Ok, I'll try them out. Thanks!ah, sorry
it's often the SD cards which are fake. in that link there are tools for usb drives too but I don't know them.
Ok, I'll try them out. Thanks!ah, sorry
it's often the SD cards which are fake. in that link there are tools for usb drives too but I don't know them.
In my experience, SD over a USB adapter doesn't work. Especially multicard readers. I've heard once or twice that people have managed to do it, but IMO it's just not worth the hassle when a 500GB or 1TB external hard drive is $50 or so.So many posts about the incompatibility with USB flash drives. What about using SD cards via a USB adapter, formatted properly FAT32 with Bootice?
I am testing this combination and am getting the "USB failed to initialize". It can not find my Wii or GC test games I put it in the proper wbfs and games folders.
Honest question then - if flash memory is so unstable, then why do phones and tablets, and even the Nintendo Switch, prefer SD memory, and you have many people buying mass flash storage with the sole purpose of playing games?
If new drives were exactly the same as old ones, then it would be very easy : put on PC, copy everything from one to another.
The problem is that new drives are physically different, they use a different sector size. old drives had 512bytes per sector, new drives have 4096 (or something near, apparently it's not always exactly 4096).
a lot of old homebrew had the 512 value hardcoded and therefore will not work on your new drive, especially neek and emuNAND.
Western Digital has a tool which let you display the real sectors size (4096) or hide them and emulate a 512 size internally.
You'll have to play with that tool to find the working setup (visible or hidden real sector size)
so, if you want a new drive I suggest Western Digital, as you'll have that option. other brand don't allow the user to change it and you'll have a non fully working drive. even if you buy a small one, less than 2TB, it'll probably be a 4096 sector size drive as it's the new norm.