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title: "Covers for USB Loader GX Offline"
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If you need help for anything regarding this tutorial, please join [the RiiConnect24 Discord server](https://discord.gg/rc24) (recommended) or [e-mail us at support@riiconnect24.net](mailto:support@riiconnect24.net).
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This will be a guide on how to get covers for your games offline, so they don't show like this
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and instead look like this
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#### What you need
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* A Wii
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* An SD card or USB Hard Drive (USB HDD)
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* [WinRAR](https://www.win-rar.com/download.html?&L=0) (or a file extracter of your choice.)
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##### Section I - Getting the Covers
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1. You can get Wii and Gamecube covers by going to [GameTDB](https://www.gametdb.com/Wii/Downloads#cover_packs) and downloading the "3D Covers" and choosing the flag of the version of the game you have (e.g. if you have NTSC-U versions download the USA flag, if you have PAL download the flag of your region.)
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##### Section II - Extracting the Covers
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1. The downloaded covers will be in a .zip file. Move this file to your Desktop and use a file extractor (e.g. WinRAR) to unzip. To do this on Windows, right-click and select "Extract All".
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1. The unzipped content folder should now be on your desktop. Go into the path ```Desktop/Wii/cover3D/<your_country_code>``` (e.g., if you downloaded the US flag, replace your_country_code with US). Verify that there are .png files in this folder to indicate that the downloads were successful.
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##### Section III - Transfering the Covers
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1. Make a folder on the root of your SD card or USB HDD called "covers".
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1. Move the "cover3D" folder from the steps in Section II into the "covers" folder on the root of your SD card/USB HDD. This should be in the path ```Desktop/Wii/cover3D```. Ensure that this is from the extracted folder and not the .zip file.
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1. Once it's done transferring, you can eject the SD card or USB HDD from you computer and plug it into the Wii. **NOTE: That if you have a USB HDD it needs to be plugged into Port 0 like seen here.**
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##### Section IV - Displaying the Covers
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1. When on the Wii, launch "The Homebrew Channel" (HBC).
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1. Find and load "USB Loader GX".
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1. Go to "Settings". (**"Gears" icon in the bottom left corner**)
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1. Once in the "Settings", press right on d-pad or the "+" symbol on the Wii remote to go to "page 2". 
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1. On "Page 2", click the "Custom Paths" option. 
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1. then click the "3D Cover Path" option.  Wait for it to load. (**NOTE: This may take a while depending on how many .png files you have in the "cover3D" folder**)
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1. When the "3D Cover Path" screen pops up, you should see the root of your SD card or USB HDD.  (**NOTE: you may have to change you drive, which you can do by clicking the middle button where the pointer is.**)
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1. In "3D Cover Path", find and select the folder called "covers". 
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1. Then click the folder called "cover3D" (**NOTE: The folder is named differently in pic but it's the same thing**)
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1. Then select the folder with your country code (e.g. US, EN, DE, etc.) (**NOTE: This will take a while so if it frezzes DON'T freak out**)
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1. In the country code folder, you'll likely see no items - this is expected. When in this screen press "OK" to set the path. Then click "OK" on the next screen. 
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1. Back out of the settings and verify that the covers are displaying in the main usb loader gx screen. If so, it should look like this 
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