Homebrew wbfs2fat (Wii Entry -- PC Software)

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wbfs2fat.py - WBFS to FAT32 conversion
version 0.6 - 2011-05-26
© 2011 by PsyBlade - all rights reserved

http://gbatemp.net/t291320-wbfs2fat-py

Features:
  • converts a WBFS partition into a Fat32 partition
  • keeps Games as 4GiB splited ID6.wbfs files in wbfs folder
  • blazing fast - over 10GiB/s! (50GiB Test in 4.27s)
  • needs very little space on other drives
  • only ~0.0125% of the partition size for Backup and RAM
  • Windows + Linux (with some adjustments everything that runs python)
  • both GUI and CLI available
  • designed with security in mind only modifies disk after all other computations
    creates backup of modified data
Requirements: Windows(.exe): nothing!
Linux(.py): python (+PyQt4 for gui)
Windows(.py): python + pywin32 + WMI for python (+PyQt4 for gui)
Windows(Cygwin .py): Cygwin + its python package
Usage GUI: run wbfs2fat without options (eg dubleclick)
Select partition from list
Click "convert to Fat32"
Usage CLI: "wbfs2fat --help" to see all options
"wbfs2fat -m scan" to list of all wbfs partitions
"wbfs2fat -m convert " to convert

Download wbfs2fat-0.6.tar.bz2
Discussion Thread
Detailed Tutorial/Howto(slightly dated til tut comp is over)
GUI demo video

If you have questions/suggestions/comments just ask.
Especially patches are welcome.
 

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