Hey guys! So this video still works fine, but I've made an updated video with the 2024 plugins pack, plus I made custom tools for you all to download to make renaming everything a lot easier than the " fuzzy rename tool", and on top of that I also show how to add music! Here it is if you're interested th-cam.com/video/z-aV3whflOQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TDLGzmO0dUsnIDrQ
First of all, thanks for sharing this content. I bought my Wii on 2012 and still play on it. Always used USB GX Loader but after watch this tutorial I decided to give wiiflow a chance. It worked 100% for me and I reallized that now my wii has became an emulation center with wo many options... and its also more charming that it used to be. Greetings from Brazil.
@@steviewonder1653 I had the same problem. Most are ads, if there is a x to close ad do it. Eventually I managed to download the correct file, it did take several times to find the correct download. Sorry I cannot be more specific because, like you, I was getting frustrated, after downloading several wrong files, and deleting them, almost by accident I did download the correct file. I also tried several sites. As anyone any better solutions?
I am about 90% complete on this project and the results so far are fantastic. I love my Wii again. Downloading and adding box art is tedious as heck, but the payoff is worth it. Some final cleanups I need to do are removing titles that I didn’t get box art for (more games than I’ll ever play, it’s about look, not completeness) and doing a few more renames to remove the (USA) from titles on systems where I got lazy
instead of deleating those games you can create a categories folded for the games that you dont want to see in your flow. Then with in caterories click that box till its an X and those games will not show but still be there. For instance my rom hacks dont have boxes but i still like to play them but not see them in the flow. Setting up catergories is long winded but well worth the pay off. at the click of a button i can just show my beat em ups or remove the sports games from the flow. Makes that wiiflow experiance that bit more amazing ;-)
Did you rename your games in the WiiFlow or did you rename the folder? Gamecube backup manager renamed a lot of my games and some of them were unrecognizable at first, like Ghost Recon 2 was renamed to gr2gc [GGYe41] so I'd like to rename it to Tom Clancey's Ghost Recon 2
Great tutorial, bro! I played a big part in creating the plugins pack way back during the lockdown. I have nothing but love and respect for Tetsuo Shima. His talent, passion, and dedication for the console are what created the masterpieces you see. It wouldn't be possible without him
Just wanna say thanks for this link, been trying to get a wiiflow lite to work on my black wii for a while and this one unexpectedly works. lol Also a massive thanks as that pack contained the missing mame cores i had been looking everywhere for so i can now have simpsons arcade in wiiflow. Again thank you very much, my wii project is now very close to being finished and now ive created my own custom themes :-)
First of all great video man, its been a big help! Also following the same instructions as the SNES games you set up (which worked btw) I've been having a hard time getting specifically N64 covers to show up and ps1 roms to show up at all in wiisxrx.. and guides seem to be somewhat scarce on fresh info. If you ended up doing a more in depth retro console set up video I would love that and definitely give it a watch lol
@@BelowAverageGaming I think it would get some good views! I've been helping out around a Wii modding support community and I've sent your video here to quite a few people to use at this point to help them fix their problems. A lot of them didn't even know about the retro consoles thing on WiiFlow but I bet a lot of them, including me would be very interested to learn more about it :)
This guide was great. I got it all working. But I ended up going back to just using the channels. Less glitchy/laggy. Flipping through covers is cool but takes too long when you got full retro libraries on it
you did an amazing job on this guide! other then my errors from previous installation fails making issues it all went off without a hitch. "if you try to launch flow and it crashes to menu its most likely that you installed dx2 cios wrong or differently than in this video. only working solution i found was to delete everything from flow including the save on the (wii)! then watch his video in the description and follow the steps again in dx2 cios. then reinstall from here again. hope that helps.
@@arthurcorbett7569 i dunno , i think they can. When i bought my wii i just played GC games , but nowadays i just use it for Wii. i rather play GC on dolphin with awesome textures and mods.
Is there any issues with trying to run it all from SD? I only ask because there is that bit where the file is clearly written "for usb". Could i just put them both on the SD?
Very helpful guide! I'm running into an issue that I cannot find a solution. I'm trying to add the box art for N64. I was able to rename the N64 games from the google doc list, and they appear to have copied just find. When I go to add the box art in Fuzzy, nothing is matching up. When I load everything in fuzzy per the guide, and select "Add original ext too" the ROM names will list, but nothing in the Closest Match folder. I've repeated these steps about 5 times, shut everything down, try again, the whole 9 yards and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!
is it possible to use this setup with sd card only? or is hdd/usbdrive is a must? i dont have a lot of wii and gamecube game 64gb or 128gb would suffice for me. anyway thanks for the tutorial! the result looks great i would've never find wiiflow can do these things if i dont watch your video
I just did today. Only things I did different was when I something said copy to usb i didn't do them. Also put the wbfs and games folder on sd card. It saw my wii game right away and i had to change the game cube setting to look on the sd card.
Everything works great for me except the hard drive. I can play games from my sd card but my Wii flow doesn’t give me the option for a usb 1 or 2. It only shows me ad or sd/usb. USB loader will read and play my hard drive fine though. I want to use wii flow though because it looks nicer. And suggestions?
Dude! This is what I was looking for! It’s a jungle of half deprecated old threads/servers out there. Not everything works, very little has documentation after 2015ish (or older) and it’s only through random videos like this that I’ve found “un-searchable” things. Kinda feels like old Aperture Science, the one in Portal 2, where Cave Johnson talks. The lights are surprisingly on, but no one is home kind of thing. Now, I’ve been trying to add stupid amounts of roms (my bright idea, I know it’s waaay too much), but would it be possible to make a torrent with all of this? That way people can select the cores/plugins and covers and have it all ready with a few button presses. I ask because for all the rom out there, no one has a proper collection of all with no duplicates. I’ve been awake for almost 2 days trying to fix this.
This video is super user friendly. Thanks for such a easy to follow tutorial. I have one question though, I'm trying to load Blue circles wad, but every time i select it, it freezes. Could you think of somewhere i could've went wrong?
