Okay, so I hacked my Wii years ago for GC games and am just now getting into Wii games.
Recently I replaced DIOS-MIOS Lite with Nintendont for the perfect compatibility, works great. Then I got Abz's Wiiflow pack and cherry-picked the essentials to emulate Wii games. Worked good enough. All this is on my SD card though, so I thought I should get an HDD for more space and to hopefully not fry my SD.
My brother bought me a 500GB one and I got EaseUS to format it to a single partition FAT32 with 32k cluster size. Moved the "wbfs" and "games" folders from the root of my SD to the root of the HDD... Wiiflow recognizes a USB is inserted but "Disk-wait failed" when I press install, and Nintendont gives a weird error when I click on the USB option... I'm having difficulty finding what I need to do and I'm mentally exhausted now, so I finally made an account on here. Any ideas? I know about the HDD compatibility list, but my model wasn't on it.
Other details:
- HDD: Maxone USB 3.0 Device (can't post Amazon link because I'm a new member)
- MBR Signature (is this important?): C52973CF
- SD seems to also be FAT32 format.
- It's been so long since I hacked the Wii, I'm not sure all that's installed into it and where. I originally hacked it with only an SD in mind, so maybe I'm missing WADs for USB compatibility?
On my SD I tend to keep all the WADs I have installed, so here:
I'd really appreciate the help! Thank you.
Recently I replaced DIOS-MIOS Lite with Nintendont for the perfect compatibility, works great. Then I got Abz's Wiiflow pack and cherry-picked the essentials to emulate Wii games. Worked good enough. All this is on my SD card though, so I thought I should get an HDD for more space and to hopefully not fry my SD.
My brother bought me a 500GB one and I got EaseUS to format it to a single partition FAT32 with 32k cluster size. Moved the "wbfs" and "games" folders from the root of my SD to the root of the HDD... Wiiflow recognizes a USB is inserted but "Disk-wait failed" when I press install, and Nintendont gives a weird error when I click on the USB option... I'm having difficulty finding what I need to do and I'm mentally exhausted now, so I finally made an account on here. Any ideas? I know about the HDD compatibility list, but my model wasn't on it.
Other details:
- HDD: Maxone USB 3.0 Device (can't post Amazon link because I'm a new member)
- MBR Signature (is this important?): C52973CF
- SD seems to also be FAT32 format.
- It's been so long since I hacked the Wii, I'm not sure all that's installed into it and where. I originally hacked it with only an SD in mind, so maybe I'm missing WADs for USB compatibility?
On my SD I tend to keep all the WADs I have installed, so here:
I'd really appreciate the help! Thank you.