If you don’t have your Wii SD card mounted on your computer now would be a good time to do so. Also, once you’ve installed one loader you’ve essentially installed them all so it won’t be much of a hassle to try out other loaders like the eye-candy-a-riffic WiiFlow.įirst let’s take a peek at the contents of the AllInOnePack you downloaded from the USB Loader GX web site. USB Loader GX is user friendly, feature rich, and offers a good balance between usability and eye candy. Why USB Loader GX? There are more than a few USB loaders available but we selected USB Loader GX for this tutorial. Installing USB Loader GX and Setting Up Your Hard Drive This tool isn’t necessary unless you want to back your games up to another drive or to your computer.ĭouble check the list and make sure your Wii is modded for homebrew playback with the patched IOS and CIOS installed before proceeding. A copy of WBFS Manager if you wish to interact with and manage your Wii HDD from your Windows computer.(You should already have one if you’ve modded your Wii for homebrew.) It looks awesome sitting next to the Wii. The drive pictured above with the Wii-matching blue/silver/white color scheme is the FileMate 3.5″ to USB 2.0 enclosure. While we’ve never had any compatibility issues you can play it safe and browse this list of hard drives if you’re shopping for a new one and want to play it safe. We recommend grabbing the AllinOnePack for ease of setup. If you don’t have these things, start with our homebrew guide and then our guide on safeguarding and supercharging your Wii to get up to speed. A Wii already modified to play homebrew software and with the Trucha patch IOS and cIOS installed.

For this hack you’ll need the following items:

Wii disc drive cleaner