Great tutorial man, I do have some questions please, how can I make wiiflow run from HDD entirely, without having to resort on the SD card after everything is set up of course. I also want the box covers to be stored in the HDD
Hey huge thank you for this video, I followed it and was able to do it to mine as well! I love it. One question though, towards the end when your doing the retro games, you put all your coverart/roms on the SD card, is it possible to do that to the hdd? I have a lot of roms, and an external drive that has my wii/gc games, but then we swapped over in the video to putting the retro stuff on the sd. Just curious, or if you had any advice. Thanks for the video! Also loved your video on the trace repair on xbox, ive done quite a bit of that myself!
I haven't tried it actually, but if you look in the USB files that you place on the HDD, I believe there is a section for a cover art so it might work What I don't know is if the games have to be in the same spot as the cover art to work because if so I don't think retro games work from the HDD
Wow, thanks a lot! I was running my Wii with Homebrew, but that is way better, and your explanation made it super simple to install everything. I have just one question thought. Is it possible to remove the systems I don't play, like Intelivision and PCs, to make it look cleaner and show only the ones I do play? Thanks for sharing all that knowledge.
26:00 I see that you put all of your game files into somewhere on your SD card. But how are they then read by the emulators? For example, I have Super Mario 64 saved in Not64. Not64 has 2 folders in it, ROMS and saves. The Super MArio 64 rom is saved in there as well as the save. But it's saved IN the emulator's folders. So how does that work when I have to put the file somewhere else?
@@dreamwaresoft i struggled with this problem for a few hours, the solution for me is in fuzzyrename tool put the cover folder in "files to rename". DONT use the txt name file and just use your roms folder as "target file name" and CHECK the "add original ext too" box. change the "destination folder" to your sd card/wiiflow/boxcovers/*your console rom* and click go! then reload cache in wiiflow. if the rom name is romname.zip then the box cover name should be romname.zip.png
def gonna give this a try. question do you have to use a hard drive? can you do this all on a 500gb SD? and is the only way to download all the ROM text names at once from media fire is to to get premium?
I’m having the same problem. I know the hard drive works, it works just fine on my other Wii that I modded years ago. The newer versions of Wiiflow aren’t recognizing it.
Hey can you help point me to the best option to play any/all GameCube games? (Without needing the physical discs) I watched a few of your videos but unsure which mod and system is best for that purpose. Appreciate your help!
Are your Nintendo Wii games being read? If so then try shifting both over to USB1? Are you using a USB drive or HDD? Which port on the Wii do you have it plugged in on?
Sounds like your USB drive isn't being read. Try a different drive or an HDD If you're looking at the back of the Wii, make sure the USB is plugged into the far right port
I had wiiflow working perfectly fine until i had a full usb drive, i would try to load into wiiflow and it would black screen for a few seconds then go back to the wii menu, i even tried emptying the usb but it would do the same thing. i ended up having to reinstall wiiflow back onto my sd card and it started working again. do you have to have space on the usb for some reason?
Hi, am I missing something? If I press button 1 when I scroll the games, nothing happens. Is this differently animated game scrolling thing a default/built-in Wiiflow feature, or is it a plugin?
Hi amazing tutorial but I have Gx Loader working fully but when I try luanch games from wiiflow I get wiiflow logo then reset to wii menu. Could you help please?
Can you have your super nintendo and n64 games on wiiflow without using that theme? And when you play them from wiiflow does it automatically load them using SnesGx/Wii64?
I'm pretty sure this is nowhere on the internet, but you can format a hdd or sd card that is larger than 32GB using only the Windows Disk Management program which is already installed on Windows.. Just go in and delete the volumes off of your sd card, then right click to create a simple volume at about 29000 MB and set it to FAT32. Easy Peazy. Pretty sure that's what these programs do anyway. You can also create multiple partitions with different file structures and sizes. Just remember FAT32 only works for 32GB and below and HDDs never partition exactly that much. Hope this helps somebody.
I'm new to wii flow. I've been on USBLGX for a while now but I liked the lay out of the source flow on your setup. My question is: is there a way to always open up to the source flow menu instead of the last console you chose?
@BelowAverageGaming great tut! But is anyone else having issues with the gamecube backup manager? The file it says it needs at 13:30 never downloads and says the "central database is corrupted"
I have a Homebrew Nintendo DSi XL. Can I do anything with my Homebrew Nintendo Wii and the NDS? Can I put games on it from the Wii or use it as a controller.
Hi! Thanks a lot for this tutorial, I followed it step by step for Wii, Gamecube and N64 games and it was a success! I have a question. I added some N64 roms and covers. Wiiflow detected the roms and added the covers for most of them, except for about 10 roms for which the name changes did not work automatically and for which no box cover was uploaded. I manually changed the roms names and added the box covers (re-naming them manually too), but nothing changes when I'm in the console. I even deleted a rom from the SD card (because I accidentally uploaded it twice) and it still shows up in the console menu. Do you know if Wiiflow can re-detect roms and box-covers, as it happens @26:24? I have searched in the settings and I don't see an option for it. Thank you!
I'm not with my console at the moment, but I'm pretty sure if you hit the home button there is a way to reload the cashe in wiiflow. Perhaps that might help
Note to self: GAMENAME.nes and GAMENAME .nes.png In folders SD:\ROMS\Nintendo\NES and SD:\wiiflow\boxcovers\Nintendo\NES Then reload cache by pressing HOME > reload cache (optionally when replacing boxcovers delete SD:\wiiflow\cache\Nintendo\NES then reload cache)
I have successfully played 1 downloaded GC rom. In wiiflow, it shows up as having infinite that game.. like the game selection screen displays many of that game. So i got another rom to add, and it wont show up but still that initial game multiple times, endingless scrolling of just that game. And the game definitely works, i played it in the usb loader thing
Is there a way to use a USB or Hard Drive for the Wii and GC games? I have both on a Hard Drive in folders /games and /wbfs and WiiFlow won't even show my Hard Drive when I open up the Path Manager to change paths
Great tutorial. I do have one question. I got to the end and I realized all the SNES games and data are on the SD card. What Data (folders) do I move from the SD card so I am playing/pulling the games from the HDD?
ROM Text wasn't needed. It messed up all the covers and half the games were missing. Went back and used the original titles instead of the text ones and all the covers worked perfectly.
