Brewology

i know this is a noob question but i am a noob

Currently there is no way to run GC from SD or HDD. no ones bothered to make one.

Don't quote me on this, but I believe I've read somewhere that they can't gain access to the SD slot and USB devices when the Wii loads a GC game because it's in a special "mode" that doesn't allow access to those things.

Even if I'm recalling correctly, that information would be pretty old by Internet standards, so take that with a grain of salt. I recently read about cMIOS that lets you play GC backups through the Disc Channel (probably part of cIOSCORP), so unless there's an architectural limitation preventing access to SD/USB devices, there's nothing stopping anyone from creating a loader.

Theres nothing stopping anyone making a USB/SD GC loader but no one is going to make one for a long time, im not gona say don't quote me on this because i know, for one Waninkoko stop working on the wii and has moved onto ps3, so we don't have a chance.
Making a loader takes time, and yes there is a disc channel loader for GC but thats alot easier to make then a usb loader/sd Loader.

I'd think there are enough open source USB Loaders out there that someone could just take a GC loader and add in the functionality. Unless the USB portions aren't open source...

A Usb loader for GC is different to the wii games thats why there isn't one, trust me on this there won't be one anytime soon and if there is its pure luck. are put it in other words, they way waninkoko's Cios works only handles Wii games, and only a very few people know how to even make code to make a Cios, waninkoko, wiipower i believe understands it but its not the same, as i said before it won't happon soon anyways, "Add in the functionality" its not like adding a driver on win7 its gona take mass amounts of time, if there is any news of this i will ofcourse post about it, but making a Cios for BC is different then one for the wii Games. Also Usb loaders aren't the thing that matters, its Custom IOS's that do the job, and they can't release it anyways unless they get permission of all 4 coders of it, and a few are missing, "Haven't been heard of in awhile"

thank you all for your answers

Things must be moving fast, as there are at least 2 methods for playing backup GC isos from SD/USB.

Please use Google before mouthing off...