![]() It will take a bit of time for that to run, but once it’s finished you should be able to see your neatly filed games on your USB drive. Now we need to click the Transfer Tab and select Drive 1 to transfer the games files to the USB drive. You should now have a list of games and Backup Manager should have identified them and added their game Ids. You’ll get a file browser prompt so just find your game files and select them. Next we need click the File tab, and then Add, Files. Just click to get Wii Backup Manager to set it all up for you. If your drive is newly formatted you’ll get a message telling you there is no wbfs folder. Run the 32 or 64 bit version that matches your PC.Ĭlick the Drive 1 tab and then select your USB drive from the dropdown list. If you then open that folder you’ll find a few. Then, on your PC, simply extract the Wii Backup manger files to their own folder. First make sure your USB drive is connexcted to your PC. This is where our Wii Backup Manager app comes into play. We now need to create our USB games drive. So make a new folder, rename it to wad and then copy the wad file into the new folder. This needs to be in a folder called wad on the root of the SD card. So, open the zip folder and copy over the apps folder. Next we need to install the YAWMM app in the same way. ![]() Just copy this onto the root of your SD card and it will integrate with the apps folder already there. Go to your downloaded files and open the USBLoaderGX zip. You’ll need your Homebrew SD card from your Wii and the USB drive you’ll be using for your game files. You can use other Dolphin emulator file formats but they will need to be converted before we can use them. The files need to be in WBFS format, or as raw ISO file dumps. Just make sure you are aware of your local copyright laws as most of the software you’ll find is still under licence, so unless you are backing up your own game disks you could be breaking those laws. As usual I can’t tell you directly where to get these files but there is a lot of helpful information on Vimm’s Lair (just search online for it). Go to and download the app zip file.įinally we need some game files. We then need an application to help us install the WAD file. To do that we need to install a WAD file that will link directly to the app. Next we’ll want an easy way to launch our Loader from the main Wii menu screen rather than having to go into Homebrew each time. The one I’m using here is a Windows only app but you can find links to Mac and Linux versions on the Wii Hack Guide page. This application helps us correctly format our game files so that the loader can identify and run the games correctly. Next we need to download Wii Backup Manager from. Once we’ve got all the software assembled we’ll install it onto our Wii SD Card in one go. Once there simply scroll down and download the zip file to your PC. To get hold of the application you just need to browse to. To install USBLoaderGX we need to download a few pieces of software and setup a USB drive. Again please look at the previous video to find out how to do all of this. To make your USB drive compatible with the Wii it must be formatted as an FAT32 drive and I recommend a 16KB cluster size. I’d recommend an SSD drive with a USB adapter as you’re going to end up with a lot of big game files. This can be a USB thumb drive or a USB enabled hard drive. You’ll also need a USB drive for your game and data files. ![]() To start with you’ll need to have installed Homebrew onto your Wii and installed cIOS 248-251 as per my basic Wii Homebrew installation video. The loader we’ll be looking at is USBLoaderGX. We store these files on a USB drive attached to the Wii so these applications tend to be known as USB Loaders. The idea here is that we take a game disk image file, either one that we’ve created ourselves, or one that we’ve obtained elsewhere, and get the Wii console to load it as if we’d put the real game disk into the console. That’s what I’ll be showing you how to do in this tutorial. But probably the most common use of softmodding to allow you to play Wii and GameCube games from backup files stored on a USB drive. Homebrew allows you to install a range of third party applications that can turn the Wii into a powerful retro gaming console You can install a wide range of applications including a full set of emulators for almost all the pre-Wii machines and computers. If you haven’t hacked your Wii already please make sure you have a look at my Homebrew installation video. The Wii is a great gaming platform, especially once you have softmodded it and installed the Homebrew Channel.
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