EXPLANATION: Dios Mios lets you play Gamecube isos and Wiiflow organizes everything (all types of isos) beautifully.
EXPLANATION: You SHOULD still be able to play original GC and Wii discs through Wiiflow by selecting the disc icon, but you will not be able to play them under the disc channel. That is fine though, because you won’t be on the Wii System Menu ever again after you finish this guide.
EXPLANATION: “Root” is the bottom level of your SD/USB where all the folders/files go. A folder would be one level separate from the root. A folder within a folder would be two levels separate.
Dios Mios Lite
IMPORTANT: Skip “Dios Mios Lite” and go to the subsection “Dios Mios Normal” if you want to try to use an external HDD.
Go to HBC
HBC > Launch Multi Mod Manager > Wad Manager > hit the “….” (to move towards the root directory of your SD card.)
Select “Dios Mios”
Select “Dios Mios Lite 2.9”
Select DIOSMIOSLite_2.9.wad
Press A to proceed
Press A to continue
Press start TWICE to exit to HBC
Dios Mios Normal
Go to HBC
HBC > Launch Multi Mod Manager > Wad Manager > hit the “….” (to move towards the root directory of your SD card.)
Select “Dios Mios”
Select “Dios Mios 2.9”
Select DIOSMIOS_2.9.wad
Press A to proceed
Press A to continue
Press start TWICE to exit to HBC
You can now load GC games from a USB device.
Adding GC Games
The first thing to do is download backups of your GC games via torrent.
If you don’t how to torrent or extract files, this is a great time to learn some Google Fu!
Gather all of your .iso files in a folder named “games.” If any are .gcm just change “.gcm” to “.iso”
Go to http://gametdb.com
Type the name of a game you downloaded in the search box on the upper left.
Hit the enter key.
Example: I typed “smash melee” and it gave me results with the code “GALE01” (try it yourself to see)
Within the “games” folder, you need an individual folder for each GC .iso
Create a new folder within the “games” folder, and rename it “GALE01”
Place the Melee iso inside the newly created “GALE01” folder.
Inside the “GALE01” folder, rename the .iso to “game.iso” (Note the “.iso” part may not show up after)
You need to do this for each game you downloaded. Your folder tree should look like:
Games (This folder should be on the root)
-GALE01
-game.iso (this is Melee)
-GFZE01
-game.iso (this is F Zero GX)
And so on.
Once you are done labeling folders in the “games” folder, transfer the “games” folder to the root of your SD card.
Eject your SD card from your PC and put it in the Wii.
Nice job, you are ready to play some GC games.
If you are trying to use external HDD, you will do the steps listed above except you will put your “games” folder on the Fat32 partition of the external HDD. Hook your external HDD up to your PC and open EaseUS Partition Manager. The goal is to make the first partition Fat32 and Primary (for GC games) and the second partition NTFS and Logical (for Wii games). I recommend allocating at least 15GB for GC games. Refer to the subsection “Format Your SD Card” if you forget how to do this.
Delete all partitions on your external HDD until you see ” * Unallocated”
Right click “Unallocated” > create partition
From the menu that opens, select “Primary” and “Fat32” and then make “Partition Size” at least 15000MB.
Hit Ok > you will see your Fat32 partition with 15GB or more
Right click “Unallocated” (under your new Fat32 partition) >create partition
From the menu that opens, select “Logical” and “NTFS” and don’t change the partition size.
Hit Ok > now you will see both your newly created partitions
Right click “Fat32” > format partition > set the cluster size to 32kb > hit Ok
Right click “NTFS” > format partition > set the cluster size to 32kb > hit Ok
Hit the big blue check marke that says “Apply” > hit “Yes”
Eject your USB from your PC and plug it into the USB port on your Wii that is nearest to the edge.
Adding Wii Games
If you are using an external HDD, make a folder called “games” on the root of the NTFS partition. Drag all your downloaded Wii .iso files to that folder. (No folder labeling BS for Wii games and they can be named whatever you want, ex: “ZeldaTP.iso”)
Eject your USB from your PC and plug it into the USB port on your Wii that is nearest to the edge. You can skip the rest of this subsection.