First of all many thanks for your detailed walkthrough. One question though, on around 25:11 you are placing some files in the boxart folder for that system (snes) You have a map structure for all the systems and where to put everything in. In my setup there is no mapstructure present. Do you have to create this yourself? And how to know what to name things?
I just made this guide recently with custom tools that I developed, that'll make things much easier for you to do this. Give it a watch and tell me what you think th-cam.com/video/0eYDwNgxgVk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=G5oJX6kZrv22ubTO It should take care of everything for you
Hi, I followed the guide, but I am stuck. Wiiflow doesn’t have a usb2 option on the partitions. Only sd and sd/usb , so it doesn’t see the hard drive or the games. Please help.
I got this all setup but I cannot get the wiiflow to load the games from my USB instead of my SD if I go to file explorer I do see the USB drive but just don't know how to get the wiiflow to load it up thanks if anyone can help I'm on a Wii u aroma console btw are you only able to load roms for older systems from an SD card ?
Have you had any luck with this? Wii Flow won't pick up my USB Hard drive at all yet GX Loader finds and runs my Wii and GC stuff from it just fine. The partition's setting gives me a choice of SD and SD/USB and the SD/USB option doesn't appear to give me anything...
I can get my Wii and GameCube games to show up I'm using a Samsung t7 SSD although I do have to plug it in while wiiflow is loading but there seems to be no way to load the roms like I was trying snes roms like he was doing and it only works off sd card for me and maybe that's just how it is IDK @@rickycocozza360
I got the Samsung t7 SSD to load up with the gamecube and Wii games although I do have to plug it in while wiiflow is loading up I just wasn't sure if there was supposed to be a way to have a USB hard drive to load the roms for all the older consoles when I load it up it seems to only look in the SD card for any non Wii or GameCube games update as of 03/14 I got the hard drive to load fine now not sure what's different and I'm just using a 1 tb SD card for roms instead of a hard drive doesn't seem to be a way to do it
Guide was awesome. Followed step by step for the SNES covers and they still won't load. Even went back and retried to make sure I didn't mess up. NES won't work either. I do have full usa collections of each system, so could the problem be I have to many? Love the content
Have you tried reloading the cache since you put it on there? If it's not loading and it's not the issue above, I would say it's due to how the titles of your files are named and where they are placed
Everything is working,except when i try to launch a wii game, it does a little visual glitch with the wiiflow loading symbol and then boots me to the wii channels. All roms on sd are working and the GC games on the same hhd as the wii games are working... Forcing custom cIOS doesn't work. I tried 249, 250, 251, auto, nothing changes. If i set it to 248 wiiflow crashes and wont open. Had to delete wiiflow save data from the wii data management. Please help! I dont know what do to, ive tried everything it seems like
This is amazing! I am having one issue though. This set up worked flawlessly for one of my wii systems. The other keeps giving me this error "No Games Found". I have gone through most of the basics and I am not sure what else I could try to get these to be found. I would greatly appreciate your assistance.
Whelp NM. Apparently going back through the wad installer and reinstalling the wad "Blue circles" fixed the issue. Incase anyone else runs into this issue.
I had the same problem. Make sure to load games with the (wii/Gamecube) manager programs and try changing the games to use iso250. is what worked for me.
@BelowAverageGaming Excellent and very thorough video but before I start this process from scratch, is there any way to simply upgrade my WiiFlow from 5.5.3. I have looked around, but I can’t find any straightforward answers or mention about upgrading at all. All of the videos seem to be starting fresh from a newly modded Wii. If I remember correctly, older versions of WiiFlow had an upgrade feature inside the settings menu, but I can’t seem to find anything like that now.
@@BelowAverageGaming I must be getting too old for this stuff hahah. I found this too and for the life of me it reads like a foreign language. I tried this a few times a few different ways with the latest release to no avail. Fortunately, I cloned my SD card before attempting any of this. I think I just might stick with 5.5.3. for the time being. Thank you anyway and keep up the awesome videos.
This is an amazing video. Thank you! I’ve followed everything and when I attempt to launch wiiflow from homebrew it fails to load and takes me back to homebrew. When I try with the forwarder it locks up my Wii. The only different thing I did was download the newest wiiflow. Could that be the issue?
Going off your username, I'm assuming you're in the US, I just bought a standard EZ store drive from Best buy for about 60 bucks. 2 TB! My drive personally has a "Y" splitter cable going from the HDD to the Wii and plugs in both USB ports Hope that helps
hey, just did it without seeing the 2024 plugins pack video, which I ofc downloaded when I saw it on the page, could you please tell me what apps are unnecesary on the rars I downloaded? I booted up my homebrew and saw some apps I didnt see before, which I guess it's okay if they do something, but I don't think all of them are necessary, which includes the Sonic CD and Mania port I saw there after installing everything in the sd and hdd
Hi @Below Average Gaming. recently I bought 3 wii controllers I syncronized all but happen me an issue that when I run Wiiflow none of the new three controllers work while I'm inside Wiflow the same thing happen inside of Homebrew Channel, only my old controller work, I let you know a detail that of the 3 controllers just one came with motion plus inside
From what I'm seeing it looks like they support the nunchuck, the pro controller and a gamecube controller. Wiiflow is basically just a launcher, pretty sure Nintendont is built into it somehow.
Great video, helped a lot. I had only one problem, some games I downloaded end with .rvz or .wad. I tried renaming the files to .wbfs but it doesn't work, wha do I do?
If I download the latest Wii flow 2024 version instead of 2023 will all the other steps in this tutorial still apply or will it be a different process ? - I did see you have a new video out with 2024 version but I’m planning on doing SD card and External Hard drive method .
So will the wbfs files not work as .iso?? I guess what I’m asking is where I downloaded them, and then unzipped or whatever, they’re .iso files now and then I was told to put them in their own folders with the ID’s.
I’m not sure if you found a solution or not. But open Wii Game Manager and open your Wii ISO files in there and transfer them to your USB drive that you’re going to use, it will convert them to WBFS files.
Great tutorial Thankyou so much I love my Wii even more Can you help me some of my sega games for master system are too big and I can’t see the bottom of the game how do I fix that ???? Also can you help with box art for sega master system and genesis I’ve looked everywhere but can’t find any links do you have any you can send me ???
My wii didn't have those default apps installed(i.e. mii channel, wii shop, etc.). How would i go about getting those after I've already gone through the modding process?
