Use the Wii homebrew browser and see what you can find. There is a save manager or two out therethat will work? I want to keep some saves while overriding others. I thought there was an app that could be used in this way, but I've forgotten the name of it. I also want to keep the saves on the wii to have a backup of them.
No not all of them will work that is why there is a save tool., or you could just copy your saves one-by-one to a SD card from your Wii and then move them to your vWii...
what do you call "normal version" ?
the normal one IS the hbc version.
You probably tried a "channel version" installed to system menu ? these kind of channels are usually not maintained and outdated.
You better use forwarders channel if you want a channel on your system menu, they are used to load the hbc version located on your SD card without loading HBC.
If it can't set UID, you'll have to play the game at least once on your vWii in order to restore the save.
If you have the disc, you don't really need to "play" it, just insert the game disc and wait until you see the animated banner in the Disc channel. then eject and insert another game disc, etc.
then you can restore saves.
You can't restore savegame from a game you never played.
He's talking about this pikmisunfortunately, that didn't work. I still get the UID error no matter what I do. do u have a link to a version that works with the wii u's virtual console? thanks.
oh, and by normal version I mean the hbc version rather than the other version boot.dol. it's on the official website: hbc version, version that doesn't mention hbc, and vWii version which doesn't work for me.
ah I understand now what you meant with "normal", but you probably used the old version (r127) which had a vWii version.
This is the latest release (even if marked as beta, it should work fine):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/savegame-manager-gx-beta/files/
the "normal" r69 is just the dol, but don't use that one unless you already have the meta.xml
use the full "hbc" pack (it contains the same dol, but has the additional icon and xml too)
you can follow development and report issues here :
https://gbatemp.net/threads/savegame-manager-gx.210111/