I'm looking to get a harddrive around black friday, and was trying to decide what size I'd need. I was wondering if I could use a single hardrive to store my WiiU and Wii games or if I'd need different ways to launch the games?
Afaik, you can use it only for WiiU games because the WiiU will format it before being able to use it and will not be recognizable on a PC afterwards, unless you remove the formatting scheme and partitions created by your WiiU.
So, to make it clear, you need two hard drives, one for your WiiU games (formatted by your WiiU) and one for Wii/NGC/other (formatted as FAT32 using a PC).
I'm looking to get a harddrive around black friday, and was trying to decide what size I'd need. I was wondering if I could use a single hardrive to store my WiiU and Wii games or if I'd need different ways to launch the games?
Yep, it's possible. Not ideal but doable.hmm...I had forgotten about that. do note: you have a limit of 300 titles on the home menu. well, technically 292 I believe, because the system counts default tiles. there's ways around it, because the file that determines that is called the barista (going with that coffee theme like everything else on the system). you can make multiple profiles, each with their own barista, to have hundreds more titles.
Yep, it's possible. Not ideal but doable.
But I have yet to see anyone use all their 300 titles of GC, Wii U and Wii. You'd have to fill at least 1TB (unless you're using only GC games but that would be cheating )
It's technically like 292 because there's 8 icons I think that are forced by the console that you can't delete, and I have done it and had it that way for several years now and I've seen lots of people make threads asking if they can have like every Wii U/Wii/GC game although it's very difficult to do or not practicle. It only took me 750 GB, but it's because I only have around 25-30 Wii U games and Wii is smaller, GC is smaller than that, N64 and DS are tiny. I still have over 100 GB left.
Oh, just to clarify. With the injector, does that mean the Wii and Gc games would be stored on the formated WiiU harddrive? And I can't store nintendon't on it (that's what I'd need an sd card for?).
@godreborn How come you suggest haxchi? Do I need to launch Mocha to play injected Wii games?
I'd specifically advise against using CBHC. Lauching haxchi on startup manually takes about 10 seconds. It's not worth the potential brick risk factor introduced with an app that can boot loop and brick your system if you somehow mess with it.no, either should work. I mostly suggest cbhc (as long as no one else uses your system). you'll boot into cfw at boot.