Hacking what is the recommended way to play GC games on a Wii with Nintendont ?

L3gi0n0fh311 · Mar 1, 2021

on the github page under Notes it reads:

The Wii and Wii U SD card slot is known to be slow. If you're using an SD card and are having performance issues, consider either using a USB SD reader or a USB hard drive.
USB flash drives are known to be problematic.
Nintendont runs best with storage devices formatted with 32 KB clusters. (Use either FAT32 or exFAT.)

For the first item, Are they recommending to put the Nintendont itself on a USB storage device ? or the games only ?

For the third item, They recommend to format the disk like below?

https://ibb.co/df1h0GQ

Exidous · Mar 2, 2021

For the first item, they mean the games only.

For the third item, yes, but most people do not use the built in Windows format tool. WiiBackupManager can format drives, that's what I used to achieve FAT32 with 32k clusters.

Just to clarify: my preferred setup is:

Nintendont is an app on the SD card in the apps folder.
Gamecube games are on the USB hard drive.

L3gi0n0fh311 · Mar 2, 2021

Exidous said:
For the third item, yes, but most people do not use the built in Windows format tool. WiiBackupManager can format drives, that's what I used to achieve FAT32 with 32k clusters.

What's wrong with NTFS and the Win10 formatter ?

If I format it as NTFS with 32KB Allocation Unit Size, Will Wii games that are on the same storage play nice with Wiiflow ?

Exidous · Mar 2, 2021

I may just be repeating old advice, in Windows 7 the default formatter doesn't let you format large drives as FAT32 at all. If the tool says FAT32 with 32k cluster, that's what we're looking for.

NTFS is simply less supported by Wii software - it may not work for various things. If you use WiiBackupManager to add Wii games to your drive it will automatically split large Wii images to make them FAT32 compatible. My drive has a games folder with gamecube games in it and a wbfs folder with wii games in it, no problems.

Draxikor · Mar 2, 2021

You can have apps and games in the same USB or HDD with no problems, the only thing it cant be done is mods for games like Project M that you need to have it in the SD

Alexander1970 · Mar 2, 2021

Hello.

L3gi0n0fh311 said:
What's wrong with NTFS and the Win10 formatter ?

Nothing,but
Nintendont does not work on NTFS Devices.
And if you want to use NINTENDONT/GameCube and Wii Games on ONE HDD/Drive the FIRST Partition ALWAYS must FAT32.

Thank you.

SaulFabre · Apr 16, 2021

alexander1970 said:
Hello.

Nothing,but
Nintendont does not work on NTFS Devices.
And if you want to use NINTENDONT/GameCube and Wii Games on ONE HDD/Drive the FIRST Partition ALWAYS must FAT32.

Thank you.

Yeah @alexander1970
USB devices are only supported if they are formatted with FAT32 format

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