I went in to USB Loader GX, changed my Gamecube loader from MIOS to Nintendont, and failed. I downloaded the meta.xml and icon.png from the site as well, continuing as instructed by putting them in the nintendont folder.

I renamed it to boot.dol, made a nintendont folder in my apps directory on my SD card, and put the boot.dol file there. It’s probably just the newness, and the fact that Nintendont is actively being developed (to date, January 2015), so I went about installing Nintendont, carefully following the instructions.įirst, I downloaded a copy of the loader.dol from the google code repository. But of course, I needed to “update” my soft-mod I am, at heart, still a nerd, so I need the freshest hax! I realized I could migrate all my games onto the USB drive and leave the SD card just for booting, which meant I could afford to put every Gamecube game I wanted onto the USB drive with space to spare! I debated switching from DIOS MIOS Lite to DIOS MIOS and leaving it at that, but something about Nintendon-t really appealed to me. I decided to binge and purge some content from both my USB drive and SD card, and while I was at it, I decided to add a few new games. Of which both the Wii, and Gamecube, have in spades. Simpler, easier, and funner games are the order of the day. Nevertheless, effectively, via my daughters, my tastes have. In the years since I left the Wii not a lot has changed. But in the last few days my daughters (4 and 6) have finally shown an interest in video games, so I dusted off my old bin of Wii controllers and accessories, bought a barrel of AA batteries and turned the lights back on in my Wii. Over the last two years, I’ve used my Wii… 6 times? If that. My Wii games were on a 250GB external Western Digital hard drive, and I had a couple favorite Gamecube games on my 16GB SanDisk SD card.

I started with Letterbomb, worked my way to d2x v8, and ended up with USB Loader GX on my Wii menu. The digital world is great and wonderful to me, and until I can buy and play all my games in the cloud (Steam is one of my favorite PC applications of all time, BTW), I’ll do whatever I can to get there myself.īack in 2012 I soft modded my Wii with the assistance of a variety of “guides” available online at the time. I hate organizing it, I hate how it compels me to collect the entirety of something (“Hey, I have Mario Party 5 and 7, I really should have them all!”), and I hate using valuable space in my home to house it. As my friends and family know, I hate physical media.

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