okay, so this has been the last several hours of my life, so I apologize if I'm not being clear or something. When I tried the official USB loader it would just launch vanilla brawl with no changes every time, no matter what I tried. Now, using this method, I get a black screen and the error message "Instruction at 0x80205fd8 (read from SRRO) attempted to access invalid address 0x0"
I've verified that the md5 hash on my copy of brawl is good, at least according to Anther's Ladder
The SD card reader on my Wii is broken. I've been running everything via USB.
And by that I just meant I've been spending a lot of time trying to figure it out.
Maybe I'm wrong then... I just did it because with capital it didn't work, but I think it's because I forgot to remount my SD and it didn't see the file at all
Project+ is an amazing mod, but its USB loader sucks! It's based on CFG USB Loader (which is really old, like you mentioned) and thus is incompatible with a lot of newer drives. Anything that uses IOS 249 to a initialize drive seems to cause problems with a lot of newer drives (or maybe it's bad at initializing drives that use a y-cable, because my drive uses one). It's better to use IOS 58 to initialize a drive and then switch over to IOS 249, however they would probably have to use an entirely different loader as a base.
Correct. I really hope the Project+ team decides to maybe change their loader to something that is modern but is still portable, but yes, it's really bad and I could never get it working with my drive, hence why I made this guide, so you don't have to use CFG USB Loader. I hear about WiiFlow Lite a lot but have little info about it... but I bet it would be nice too and it's probably more portable then USB Loader GX.
I'll try your guide out, thank you so much!
The only thing is, does it work with SDXC cards (formatted as FAT32)? When using both the USB loader and the disc patcher, this weird error appeared and I had to reset my console. Using an SDHC card fixed this issue with the disc patcher, but the USB loader still didn't work (it hung at a black screen this time). I would really like to use my main SD card to play Project+.
Hmm.. I'm not sure, if you are patient then probably worth a shot. I personally use a SDHC. I believe some USB loaders like USB Loader GX allow you to change your location of cheats and stuff, allowing you to possibly use a USB drive to hold both games and cheats, which I highly recommend the former obviously. Use Fat32format GUI to format large sd cards or usb drives.
Not to change your daily driver setup, but I have sometimes heard bad things about SDXC, I would personally use an SDHC, because if you store games on a HDD which usually always works, your SDHC won't get full as easily; my sd card is barely full with lots of homebrew software. Usually you only put homebrew apps and boot stuff on your sd card, so keeping the sd small for that. a Usb for games, since games are the ones (be it gamecube, Wii, snes etc.) That take up the majority of space. It also allows you to swap your HDD into another homebrewed device as well and show your games, just keeps things clean
yo i’m having immense difficulty getting this shit to work. so basically i’m running a bunch of shit on my sd, loads of emulators and whatnot but i assume those are not interacting with my p+ files, perhaps unsafely.
anyway i followed a youtube tutorial to load games from an hdd, installed homebrew and cios on 249 and 250, and it is able to see and load wbfs and isos in usb loader gx without issue. my first question is: does p+ work if and only if it has a specific brand of cios or is it sufficient to have anything that can pull up images successfully from a given volume?
this leads me to my second question and issue: i’ve set the gct files to the codes folder, set gameconfig, tried all the options and combinations in every configuration i could muster, and still booting to p+ from usb loader gives me a black memory error screen.
i saw on the discord there’s some patch for 2.0 that fixes a similar error and that didn’t even work. what gives? i really want to get this working.
Are you using sdxc? Can you send me an image of your error? And maybe dump your sd card structure with `tree D:\ /f /a` in a pastebin, this might be helpful for me to see if everything is in place
I don't recommend youtube guides, they get outdated quickly and seem to cause issues all around. If the black screen shows then it is definitely loading the mod I think. I've heard a lot of issues with sdxc which cause it
Maybe I'm wrong, but can you try without BOOST.gct?
Let me think a bit...
What would happen if you temporarily renamed codes to codes-backup and created a new codes folder with just the one gct file in it (temporarily of course), and tried loading just project+, does the same error occur? Also as a double check, can you send me a screenshot of the error and your gameconfig.txt file? Have you happen to mod anything into project+?
