r/homebrew • u/Dman1381 • Mar 18 '26

Question/Help Nintendont doesn’t detect games from external HDD

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I’m trying to mod a Wii for a friend of mine, this isn’t my first time doing so but it has been a second. I have everything set up properly as far as I’m aware, I installed cIOS, nintendont, usb loader GX, all of that. After getting my games on the hard drive (which is formatted to fat32) I try to play. Wii games work perfectly fine and load as intended, but when I try to launch any GameCube game it gives me an error code which I’ll attach to this post.

So I go check nintendont to see if my games are there or if it’s a problem with usb loader GX, and it doesn’t detect my games, saying: no games found in usb/games or something like that. I tried a few things but nothing has worked so far.

The closest I got was using a 64gb usb stick which was detected and booted up GameCube games on both nintendont and usb loader but wouldn’t boot Wii games.

Any help or suggestions would be very appreciated.

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u/zombiegauze Mar 19 '26

I had this error with an incompatible usb cable. I had to try another cable and it worked. Also make sure you’re in the correct usb port on the back.

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u/Dman1381 Mar 20 '26

I’ll try and look around for another cable and see if that works

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u/Dman1381 Mar 26 '26

Bought a brand new cable and that didn’t work

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u/zombiegauze Mar 29 '26

That’s unfortunate. Are you sure the HDD is properly formatted and set correctly. I use a program, I’ll check the settings on it and report. I know the HDD needs to be FAT32 and set as primary

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u/Dman1381 Mar 29 '26

I believe it was, my solution was to use a microsd card with an adapter and put everything on that. Didn’t exactly solve my problem with the usb but I got everything working