Welcome to The Ultimate USB Loader GX guide for 2025! In this video, I’ll walk you through the easy setup process for USB Loader GX, unlocking its full potential for an enhanced gaming experience on your Nintendo Wii. Doing so will allow you to play not only your Wii and GameCube backups but also all your other retro systems as well, pretty much turning the Wii into an emulation station (using WAD’s but i like Wiiflow better lol!). So check it out!
#Wiihomebrew #usbloadergx
Need to know how to install individual emulators? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk3HmB1yEbI&t=1388s
Do you need to install CIOS? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSA1JDBQE2U&t=3s
Check out my other Wii Tutorials! : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp5RyVd12Cdt-hJWdkcuHNw3HDQY8v8no&si=NdqQTggHLRTWnSWP
Feel free to join the Discord! : https://discord.com/invite/xMedkhP3m8
**TIME STAMPS**
0:00 – Intro/What are we doing?
1:27 – Downloads
4:26 – FAT32 Format USB device
5:08 – SD Setup
8:42 – Adding Wii games to SD
8:57 – Convert Wii .RVZ games to .WBFS
11:03 – Adding Wii games to HDD
12:10 – Adding GC games to HDD/SD
13:11 – Adding the .XML file
13:54 – Installing WADS
15:20 – How to play from SD
15:50 – Installing physical media
16:16 – Adding cover art
17:12 – Changing theme and music
17:56 – Adding categories
**GAMECUBE GAMES**
To play GameCube games, extract the Nintendont folder and drag the “apps” and “controllers” folder onto the root of your SD card
https://oscwii.org/library/app/Nintendont
**LINKS**
Fat 32 Format : http://ridgecrop.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Hamster Audio tool : https://hamster-free-audio-converter.en.softonic.com/download
usbloaderGX : https://github.com/wiidev/usbloadergx/releases/tag/v3.0-r1281
usbloaderGX WAD : https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbloadergx/files/Releases/Forwarders/
YAWM : https://github.com/modmii/YAWM-ModMii-Edition/releases/tag/1.0.1
WiibackupManager : https://archive.org/download/wii-backup-manager-build-78_202107
Dolphin Emu : https://dolphin-emu.org/
GameCube Backup Manager : https://github.com/AxionDrak/GameCube-Backup-Manager/releases
SynthWiive theme : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0LFZsFutz4
Other themes :https://gbatemp.net/threads/dark-wii-usb-loader-gx-themes.584493/
Custom Emulator icons : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FPyMTXntdmukXKDV2Qrf1ievWR8mj0nu/view
Extra Wads : https://www.mediafire.com/folder/kup4smqh4aw45/RunningSnakes_Forwarders
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Ive followed all your tutorials. Everything works BUT the games all go to black screen when starting. Ive double, triple, quadruple checked everything and restarted the process from scratch multiple times now. What the hell am I doing wrong.
Where should i download my games when i want to start the 9:03 timestamp
Whenever I download the dolphin emulator it doesn’t download the folder, how do I fix this?
Hey, could you make a tutorial, how to play gc controller on wii games, I find this stuff complicated, I ended up on rv loader.
But has USB loader gx not something build in this type of stuff?
You can actually format to FAT32 using Wii backup manager – click on "tools" then "format drives"
Whenever I try to format my USB to FAT32 it says the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process how do I fix this?
Can someone tell me why my SD card is not recognized in usbloaderGX even though I have done everything
hey i dont know if you will see this but i did it. it did work then i tried to install the wads for the emulators and then usb loader now gets an error when i open it would it be the wads by any chance and if its the wii itself and not the sd could i just import my NAND(if thats even possible)
This might be the best tutorial on YouTube
Is it possible to run the emulators off the SD card or should I use the SD for wii and gamecube and get a ssd for emulators
My Wii games are showing up in the usbloader but my GameCube games aren’t. Any help?
Can you make a tutorial for Wii link?
Hey i have a question when you made you're theam folder what do i put in i download the dark blue and idk what to do lol
Btw I’m having an issue where the cover art doesn’t stay on and I have to go and manually change it every time
I know you probably won't read this, but if you do, i was wondering how you download mods on USB loader GX (speciffically insane kart wii)
Question: If I upgrade my SD card from a 64gb to a 128gb and copy files over to it will I have to repeat any processes or will it work fine? By the way both this and your Homebrew video worked flawlessly for me tysm!
I think I have a "simple" fix but I'm not smart enough, so I have everything (as far as I know on the SD card, homegrown loads up everything else shows, I actually played Tysons punch out today, however, when I went to play an actual wii game, nothing, is there some emulator or reader that I deleted on accident that I can reinstall?
when we download a wbfs file and put it into the wbfs folder then take the sd to the wii, what would cause the file to not pop up?
i hate how you're skipping the cios part all because of a seperate video
where do i set USB drive mounting? i saw it somewhere but now i cant find the option.
I get a black screen when loading wii games from a hdd
Hello again, do I need homebrew for this?
can you add all this to the same sd card I used to mod and add homebrew on and what not?
The cover art is not downloading, it says 57 files not found in server, and its not like i have any rare games that shouldn't be there
Great viseo I did mostly everything except for the emblems and themes however I was wondering why my wii games did not appear other than smash brothers
My Wii backup manager won’t download the games I have the files it just says 0 percent can anyone help
can you also do a guide on how to get certain games working most of my games work but some keep sending me to the wii menu
This looks SOOO GOOD im doing this when i get my wii back ASAP
I didn’t catch it, do I need an SD card and a USB drive for this?
My usb loader is bugged on my Wii U , the bottom banner on the game select screen where it says start or play is missing . It used to be fine I think an update has caused it I found a post about a fix but I havnt managed to get it working as of yet. I used the guide to make Wii flow look awesome but it would he nice to have usb loader looking wicked too
Question thanks for this guide I got the MicroSD 32gb working great now I want to also add a USB with games but it's unable to read it? Is there something special I need to do I would like to have a USB with even more games
mine couldn't find the theme i downloaded and none of my games were given their cover art and i have no clue what to do
Question I got an Dsi error when I was trying to open it up, how can I fix that?
Give up with retroarch as just crahes on my wii u and tried many different ones.
Guess I don't really need it I got SNES roms working on my vwii now and the Edownloads for ww u games to USB stick
I also get sega gens going to.
Yooo nice tutorial
I just want to give you a HUGE THANK YOU for these vids, I’ve used a lot of tutorials before for various things but yours are the best I’ve ever seen, thorough and explained and shown exactly what to do thank you!
i LOVE this video. But i have a question. i installed the emulators, but i can't understand how to play games on them, any suggestions? im going crazy 😖
I need to do the homebrew first and then add usb loader?
Hi, thank you for this incredible Video!, i have a lot of questions but can you tell me, is it better USB Loader GX or WiiFlow? Maybe im mixing concepts here, I´ve seen plenty of your videos and need to know if its better to install those in vWii or install games directly in the WiiU (using retroarch or smth)
Thank you in advance.
Everytime i try to add cover arts and restart the loader my settings go back to default path goes back to /usb8 idk what to do can anybody help ?