Wii external hard drive for games

The adjustment does not require opening up the Wii or changing any of its electronics, but still violates the Nintendo warranty, although doing so is not illegal. You will be able to continue using your Wii as you normally do, but now storage space will be significantly increased. Double-click on the USB loading program once it has downloaded to decompress it to a file on the desktop.

Double-click on the title deleter program once it has downloaded to decompress it to a file on the desktop. Double-click on the Wii manger program once it has downloaded. Restart the PC. Insert the SD memory card into the memory slot of the SD card reader. Double-click on the icon of the SD memory card to open its window.

Wait for the files to copy to the SD memory card. You can revisit it later to back up your backup drive and other nifty tricks, but for now you can shut it down and unplug your USB drive from the computer and plug it into the bottom USB port—the one closest to edge of the Wii and the little rubber foot the other port is reserved for games that require USB accessories like Rock Band.

If you are grabbing them manually, go to the top of the list and grab the most current. DOL and. WAD files. Place the. You'll need it later for the extra credit portion of the tutorial.

Looks lonely in there. Pop in a game and click "Install". Depending on the game it can take anywhere from a minute to several to rip a game. Wii Sports, for example, is only 0. Brawl is 6. The average Wii game is around 2GB or so—though you'll be surprised to see how many games are really tiny. After you've ripped one, you might as well work your way through the stack in front of you. Soon your loader screen will look like this:.

It's not lonely anymore but it sure is boring looking. Press 1 on your Wiimote. This menu will pop up:. Cover downloads? Yes ma'am! The covers will download automatically—they're stored on your SD card, if you're curious. After you've downloaded the covers, your default interface should look like this:. Clicking along the bar at the top of the screen gives you new layouts like the one at the top of this article and this one:. You can favorite games to make a "Best Of" list or sort them by number of plays so your most frequently played games rise to the top.

You can even set a parental lock so that children playing games on your Wii can't load the Mature rated titles—do you really want to explain why your nephew is playing No More Heroes instead of Super Paper Mario? So far things are looking pretty good. You're rocking Homebrew, you've got a USB hard drive with all your games hooked up to your Wii, and it's all controlled by a beautiful cover-style loader. What could be better?

Not having to launch the Homebrew Channel and then launch the loader, just to get to your games. Let's put the loader front and center. We're going to need a few more tools, so grab that SD card. We need a WAD manager, essentially a file manager for the Wii that handles installation bundles.

You can't go wrong downloading Waninkoko's Wad Manager; you'll find a copy here. Create a new folder inside the drive and label it WBFS. Right-click on the file, select Extract All Files, and open the file through 7-Zip of other file extraction programs. Select OK to extract the file and wait for the extraction to complete. You should see a text document alongside the WBFS file. Delete the text document so that only the WBFS file remains. To do this, open up any web browser any key in Game TDB.

This should take you to the Game TDB website. Type the game that you are downloading onto the search bar. Click on any entry and then look for the game ID i.

You can also include the title for your reference, plus the game ID. Click on the Homebrew Channel and then Start. The game that you have imported should appear on the screen. Plug in your hard drive or USB stick, and then run the application.

Select your game of choice and start it by clicking on the disk icon. Here go the steps to get your free Wii U games into your Wii U controller: Installing USB Helper Before we get to downloading any software to facilitate downloads, we need to set aside specific folders.

Agree to the terms and then select your region. A pop-up window will appear asking you to select a folder to store your games. Select Browser and look for the created DL-Dec folder.

Another pop-up window will appear asking for your title key. Type in titlekey. Wait for the USB Helper to load.

After it has loaded, you can start searching for games through the database. Select the destination where you want the game to install.

Once the download is complete, insert your SD card into your PC. Look for the Homebrew option on the main panel. Close the Homebrew Launcher, after which you will find your game installed on the Wii U menu. Next, you must download the most recommended version for computers which is version 2.

Once the download had completed, you can now begin with the installation of the software. Once the extraction window pops up, click the three dots beside the name. You will receive a pop-up notification asking to send data to developers. From this point, you can personalize the settings of your Dolphin emulator and also upload games from your local drive.

Click on the Windows main toolbar and search for Bluetooth settings. Click on the toolbar and slide the toggle underneath Bluetooth to turn it on. A pop-up notification might appear requesting your passcode.

If the pairing is successful, the remote should vibrate for a few seconds, and the flare one light should light up. Click on any game on the main tab of Dolphin to run it. A series of instructions on properly handling your Wii console should appear, followed by the game itself.

To start, download any Wii game that you want from online sources. Create a new folder anywhere on your computer to store all of your game downloads. Locate the downloaded WBFS file and then copy-paste it into the dedicated folder. You can fill this folder with as many free games as you want.