Wii copy games to external hard drive

This video will take you step by step through the process of copying your Wii games to an external disk or harddrive, safely and easily. This requires no computer and no further equipment than your drive, your Wii console and an original Wii game disc. Have fun! Insert an SD card into your computer. If you are using an SD card that the Wii has already used, rename the "Private" folder to avoid conflicts.

Copy the files. Copy the contents of the bannerbomb zip file to the SD card, preserving the file structure. Copy the "installer. Remove the SD card from your computer and insert it into the Wii.

Select the SD tab. Confirm the pop-up. Use the direction pad to navigate the menus, and the A button to make selections. Finish the installation. After a few moments, you should receive a Success message letting you know that Homebrew has been successfully installed. You can return to the Wii menu and access Homebrew anytime from the Channels.

Turn it on and press the button with the picture of the SD card. Download and extract the "Return of the Jodi" save hack. Place the files on an SD card, keeping the file structure intact. Insert the SD card in the Wii. Turn it on, open the Wii Options menu and select "Data Management". Copy the "Return of the Jodi" save that matches your region. Load the saved game. After the game loads, walk to the bar on the right and switch characters.

Part 3. Download the necessary software. In order to install the backup software, you will need to install a few more tools for the Wii now that it is softmodded. Keep the file structure intact. Select "Yes" again when it prompts you to restore. When it completes, it will drop you back at the Homebrew Channel. Remove the SD card from the Wii and put it back in your computer. Insert the SD card back into the Wii and open the Homebrew channel. Click on the USB loading program.

The external USB hard drive must be turned on before the Wii or the Wii won't be able to 'see' that it is there. Marshal M. Rosenthal is a technology maven with more than 15 years of editorial experience. A graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography with a Bachelor of Arts in photographic arts, his editorial work has appeared both domestically as well as internationally in publications such as 'Home Theater,' 'Electronic House,' 'eGear,' 'Computer and Video Games' and 'Digitrends.

Eagles Video Songs Free Download. Hindi Video Song Video Download. 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. DOL file to boot. Throw it back into your Wii and boot into the Homebrew Channel.