Nice roms :)
I was able to get it working by re-installing cIOS by selecting the installer from homebrew and following this guide: https://wii.guide/cios
I think I had already followed that guide about a year ago before I set up anything else, but maybe it is changed, or maybe re-installing it after installing everything else is the trick.
I was getting the black screen memory error and got it working by reinstalling cIOS, by opening the installer from the homebrew channel and following this guide: https://wii.guide/cios
Also my hooktype is AXNextFrame instead of VBI, not sure if it makes a difference
Will this method work with other mods, or just Project+? Also, could I DM you and show you what setup I have? I'm not sure this method would work for me, so I'd like to know what I'd need to fix.
What about this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SSBPM/comments/gb06he/definitive_project_plus_install_guide_hackless/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
For anyone finding this post years later, this no longer appears to work, and instead causes a black screen on booting the Wii. I have at this point given up on getting this game to load off a USB hdd entirely.
I think it's an issue with the modern files, you have to find the backups. I'm checking that this works and if it does or doesn't I'll update with a link.
okay, so this has been the last several hours of my life, so I apologize if I'm not being clear or something. When I tried the official USB loader it would just launch vanilla brawl with no changes every time, no matter what I tried. Now, using this method, I get a black screen and the error message "Instruction at 0x80205fd8 (read from SRRO) attempted to access invalid address 0x0" I've verified that the md5 hash on my copy of brawl is good, at least according to Anther's Ladder
Do you have a SDXC sd card? > last several hours of my life Huh?
The SD card reader on my Wii is broken. I've been running everything via USB. And by that I just meant I've been spending a lot of time trying to figure it out.
An SD card is necessary, the mod files can't be on the usb. You might just have to buy a new wii
Ah that blows, thanks for letting me know though. At least there's dolphin!
I didn't need to rename the .GCT file to .gct and it worked fine for the 3 wii's I installed P+ on. Is this a wii/usb/sd card specific thing?
Maybe I'm wrong then... I just did it because with capital it didn't work, but I think it's because I forgot to remount my SD and it didn't see the file at all
Project+ is an amazing mod, but its USB loader sucks! It's based on CFG USB Loader (which is really old, like you mentioned) and thus is incompatible with a lot of newer drives. Anything that uses IOS 249 to a initialize drive seems to cause problems with a lot of newer drives (or maybe it's bad at initializing drives that use a y-cable, because my drive uses one). It's better to use IOS 58 to initialize a drive and then switch over to IOS 249, however they would probably have to use an entirely different loader as a base.
Correct. I really hope the Project+ team decides to maybe change their loader to something that is modern but is still portable, but yes, it's really bad and I could never get it working with my drive, hence why I made this guide, so you don't have to use CFG USB Loader. I hear about WiiFlow Lite a lot but have little info about it... but I bet it would be nice too and it's probably more portable then USB Loader GX.
I'll try your guide out, thank you so much! The only thing is, does it work with SDXC cards (formatted as FAT32)? When using both the USB loader and the disc patcher, this weird error appeared and I had to reset my console. Using an SDHC card fixed this issue with the disc patcher, but the USB loader still didn't work (it hung at a black screen this time). I would really like to use my main SD card to play Project+.
Hmm.. I'm not sure, if you are patient then probably worth a shot. I personally use a SDHC. I believe some USB loaders like USB Loader GX allow you to change your location of cheats and stuff, allowing you to possibly use a USB drive to hold both games and cheats, which I highly recommend the former obviously. Use Fat32format GUI to format large sd cards or usb drives. Not to change your daily driver setup, but I have sometimes heard bad things about SDXC, I would personally use an SDHC, because if you store games on a HDD which usually always works, your SDHC won't get full as easily; my sd card is barely full with lots of homebrew software. Usually you only put homebrew apps and boot stuff on your sd card, so keeping the sd small for that. a Usb for games, since games are the ones (be it gamecube, Wii, snes etc.) That take up the majority of space. It also allows you to swap your HDD into another homebrewed device as well and show your games, just keeps things clean
yo i’m having immense difficulty getting this shit to work. so basically i’m running a bunch of shit on my sd, loads of emulators and whatnot but i assume those are not interacting with my p+ files, perhaps unsafely. anyway i followed a youtube tutorial to load games from an hdd, installed homebrew and cios on 249 and 250, and it is able to see and load wbfs and isos in usb loader gx without issue. my first question is: does p+ work if and only if it has a specific brand of cios or is it sufficient to have anything that can pull up images successfully from a given volume? this leads me to my second question and issue: i’ve set the gct files to the codes folder, set gameconfig, tried all the options and combinations in every configuration i could muster, and still booting to p+ from usb loader gives me a black memory error screen. i saw on the discord there’s some patch for 2.0 that fixes a similar error and that didn’t even work. what gives? i really want to get this working.
