Wii game back up

Last year we shared two guides with you that other people had written— the original and a revision —on how to back up and play your Wii games from an external hard drive. Unfortunately, like many things on the internet, the guides faded into the digital night read: they were taken down. Setting up your Wii with an external hard drive is a wildly popular topic, however, and since the old guides went offline, we've received daily emails on the topic.

In response to the demand, here's our own complete guide to setting up your Wii to play games from a USB hard drive. When laid out screen-by-screen this guide is quite lengthy, but the process itself only takes about 10 minutes start to finish—if you're not stopping to take lots of screenshots and write a tutorial along the way!

This guide will show you how to activate an exploit on your Wii to allow more advanced Homebrew software to run, how to set up and format an external USB hard drive to play nice with your Wii, and how to manage the process of backing up your games and displaying them in cover-flow inspired style. When you're done, your games will load fast, be immune from scratches and mishandling, and be displayed in a way that will make your friends envious.

Before you delve into the project, why don't we take a peek at this video demonstration of the interface to help you decide if it's worth it—it's so worth it, but who's going to say no to a video tour? Ready to call in sick and spend the day setting up your Wii? Watch the video again.

Before we get started, let's review some necessary cautions and the tools we'll need. Anytime you mess around with a piece of closed hardware like a Wii and start monkeying with the guts, you risk bricking your toy.

Have we ever bricked a Wii? No, despite modding Wiis and all sorts of consumer electronics, we've never bricked anything. Is it possible to brick your Wii? Yes, the risk is always there and you should proceed with appropriate caution and respect for the process.

Every step and every tool used in this entire guide can easily be looked up on Google if you want to read more about it. Precautions provided, let's take a look at the tools you'll need:. If you have an older Wii with an out-of-date menu system 3. If you're not sure what version you have, click on the Options button in the lower left corner of your Wii's main menu and then on the Wii Settings icon on the right hand side of the screen; the version number is displayed in the top-right corner of this screen.

If you have a newer menu system, you'll need to read this section. The Trucha Bug is just a code vulnerability that existed on early versions of the Wii operating system referred to in Wii-hacking documentation as IOS.

As of the 4. Pop the SD card back in your Wii and launch the Homebrew channel. The next series of screens look similar to the above screenshot. Again, click A to confirm that you would. DOP-Mii will complete the modification and kick you back to the Homebrew channel. Note: In some instances this tweak can invert the Homebrew screen, a strange quirk.

You can fix it easily by reloading the Homebrew installer. The next step is to introduce a new IOS to your system. Download the cIOS installer here. Launch the cIOS installer. Press A to confirm:. On the next screen, use the keypad to select Network Installation. Press A to confirm. The cIOS Installer will churn away for a minute or so and then confirm a successful installation. Press any button to reboot the Wii. At this point your Wii is ready for all the fun Homebrew antics you can throw at it—Homebrew by itself is really awesome, but Homebrew with a custom IOS under it is even better.

At this point we're going to explain how to prepare your external hard drive to work with your Wii, so grab that external drive, plug it into your computer, and let's get cracking.

It's possible to use some of the more advanced loaders with NTFS formatted disks, but it's dicey and not worth the headache. Stick with the Wii's native file system for maximum stability. Select your USB drive from the pull down menu and click the format button. Just like using the regular format tool, this is serious business. Make sure you pick the right drive. Although WBFS Manager is packed with features, we don't need it right now for anything but formatting. 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. Copy this down. Step 5: Go on your computer and open an Internet Browser. Continue to STEP 7.

I haven't tried this yet, but the instructions in the app, should be straight forward. Get back to you later on this. A special thanks to waninkoko , the one who made this AND running backups possible. Any troubleshooting will be posted here: None Yet. Where do you choose your burn speed? I think you can do it on any version. I have 4. This does work. Great instrtuct! I also found this guide to be very helpful when trying to play burned wii games.

Can any dvd burner work?????? Does any one recommend any that are not too much money please Lite on is cheap,,prob to cheap??????? Reply 12 years ago on Introduction. By conradev Kramer Software Productions Follow. More by the author:. Did you make this project?