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I know people aren't really going to know yet, and someone from the community is going to need to risk their £250 Wii U as a Guinea Pig, but we need to figure out what will happen.
I never pirated games or anything, I just used Gecko, Savegame extractor and a couple of emulators, but surely if we can't pick and choose what it transfers, it will attempt to move over the Homebrew channel, which could brick the Wii U. Honestly I'm concerned that even having the HBC in play history will raise alarms. He's what I'm planning for mine:
NAND backup the Wii.
Find an app to erase all traces of play history.
Erase HBC as thoroughly as possible.
Attempt Wii U transfer.
Restore Wii NAND?

Any other precautionary steps?
 
It would be best not to rush and wait till someone tries to do a transfer with a hacked Wii.
If u wanna play the games so bad then play it on the Wii.
There are no difference.
 
Just judging by the 3DS transfer, both consoles connects to the internet to do it so what I'd assume is it will just pass a list of titles over to the other console or some sort of access code and the other console will then download everything again from the eShop/shop channel.

If it's anything like the 3DS, both consoles will stay connected the whole time and once the download is confirmed on the Wii U, the Wii will then just delete the transferred titles. Any loss of connection in the process and both will make both of them abort the process.

On an un-touched Wii, there are still channels that you don't get from the shop channel like the Mario Kart and the Rabbids channels. The legit transfer process already has to be able to pick and choose what can be re-downloaded from the Internet on the Wii U and what it can't so having it just ignore the HBC and other such channels seems normal to me.

On the other hand, if Ninty were dumb enough to just transfer the existing channels as-is and the HBC actually WORKED on the other console, that would be spiffy ... but not gonna happen.
 
Maxternal said:
Just judging by the 3DS transfer, it connects to the internet to do it so what I'd assume is it will just pass a list of titles over to the other console and the other console will then download everything again from the eShop/shop channel. On an un-touched wii, there are still channels that you don't get from the shop channel like the Mario Kart and the Rabbids channels. The legit transfer process already has to be able to pick and choose what can be re-downloaded from the internet on the WiiU and what can't so having it just ignore the HBC and other such channels seems possible to me.

On the other hand, if Ninty were dumb enough to just transfer the existing channels as-is and the HBC actually WORKED on the other console, that would be spiffy ... but not gonna happen.
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That would be pretty funny if that happened. The system transfer would end up being the Wii U's first hack lol.
 
Yeah, If it was checking against a list of titles it can transfer and Homebrew Channel wasn't on, it might just leave it behind. That's a pretty good way of looking at it. It would be easier if they could have us set up our Nintendo Network ID on the Wii U, then download a channel on the Wii where we put our NNID in, then it just links the accounts so that we could redownload them at will. That would be far too simple for Nintendo, though. Everything they do has to be so convoluted...
 
The game transfer will be from your account shop account which has nothing to do with system menu, hbc or any of that.
I know this because its not like the ds and 3ds where you can just transfer, but if they did the same way with wii and wii u, not everyone has 2 tv's and if they have 2 tv's they are not next to each other. So its going to be shop
 
Srslyosm said:
Yeah, If it was checking against a list of titles it can transfer and Homebrew Channel wasn't on, it might just leave it behind. That's a pretty good way of looking at it. It would be easier if they could have us set up our Nintendo Network ID on the Wii U, then download a channel on the Wii where we put our NNID in, then it just links the accounts so that we could redownload them at will. That would be far too simple for Nintendo, though. Everything they do has to be so convoluted...
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Actually, I know for sure two things. One...it requires an SD card that you prepare first on the WiiU through the settings I believe, sounds like the transfer starts on the WiiU there like on 3DS (so probably not an online transfer). Two...the WiiU manual also states that it requires an app on the Wii side, presumably it means something that will be up on the Wii Shop Channel at launch. I should say I don't have one yet, but a few games media outlets who do have scoured the manual that came with theirs. :)
 
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=189882

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- insert an SD card into the Wii U
- access the Wii System Transfer application
- put the same SD card into their Wii
- download another transfer application from the Wii Shop Channel
- app will move data over to the card
- this must be put back into the Wii U
- Wii data is moved to the Wii U
- data deleted from SD card

The data that can be transferred in this way includes:

Wii Software save data
WiiWare and save data
Virtual Console titles and save data
Add-on content
Wii Points
Wii Shop Channel activity
Mii characters​
 
Will someone please check if they can start the shop channel?

I can't. It's asking for an update, which it wasn't doing last week. Has this transfer app just been added or something? I've searched everywhere and there's no info on the subject. Modmii can't even grab the Shop channel now.
Made a thread, too. I'll feel silly if it's just me.
 
Midna said:
Will someone please check if they can start the shop channel?

I can't. It's asking for an update, which it wasn't doing last week. Has this transfer app just been added or something? I've searched everywhere and there's no info on the subject. Modmii can't even grab the Shop channel now.
Made a thread, too. I'll feel silly if it's just me.
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It's just a channel update that adds a new IOS that nobody is sure what it does yet, the shop channel seems to be completely unchanged otherwise.
 
Disorarara said:
It's just a channel update that adds a new IOS that nobody is sure what it does yet, the shop channel seems to be completely unchanged otherwise.
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Well i can't access the shop channel and Modmii isn't helping me

I wanna download my Wiiware. Wait for a solution I guess?
 
LightyKD said:
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=189882


Wii to Wii U data transfer process detailed

Nov 07, 2012 by RawmeatCowboy





- insert an SD card into the Wii U
- access the Wii System Transfer application
- put the same SD card into their Wii
- download another transfer application from the Wii Shop Channel
- app will move data over to the card
- this must be put back into the Wii U
- Wii data is moved to the Wii U
- data deleted from SD card

The data that can be transferred in this way includes:

Wii Software save data
WiiWare and save data
Virtual Console titles and save data
Add-on content
Wii Points
Wii Shop Channel activity
Mii characters
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I wonder if we can transfer modified wads or even miis that have colors and symbols in them?
 
It will probably be the same way Nintendo transfers wads to different Wiis, they just check your purchases and redownload everything (or alternatively, transfer the already existing wads after the purchases have been verified)
 

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