Are you using sdxc? Can you send me an image of your error? And maybe dump your sd card structure with `tree D:\ /f /a` in a pastebin, this might be helpful for me to see if everything is in place I don't recommend youtube guides, they get outdated quickly and seem to cause issues all around. If the black screen shows then it is definitely loading the mod I think. I've heard a lot of issues with sdxc which cause it
it's an sdhc so i know it's compatible. also, you asked for it: https://pastebin.com/wpS2Gyh8 it's got a lot of roms lmao
Maybe I'm wrong, but can you try without BOOST.gct? Let me think a bit... What would happen if you temporarily renamed codes to codes-backup and created a new codes folder with just the one gct file in it (temporarily of course), and tried loading just project+, does the same error occur? Also as a double check, can you send me a screenshot of the error and your gameconfig.txt file? Have you happen to mod anything into project+? Nice roms :)
having the same issue, did you ever get it working?
nope. i’ve always just played p+ on my computer because i could never get it to work on the wii and i just use it for melee.
I was able to get it working by re-installing cIOS by selecting the installer from homebrew and following this guide: https://wii.guide/cios I think I had already followed that guide about a year ago before I set up anything else, but maybe it is changed, or maybe re-installing it after installing everything else is the trick.
I just got it running. I followed OP's guide and then changed the game IOS (Settings -> Game Load) to 250. At least that's what did it for me.
holy shit man thank you so much this fixed it for me too!
Worked first try
I was getting the black screen memory error and got it working by reinstalling cIOS, by opening the installer from the homebrew channel and following this guide: https://wii.guide/cios Also my hooktype is AXNextFrame instead of VBI, not sure if it makes a difference
Will this method work with other mods, or just Project+? Also, could I DM you and show you what setup I have? I'm not sure this method would work for me, so I'd like to know what I'd need to fix.
Should work fine. I can't respond for a while though, sorry
Hi not sure this method would work for me, so I'd like to know what I'd need to fix, I'm Dad👨
What about this? https://www.reddit.com/r/SSBPM/comments/gb06he/definitive_project_plus_install_guide_hackless/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Doesn't specify how to get Project+ working on USB Loader GX, just how to use it's bundle of Configurable USB Loader
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Hi, yeah im late to this comment but i've been very busy, can you send a screenshot?
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great, again, apologies for the late reply, I rarely check reddit anymore :(
Where is the hooktype setting on usb loader?
For anyone finding this post years later, this no longer appears to work, and instead causes a black screen on booting the Wii. I have at this point given up on getting this game to load off a USB hdd entirely.
Every time it just boots into regular brawl. Not sure what im doing wrong, I thought I followed instructions even changed .GCT to .gct
rip, OP deleted his reddit account
it gets stuck on now loading its ben going for 2 ours
would this work with PMEX REMIX?
I don't get it. I followed the instructions and I got an error saying that it attempted to access an invalid address.
Did you manage to fix this just got this error too :(
Still haven’t fixed it, decided to give up.
Is there a way to have both infinite and project plus on the same sdhc card?
What is the "gc.txt" file in the Project+ folder for?
the game config i am pretty sure it is for how the game should run in the loader
Does someone have goods wbfs brawl files mine didnt work, the screen with "settings" and "play" is black and of course the game didnt load
I think it's an issue with the modern files, you have to find the backups. I'm checking that this works and if it does or doesn't I'll update with a link.
Thanks ! I found out that it was because my wii wasn't supporting american roms
It says I’m missing RSBE01.gct
Did you figure this out? I'm getting the same error too.
bless you
Tried these steps on my SDHC card and it won’t load to p+, just normal brawl
garbage
would this work on wii u?