Enclosures aren't recommended at all. They have a much lower compatibility rate than standalone drives.matcon5 said:Just a quick and simple question for now from me
Will an external enclosure and a 200GB IDE drive work alright? or is SATA more recommended?
Thanks in advance.
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What is the difference? The only one I can think of is it's easier to know if it will work if you buy a branded one and it's on the compatibility list.
I bought a cheap 2.5" SATA caddy and put a drive that had come out of a laptop inside and it worked fine.
PATA should be ok as well. Only way to know for sure is to try it.
I'm not sure what it is, but speaking from experience from troubleshooting a lot of drives in chat, the enclosures seem to have a much higher failure rate. For some of them, it's because they implement a hub interface; others like to only have certain formatting types and don't work well with the Wii drivers. Much of the time there's no clear reason why they don't work, but they don't. Now, I'd still say that there are more successes than failures via enclosure, but the success rate definitely seems lower than with drives.smf said:
huh??? what do you think a external drive is? its a internal drive with an enclosure. open one up and see. they even have sata/ide connectors. and you can open up a external hdd and put another hdd in it.
Yes, but the types of enclosures that come with standalone drives don't have these features that are making the separate enclosures less compatible. They just seem to work better in combination with the Wii.giantpune said:
Dr. Clipper said:
Dr. Clipper is right I have tested that myself and some enclosures were incompatible. On the other hand connecting the drive directly through a sata/ idle cable to usb and external power made the same drive more stable.
If you wanted to edit the wiitdb file to edit the games descriptions does config read the zip or will it read the xml file if you extracted then edited it. or do i have to extract it edit it. then re zip it
I know it's possible with other backup loaders, I was just asking if this one supports it
I think it would be a nice addiction to the list of features, there are still many people who prefer to burn DVD and get the unmodded look and feel.
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I've used ciosre17 and 222r4.
It hasn't done it for the last few times. I suspected it might have had something to do with anti 002 and took it out last night. I'm trying to replicate it, however... with little success. So I guess my issue is fixed?
Heello,
I transfered No More Heroes 2 (.wbfs) at my 1TB NTFS drive with WiiBackupManager0.3.4r3, but the game ins not listed at CFG usb L game list... al my others transfered wbfs game are ok....
I transfered No More Heroes 2 (.wbfs) at my 1TB NTFS drive with WiiBackupManager0.3.4r3, but the game ins not listed at CFG usb L game list... al my others transfered wbfs game are ok....
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Check the folder names are compatible with the version of cfg you're using. To be sure, just update to the latest version. If you're using cfg 51a or below, and don't want to update, then you'll need to select "GameID_Title" in the storage convention options in WBM. You can then go to "Tools->FAT32/NTFS->Update storage convention" to make the folder names compatible.
Check the folder names are compatible with the version of cfg you're using. To be sure, just update to the latest version. If you're using cfg 51a or below, and don't want to update, then you'll need to select "GameID_Title" in the storage convention options in WBM. You can then go to "Tools->FAT32/NTFS->Update storage convention" to make the folder names compatible.
Is there a compatibility list for drives that work? I thought I saw a link to something like that, but seemed to have miss placed it.
Since it seems enclosures and IDE/SATA drives might be problematic.
Or can someone recommend what I could use. My Wii's laser is dying and I need a way to play my games
Thanks in advance.
Since it seems enclosures and IDE/SATA drives might be problematic.
Or can someone recommend what I could use. My Wii's laser is dying and I need a way to play my games
Thanks in advance.
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matcon,
the Western Digital My Passports (portable external HDs) or Western Digital My Books (external HD, not portable) have great compatibility. (these range in size)
u can find these at your local tigerdirect, bestbuy, costco, maybe futureshop etc.
here's an add for the My Passport on Costco's website
the Western Digital My Passports (portable external HDs) or Western Digital My Books (external HD, not portable) have great compatibility. (these range in size)
u can find these at your local tigerdirect, bestbuy, costco, maybe futureshop etc.
here's an add for the My Passport on Costco's website
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I think a few of the early systems could benefit from that, at least up to the 8 bit generation, by the 16 bit generation I think TVs had gotten a lot better in almost every way
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it says it only works for the original R4, R4i Gold (r4ids.cn), R4iDSN (r4idsn.com) and Acekard R.P.G. -
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Just give it a try, but honestly if you have a 3DS you can play DS games without a card just off the internal SD card
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