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    Hacking Computer as a wii game loader?

    ok, I had my first problem. I loaded a few games and played each for just a few minutes and all was good. Then, when I tried to copy Donkey Kong Jungle Beat to my hdd (from my wii with the loader I got on modmii) it would go through the copy or install process but when it got to about 35% it...
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    Hacking Computer as a wii game loader?

    IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks guys. Your help was just what I needed. I put wii sports and super mario bros on and they both worked perfectly (I put 400 gigs as fat32, and the rest as NTFS or whatever that is, so I'd have some hard drive for some other stuff when I travel). Anyway, I'm...
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    Hacking Computer as a wii game loader?

    thanks guys! when I get my hdd I should be able to get going on something. It's 500gbytes and I don't need it right now for anything else. Hopefully I'll get it going because once I get the new Zelda game I won't be doing much else (I was a kid when putting 10bucks in the pacman arcade game...
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    Hacking Computer as a wii game loader?

    is there any info on formatting the hard drive, in what order I do things, things to watch for - stuff like that?
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    Hacking Computer as a wii game loader?

    Ok, I just bought a hard drive, so I think I'm on my way of finally being able to stop "re-buying" games because they get scratched or cracked. I bought this...
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    Hacking Computer as a wii game loader?

    sorry, what I meant is I "found" one on ebay - I dont' have it. Can you tell me, I see some of these I'm looking at don't have power packs with them and the instructions say to plug into a fully powered usb device. I know my computer usb will power it - but will the wii? or do I need a power...
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    Hacking Computer as a wii game loader?

    thanks for the info. I found a western digital My Passport Essential 250 GB 2.0 5400RPM WDBAAA2500ABK-NESn for $49 new. Would that one work?
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    Hacking Computer as a wii game loader?

    thanks for the info - so if I have to buy an external HDD (what exactly does "HDD" stand for?), is there a certain kind/type I should look for - or more importantly, one I should really stay away from? I know it's possible to do this, but I can't really find a setup to transfer disks to my...
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    Hacking Computer as a wii game loader?

    I have been looking at getting an external hard drive to store games on, and then play them from on my wii (instead of using the disks). I know if I get a hard drive and I don't want to format it to fat(32) I can't store or play apps from it, but I think I can still store wii games and use it...
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    Hacking Help with StartPatch please

    Thanks guys, I'm learning alot. I used the modmii program and loaded exactly what it said and how it said it and everything seems to have worked fine. It looks like priiloader does what I want it to do. I'll keep learnng though and hopefully by going slowly I won't screw anything up...
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    Hacking Help with StartPatch please

    so if priiloader and startpatch both can cause me major problems, is there a safe way to add something which will prevent it from asking for updates (I know I can just ignore them, but my kids might accidentally hit update if asked if they don't know).
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    Hacking Help with StartPatch please

    I'm sorry, I looked and I don't see an option to delete it. If someone knows how let me know and I'll do it.
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    Hacking Help with StartPatch please

    I didn't do anything else yet. I appreciate the help - I'll use the modmii and skip the homebrew channel. The only question I have is I did put the bootmii on (as an ios - it said it couldn't as boot2 because of boot1), do I leave that on or do I need to remove it for priiloader?
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    Hacking Help with StartPatch please

    This is gonna show how little I know - but I thought what I did was hacking?
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    Hacking Help with StartPatch please

    I put this in the "Ask" section, but I'm not sure that was right so if I broke some rule about posting I didn't mean to. I could really use a hand with this and I'd like to learn a bit more about all this. First of all, I'm sorry this is so long, but I am completely new to this and I have...
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