Hacking Dusting off my old wii to play again.

[rogerde]

Hi all,

Been a while since i posted on here but i need a couple questions answered.
My son asked me go get the wii out so he can play on it during winter, loves the old game.
Its been in loft for a few years along with a external hdd with about 98 games loaded.
The hdd is faulty and will not load or be recognised by pc. Before i put wii away i made a back up of hdd onto an old pc, the back up was just a copy and paste onto the pc. I now have a new hdd but i'm not sure what i should do?
The games on hdd are in a wbfs folder and each game is a wbfs file. Can i just copy and paste the back up to the new hdd or would i have to transfer every wbfs game file individually to the new hdd.
Also with the wii being tucked away and was soft-modded several years ago do you think i should restart the whole soft-mod and install everything all over again.

Hope someone can give me some pointers on whats best to do.

thanks in advance.

roger

 

[Itsuki235]

Format the new HDD as MBR Fat32 w/32kb clusters. Rufus (select non-bootable) will do this as well as various other formatting tools. The max partition size for a single MBR partition is 2 TB.

If the Wii is not broken, do not attempt to fix/break it.

 

[Alexander1970]

Hi all,

Been a while since i posted on here but i need a couple questions answered.
My son asked me go get the wii out so he can play on it during winter, loves the old game.
Its been in loft for a few years along with a external hdd with about 98 games loaded.
The hdd is faulty and will not load or be recognised by pc. Before i put wii away i made a back up of hdd onto an old pc, the back up was just a copy and paste onto the pc. I now have a new hdd but i'm not sure what i should do?
The games on hdd are in a wbfs folder and each game is a wbfs file. Can i just copy and paste the back up to the new hdd or would i have to transfer every wbfs game file individually to the new hdd.
Also with the wii being tucked away and was soft-modded several years ago do you think i should restart the whole soft-mod and install everything all over again.

Hope someone can give me some pointers on whats best to do.

thanks in advance.

roger

Hello.

You can "Copy and Paste" the Folder with the WBFS Folder and the Games on the new FAT32 formatted HDD. <<-- Highly recommended.
BUT please NOTE:
If your old HDD Backup comes from an NTFS/WBFS formatted HDD/Device/Source you maybe HAVE troubles on bigger Games than 4 GB like for Example Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
It is recommended to use the WiiBackupManager for the Games to copy over.The Program automatically "splits" the File for you.

Good Luck
Thank you.

 

[rogerde]

Thanks both for replies,

thought it would be days before i would get replies.

Been years since i did any modding with the wii.

Boys looking forward to spending these dark winter nights on the wii.

thanks guys.

 

[Vila_]

Thanks both for replies,

thought it would be days before i would get replies.

Been years since i did any modding with the wii.

Boys looking forward to spending these dark winter nights on the wii.

thanks guys.

Im glad you can enjoy your wii again, I hope you have a great time playing old wii games... if in doubt just create a thread, there will always be someone to help you.

 

[rogerde]

Hi again,
update on me progress.
Eventually up and running. I took the copy and paste route.
reason i chose the copy and paste route is that wibackupmanager didn't recognise my external hdd.
Not got a lot of knowledge about wiibackupmanager so do you know of a noobs guide that i can have a read of.
Thanks again for your help alexander1970, Itsuki235.

Enjoying the wii again.