Do you need to use the same SD card that you installed the Homebrew Channel (are all those install files needed on the SD as well as the new Wiiflow stuff, for Wiiflow to work)?
@coreeshnick6234 okay, new plan. Delete everything you installed here so you can start fresh. Then do this : wii.hacks.guide/cios.html Then follow this guide again
The tutorial was very useful. But what is the plugins section used for? You said you'd come back to it but it wasn't covered later. I'm guessing a way to enable various cores, kind of like Retroarch?
It's exactly that, you can access it through the settings menu. An example of it would be, Do you want to play Nintendo 64? Go into the plugins and you can use either mupin64 or wii 64? Stuff like that. Not everything is offered though and not everything works
@BelowAverageGaming Interesting. Are these emulators self-contained within Wiiflow and just need to be activated, or do they need to be installed separately? It gets a little confusing if you're already using stand-alone emulators and later install this because it's not clear what's being launched.
All the files that currently work should have been included on the SD card during the tutorial. like my comment above, I believe you should have mupin and wii 64 off rip. I'm sure you can probably add emulators as well, but I would imagine they wouldn't have custom icons and everything depending on what it is, if it's not already included on the SD. But yes, just need to be activated. If I'm not mistaken, there might be two different PS1 emulator options as well.
I don’t know if anyone has covered this, but what controllers can you use with wiiflow, I bought classic controller pro and it hasn’t worked yet. So I was just curious what you guys use
Not every game support Classic or Pro controller, you can check this list for titles compatible with these controllers. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games_with_traditional_control_schemes But I've checked a few GameCube games and all works fine with Pro controller.
@@BelowAverageGaming I figured it out when using gcbm they would show as game only so i renamed them to game.iso but doing that actually names it game.iso.iso
the wii games are not being found by my sd card or my hardrive but they are in the proper wbfs folder on both ( different games on different sd card and usb hardrive )but niether one worked only the game cube games work pls help me
Hey guys! So this video still works fine, but I've made an updated video with the 2024 plugins pack, plus I made custom tools for you all to download to make renaming everything a lot easier than the " fuzzy rename tool", and on top of that I also show how to add music! Here it is if you're interested
th-cam.com/video/z-aV3whflOQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TDLGzmO0dUsnIDrQ
I did everything like the video and from 30 games that i added only 17 loaded. Animal crossing not working. Dont know what to do.
Which system and which games didn't work?
But that new video doesn't work if you want to use a hard drive?
Nope, it's an all SD video. That's why I said people can still follow this one instead
@@BelowAverageGaming Kinda random but while watching the video I noticed the awesome retro wallpaper you have. Any chance you could share it?
First of all, thanks for sharing this content. I bought my Wii on 2012 and still play on it. Always used USB GX Loader but after watch this tutorial I decided to give wiiflow a chance. It worked 100% for me and I reallized that now my wii has became an emulation center with wo many options... and its also more charming that it used to be. Greetings from Brazil.
Enjoy!
@steviewonder1653 I'm not sure what's going on with yours, but I just did it and everything worked just like it did in the video
@@steviewonder1653 I had the same problem. Most are ads, if there is a x to close ad do it. Eventually I managed to download the correct file, it did take several times to find the correct download. Sorry I cannot be more specific because, like you, I was getting frustrated, after downloading several wrong files, and deleting them, almost by accident I did download the correct file. I also tried several sites.
As anyone any better solutions?
I am about 90% complete on this project and the results so far are fantastic. I love my Wii again.
Downloading and adding box art is tedious as heck, but the payoff is worth it.
Some final cleanups I need to do are removing titles that I didn’t get box art for (more games than I’ll ever play, it’s about look, not completeness) and doing a few more renames to remove the (USA) from titles on systems where I got lazy
instead of deleating those games you can create a categories folded for the games that you dont want to see in your flow. Then with in caterories click that box till its an X and those games will not show but still be there.
For instance my rom hacks dont have boxes but i still like to play them but not see them in the flow.
Setting up catergories is long winded but well worth the pay off.
at the click of a button i can just show my beat em ups or remove the sports games from the flow.
Makes that wiiflow experiance that bit more amazing ;-)
Did you rename your games in the WiiFlow or did you rename the folder? Gamecube backup manager renamed a lot of my games and some of them were unrecognizable at first, like Ghost Recon 2 was renamed to gr2gc [GGYe41] so I'd like to rename it to Tom Clancey's Ghost Recon 2
This is the best production quality I've seen on one of these bad boys
Ah, this is the content that the internet needs. Great video. Thank you so much.
Great tutorial, bro! I played a big part in creating the plugins pack way back during the lockdown. I have nothing but love and respect for Tetsuo Shima. His talent, passion, and dedication for the console are what created the masterpieces you see. It wouldn't be possible without him
Thanks for your hard work as well!
Just wanna say thanks for this link, been trying to get a wiiflow lite to work on my black wii for a while and this one unexpectedly works. lol
Also a massive thanks as that pack contained the missing mame cores i had been looking everywhere for so i can now have simpsons arcade in wiiflow.
Again thank you very much, my wii project is now very close to being finished and now ive created my own custom themes :-)
Looks great bro! I love it! Thanks for this! Happy new year!
Thanks man! Same to you and your family
you my friend just gained a new subscriber thanks to this video!
Thank you man, your style Is solid, the content spot on, well done!
First of all great video man, its been a big help! Also following the same instructions as the SNES games you set up (which worked btw) I've been having a hard time getting specifically N64 covers to show up and ps1 roms to show up at all in wiisxrx.. and guides seem to be somewhat scarce on fresh info.
If you ended up doing a more in depth retro console set up video I would love that and definitely give it a watch lol
This has actually been requested by a few people so I might just do that soon
@@BelowAverageGaming I think it would get some good views!
I've been helping out around a Wii modding support community and I've sent your video here to quite a few people to use at this point to help them fix their problems.
