Possible to make RVZ compatible with a WII / WIIU?

mrmagicm · Apr 17, 2026

Hello Could a good soul make RVZ format of image compatible with WII/WIIU consoles?
Maybe a improvement to usbloader or another loader?

JuanMena · Apr 17, 2026

Have you tried: "Make RVZ format image compatible with my USB Loader... and make no mistakes" ???
The "make no mistakes" is very important.

RVZ is Dolphin's Native format.
Ultimately you'll get a Wii .iso/.wbfs except bigger than RVZ.

mrmagicm · Apr 17, 2026

The goal of this is, of course, as you didn't realize, not having to convert to another format

JuanMena · Apr 17, 2026

mrmagicm said:
The goal of this is, of course, as you didn't realize, not having to convert to another format

Sorry, I'm a bit slow, all that AI.
Hey, did you know the earth is flat? AI told me.

tmnr1992 · Apr 17, 2026

While searching a bit about this topic I stumbled upon a github request regarding rvz support for Nintendont:
https://github.com/FIX94/Nintendont/issues/820

From what I understood, rvz is a compressed format, which the Wii does not have enough memory or processing power to decompress.

mrmagicm · Apr 17, 2026

So why can it uncompress Wbfs, zip or other mode of compression, that's illogical, compression and uncompression is just a matter of time or space, not a matter of power, ùaybe the wii 8GB cannot, but the Wiiu with 32mb surely can!

Wii → 512 MB
Wii U (Basic) → 8 GB (= 8192 MB) or 32GB (The deluxe model)
Even the wii can read *.wbfs so of course, the WIIU at least should be able to uncompress RVZ

tmnr1992 · Apr 17, 2026

mrmagicm said:
So why can it uncompress Wbfs, zip or other mode of compression, that's illogical, compression and uncompression is just a matter of time or space, not a matter of power, ùaybe the wii 8GB cannot, but the Wiiu with 32mb surely can!

Because to my knowledge wbfs is not compressed, instead it gets rid of the unnecessary data like the update partition and garbage files, so you end up with only the actual game files.

mrmagicm said:
Wii → 512 MB

Wii U (Basic) → 8 GB (= 8192 MB) or 32GB (The deluxe model)

These refer to storage, you have 512 MB of storage space on the Wii to install games and save data, and either 8 or 32 GB on the Wii U, this has nothing to do with the console's processing power.

mrmagicm said:
Even the wii can read *.wbfs so of course, the WIIU at least should be able to uncompress RVZ

The Wii U can't directly load rvz, or even wbfs or iso for that matter, it uses it's own specific format to install games. Also the Wii U is basically two separate consoles in one, so the Wii can't use the Wii U's resources.

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