no, any size will work, 2GB is just a common size.....
your sd card should be: SD/apps wad private if im not mistaken
your sd card should be: SD/apps wad private if im not mistaken
-at some point in the future devolution might offer playing with wiimoteThe only one I could find was a wireless one, that works really well. Unfortunately, it requires three AAA batteries. Long story short, I'm in a situation where I very rarely get a chance to go into town to buy new batteries (as in, maybe once every few months) and I would really like to be able to play my GameCube games again. Is there any way that I can use a Wiimote/Nunchuck to play a GameCube game?
Both WiiFlow and GX should be just fine reading games of off FAT32, FAT16, NTFS, WBFS, and several Linux file systems. Formatting it should not be necessary. If they're not reading it now it's probably not a problem with reading the file system but a problem with connecting to the drive in the first place. You might want to consider changing/upgrading your cIOS since that's what's most involved in THAT step of the process. Also, loading from SD is definitely possible. GX just isn't programmed to do it. WiiFlow, on the other hand, should be able to do it just fine. If your drive and your Wii just hate each other it's either SD or get another drive (even if it's just a little flash thumb drive.)Not sure where to post this, but I have what I assume is a noobish problem.
I'm trying to play games off my external hard drive but here's the problem: I don't want to format it. I use this drive for everything under the sun from backing up my work files to playing videos on my PS3 and I don't want to change its format to WBFS because I don't want it to become exclusive to my Wii and not work with anything else.
I've looked at the possibility of loading games off an SD card but that doesn't seem to work with retail games at all, or at least not very well, and I don't have the money to put out for another USB device with respectable storage space. I've tried USBloader GX and also Wiiflow but neither will detect my device, is there anything I can do that won't compromise my device's current versatility?
If you use ModMii for Windows to mod it actually IS really easy.Ok, I don't mean to be short but I'm about to lose my mind and I've been doing this all day. I cannot get USB Loader GX to recognize my backup, it won't show up in the menu at all. I tried WiiFlow but it rejected my cIOS saying it needed 249 rev 6 - I only know how to install 249 from the cIOS installer and I'm pretty sure I have the latest version, and finally, I got the farthest with NeoGamma, managing to load the game's channel music but no picture, but it broke the loading operation and gave me an error message.
I've used the backup manager to turn the ISO file into a WBFS file, I've done this several times and I know the actual ISO works because the disk works and the ISO works in Dolphin. I followed this guide:
http://lifehacker.com/5518518/how-to-back-up-and-play-your-wii-games-from-an-external-hard-drive but tried to download up-to-date files since the ones it links to are out of date, and I also googled around to see if anyone else was having my problems with the backup manager.
As a side-complaint, I really wish modding a Wii was as easy as modding a PSP. -_-
If you use ModMii for Windows to mod it actually IS really easy.
At this point you can run it to update your softmod by either just acting like it's never been modded when answering it's questions and just have it overwrite everything with the newest stuff OR giving it a syscheck log so it can see exactly what it needs to update. Either one should help you on the Wii side.
On the other hand, if the problem is something about how you're naming your backup or where your putting it or the format or something, I'd recommend Wii Backup Manager. If you tell it to "transfer" the game to the drive it will put it in the right place with the right name and in the best format automatically.
download the covers within CFG Loader. rather than WBM.
dios mios lite doesnt have USB support . However Dios Mios does , you need to have your harddrive formatted correctly i believe , with correct cluster sizes . But it DM and not DML you need for USB support. Or Devolution if you want to make your own backups of your retails.
You can change your cluster sizes without formatting with relavent tools.
You may want to read here : http://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-p...s-from-sd-or-usb-using-dios-mios-lite.318585/