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not really worth it unless you have a lot memory on your pc and not worth having your pc open just to play wii.at least for me because my pc really doesn't have that much memory and i'm not near a tv.
 

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kristianity77 said:
im yet to jump on the Wii bandwagon, but this has made my interest just a little bit higher. Next step of booting from an external HardDrive (cutting out the PC) and im sold

that when i may think of buying this if i could just use a hard drive like you said.
 

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i know ill get slaughtered for asking this. But i can see that this will run almost anything gamecube and anything Wii. But will this allow you to run Virtual Console Stuff too?
 

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kristianity77 said:
i know ill get slaughtered for asking this. But i can see that this will run almost anything gamecube and anything Wii. But will this allow you to run Virtual Console Stuff too?

No, you can't. This is a DVD drive emulator, so you can run anything you would normally run on disc. Installing Virtual Console WADs on your Wii is accomplished by a different process, well described in the forums!
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Tanas said:
Using up 4gig of HD space for the sake of a 10pence DVD-R, is a bit stupid if you ask me.

We have the scrubbing app and compressed directories/iso images you know.

re VC stuff, something may be happening at some point but more importantly the earlier consoles are emulated fairly well and with SDHC/USB support....
 

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FAST6191 said:
Tanas said:
Using up 4gig of HD space for the sake of a 10pence DVD-R, is a bit stupid if you ask me.

We have the scrubbing app and compressed directories/iso images you know.

re VC stuff, something may be happening at some point but more importantly the earlier consoles are emulated fairly well and with SDHC/USB support....
If you could just simply connect an external HD to the Wii's USB then it would be great, having to turn on my PC just for a quick game of Wii Sports just doesn't appeal to me, but maybe thats just me...
 

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Pimpmynintendo said:
Would anybody know if having firmware 3.4 on my Wii block me from using this(Wii hasn't been modded before)

It works no matter what the firmware of your Wii is. Your Wii doesn't have to be modded, either. All the chip does is pretend to be the DVD drive, so the Wii treats it like one.
 

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lilsypha said:
Pimpmynintendo said:
Would anybody know if having firmware 3.4 on my Wii block me from using this(Wii hasn't been modded before)

It works no matter what the firmware of your Wii is. Your Wii doesn't have to be modded, either. All the chip does is pretend to be the DVD drive, so the Wii treats it like one.
thanks I appreciate the quick response.
 

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Wow I never heard of this and I've been on GBAtemp for quite a while. I'll read it up in a bit!

Question though. For games that require an update, can you still remove the update and play normally?

What about games like Animal Crossing which have some kind of different IOS? Which is required for wiispeak and such. Would those games still work?
 

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Anakir said:
Wow I never heard of this and I've been on GBAtemp for quite a while. I'll read it up in a bit!

Question though. For games that require an update, can you still remove the update and play normally?

What about games like Animal Crossing which have some kind of different IOS? Which is required for wiispeak and such. Would those games still work?

Yes, you can block updates.
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All games work--you can choose to block and/or install whatever you want. You'll need to use your favourite homebrew to manage your IOS files, just as you would with a modchip.
 

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I like the idea. I think I will just stick with my modchip though. I would get it if it supported straight external hard drive.
Maybe if my drive ever fails I will consider something like this.
 

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Im somewhat talking off the top of my head, but perhaps a web front end could be created for the ISO selection? That way you could go into the Opera Browser and change the game you want to play? Maybe some kind of packaged Apache web server that sends commands to the application (via command line options?)
 

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Awesome. Thanks for the response. This sounds really nice to have, but I'm going to wait for one that supports Extern HDs as well 'since my Wii's already modded.
 

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