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Hi

I wonder if someone can answer this question, i have dowloaded a couple of channels, however some of them need the memory card to be in and others dont, ould someone be able to tell me why

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The ones that need your SD card inserted are 'forwarders', which are just blank channels that load a .wad from your SD card. This makes upgrading REALLY easy because you just replace the WAD on your SD instead of uninstalling the old channel and installing a new one. It also means that you need your SD card inside the wii to use the channel though.
 
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Pyrofyr said:
The ones that need your SD card inserted are 'forwarders', which are just blank channels that load a .dol from your SD card. This makes upgrading REALLY easy because you just replace the dol/elf on your SD instead of uninstalling the old channel and installing a new one. It also means that you need your SD card inside the wii to use the channel though.
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Ah yes, forgot that part.

I know someone had the code (with comments) on a Forwarder around here, haven't seen it for a while.
 

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