This part is really easy.
If you want to play Wii games, you need to download Wii .iso files via torrent too. Do that now.
If you are using a USB stick, you will be formatting it to NTFS with EaseUS Partition Manager.
Go to Start > My Computer > triple check the drive letter of your USB.
Open EaseUS Partition Manager (This may take a minute or two.)
Find the letter of your USB (ex: G) and make note of what disk number it is under (ex: Disk 4)
Right click on your USB stick > Delete partition
It should say “ * unallocated” under whatever disk number you had.
Right click where it says “unallocated” under your disk number > right click > Create partition
In the window that opens, choose the following setup options:
Create as: Primary
File System: NTFS
Hit “OK”
Right click on your drive letter again > Format Partition
In the window that opens, set cluster size to 32kb > ok
Hit the big blue checkmark that says “Apply,” then hit “Yes.”
When it says “operations executed successfully,” close EaseUS Partition Manager.
Go to Start > My Computer > Double click on your USB stick to open an empty window.
Create a new folder called “games” on the root of your USB stick.
Drag all your downloaded Wii .iso files to that folder. (No folder labeling BS for Wii games and they can be named whatever you want, ex: “ZeldaTP.iso”)
Eject your USB from your PC and plug it into the USB port on your Wii that is nearest to the edge.
Testing Functionality of GC and Wii Games
Put any random GC or Wii game in your Wii disc drive if you used Dios Mios Lite (for SD and SDHC). This is not important with Dios Mios Original
Turn the Wii on and go to HBC
Launch Wiiflow. (It is normal for Wiiflow to take 20-30 seconds to load.)
Hover the pointer over the very bottom of the screen and you will see little circle icons (bubbles) come up at the bottom.
Select the GC icon bubble.
Hover down at the bottom again and select the gear icon bubble.
Change “game partition” to SD if your GC games are on the SD, change it to “USB1” if your GC games are on USB.
Go to settings page 4/6
Path Manager > Go
Go to path manager settings page 2/2
Gamecube Games > Set
Hit the “….” to move towards the root directory.
If your GC games are on the SD, make it say “Path = sd:/games/”, If your GC games are on the USB, make it say “Path = usb1:/games/
Hit “back” 3 times.
Press the start button
Hit “reload cache”
(Your GC games should appear)
Congrats, you can play Gamecube games now.
IMPORTANT: If Dios Mios displays an “apploader error” you forgot to put in an original GC or Wii disc.
IMPORTANT: By having multiple “GALE01” folders, you can have multiple versions of Melee. The Wiiflow text on each one will be the same, but With a custom cover for each one you will be able to tell them apart. You can download covers for most games, but I will provide custom Smash covers in a later section of this guide.
To run Wii games, keep reading. Otherwise skip to the next numbered section.
EXPLANATION: This part assumes that you have your Wii game .iso files in the “games” folder on the root of the NTFS partition of your USB device.
Click on the bubble in the same position as the GC bubble icon. (It changes when you click it.)
Keep clicking until you see a USB bubble icon (it looks like a fork with bubbles), then click it.
Select the gear bubble icon again.
Change “game partition” to “USB1” if you have Wii games on a USB stick, change it to “USB2” if you are using a HDD with two partitions.
Go to settings page 4/6
Path Manager > Go
Go to path manager settings page 2/2
Wii Games > Set
Hit the “….” to move towards the root directory.
Make it say “Path = usb1:/games/” if you are using a USB stick with only a NTFS partition, change it to “Path = usb2:/games/ if you are using an external hdd with your Wii games on the second (NTFS) partition.
Hit “back” 3 times.
Press the start button
Hit “reload cache”
(Press B to go back if you need to)
Congrats, you can play Wii games now.
If you have problems with a specific game, try to get another iso. If you have problems running GC or Wii games in general, come to http://reddit.com/r/wiihacks for help.
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