Usb loader gx forwarder dol install#
Usb loader gx forwarder dol upgrade#

Usb loader gx forwarder dol install#

You can just install a usb forwarder channel that will allow you to access your USB Loader from the main menu, or install channels for individual games so that they show up on the main menu. There’s quite a few USB forwarder channels out there, but they all do pretty much the same thing. A USB forwarder channel looks in specific directories for an installed USB loader and tries to run it.

Usb loader gx forwarder dol upgrade#

The advantage of this is that it makes it simple to upgrade your USB loader without ever having to mess with the forwarder channel, since you can just swap the boot.dol to a newer version. This forwarder looks in the following locations for a USB Loader boot.dol: To make things easier, you can download the one I use: Universal Forwarder Channel by Narolez.

Load up WAD Manager in homebrew, find your wad, and choose to install.

You should now have the channel correctly installed, and should be able to access your USB loader directly from the main menu! If at any time you need to uninstall the channel from your Wii, you can follow the installation steps above, choose the same wad file, then choose to uninstall and the channel will be removed from your system. Installing games already on your USB hard drive is pretty simple, just be sure you already have the games loaded onto you hard drive via USB Loader.

You also need to download CRAP in order to assist with the channel creation.

Plug in your usb hard drive to your computer.Select the drive letter of your USB hard drive, i.e.Choose the game which you wish to create a channel for.Most of the time you should be fine with using USB Loader 1.6, but you may need to use a different loader depending on what options you want to apply to the channel. Your wad will be saved in the WAD directory of your CRAP folder, so you will need to copy/move this wad to your USB hard drive.Plug your USB hard drive back into your Wii, load up WAD manager via homebrew, find the wad you just created and install it.If at any time you need to uninstall this channel, simply load up the WAD manager, find your wad, and select “uninstall” instead of install.You should now have a channel listed on your main menu for your game, and you can repeat the above steps for any additional games you wish to install. There may be an occasional issue with a couple of games depending on what version of cIOS38 your are currently running. 14 unfortunately breaks dual-layed disc compatibility, so games such as Smash Bros. Brawl or Metroid Prime Trilogy will not work in USB Loader.