Hacking How to launch 4.7GB game from External Device

[vashinator]

You need a cios 249 installed to load wii games off usb drive.

Awesome, thanks for the advice! I had no idea what I was doing wrong. Can you recommend a good link that has simple instructions on how to install cios 249? I'm not computer illiterate, but all the ones I found looked super complicated.

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You need a cios 249 installed to load wii games off usb drive.

Thanks for the advice! I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. Could you recommend a good link that shows how to install cios 249? I'm not computer illiterate, but all the pages I found about it looked super complicated

 

[Takeshineale128]

try following this guide https://sites.google.com/site/completesg/backup-launchers/installation to install cios 249.

 

[vashinator]

try following this guide https://sites.google.com/site/completesg/backup-launchers/installation to install cios 249.

Thanks again! I am following the directions, and I am downloading WINE for my Mac so that I can download the NUS Downloader, which is Windows only. Do you know if I should dl Wine Staging or Wine Development or both? Or by any chance do you know of an alternative way to download the WAD files on a Mac? Unfortunately, my router is not compatible with the Wii, so my Wii is offline, that's why I need to download the WAD files

 

[vashinator]

try following this guide https://sites.google.com/site/completesg/backup-launchers/installation to install cios 249.

By the way, it worked! I followed the directions at the link you sent me, and everything is up and running now. I am able to play backed up games from the USB drive. Thanks again for everyone's help on this thread!

 

[GreyWolf]

try following this guide https://sites.google.com/site/completesg/backup-launchers/installation to install cios 249.

You should warn people not to use beta53 in 249 like that guide says to. It has compatibility problems.

 

[vashinator]

use Witgui for mac to get Wii game iso/wbfs files to usb hard drive (WBFS formatted).
http://desairem.altervista.org/wordpress/witgui/ delete if not aloud.

I have been using Witgui on my Mac with much success with Wii games, but for some reason it doesn't work with GameCube games. I am using Witgui to transfer ISO's from my Mac to a WBFS formatted USB drive, which I then stick in my Wii. All of the Wii games I have transferred this way work, but the GameCube games that I transferred don't work. Any ideas?

 

[Takeshineale128]

I have been using Witgui on my Mac with much success with Wii games, but for some reason it doesn't work with GameCube games. I am using Witgui to transfer ISO's from my Mac to a WBFS formatted USB drive, which I then stick in my Wii. All of the Wii games I have transferred this way work, but the GameCube games that I transferred don't work. Any ideas?

Use Nintendont for gamecube games.
Partition your hard drive in 2 partitions, one partition in WBFS for wii games and fat32 for gamecube games.

 

[GreyWolf]

I have been using Witgui on my Mac with much success with Wii games, but for some reason it doesn't work with GameCube games. I am using Witgui to transfer ISO's from my Mac to a WBFS formatted USB drive, which I then stick in my Wii. All of the Wii games I have transferred this way work, but the GameCube games that I transferred don't work. Any ideas?

You can't run Gamecube games from a WBFS partition. They need to be on FAT32. You can partition the entire drive as FAT32 and WIT can automatically split the games >4GB into two files.

 

[tateconcepts]

I am new to Wii hacking, so please forgive my ignorance. I just successfully installed the Homebrew Channel on my Wii. What I want to do is run a backup I made of New Super Mario Bros Wii, which is a 47.GB ISO file, from an external device, either a SD card, Flash Drive, or Hard Drive. The problem is, as far as I know, Wii only supports FAT32 which only recognizes files up to 4.0GB. I am probably wrong. Someone please tell me how to launch this 4.7GB game from any kind of external device. Thanks in advance!

What I want to know is, while the Wii only has a wireless connection - the Wii U has an Ethernet port. Personally, I think using local storage - USB 2/3/3.1 is the worst with SDHC only being slightly better because its internal. As a network and systems admin, we run virtualized servers / desktop sessions for people all the time and they are stored elsewhere - NAS/SAN or whatever. Has anyone heard of or figured out a means to load or access GC/Wii or whatever titles from a network location yet?

I would prefer to place them on network LUN (storage partition) that I can make whatever filesystem (FAT32/exFAT/NTFS/EXT3/NFS) and then use an iSCSI initiator to the iSCSI target I will have set up on my SAN. Surely, I'm not the only one with at least a network based storage device that someone wants to pull data from. Seems stupid I can do that with Dolphin easy but cannot mod it somehow through the Wii / Wii U. Any thoughts are appreciated!

Thanks,
Brian