A lot of them didn't even know about the retro consoles thing on WiiFlow but I bet a lot of them, including me would be very interested to learn more about it :)
Cosigning this. It would be very popular
This guide was great. I got it all working. But I ended up going back to just using the channels. Less glitchy/laggy. Flipping through covers is cool but takes too long when you got full retro libraries on it
absolutly loved wiiflow way better than usb loader gx in my opinion it has much simpler and easier way to fix and pla as well as emulation so a 10/10
you did an amazing job on this guide! other then my errors from previous installation fails making issues it all went off without a hitch. "if you try to launch flow and it crashes to menu its most likely that you installed dx2 cios wrong or differently than in this video. only working solution i found was to delete everything from flow including the save on the (wii)! then watch his video in the description and follow the steps again in dx2 cios. then reinstall from here again. hope that helps.
16:40 for future reference (GAME PARTITION to change from SD to USB and vice-versa)
Can GC games be stored on the SD like roms?
@@arthurcorbett7569 i dunno , i think they can. When i bought my wii i just played GC games , but nowadays i just use it for Wii. i rather play GC on dolphin with awesome textures and mods.
I would love a video covering on adding turbo graphx 16 and pc engine roms to wiiflow with the respective cover arts.
Is there any issues with trying to run it all from SD?
I only ask because there is that bit where the file is clearly written "for usb". Could i just put them both on the SD?
Excellent thanks!
Very helpful guide! I'm running into an issue that I cannot find a solution. I'm trying to add the box art for N64. I was able to rename the N64 games from the google doc list, and they appear to have copied just find. When I go to add the box art in Fuzzy, nothing is matching up. When I load everything in fuzzy per the guide, and select "Add original ext too" the ROM names will list, but nothing in the Closest Match folder. I've repeated these steps about 5 times, shut everything down, try again, the whole 9 yards and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Thanks mate works perfectly!
first tutorial of year!!!!!!!!!
I was saving it for today haha
Great video, very detailed
@BelowAverageGaming Any chance you could a video on WiiWare / emuNAND setup?
Yes PLEASE. That would be amazing!!!
Great guide thank you!
is it possible to use this setup with sd card only? or is hdd/usbdrive is a must? i dont have a lot of wii and gamecube game 64gb or 128gb would suffice for me. anyway thanks for the tutorial! the result looks great i would've never find wiiflow can do these things if i dont watch your video
I just did today. Only things I did different was when I something said copy to usb i didn't do them. Also put the wbfs and games folder on sd card. It saw my wii game right away and i had to change the game cube setting to look on the sd card.
@@hunters758i didn’t copy the USB stuff or you copied the USB stuff on the SD?
Everything works great for me except the hard drive. I can play games from my sd card but my Wii flow doesn’t give me the option for a usb 1 or 2. It only shows me ad or sd/usb. USB loader will read and play my hard drive fine though. I want to use wii flow though because it looks nicer. And suggestions?
I'm in the exact same boat. Did you ever figure it out? 🤞🏻
I’m in the same situation, hoping to find a solution
Do you need a hard drive or could you put the copy_to_usb folder on your sd card
Dude! This is what I was looking for! It’s a jungle of half deprecated old threads/servers out there. Not everything works, very little has documentation after 2015ish (or older) and it’s only through random videos like this that I’ve found “un-searchable” things. Kinda feels like old Aperture Science, the one in Portal 2, where Cave Johnson talks. The lights are surprisingly on, but no one is home kind of thing.
Now, I’ve been trying to add stupid amounts of roms (my bright idea, I know it’s waaay too much), but would it be possible to make a torrent with all of this? That way people can select the cores/plugins and covers and have it all ready with a few button presses. I ask because for all the rom out there, no one has a proper collection of all with no duplicates. I’ve been awake for almost 2 days trying to fix this.
super lost on the copy to USB. I am just using an sd card and unsure what to do 9 minutes and 40 seconds
Great, thanks!!!😸
This video is super user friendly. Thanks for such a easy to follow tutorial.
I have one question though, I'm trying to load Blue circles wad, but every time i select it, it freezes. Could you think of somewhere i could've went wrong?
Cool vid thx bro helped alot
Can this be done with just a sd card and no usb or harddrive?
I want to know too
You can only use old emulators. Sd card won't load gamecube or wii games
@@jamesbunda3406 Not true. I've got both GC & Wii games on my SD & they show up on Wiiflow
Great tutorial man, I do have some questions please, how can I make wiiflow run from HDD entirely, without having to resort on the SD card after everything is set up of course.
I also want the box covers to be stored in the HDD
Also interested by this question
Nice tutorial, can we use SSD to store/load games? I couldn't find any on the compatibility list
It's Hit or Miss, some drives work and some drives don't. I haven't heard anything over 2 TB working though
Hey huge thank you for this video, I followed it and was able to do it to mine as well! I love it. One question though, towards the end when your doing the retro games, you put all your coverart/roms on the SD card, is it possible to do that to the hdd? I have a lot of roms, and an external drive that has my wii/gc games, but then we swapped over in the video to putting the retro stuff on the sd. Just curious, or if you had any advice.
Thanks for the video! Also loved your video on the trace repair on xbox, ive done quite a bit of that myself!
I haven't tried it actually, but if you look in the USB files that you place on the HDD, I believe there is a section for a cover art so it might work
What I don't know is if the games have to be in the same spot as the cover art to work because if so I don't think retro games work from the HDD
What ever happened with this. Were you able to get the retro games to play off of a hard drive?
Wow, thanks a lot! I was running my Wii with Homebrew, but that is way better, and your explanation made it super simple to install everything.
I have just one question thought. Is it possible to remove the systems I don't play, like Intelivision and PCs, to make it look cleaner and show only the ones I do play?
Thanks for sharing all that knowledge.
Not possible unfortunately, it's part of the setup
26:00 I see that you put all of your game files into somewhere on your SD card. But how are they then read by the emulators? For example, I have Super Mario 64 saved in Not64. Not64 has 2 folders in it, ROMS and saves. The Super MArio 64 rom is saved in there as well as the save. But it's saved IN the emulator's folders. So how does that work when I have to put the file somewhere else?
No matter what i do i cannot get any covers to show other then the wii and gc, i have used the tool but it doesnt work at all please help.
