Gaming Wii U USB Y-Cable

[Bmurdog]

I was wondering if I plugged one end of the Y cable for my external hard drive into an outlet and the other into the Wii U would I manage to save a port? Or do you need both plugged into the Wii U for it to work?

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

I was wondering if I plugged one end of the Y cable for my external hard drive into an outlet and the other into the Wii U would I manage to save a port? Or do you need both plugged into the Wii U for it to work?

should still work

 

[Bmurdog]

should still work

Thanks, just bought the supplies on amazon

 

[Jayro]

I just saved myself the headache and bought a 128GB USB 3.0 "nano-sized" USB stick. Doesn't stick out, and plays all games just fine.

 

[Bmurdog]

I just saved myself the headache and bought a 128GB USB 3.0 "nano-sized" USB stick. Doesn't stick out, and plays all games just fine.

Unfortunately, with the amount of storage I require, I would need one of these. (Pic Below)

 

[Jayro]

Unfortunately, with the amount of storage I require, I would need one of these. (Pic Below)

Unless you plan on archiving the entire Wii U library, there's only about 250GB worth of GOOD games on the Wii U.

 

[AmandaRose]

I just saved myself the headache and bought a 128GB USB 3.0 "nano-sized" USB stick. Doesn't stick out, and plays all games just fine.

Yep but a usb stick will break a lot sooner than a hdd due to the fact the wiiu is constantly reading and writing to it. A usb stick is designed to be read from constantly not written to where as a hdd is desingned to be constantly read from and written to. Thats why when Breath of the wild came out nintendo gave out a statement saying only use nand or hdd and never to use a usb stick. Using one on wiiu you are just drastically reducing the usb sticks lifespan.

 

[Jayro]

The games only need installed once, they can be read from nearly unlimited times. And if you buy a short nano drive like I did, it won't snap off.

 

[gotem]

Actually, each time it saves your game progress it writes to the same location the game files are in. It would have been nice if the console could have the game content in USB and the save data in nand but sadly nintendo did't think so.

 

[danny19901]

I was wondering if I plugged one end of the Y cable for my external hard drive into an outlet and the other into the Wii U would I manage to save a port? Or do you need both plugged into the Wii U for it to work?

I plugged my Y cable in back of Wii U
Oddly Wii was powerful enough to power my HDD but Wii U wasn't

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[decipher83]

I use standard notebook hdd in wii u, plugged with y cable directly into the console

 

[Demix]

I have 1 terbabyte my passport external drive plugged into both usb ports in back of wii u

 

[danny19901]

I have a 2TB hooked up with a Y cable awesome and works a treat I have loads of games and mods installed

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[Biduleman]

You could also use a powered USB hub if you need more USB plugs on your WiiU.

 

[Sethtimus Prime]

The games only need installed once, they can be read from nearly unlimited times. And if you buy a short nano drive like I did, it won't snap off.

Those tiny usb drives tend to get pretty hot. I'd be surprised if you didn't get some kind of slow down after playing for a while.

 

[Jayro]

Those tiny usb drives tend to get pretty hot. I'd be surprised if you didn't get some kind of slow down after playing for a while.

It really depends, my SanDisk gets hot, but my Samsung only gets hot in a 3.0 drive, at 2.0 it stays pretty normal.

 

[Sethtimus Prime]

It really depends, my SanDisk gets hot, but my Samsung only gets hot in a 3.0 drive, at 2.0 it stays pretty normal.

I'm going to have to try this out. I'd much rather use one of these for my WiiU.

 

[SuperK]

I was wondering if I plugged one end of the Y cable for my external hard drive into an outlet and the other into the Wii U would I manage to save a port? Or do you need both plugged into the Wii U for it to work?

I know it's late but did plugging one y cable to wall outlet work?

 

[Hayato213]

I know it's late but did plugging one y cable to wall outlet work?

No plug both cable into the wii u, if voltage is higher than 5v that you plug into wall outlet you fried your unit

 

[mitgenuss]

I know it's late but did plugging one y cable to wall outlet work?

it does work perfectly with my two 2.5 USB 3.0 HDD's. Output of the wall outlet is 5V, 2100 mA .