or Wii Backup Fusion for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Make sure you have installed cIOS before following this! This is a quick start guide on how to use USB Loader GX, a popular USB loader for the Wii that’s used to play games from a USB drive. If you need help for anything regarding this tutorial, please join the RiiConnect24 Discord server (recommended) or e-mail us at.

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