Same here. Did you find anything?
no i still havnt been able to work it out :(@@dreamwaresoft
@@dreamwaresoft i struggled with this problem for a few hours, the solution for me is in fuzzyrename tool put the cover folder in "files to rename". DONT use the txt name file and just use your roms folder as "target file name" and CHECK the "add original ext too" box. change the "destination folder" to your sd card/wiiflow/boxcovers/*your console rom* and click go! then reload cache in wiiflow. if the rom name is romname.zip then the box cover name should be romname.zip.png
I have the same problem, even it said converting covers, but didnt show it
Have you tried hitting the home button and reloading the cache?
def gonna give this a try. question do you have to use a hard drive? can you do this all on a 500gb SD? and is the only way to download all the ROM text names at once from media fire is to to get premium?
A hard drive is highly recommended as you may run into issues using just an SD card.
The rom text names is now a Google drive link
just look up the id number and add it nto brackets in the game folder! you wont need backup manger! play from the wbfs folder
Hmm Wiiflow isn't reading my HDD, but USBLoaderGX is and can run them no issue. Has anyone else run into this issue and what did they do to fix it
I have the same problem. Did you choose the latest WiiFlow update (2024) or the previous version from this video?
I’m having the same problem. I know the hard drive works, it works just fine on my other Wii that I modded years ago. The newer versions of Wiiflow aren’t recognizing it.
Do you have it pugged into the USB port closest to the edge of the console?
I tried mine in both USB ports and it wasn’t working. I scratched the whole setup and started fresh on a different Wii.
Hey can you help point me to the best option to play any/all GameCube games? (Without needing the physical discs) I watched a few of your videos but unsure which mod and system is best for that purpose. Appreciate your help!
Nintendont is the best! I have every single gc game on a hard drive that plugs into my wii. Everything is native and I use a gc controller too
my wii flow doesn’t load some games it crashes black screen even if I change the ios to 251 or auto
same for me
I don't see the USB2 in the game partition settings, what's up with that?
Are your Nintendo Wii games being read? If so then try shifting both over to USB1?
Are you using a USB drive or HDD? Which port on the Wii do you have it plugged in on?
@@BelowAverageGaming I'm using a USB drive and it's plugged on the bottommost port of the wii
And also when I go to partitions, the only two options are SD and USB/SD
One more thing. It says "No games found in usb1:/wbfs"
Sounds like your USB drive isn't being read. Try a different drive or an HDD
If you're looking at the back of the Wii, make sure the USB is plugged into the far right port
@@BelowAverageGaming Nevermind i adjusted a few other settings and i got it to work!:D
Thanks for the assistance though!!
i really love this it was working really well but my ps1 games didnt seem to want to show up and i cant seem to find boxart for my snes
I had wiiflow working perfectly fine until i had a full usb drive, i would try to load into wiiflow and it would black screen for a few seconds then go back to the wii menu, i even tried emptying the usb but it would do the same thing. i ended up having to reinstall wiiflow back onto my sd card and it started working again. do you have to have space on the usb for some reason?
11:33 When they said "use the shell", I didn't think they meant it literally :P
Hi, am I missing something? If I press button 1 when I scroll the games, nothing happens. Is this differently animated game scrolling thing a default/built-in Wiiflow feature, or is it a plugin?
the box art for the super nes was taken down from the site you linked. do you happen to have another link?
I just went on the site and it's still there?
says content removed
@@BelowAverageGaming
oh its on the second link he provided.
Hi amazing tutorial but I have Gx Loader working fully but when I try luanch games from wiiflow I get wiiflow logo then reset to wii menu. Could you help please?
Same thing here
Hey all of a sudden it worked! Idk why. Good Luck try removing the Sd card or Reseting the wii!
I did this and it worked for me.
Can you have your super nintendo and n64 games on wiiflow without using that theme? And when you play them from wiiflow does it automatically load them using SnesGx/Wii64?
Yes but you still need to install the plugins
Yes but you can change to a different emulator through the plugins if offered
I'm pretty sure this is nowhere on the internet, but you can format a hdd or sd card that is larger than 32GB using only the Windows Disk Management program which is already installed on Windows.. Just go in and delete the volumes off of your sd card, then right click to create a simple volume at about 29000 MB and set it to FAT32. Easy Peazy. Pretty sure that's what these programs do anyway. You can also create multiple partitions with different file structures and sizes. Just remember FAT32 only works for 32GB and below and HDDs never partition exactly that much. Hope this helps somebody.
I'm new to wii flow. I've been on USBLGX for a while now but I liked the lay out of the source flow on your setup. My question is: is there a way to always open up to the source flow menu instead of the last console you chose?
@BelowAverageGaming great tut! But is anyone else having issues with the gamecube backup manager? The file it says it needs at 13:30 never downloads and says the "central database is corrupted"
I have a Homebrew Nintendo DSi XL. Can I do anything with my Homebrew Nintendo Wii and the NDS? Can I put games on it from the Wii or use it as a controller.
Hi! Thanks a lot for this tutorial, I followed it step by step for Wii, Gamecube and N64 games and it was a success!
I have a question. I added some N64 roms and covers. Wiiflow detected the roms and added the covers for most of them, except for about 10 roms for which the name changes did not work automatically and for which no box cover was uploaded. I manually changed the roms names and added the box covers (re-naming them manually too), but nothing changes when I'm in the console. I even deleted a rom from the SD card (because I accidentally uploaded it twice) and it still shows up in the console menu. Do you know if Wiiflow can re-detect roms and box-covers, as it happens @26:24? I have searched in the settings and I don't see an option for it. Thank you!
I'm not with my console at the moment, but I'm pretty sure if you hit the home button there is a way to reload the cashe in wiiflow. Perhaps that might help
@@BelowAverageGaming It worked, thanks! You're the best!
Note to self: GAMENAME.nes and GAMENAME .nes.png
In folders SD:\ROMS\Nintendo\NES and SD:\wiiflow\boxcovers\Nintendo\NES
Then reload cache by pressing HOME > reload cache
(optionally when replacing boxcovers delete SD:\wiiflow\cache\Nintendo\NES then reload cache)
I have successfully played 1 downloaded GC rom. In wiiflow, it shows up as having infinite that game.. like the game selection screen displays many of that game. So i got another rom to add, and it wont show up but still that initial game multiple times, endingless scrolling of just that game. And the game definitely works, i played it in the usb loader thing
Any updates on adding more ROMs? I'm stuck here as well, I can't add more after the initial batch.
