Can not read SD.

[Koelkast]

I haven't really played on my Wii that much lately, so I could be missing a lot here.
My SD can open the Homebrew Channel and many other channels such as the snes9x emulator and Gecko OS, NeoGamma, etc..

But the problem is, when I try to use Ocarina on Gecko OS 1.9.3.1, the latest version, it loads the game just fine, but when it tries to load the Ocarina codes, it says "SD not found."

When it shows that, the game just starts in the settings you have chosen, it just doesn't load the cheats from the SD, since it could not be loaded.
Is there something I need to fix this? As I said, I haven't played on my Wii much lately, meaning I basically left all the HBC stuff aside, and never looked back at it.

Help would be appreciated.

[goemon_guy]

When you try to load the game with cheats does it say, "No SD Card found." or "No SD Codes found." If it's not recognizing the SD Card, you may have to try a different one, but if you can load other apps with it, I doubt that's the case.

I think you might not have the proper directory for the codes, causing the "No SD Codes found" message. I believe that they should be stored at:

SD:\Codes\GameID.gct

The gct can be made from Geckocodes, or from the PC Code Manager.

[Koelkast]

It says that no SD card was found, I just checked the folder, and there are 8 .gct files in there right now. The game I am trying to use cheats with is Zelda: Twilight Princess. I made the gct with the PC Code Manager, and there is a RZDP01.gct file in my SD:\codes folder.

When I also try to SAVE my settings with Gecko OS 1.9.3.1, it also says that there was no SD card found.
Is there something I need to do with IOS or anything? I've been away from this to long.

[goemon_guy]

If you have access to another SD card, you could try that.

Also, you could try formatting the SD card to FAT32, if it's not already. (Backup your data first.)

You could try re-inserting the SD Card when in Gecko OS.

Other than that, I'm not sure how much help I can offer.

[dcx2]

To cheat on Wii games, you do not need to touch IOS.  The only reason you might want to touch IOS36 is to enable channel cheats.

What size of SD card is it?  Is it SDHC?  What system menu version do you have?  What HBC version?

You could try backing up everything on it and then formatting it.  But yeah, if it can load Gecko OS, it's reading it from the SD card...

[Koelkast]

My System Menu version is 4.3E and my Homebrew Channel version is 1.0.8

SD card is a 4GB SDHC.

I just reformatted the SD card, and now putting back all the cheats I had on it. I am going to give it another try, I will edit the post when anything happened.

Just reformatted, put the cheats back on, opened Gecko OS: same thing, doesn't work.

[dcx2]

I know sometimes the Wii struggles with SDHC.  But I know it works sometimes, too.  What brand is your card?

[Koelkast]

It's a Kingston.

I don't get it, I NEVER had any problems with this a long time ago, and from the looks of it, Gecko OS hasn't even updated ever since.

[goemon_guy]

This is unlikely to fix the problem, but you could redownload the application. (You could also try the last version , 1.9.3)

Other than that, I think I'm out of ideas :S

[Koelkast]

Well, I tried it all.

Reformatting my SD card, reinstalling/downloading Gecko OS 1.9.3 AND 1.9.3.1
But yet, it does not work.

My Wii says that the SD card is inserted, and the HBC shows the apps I have on my SD card, yet it shows it can not find a SD card on GeckoOS or other channels such as NeoGamma, a USBLoader channel.

There might be one more possibility, which is Riivolution, so I'll try that.

EDIT: It works totally fine with Riivolution, I think I'll have to stick with that then

[dcx2]

...odd.  If Riivolution works (which requires a clean IOS37) and Gecko OS doesn't (which can use a patched IOS36), then I would be suspicious of any changes to IOS36 somehow interfering with your SD stuff.  As a last ditch effort you could try re-installing the latest clean IOS36 using e.g. Dop-Mii, and then using Simple IOS Patcher if you need to patch for channel cheats.

After reformatting, does it still complain if you try to save Gecko OS settings to SD card?

[Koelkast]

I'll have to try to reinstall the IOS later, not possible to do it now.

And yes, it still complains when I try to save my settings.

[WiiPower]

Gecko OS will support different cards when using different IOS. But i didn't expect a change from IOS36 to IOS37. I only knew that using IOS61 instead of IOS36 makes some(most?) sdhc cards work. Making the latest Gecko OS use IOS61 is a bit complicated, because last time i tried, i wasn't able to boot any games with my compiled Gecko OS.

Maybe Riivolution replaces some of the IOS sd card code? I wouldn't be surprised if they did some tuning to support more sdhc cards than with the unpatched IOS37. They also could use AHBPROT for sd access before the game is loaded...

[dcx2]

Not that I would recommend trying this without bootmii as boot2 but would it be possible to put IOS61 into IOS36 slot?

[WiiPower]

Not that I would recommend trying this without bootmii as boot2 but would it be possible to put IOS61 into IOS36 slot?

Yes, it should be possible. And there would be a chance to brick Wiis by doing this(like priiloader installed using IOS36), so the advice to only do it with BootMii boot2 is someting i agree with 100%.

Which version of Gecko OS used IOS249? Installing IOS61 as IOS249 should be safe.