Configurable USB Loader Mod Wii

Configurable USB Loader Mod
General
Author	R2-D219, FIX94, nitraiolo, el al
Type	Title Launchers
Version	70r78.13
License	GPL-3.0
Last Updated	2024/09/15
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This is an updated version of the original Configurable USB Loader (Cfg for short). This new version includes various additional features such as support for DIOS-MIOS (Lite), Nintendont, and Devolution.

For latest news, questions and suggestions head over to the discussion thread.

Features

• SDHC and USB HDD device support.
• GUI (Grid / Coverflow) and Console mode (switchable at runtime).
• Background Music (.mp3 or .mod).
• Themes (switchable at runtime).
• Themes Browser.
• Widescreen (auto-detect).
• Transparency (covers and console).
• Cover images download.
• Cover styles: 2d, 3d, disc and full.
• Automatic resize of covers.
• Renaming game titles (using titles.txt, custom-titles.txt and/or wiitdb.zip).
• Per game configuration of Video mode, Language, Ocarina cheating.
• Light up DVD slot when install finishes, optional eject.
• Childproof and parental guidance.
• USB HDD with multiple partitions supported (WBFS for games and FAT for config, covers and other resources)
• SDHC with multiple partitions supported (WBFS for games and FAT for resources...)
• Custom IOS selection for better compatibility with USB drives and other USB devices.
• cIOS supported:
  • davebaol d2x (recommended).
  • waninkoko 247, 248, 249 & 250.
  • Hermes 222, 223 & 224 (mload).
  • kwiirk 222 & 223 (yal).
• Banner sounds.
• Saving game play time to Wii's play log.
• Multiple WBFS partitions support.
• Loading games from a FAT or NTFS partition (cIOS 222/223 rev4+ or cIOS 249 rev18+ required).
• Supported game disc file formats: .wbfs and .iso.
• Configurable.
• New in this modification:
  • Nintendont support.
  • UStealth.
  • Patching WFC Server (Wiimmfi).
  • Auto cIOS selection.
  • DM/DML support.
  • Devolution support.
  • NAND savegame emulation.

User guide

Useful links

• Original Configurable USB Loader and [Original Cfg USB Loader release thread].
• Step-by-step installation instructions for Wii Homebrew and CFG.
• Configurator tool for windows (by Dr. Clipper).

Themes:

• Themes for Configurable USB Loader.
• Game cover images.
• Updated titles.txt.

Other tools:

• Partition Editor (useful for creating multiple partitions on SD Cards and USB Thumb drives and creating FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB, but be careful to select the correct disk, so that you don't wipe your other drive).
• fat32format, fat32format GUI (fat32 format tools).

cIOS 222/223 with mload by Hermes:

• v4 and v5 cIOS 222 is supported.
• Get cios 222 v4 here (official uloader/cios 222 forum, in Spanish).

GUI WBFS managers that supports .wbfs files on a FAT partition:

• Wii Game Manager (a GUI for wbfs_file.exe) (by pccfatman).
• Wii Backup Manager (by fig2k4).

Default File locations

• Config file: sd:/usb-loader/config.txt
• Settings file: sd:/usb-loader/settings.cfg
• Background image: sd:/usb-loader/background.png
• Covers:
  • 2D: sd:/usb-loader/covers/2d/*.png
  • 3D: sd:/usb-loader/covers/3d/*.png
  • Disc: sd:/usb-loader/covers/disc/*.png
  • Full (and HQ): sd:/usb-loader/covers/full/*.png
  • Cache: sd:/usb-loader/covers/cache/*.ccc
• Titles file: sd:/usb-loader/titles.txt
• Themes: sd:/usb-loader/themes/THEME_NAME/theme.txt
• Theme preview: sd:/usp-loader/themes/*.jpg
• Ocarina cheat codes are searched in:
  • sd:/usb-loader/codes/*.gct
  • sd:/data/gecko/codes/*.gct
  • sd:/codes/*.gct
• Ocarina TXT cheat codes use the locations:
  • Downloaded to: sd:/usb-loader/codes/*.txt
  • Saved .gct to: sd:/usb-loader/codes/*.gct
• wiitdb: sd:/usb-loader/wiitdb.zip
• play history: sd:/usb-loader/playstats.txt
• .wip files: sd:/usb-loader/GAMEID.wip
• .bca files: sd:/usb-loader/GAMEID.bca
• .wdm files: sd:/usb-loader/GAMEID.wdm
• nand Image: usb:/nand
• Games on FAT/NTFS:
  • usb:/wbfs/GAMEID.wbfs
  • or: usb:/wbfs/TITLE [GAMEID].wbfs
  • or: usb:/wbfs/GAMEID_TITLE/GAMEID.wbfs
  • or: usb:/wbfs/TITLE [GAMEID]/GAMEID.wbfs
  • (or sd:/ instead of usb:/)

Dump games

Insert your original game and press the PLUS button to save your game to your SD card/USB device.

Configurator

With the configurator in /usb-loader you can change every aspect of the theme.

It's quite complex, you can take a look at the GBATemp thread for help.

Screenshots

Changelog

Version: r13 2024/09/15

• Internals - changed memory start addres to avoid overlaps
• Graphics - added options for 480p Nintendo Revolution SDK bug fix patch (Thanks leseratte)
• Graphics - added options for deflickering settings (Thanks blackb0x)
• Graphics - added options for disabling dithering (Thanks blackb0x)
• Graphics - added options for framebuffer width patch (Thanks blackb0x)
• Languages - Updated KO.lang (Thanks DDinghoya)
• Languages - Updated ZH_CN.lang (Thanks kavid)
• Documentation - Moved README-CFG.txt to README.md, updated and converted to markdown format

Version: r12 2024/09/08

• Internals - changed online update URL paths
• GC - updated nintendont config support to version 0x0000000A
• Usability - Wiimmfi WFC patching fixed

Version: r11 2017/01/15

• GC - updated nintendont config support to version 0x00000006.
• GC - if nintendont_config_mode=arg is set nintendont configuration is passed via command line argument.
• GC - added minimum nitnendont version check before game load.
• GC - added possibility to update nintendont as a plugin if update_nintendont=1 is set.
• Internals - added UStealth support.
• Internals - fixed plugins update URLs.
• Usability - fixed reboot and exit behaviour.
• Usability - WFC patching options.

Credits

By oggzee, usptactical, gannon, Dr. Clipper, R2-D2199, FIX94, airline38, Howard, NiTRo THe DeMoN.

External Links

• Official website - http://cfgusbloader.ntd.homelinux.org/
• Google Code - https://code.google.com/archive/p/cfg-loader-mod/
• GitHub - https://github.com/nitraiolo/CfgUSBLoader
• GBAtemp - http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=147638
• Wiidatabase - https://wiidatabase.de/downloads/usb-und-disk-loader/configurable-usb-loader-mod/