USB Loader GX is one of the available USB Loaders for the Wii. It features loads of customization possibilities, and can play games from USB, SD, and DVD. The best way to play Wii games, especially those like Skyward Sword which require MotionPlus. (if your PC or Mac doesn’t already have the capability) and a wireless sensor bar.

• Download Wii Games To Usb

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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.

What you need

• A Wii
• A USB drive

Make sure you have installed cIOS before following this!

We recommend you copy games over with Wii Backup Manager if you use Windows, or Witgui if you use macOS.

To play multiple games, we recommend a USB-powered external hard drive for your Wii. We will refer to it as a “USB drive” in this guide. Most of the ones you can find on the market should work fine if they have USB 2 backwards compatibility. Drives with 1 TB or more in capacity will work. A flash drive will also work, but due to the size of a flash drive, it won’t be able to store as many games.

Make sure your USB drive is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Do not format it as other types such as extFS or WBFS, the latter is an old format of storing Wii games.

Instructions

Downloading

1. Extract USB Loader GX and put it in the apps folder on your USB drive or SD card.
2. Insert your USB drive, and SD card if you’re using one, into your Wii and launch USB Loader GX from the Homebrew Channel.

Getting Started

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

• If USB Loader GX says “Waiting for HDD…” with a 20 seconds countdown, it’s likely that it can’t find the USB drive. Try to exit out of the app, and then relaunch it after you put the USB drive in the other port of the Wii.
• You can press the 1 Button on your Wii Remote to open up a dialog to download game covers and artwork from GameTDB. It might take a while to download the game covers and artwork, depending on how many games you have.
• There are WADs that can open up USB Loader GX if you load it from the Wii Menu. This is called a forwarder WAD. An official forwarder WAD can be found here, and a version for the vWii (Wii U) can be found here.
• GameCube or “custom” Wii games may or may not have a custom banner that USB Loader GX uses. To enable this, find or write CustomBannersURL = http://banner.rc24.xyz/ in config/GXGlobal.cfg on your USB drive. Then you can use the “Custom Banner” download by pressing the 1 Button on your Wii Remote.

User Interface

There are multiple buttons in the USB Loader GX interface.

Main Menu

Download Wii Games To Usb

These are the functions the buttons found on the top of the main menu do, from left to right:

• Star - Shows games that you have marked as “favorites”.
• Search - Lets you search for games by name.
• Sort - Cycles through sorting methods for games.
• Platform - Choose to sort games by platform.
• Category - Sorts games by category.
• List - Shows games in a list view.
• Multi-Cover View - Shows games in a multi-cover view.
• Cover Carousel View - Shows games in a carousel view.
• Wii Menu View - Shows games in a Wii Menu view.
• Parental Control - Locks USB Loader GX.
• Disc - Loads a game via disc.

Pressing any game will allow you to play the game by pressing “Start”.

There are also other buttons:

• • Icon - “Install” a game, i.e. loading it from disc and dumping it.
• Gears - Settings for USB Loader GX.
• SD card - Remount the SD card.
• Homebrew - Load homebrew apps.
• Wii - Open up the HOME Menu, which can also be accessed by pressing the HOME Button on the Wii Remote.
• Power Button - Turn off your Wii.

On the middle of the bottom of the screen, you can see how much space is free on your USB drive and how many games you have.

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Contrary to popular belief that GameCube and Wii were inferior to their predecessors, lots of gamers still play Resident Evil 4, The Legend of Zelda: Four Sword Adventures, and Super Mario Galaxy and consider them the best titles ever created by Nintendo. And the players whose physical consoles are out of order avail themselves of emulators, special programs allowing them to play retro games on modern computers.

Nonetheless, it should be noted that not all emulators are capable of running GameCube and Wii games that are more sophisticated and demanding than their predecessors. If you’re eager to revisit your favorite games, but cannot choose a reliable emulator for this purpose, go on reading our article. You’ll learn about the Dolphin emulator which can run the majority of Wii and GameCube ISOs (games) almost flawlessly.

A Few Words about the Dolphin Emulator

Some five years ago, fans of GameCube and Wii games scoured the Internet for a stable emulation tool that could help them quench their gaming nostalgia. Though many websites were replete with the “best” and “most stable” GameCube and Wii emulators on offer, none of the emulators was really capable of running the said games.

In 2003, Dolphin was released. It made a splash in the hardware emulation market. Much to GameCube and Wii fans’ disappointment, Dolphin’s pilot version was underdeveloped. The emulator crashed oftentimes and was unable to run a vast majority of the games. Still, over the following years, Dolphin underwent considerable improvements which couldn’t but please the gamers looking forward to playing their favorite games.

Thus, by 2009, the emulator became quite playable. Most commercial games, GameCube and Wii alike, run well on Dolphin. Due to the incorporated adjustments, the emulation speed improved, so much so the speed of games on some PCs was even higher than on original consoles. The quality of sound emulation also was considerably improved.

By late 2009, Dolphin could boast of such new features as automatic frame-skipping, which substantially increased its performance and stability, and a network game, which allowed users to play games online.

By the end of November 2010, developers had eliminated most sound problems, improved the emulator’s compatibility with a large number of games, and increased its speed and accuracy. Dolphin was capable of running most games at higher, 1080, resolution in a full-screen mode.

How to Get Dolphin

Looking for Dolphin right now?

Head to Dolphin Emulator official website and select the latest emulator’s version from there, provided that you own a powerful computer meeting Dolphins hardware requirements. Otherwise, your emulator may crash, freeze, or run games improperly.

In the “Download” section, you’ll find all Dolphin versions and more information about the available updates. Make sure to select and download the version compatible with your operating system (Mac or Windows).

How to Get GameCube and Wii Games for Dolphin

Now that you have the best emulator, it’s time to get some cool games for it.

If you still have old CDs, the ones you played on your console back in the day, you can rip their images, also known as ISOs, and start running them on Dolphin. Search the web for useful programs that can help you create such ISOs or visit ROMsMode, a website devoted to ROMs and emulation software, to get ready-made ISOs of your favorite games.

There’s a special game folder within Dolphin where you can put all the downloaded ISOs. You can access and load them easily any time.

Now you can start playing GameCube and Wii games on Dolphin.