Is there a way to use a USB or Hard Drive for the Wii and GC games? I have both on a Hard Drive in folders /games and /wbfs and WiiFlow won't even show my Hard Drive when I open up the Path Manager to change paths
I went to page 2, then "Startup Settings", then I disabled "Mount SD only" :)
Great tutorial. I do have one question. I got to the end and I realized all the SNES games and data are on the SD card. What Data (folders) do I move from the SD card so I am playing/pulling the games from the HDD?
sence my kid
got his eyes on the wee i need to relearn everything...great tutorial, only thing is that i cant find that boxcovers :-(
ROM Text wasn't needed. It messed up all the covers and half the games were missing. Went back and used the original titles instead of the text ones and all the covers worked perfectly.
@BelowAverageGamer
Have u tested NES emulation on your tutorial. I am getting bad stuterring in that particular emulator
First of all many thanks for your detailed walkthrough. One question though, on around 25:11 you are placing some files in the boxart folder for that system (snes)
You have a map structure for all the systems and where to put everything in. In my setup there is no mapstructure present. Do you have to create this yourself? And how to know what to name things?
I just made this guide recently with custom tools that I developed, that'll make things much easier for you to do this. Give it a watch and tell me what you think
th-cam.com/video/0eYDwNgxgVk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=G5oJX6kZrv22ubTO
It should take care of everything for you
@@BelowAverageGaming It all worked out now. Excellent work and tool!!
Hi, I followed the guide, but I am stuck. Wiiflow doesn’t have a usb2 option on the partitions. Only sd and sd/usb , so it doesn’t see the hard drive or the games. Please help.
try : go to settings, then page 2, then "Startup Settings", then disable "Mount SD only"
I did it. It doesn’t open a usb2 option but a usb1. Yet it found the games and works great! You are awesome, thanks buddy!
@@TryfonTobiasPliatsikouris I had the same issue.. I was about to format my SD/HDD and start again before reading this comment... TY!
@@BelowAverageGaming I'm having the same issue and when I tried this, nothing changed. I still only have the option for sd and sd/usb. Any more ideas?
I got this all setup but I cannot get the wiiflow to load the games from my USB instead of my SD if I go to file explorer I do see the USB drive but just don't know how to get the wiiflow to load it up thanks if anyone can help I'm on a Wii u aroma console btw are you only able to load roms for older systems from an SD card ?
Have you had any luck with this? Wii Flow won't pick up my USB Hard drive at all yet GX Loader finds and runs my Wii and GC stuff from it just fine. The partition's setting gives me a choice of SD and SD/USB and the SD/USB option doesn't appear to give me anything...
I can get my Wii and GameCube games to show up I'm using a Samsung t7 SSD although I do have to plug it in while wiiflow is loading but there seems to be no way to load the roms like I was trying snes roms like he was doing and it only works off sd card for me and maybe that's just how it is IDK @@rickycocozza360
I got the Samsung t7 SSD to load up with the gamecube and Wii games although I do have to plug it in while wiiflow is loading up I just wasn't sure if there was supposed to be a way to have a USB hard drive to load the roms for all the older consoles when I load it up it seems to only look in the SD card for any non Wii or GameCube games update as of 03/14 I got the hard drive to load fine now not sure what's different and I'm just using a 1 tb SD card for roms instead of a hard drive doesn't seem to be a way to do it
Great video but this is beyond my tech skills!
Guide was awesome. Followed step by step for the SNES covers and they still won't load. Even went back and retried to make sure I didn't mess up. NES won't work either. I do have full usa collections of each system, so could the problem be I have to many? Love the content
Have you tried reloading the cache since you put it on there?
If it's not loading and it's not the issue above, I would say it's due to how the titles of your files are named and where they are placed
Everything is working,except when i try to launch a wii game, it does a little visual glitch with the wiiflow loading symbol and then boots me to the wii channels. All roms on sd are working and the GC games on the same hhd as the wii games are working...
Forcing custom cIOS doesn't work. I tried 249, 250, 251, auto, nothing changes. If i set it to 248 wiiflow crashes and wont open. Had to delete wiiflow save data from the wii data management. Please help! I dont know what do to, ive tried everything it seems like
I am having the same issue, find any fixes?
This is amazing! I am having one issue though. This set up worked flawlessly for one of my wii systems. The other keeps giving me this error "No Games Found". I have gone through most of the basics and I am not sure what else I could try to get these to be found. I would greatly appreciate your assistance.
Whelp NM. Apparently going back through the wad installer and reinstalling the wad "Blue circles" fixed the issue. Incase anyone else runs into this issue.
Hi! Nice tutorial, but my games keep bringing me back to Home Screen when loading. How to make it work?
I had the same problem. Make sure to load games with the (wii/Gamecube) manager programs and try changing the games to use iso250. is what worked for me.
@BelowAverageGaming
Excellent and very thorough video but before I start this process from scratch, is there any way to simply upgrade my WiiFlow from 5.5.3. I have looked around, but I can’t find any straightforward answers or mention about upgrading at all. All of the videos seem to be starting fresh from a newly modded Wii. If I remember correctly, older versions of WiiFlow had an upgrade feature inside the settings menu, but I can’t seem to find anything like that now.
This came up with a quick Google search.
gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-update-my-wiiflow.273332/
@@BelowAverageGaming I must be getting too old for this stuff hahah. I found this too and for the life of me it reads like a foreign language. I tried this a few times a few different ways with the latest release to no avail. Fortunately, I cloned my SD card before attempting any of this. I think I just might stick with 5.5.3. for the time being. Thank you anyway and keep up the awesome videos.
16:45 how do I get it to say USB1 and USB2 instead of SD/USB?
Try going to page two of the settings, then start up settings, then disable mount SD only. That might help
That was the exact problem thank you so much now I can play my dad and beat him in all his favorite games👍🏾
This is an amazing video. Thank you! I’ve followed everything and when I attempt to launch wiiflow from homebrew it fails to load and takes me back to homebrew. When I try with the forwarder it locks up my Wii. The only different thing I did was download the newest wiiflow. Could that be the issue?
@BelowAverageGaming what exact model do you recommend for the external hard drive? Also, does it have external power as well? Thank you
Going off your username, I'm assuming you're in the US, I just bought a standard EZ store drive from Best buy for about 60 bucks. 2 TB!
