(Part 2) Top products from r/WiiHacks

It's a USB Hard drive, Seagate free agent to be exact (this one ). I am bringing in a new Hard drive to be sure, but the problem I'm running into is this:

Not a specific song, it's random songs, since using 2018 other JD games are also experiencing issues, prior to that they weren't. I had JD 2017 for 2-3 weeks before getting 2018, we did maybe 30-40 songs on it without issue. Maybe more as I'd already taken that in for my students one day. As well my kid played JD Disney for like 30-40 minutes straight with a friend without issue. However, after the issue with 2018, issues randomly cropped up with other JDs, 2017, and i think 2014 locked up once too.

It's not a split file issue either. 14 and 18 are both 2 files, while 15-17 are single files. I've had games from both styles stutter on me.

Friday during the day we did "Ima sheep" on 2018 maybe 5-6 times so all the students could try it, not a single issue. It was the first song tried at night and it locked up after 20 seconds. The new hard drive should be here in an hour or two and then I'll transfer everything and see if we still have issues or not. As an additional question, is there anything I can run/test to ensure my softmod was done and setup up entirely correctly in the meantime?

The shielding of analog cables REALLY does matter. With any third party Wii component cable, you will be getting a noisy, sub-par picture. If you can snag the official OEM component cables, go with that option. If not, go HD Retrovision:

https://www.amazon.com/Retrovision-Premium-YPbPr-Component-Video-nintendo/dp/B07TL6L7MY/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2G9ZAU50F4RGJ&keywords=hd+retrovision&qid=1566801035&s=gateway&sprefix=hd+retro%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-3

HD Retrovision is very close to OEM cables in quality. They are a little bit better than Nintendo's official cables.

Also, if you want to go the HDMI route, wait a couple of months. Trust me.

A component cable shouldn't run you more than $5-7USD.

Monoprice sells one for around $6 as an add-on item.

I purchased this one from eBay. It's only about 4 feet long, which is great for my setup but may not be long enough for yours.

If you really wanted to use HDMI, you could get an adapter for about $12USD.

My recommendation is to keep an eye out for a used CRT. Even if the TV doesn't support widescreen or 480p progressive scan, the Wii really shines on a CRT. This is especially true if you're going to play Gamecube or Virtual Console games on it.

I'm going to suggest the Classic controller pro, especially if it's your only controller. The GC controller is awesome for N64 and Wii games, but the classic does everything else better in my opinion and does N64/Wii games well enough.

There are pretty much no wrong SD cards as long as they are normal sized. So people say they run into issues with SDHC cards but I have a 32GB card and it works perfectly. Here is just an example but any SD card with 1GB+ size should work: https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-microSDHC-Class-Memory-SDC4/dp/B00200K1TS/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1537464388&sr=1-2&keywords=sd+card&refinements=p_89%3AKingston

I finally got Dios Mios working last night after many, many long painstaking hours. I looked everywhere for some answers, but I found out it was something as simple as a drive compatibility error. I had a Seagate GoFlex and bought this kind, color doesn't matter for all I know. Follow this Dios Mios guide and my preference for a USB loader is Cfg Loader I actually never messed with develution and turned it off in the Cfg Loader settings. And if it doesn't work, google is your friend. There's tons of info out there and many people asking how to get dios mios to work, but if you can get this emulator the rest of them should be easy peasy.

You can grab this: http://www.amazon.com/Gamecube-XBox-Controller-Adapter--favorite-PC/dp/B000ND3XXA

Any USB HID compliant device will work, but you'll probably need to create your own customer controller.ini. There's a program called HID-Test that will give you your values for each controller.

Best Controller Small Price

https://www.amazon.es/Nintendo-2110266-Wii-MANDO-CLASICO/dp/B000IN0BSU/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=wii+classic+controller&qid=1562411303&s=gateway&sr=8-8

bipra 250gb from Amazon... easy plug and play, already fat32 formatted, comes with 2 usb cables for back of Wii so no need to buy t-shirt. I think I paid $40

edit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004NJ1VMA/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1498194501&sr=8-5&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=bipra+external+hard+drive&dpPl=1&dpID=31yClQRt3FL&ref=plSrch

While it seems fun you can just get a wireless one on Amazon for cheap

Monoprice Wireless Sensor Bar for Wii Monoprice https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004C4XNI6/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_t1_Bn3JAbHQME7ZQ

> You'll need a Y cable since it's beefier. They go for 7 bucks on average

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Cable-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B003HHK58U?th=1

Will this do? Also, I don't have to shuck the External, right? Just plug n' play?

I don't think there's a way to make it work.

This is what I'm using for my Wii-to-VGA-monitor setup: Wii/PS3 VGA HDTV AV Cable and it works surprisingly well.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005MVC2GW

That's the best one made but, any old pad should do. Afaik, ddr released 2 or 3 games for the Wii and they are your only options.

Ok, I used a class 10 card and its slightly faster. just a couple of seconds difference. still have to make a decision on getting a 3.0 thumb drive. http://www.amazon.com/Transcend-Class-Flash-Memory-TS8GSDHC10E/dp/B003VNKNEG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376226151&sr=8-1&keywords=8gb+class+10+sd+card

I’m using a flash drive. It’s a 16 GB Sandisk thumbstick.

It's a PNY Professional SDHC Class 10, says 20MB/s on the front of the card
https://www.amazon.com/PNY-Professional-Hi-Speed-Memory-P-SDHC16G10-EF/dp/B003ZHTNNU/

This is the 16 GB version of the card I have

For now i don't know anything about connect a PS3 to a Wii but you could use PS2 by using a adapter. https://www.amazon.com/MAYFLASH-W004-Controller-Adapter-Remote/dp/B002OJ8S7C

https://www.amazon.com/Wii-Classic-Controller-Grip-Nintendo/dp/B000PHX4KQ
https://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/19/diy-nintendo-wii-classic-controller-clip-holds-your-wiimote-so/
Found this hope it helps (it’s probably useless though)

My advice after 1 year of ocassional struggling. Only use HDD formated with fat32 formater in 32bit clusters and avoid flashdrives at all costs. Was struggling with my flash drive forever. Funny thing is it used to load games from that flash drive before, and one day after updating cios just stoped. Wii would still detect it, other emulators would work just fine(snes,nes, sega...), usb loader gx would read the drive but would hang on black screen when trying to load game. Nintendont would still run games fine but would crash ocassionally. I looked for problems everywhere.. different loaders, different, roms, different cios versions... Wasted loads of time. GameCube games launched fine from nintendont but would crash from usbloadergx, and it used to work fine... And guess what. Hooked 1tb hard drive and all problems disappeared... Found 1tb segate for 39.99 in argos, just had to add power cable from amazon works like magic


https://photos.app.goo.gl/JBxH8qsMqs6c7qMt6

Cable:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00B5T3UTS/ref=ya_aw_oh_bia_dp?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hard drive:

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8339962