Help me build THE ULTIMATE WIIU!!

mikefor20 · Mar 31, 2023

Hello!

I am trying to build

the
ULTIMATE
WiiU!

I am looking for ideas. I am interested in narrowing down

The BEST hardware. What HDD is best? SD? Power solutions?
The BEST software. What's the most complete setup? I want to utilze all possible emulators, Homebrew..
The BEST Physical Mods. What is the best replacement battery? What is the best replacement housing? Can I improve the screen? Can i improve the gamepad range?
The BEST Accessories. What is the must have addons? Thinking of a tpu shell and some screen protectors. Charging stands

I am newish to WiiU but I'm reasonably well read on the subject and I'm looking to see what the great minds have to say.

I want all the bells and whistles. Atomic purple flashing blinking loud with all the games.

All of them.

I currently have a WD 2TB USB 3.0 elements with a y cable. For wiiu stuff and a 5 TB WD p10 gamedrive formated FAT32 in a single partition for the wii/gc stuff.

What do I need?

I appreciate anyone and everyones opinions and help!

V10lator · Mar 31, 2023

mikefor20 said:
The BEST hardware.

The Wii Us internal memory should be Toshiba. Also get a LAN adapter.

mikefor20 said:
The BEST software.

https://wiiu.hacks.guide

mikefor20 said:
The BEST Physical Mods.

Unlimit the USB Ports. There are some posts about this here on the forums as well as some images on Discord but I can't find them real quick.

TheStonedModder · Mar 31, 2023

V10lator said:
The Wii Us internal memory should be Toshiba. Also get a LAN adapter.

https://wiiu.hacks.guide

Unlimit the USB Ports. There are some posts about this here on the forums as well as some images on Discord but I can't find them real quick.

If OP wanted too. Couldn’t he use voultars upcoming eMMC adapter to just make a giant internal storage with a 1tb microsd ?

If that’s the case that might be the best case to make an “ultimate Wii u” since you could internalize all storage

V10lator · Mar 31, 2023

TheStonedModder said:
If OP wanted too. Couldn’t he use voultars upcoming eMMC adapter to just make a giant internal storage with a 1tb microsd ?

No. First off the max eMMC size the Wii U supports is 64 GB (I guess a 64 GB model was planned but never released) and second there's no known way to resize the properitary, encrypted filesystem.

//EDIT: And it seems (not confirmed yet) the filesystem and eMMC size must match. So even when you would copy a 32 GB NAND dump to a bigger size SD card and solder that in the Wii U will refuse to boot.

mikefor20 · Mar 31, 2023

V10lator said:
The Wii Us internal memory should be Toshiba. Also get a LAN adapter.

https://wiiu.hacks.guide

Unlimit the USB Ports. There are some posts about this here on the forums as well as some images on Discord but I can't find them real quick.

Toshiba? Okay. 64GB max? I wonder if my Wii LAN adapter will work.

Unlimiting the USB ports looks awesome. I ordered a powered USB Hub for the WiiU. I have been using one on the Switch for years. This looks better.

godreborn · Mar 31, 2023

mikefor20 said:
Toshiba? Okay. 64GB max? I wonder if my Wii LAN adapter will work.

Unlimiting the USB ports looks awesome. I ordered a powered USB Hub for the WiiU. I have been using one on the Switch for years. This looks better.

unlimited usb ports might be worthless. the wiiu can only use a second hdd if transferring. and, the vwii can use a large hdd if it's allocated to 4,096KBs, so most new ones, I think. every wii and cube game should fit on 8tbs, I think.

SDIO · Mar 31, 2023

Toshiba seems to be the most reliable eMMC used in the Wii U. Hynix has often problems.
There are certain mlc sizes hardcoded in IOSU, the largest ist 64GB. But that doesn't matter as we can't resize the file system, we can only use the size the console came with.

V10lator · Mar 31, 2023

mikefor20 said:
Toshiba?

There are 3 brands of eMMC Nintendo used: Hynix, Samsung and Toshiba. Now when we look at https://hackmd.io/d12Fq9g-QlCjN2HJp7Yvew?view we see Toshiba is the most reliable.

mikefor20 said:
64GB max?

32 GB. In code the Wii U supports up to 64 GB but there is no such hardware. Note that this is about the internal memory (MLC/eMMC), SD cards and USB drives can be bigger.

mikefor20 said:
I wonder if my Wii LAN adapter will work.

It will work as Wii and Wii U LAN adapters are exactly the same.

mikefor20 said:
Unlimiting the USB ports looks awesome.

Will search links later or tomorrow.

godreborn said:
unlimited usb ports might be worthless.

No. I'm using a HDD, LAN adapter, GameCube controller adapter (with rumble, connected through kind of a reversed Y cable) and TTL adapter all at the same time without a powered HUB (TTL adapter might be useless for the OP but they want to use a second HDD for vWii to be able to have as much games in parallel as possible).

godreborn · Mar 31, 2023

is the hdd powered?

AmandaRose · Mar 31, 2023

V10lator said:
The Wii Us internal memory should be Toshiba.

Sorry if this is a dumb question but how would I be able to find out what brand of internal memory I have on my WiiU?

godreborn · Mar 31, 2023

AmandaRose said:
Sorry if this is a dumb question but how would I be able to find out what brand of internal memory I have on my WiiU?

I think the new WiiUIdent by @GaryOderNichts might be what you want.

V10lator · Mar 31, 2023

godreborn said:
is the hdd powered?

No. Just bus driven. This is a real simple hardware mod (Nintendo putted ICs in place to limit the ports but you can just bridge over them).

AmandaRose said:
how would I be able to find out what brand of internal memory I have on my WiiU?

https://gbatemp.net/threads/wiiuident-a-wii-u-identification-homebrew.630023/

AmandaRose · Mar 31, 2023

Thank you @godreborn and @V10lator I did not know about this rather useful homebrew program.

huma_dawii · Mar 31, 2023

V10lator said:
The Wii Us internal memory should be Toshiba. Also get a LAN adapter.

https://wiiu.hacks.guide

Unlimit the USB Ports. There are some posts about this here on the forums as well as some images on Discord but I can't find them real quick.

You sent them to me in DM! They helped a lot.

V10lator · Mar 31, 2023

@huma_dawii Thanks, i'll Just steal the pictures you sended me back:

Also here's a bit more information (in german) : https://circuit-board.de/forum/inde...D-für-Wii-U-gesucht/?postID=786122#post786122

SDIO · Mar 31, 2023

Do we even need a HD for the vWii anymore? I though it is possible to just do VC injects for Wii games and launch them directly from the Wii U Menu.

godreborn · Mar 31, 2023

SDIO said:
Do we even need a HD for the vWii anymore? I though it is possible to just do VC injects for Wii games and launch them directly from the Wii U Menu.

yeah, but there's a 300 game limit. the only way around it is multiple hdds or system config tool.

mikefor20 · Mar 31, 2023

godreborn said:
yeah, but there's a 300 game limit. the only way around it is multiple hdds or system config tool.

Can I just run Wii games from vWii? Then 300 is enough in WiiU menu

godreborn · Mar 31, 2023

mikefor20 said:
Can I just run Wii games from vWii? Then 300 is enough in WiiU menu

yes

mikefor20 · Apr 1, 2023

I will do both.

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