Currently with the SD menu in effect I have put all my vc/wiiware on two seperate 4gb sd cards, leaving me just enough room to use some standard Homebrew (mplayer, geexbox, usbloader etc.) on them. The directory structure of my current sd cards is /priviate/wii/title/XXXX/*.bin. An idea I have been pondering is would it be possible to just copy over to the HDD that directory structure AFTER you have copied the channels to the SD and then on the SD card just have a 5-6 block forwarder channel pointing to it on the external hard drive. I am in no means a programmer, and am not sure if this is at all possible, but think it would be a rather excellent idea. Currently having to swap SD cards is kind of a pain and I'd rather not buy another SD card just for this purpose.

 

Why even bother with WBFS, just use a smaller say 10gb fat partition on your external HDD. I currently have my drive split 267gb WBFS and 200gb FAT.

 

i would find it more usefull if the loader wouldn't need wbfs to run and it would be an option to use. i would rather have it read from a fat/ext partition. i know there are certain limitations with fat but any other os-fileystem would do it or splitting bigger images into 1gb parts could be done. i think fat would be the first choice. most homebrew apps support fat filereads because they integrate libfat. so every homebrew with sd access could be easily altered to have usb hdd access to. this would give you the possibility to store movies, roms and wii games on 1 single external hdd. they could integrate a process of scrubbing the image during read, if you put it on your wii with its dvd drive. if you copy it via your operating system you could simply put allready scrubbed games onto it. i would mind if those games are slightly bigger than the one on a wbfs filesystem. that would make it quite more handy because i could use my external harddrive at its full size without messing with partitions and wasted space.

 

Your an idiot. That just doesnt make any sense.

 

wow, people are in a b*tchy mood today.

It makes perfect sense.

I certainly understand why this would be something to try, although less of an issue since the SDHC update. You definitely wouldn't need to use the WBFS for VC/WiiWare since they are so small, and it would make transferring things from SD to HD simpler. I don't know if the forwarder would work, since my programming knowledge is limited, but since the USB loader has happened, it would be nice to be able to off-load most things to the HD. I don't use my Wii as a media player since the 360 is better for streaming, but I might consider it later as a very portable media player with the hard drive. Being able to put all the games on one drive would be nice, and then all that the SD card would need to be used for would be GHWT/RB2 DLC (unless someone can figure out how to get DLC from the HD too).

 

wait, i havent updated to 4.0 yet, because, well i dont need the space yet, (why do people have the nintendo channel!! waste of space)
but, i think the way it works is that it copies over to the nand first?
shouldnt we work out a way to play the vc/wiiware games or channels without copying to the nand?
now i know that this would be pretty/ridiculously hard, but copying reduces the life of the nand,
so, priorities???

 

they are not loaded from sd. they are stored there and copied to nand when started.

 

I gotta ask...

WHY?!?!?!?!?!

4.0 supports SDHC and 4G is the smallest you can get. That's more than ample for WiiWare and VC.

 

Seeing as there are about 8G worth of games, you'll need to firgure out the XXXX for each game.

Which, IMO, would be more of a pian to figure than simply swapping an SD card.

Anyway, good luck with it!!