My drive personally has a "Y" splitter cable going from the HDD to the Wii and plugs in both USB ports
Hope that helps
hey, just did it without seeing the 2024 plugins pack video, which I ofc downloaded when I saw it on the page, could you please tell me what apps are unnecesary on the rars I downloaded? I booted up my homebrew and saw some apps I didnt see before, which I guess it's okay if they do something, but I don't think all of them are necessary, which includes the Sonic CD and Mania port I saw there after installing everything in the sd and hdd
Thanks for this guide friend,is there any way I can run my retro roms off of the HDD?
Same question. Is this possible?
Amazing bro. It's the same procedure for Vwii in Wii U?
Yes it is! I’m having a few issues with the loader and figuring out where PS1 Roms are supposed to go but everything is working smoothly
Hi @Below Average Gaming. recently I bought 3 wii controllers I syncronized all but happen me an issue that when I run Wiiflow none of the new three controllers work while I'm inside Wiflow the same thing happen inside of Homebrew Channel, only my old controller work, I let you know a detail that of the 3 controllers just one came with motion plus inside
1. Can you operate wiiflow menus without a wiimote? (like Nintendont)
2. Is wiiflow a fancy Nintendont launcher, or a replacement/alternative?
From what I'm seeing it looks like they support the nunchuck, the pro controller and a gamecube controller.
Wiiflow is basically just a launcher, pretty sure Nintendont is built into it somehow.
Great video, helped a lot. I had only one problem, some games I downloaded end with .rvz or .wad. I tried renaming the files to .wbfs but it doesn't work, wha do I do?
Link to your wallpaper pls
How does wiiflow run GameCube games? Just wondering if it can work against the latest version of nintendont
If I download the latest Wii flow 2024 version instead of 2023 will all the other steps in this tutorial still apply or will it be a different process ? - I did see you have a new video out with 2024 version but I’m planning on doing SD card and External Hard drive method .
You can download the new one, it's the same steps
@@BelowAverageGaming thanks !!! Much appreciated
So will the wbfs files not work as .iso?? I guess what I’m asking is where I downloaded them, and then unzipped or whatever, they’re .iso files now and then I was told to put them in their own folders with the ID’s.
iso files are gamecube games. wbfs files are wii games
I’m not sure if you found a solution or not. But open Wii Game Manager and open your Wii ISO files in there and transfer them to your USB drive that you’re going to use, it will convert them to WBFS files.
Great tutorial
Thankyou so much I love my Wii even more
Can you help me some of my sega games for master system are too big and I can’t see the bottom of the game how do I fix that ????
Also can you help with box art for sega master system and genesis I’ve looked everywhere but can’t find any links do you have any you can send me ???
The Rhapsodii theme doesn't even show up. I can't change the animation for the games menu, and it doesn't download any cover for my games. Any help?
My wii didn't have those default apps installed(i.e. mii channel, wii shop, etc.). How would i go about getting those after I've already gone through the modding process?
When i download GameCube roms should they be nkit.iso files before i put them in the GCBM?
Is it possible to play wii games that you dont own? I really wanted to play some but i dont find wii games anymore.
Do you need to use the same SD card that you installed the Homebrew Channel (are all those install files needed on the SD as well as the new Wiiflow stuff, for Wiiflow to work)?
Yes, correct
Thanks. Still having issues with WiiFlow starting up. I see the splash screen for a couple seconds and then wii resets.
Does it work if you start the application through the homebrew launcher instead?
Negative. I seem to get further than just a black screen and reset from wii homescreen, but nothing more than about 2 sec of wiiflow loading screen.
@coreeshnick6234 okay, new plan. Delete everything you installed here so you can start fresh.
Then do this : wii.hacks.guide/cios.html
Then follow this guide again
Where can I get that wallpaper ??? That thing is 🔥…
The tutorial was very useful. But what is the plugins section used for? You said you'd come back to it but it wasn't covered later. I'm guessing a way to enable various cores, kind of like Retroarch?
It's exactly that, you can access it through the settings menu.
An example of it would be,
Do you want to play Nintendo 64? Go into the plugins and you can use either mupin64 or wii 64?
Stuff like that. Not everything is offered though and not everything works
@BelowAverageGaming Interesting. Are these emulators self-contained within Wiiflow and just need to be activated, or do they need to be installed separately? It gets a little confusing if you're already using stand-alone emulators and later install this because it's not clear what's being launched.
All the files that currently work should have been included on the SD card during the tutorial. like my comment above, I believe you should have mupin and wii 64 off rip.
I'm sure you can probably add emulators as well, but I would imagine they wouldn't have custom icons and everything depending on what it is, if it's not already included on the SD.
But yes, just need to be activated. If I'm not mistaken, there might be two different PS1 emulator options as well.
Dang I was looking for a option to buy it outright
I don’t know if anyone has covered this, but what controllers can you use with wiiflow, I bought classic controller pro and it hasn’t worked yet. So I was just curious what you guys use
Not every game support Classic or Pro controller, you can check this list for titles compatible with these controllers. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games_with_traditional_control_schemes
But I've checked a few GameCube games and all works fine with Pro controller.
Hey. I’m using Wii Flow on a PAL Wii but when I play NTSC games in RGB on my CRT the screen goes red. Any ideas? (Screen is fine when in composite)
what ROMS are you using? im mostly modding my wii for Wii games and got stuck around 11:39 this is my first time modding anything so im a bit lost
everything worked all the way up until getting the GameCube games to play they load and show up in wiiflow but says gamecube loader not found
Hmm, maybe this will help you
www.reddit.com/r/WiiHacks/s/2FkShNIzLK
@@BelowAverageGaming I figured it out when using gcbm they would show as game only so i renamed them to game.iso but doing that actually names it game.iso.iso
@@BelowAverageGaming i figured out it was because i would name the file game.iso, but i was actually naming it game.iso.iso
My NES library and my covers are named the same but I can get wiflow to load or convert my covers, any tip?
the wii games are not being found by my sd card or my hardrive but they are in the proper wbfs folder on both ( different games on different sd card and usb hardrive )but niether one worked only the game cube games work pls help me