Hacking Help me find the right setup for my 5 year old to use (Emulation and Loaders)

[wiindsurf]

Yep, the Wii U is said to provide less power, so people resort to Y cables. Most don't recommend USB flash drives, but I had luck with Samsung and Sandisk ones. My personal preference however is to keep all Wii/GC games on large SD cards in the front.
You will also need another separate USB drive in case you want to install more Wii U games then your internal storage allows. You cannot use the same USB drive for Wii and Wii U games as the Wii U needs to reformat it to a proprietary format before allowing it to be used for Wii U games.

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@kornychaos I suppose widening up a discussion is an offence, thanks for the insight officer. I'm sure the OP enjoyed your contribution the most.

 

[Nickb1907]

Yep, the Wii U is said to provide less power, so people resort to Y cables. Most don't recommend USB flash drives, but I had luck with Samsung and Sandisk ones. My personal preference however is to keep all Wii/GC games on large SD cards in the front.
You will also need another separate USB drive in case you want to install more Wii U games then your internal storage allows. You cannot use the same USB drive for Wii and Wii U games as the Wii U needs to reformat it to a proprietary format before allowing it to be used for Wii U games.

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@kornychaos I suppose widening up a discussion is an offence, thanks for the insight officer. I'm sure the OP enjoyed your contribution the most.

Thanks. I didn't want to sink a bunch of money into this considering I had a HD and leftover microsds. I guess I will order a splitter.

Do you have a link to the WiiU game install on the HD? I found some stuff but it was just showing how to install it through HBC. It didn't go over HD setup. I wonder if I can partition the drive for wii/wiiu games.

 

[wiindsurf]

You can't partition AFAIK, and would be really surprised if you could somehow. My understanding is the Wii U just wipes the whole lot and creates a partitionless volume (I'm a Linux Engineer and examined the drive in my PC, but did not spend too much time on this so I could be wrong).

 

[wiindsurf]

To clarify, partionless means there's no data structure on disk defining partitions. Usually drives are formatted with a single parttion, in which case the data structure is there for one to add more or resize etc as needed.

 

[wiindsurf]

BTW, I recently snapped a 256GB SD card on Amazon for $29, not too bad if you want to go that route.

 

[Nickb1907]

Thanks for your help. I ended up taking the advice to forget wiiflow and just do wii u vc injects. I am getting all the official wii u games loaded now. It covers 90% of the games I wanted on the wiiu main menu.

 

[godreborn]

I don't know if this would be any easier, but afaik retail games don't need sig patches. anything that's eshop only (dlc, updates I think too, since they also require a ticket) won't work though. I think usb helper mentions what requires cfw.