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[Sonic Angel Knight]

Very cool. Thanks for the speedy response.

Any types of SD cards I should avoid or locate? I see all of this "ultra", "ultra plus", "class 10", "EVO" and etc.

I am looking at: SanDisk Ultra PLUS 64GB microSD Card, Mobile, Class 10 for $18.93

Any hard drives recommended? I know most are not powered now and will require a Y splitter for power.

I am looking at: Seagate Backup Plus 1TB Slim Portable External Hard Drive for $59.99

The sd card requirement is Fat32 Format, Only SDHC branded sd cards are set that way by default. If you get SDXC card, you need a pc program to format it to fat 32, it still will work. Best results is Anything between 4GB-32GB, As for brand, i dunno, i have and always will use sandisk so you are free to use it.

The HDD needs to be powered somehow, either usb y cable (takes up 2 slots on wii u) or dedicated power source somehow. Any HDD should work, but i assume nintendo's website has a list of tested and proven worked HDD. The one i use is Western Digital branded one 1TB, Usb 3.0 compatible. Segate is a good brand and should work with no problem.

 

[leonmagnus99]

can wup2app install game disc directly onto USB ?

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

can wup2app install game disc directly onto USB ?

No, it can't but you can use disc2app to dump disc games to a sd card then install with wupinstaller.

Maybe soon it will happen that we can do like wiiflow and install disc games to HDD with no in between

 

[jerzmob]

I might just purchase DS game before the end of this month

 

[leonmagnus99]

No, it can't but you can use disc2app to dump disc games to a sd card then install with wupinstaller.

Maybe soon it will happen that we can do like wiiflow and install disc games to HDD with no in between

nice!
how much SD space would i need for Smash ?
i was so surprised to see MK8 being only about 4gigs..

dont tell me SSB is aroudn 7gigs now XD
i would actualy prefer it to be around that, because my SD is only 32gigs and has only around 10gigs free.

 

[Okro]

The sd card requirement is Fat32 Format, Only SDHC branded sd cards are set that way by default. If you get SDXC card, you need a pc program to format it to fat 32, it still will work. Best results is Anything between 4GB-32GB, As for brand, i dunno, i have and always will use sandisk so you are free to use it.

The HDD needs to be powered somehow, either usb y cable (takes up 2 slots on wii u) or dedicated power source somehow. Any HDD should work, but i assume nintendo's website has a list of tested and proven worked HDD. The one i use is Western Digital branded one 1TB, Usb 3.0 compatible. Segate is a good brand and should work with no problem.

Thanks! Started the ball rolling today. Gotta wait for a 4-port powered and switchable hub for ebay but as I wait for delivery. I will get the rest ready.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

nice!
how much SD space would i need for Smash ?
i was so surprised to see MK8 being only about 4gigs..

dont tell me SSB is aroudn 7gigs now XD
i would actualy prefer it to be around that, because my SD is only 32gigs and has only around 10gigs free.

If you are unsure of the required size, check eshop for it. It tells you how much is required for the game you want. From what i remember the game itself is about 10GB, (NOT INCLUDING DLC AND UPDATES) So remember to do that if you wanna know.

WII U disc actually go to about 25GB, but rare that games get over 15GB so is probably not much to worry about. Again, is the game itself, is not including updates or dlc data.

 

[Okro]

Components for my setup starting to arrive today, the powered usb supply. Once all is in, I will post up a pic or two and tell of my experience.

In the interim, I am curious to know rather than having a 2-drive setup or 1-drive/SD card setup to play wii games too, can't you use disc2app or WiiU download helper to place VC Wii/GC games to the hard drive and play that way?

 

[Kafluke]

Components for my setup starting to arrive today, the powered usb supply. Once all is in, I will post up a pic or two and tell of my experience.

In the interim, I am curious to know rather than having a 2-drive setup or 1-drive/SD card setup to play wii games too, can't you use disc2app or WiiU download helper to place VC Wii/GC games to the hard drive and play that way?

Yes you can. I rarely go into vWii anymore. My favorites are on my Wii U menu and I autoboot with CBHC.

I just with they'd release SSBB GC on eShop. Then I'd never go into vWii again

 

[woebtz]

Hello all,

Hoping someone can help me out with a problem I'm running into.

I am in the process of setting everything up on a Wii U. I have CFW on Wii U with games installed to a USB HDD. I also have a USB HDD set up for Wii Backups on my vWii.

The problem is, when both HDDs are plugged in at the same time, Wiiflow cannot see my Wii Drive. This problem occurs regardless of what port my Wii HDD is plugged into. Everything works fine as soon as I unplug the Wii U HDD, but I would like to avoid unplugging and replugging whenever I want to switch.

I set up the Wii drive correctly with BootIce and have it hidden from the WiiU using U-Stealth. Literally everything works...Except when both drives are plugged in.

I know WiiFlow isn't really a Wii U thing, and I have posted this question in a WiiFlow thread as well, but I thought since it deals with multi-hdd set up. Any ideas on how I can make this work?

Thanks in advance for any help or advice y'all might have.

WOEBTZ

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

WOEBTZ

If i remember correctly, you have to plug in usb into the back port on the left side of the system for wii flow to detect it. (Of course if you are using y cable, it can be hard to tell which one to fit in there. The other wii u format HDD would only work in the front since is only 2 ports left for the y cable, so i think that is the problem. Also if you plug two usb in to wii u, shouldn't it notify you to use only one? It happen to me and it seem like no way around it. Also your wiiflow HDD needs to be NTFS format.

 

[dooceswild]

Yes you can. I rarely go into vWii anymore. My favorites are on my Wii U menu and I autoboot with CBHC.

I just with they'd release SSBB GC on eShop. Then I'd never go into vWii again

Can I ask how you've set this up? How are you installing Wii games and getting them on the Wii U Menu? This is the ultimate setup I'm after. Thank you!

 

[Kafluke]

Can I ask how you've set this up? How are you installing Wii games and getting them on the Wii U Menu? This is the ultimate setup I'm after. Thank you!

There are a handful of Wii games that are available on the Wii U eshop. Any of those games can be downloaded and installed using Wii U USB Helper WUP Installer

 

[dooceswild]

There are a handful of Wii games that are available on the Wii U eshop. Any of those games can be downloaded and installed using Wii U USB Helper WUP Installer

Oh, OK. I thought you meant games in wbfs format. Got it!