I tried to find some other thread that asked this question first. While it's possible that I overlooked it, I saw nothing and so I created an account to ask it myself. If anybody else has it in the future, than they hopefully look to this thread. And if I'm not the first, apologies ahead of time. I had several more questions originally, but looking around had most of those questions answered, so they are now a non-issue.
I'll cut to the chase. Is the loadiine process possible with a USB Stick rather than an SD Card? The reason I ask is due to a rather simple but extremely annoying roadblock: My Wii U's SD reader seems to be non-functional. I've had this specific console since around 2014, and somewhere along the way it must have become defunct, despite me not using it much. I looked around and it is a rather common issue, and I've taken several measures to get it working again. The pins are fine, I'm tried using multiple SD cards, and all of those SD Cards were theoretically compatible with the system. I looked at the cost of getting it repaired, just to find out that the potential cost is upwards of a hundred bucks. Now, at such an inflated price, I can only assume they must replacing the whole motherboard or something drastic like that. But the fact stands that I'm not willing to pay a full Benjamin for the "privilege" of my 100% completed save files being wiped, as it often does whenever I have Nintendo repair something. At that rate, I might as well get a new console without the gamepad off of Amazon and save a few bucks.
So, yeah. Repairing is likely a lost cause.
I've been wanting to get homebrew on my Wii U for a while now, but I kept putting it off. But I've accepted that I might as well just not play any games on it until I get the issue resolved. Odds are, I'll just be starting at square one again, anyway. So any help is appreciated.
I'll cut to the chase. Is the loadiine process possible with a USB Stick rather than an SD Card? The reason I ask is due to a rather simple but extremely annoying roadblock: My Wii U's SD reader seems to be non-functional. I've had this specific console since around 2014, and somewhere along the way it must have become defunct, despite me not using it much. I looked around and it is a rather common issue, and I've taken several measures to get it working again. The pins are fine, I'm tried using multiple SD cards, and all of those SD Cards were theoretically compatible with the system. I looked at the cost of getting it repaired, just to find out that the potential cost is upwards of a hundred bucks. Now, at such an inflated price, I can only assume they must replacing the whole motherboard or something drastic like that. But the fact stands that I'm not willing to pay a full Benjamin for the "privilege" of my 100% completed save files being wiped, as it often does whenever I have Nintendo repair something. At that rate, I might as well get a new console without the gamepad off of Amazon and save a few bucks.
So, yeah. Repairing is likely a lost cause.
I've been wanting to get homebrew on my Wii U for a while now, but I kept putting it off. But I've accepted that I might as well just not play any games on it until I get the issue resolved. Odds are, I'll just be starting at square one again, anyway. So any help is appreciated.
