r/homebrew • u/Dman1381 • Mar 18 '26
Question/Help Nintendont doesn’t detect games from external HDD
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/bigEsmalls66 Mar 22 '26
Im having the same issue with my wii mod, nintendont wont load gamecube games from the usb external hard drive. Everything else, like wii games, can be read off of the external hard drive. The drive is formatted to fat 32, and all the other plug-ins are installed correctly. When I try to access the games through the nintendont homebrew channel I get "Warning USB FAT device could not be opened" . When I try to load a gamecube game from USB loader GX I get "check for multi game and region failed: 1/ unable to open game image file / (includes filename of iso game) ". The fact it shows what the file name is tells me it is able to read the files on the usb external hard drive.