Playing wiiware games in wiiflow

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ok, so I have a bunch of wiiware games (.wad files) and I can't install them all because my wii doesn't have enough open blocks for that. Thus, I installed some of them on the sd card, but some of them won't play off the sd card due to the digital nintendo signature or something like that. So, my wii is a mess when it comes to wiiware games. Recently, I found out that wiiflow could play wiiware titles, but I don't get it how it is going to be. Do I install all my wiiware wads in the system and launch them with the help of wiiflow (but i don't have enough blocks) or do I install them on the SD card and play off of it in wiiflow regardless the digital nintendo signature or whatever it is? Or it works completely differently that that?

In short, all i wanna do is to have all my wiiware games in the same place and have a nice and understandable interface (already setup wiiflow with the Rhapsodii Shima theme) to launch them. So what do I do and how do I do it?
 

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Installed wiiware games that are copied to the sd card work fine (have to be from the same region as your console), and there's no "digital Nintendo signature" or whatever it is that you're talking about.
First, you install these wiiware wads to the sysnand with a wad manager (like Some-YAWMM-mod), then copy them to the sd card from data management. You can launch them just from the Wii home menu.
There's also an other alternative, Uneek or Sneek emunand. You can install as much as you want, though there are some wiiware games that don't work correctly with it. So it's your choice.
 

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ok, so I have a bunch of wiiware games (.wad files) and I can't install them all because my wii doesn't have enough open blocks for that. Thus, I installed some of them on the sd card, but some of them won't play off the sd card due to the digital nintendo signature or something like that. So, my wii is a mess when it comes to wiiware games. Recently, I found out that wiiflow could play wiiware titles, but I don't get it how it is going to be. Do I install all my wiiware wads in the system and launch them with the help of wiiflow (but i don't have enough blocks) or do I install them on the SD card and play off of it in wiiflow regardless the digital nintendo signature or whatever it is? Or it works completely differently that that?

In short, all i wanna do is to have all my wiiware games in the same place and have a nice and understandable interface (already setup wiiflow with the Rhapsodii Shima theme) to launch them. So what do I do and how do I do it?
for wiiware games on SD I believe you need a patched system ios 70 or 80. otherwise the wii can detect if they are fakesigned or not.

for wiiflow. you need to learn how to create an emunand on SD or USB, install your wads to it, and setup wiiflow to read your emunand instead of the system nand. there should be lots of info on here. google is your friend. and no you don't need sneek/uneek/neek2o. only a small handfull of wads require neek to work.
 

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Best way to play all the Wiiware games from a USB loader I've found is to set up a quick emunand via USBLoader GX (this method is the easiest emunand to setup on a Wii/vWii as it's literally just a group of folders that gets redirected to, other emunand setups were much more complex and time consuming than this) and install all you Wiiware .wads to the USBLoader GX's emunand. Works like a charm for me.
 

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First, you install these wiiware wads to the sysnand with a wad manager (like Some-YAWMM-mod), then copy them to the sd card from data management. You can launch them just from the Wii home menu.

if by "install these wiiware wads to the sysnand" you mean install them to the Wii system using the wad manager or the multimod manager so they appear as channels, that's exactly what I did and all of them play fine. But when I saved the majority to the SD card, it turned out that some of them refuse to launch from the SD card, saying something like "error loading" or something like that, while launching perfectly from the system (the Wii home screen). So, I googled it and some dude said it was because the nintendo digital signature was missing or something.
 

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ok, so I have a bunch of wiiware games (.wad files) and I can't install them all because my wii doesn't have enough open blocks for that.
Did you made two threads asking the same question?
I believe I do have a ios 80 patched system. How do I check that?
With a SysCheck.
 

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Best way to play all the Wiiware games from a USB loader I've found is to set up a quick emunand via USBLoader GX (this method is the easiest emunand to setup on a Wii/vWii as it's literally just a group of folders that gets redirected to, other emunand setups were much more complex and time consuming than this) and install all you Wiiware .wads to the USBLoader GX's emunand. Works like a charm for me.
ok, but is there a way to set up a emunand via Wiiflow? Because I want all my games on the system to be in the same place
 

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I am a Chinese user. I now use GX to generate emunand, and then use ShowMiiWads to install it in the enmunand, or use the WADmanger built in GX to install WAD game files. Finally, start the game with GX. I answered with the translation software. I hope it can help you
 

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