what is the recommended way to play GC games on a Wii with Nintendont ?

For the first item, they mean the games only.

For the third item, yes, but most people do not use the built in Windows format tool. WiiBackupManager can format drives, that's what I used to achieve FAT32 with 32k clusters.

Just to clarify: my preferred setup is:

Nintendont is an app on the SD card in the apps folder.
Gamecube games are on the USB hard drive.

 

I may just be repeating old advice, in Windows 7 the default formatter doesn't let you format large drives as FAT32 at all. If the tool says FAT32 with 32k cluster, that's what we're looking for.

NTFS is simply less supported by Wii software - it may not work for various things. If you use WiiBackupManager to add Wii games to your drive it will automatically split large Wii images to make them FAT32 compatible. My drive has a games folder with gamecube games in it and a wbfs folder with wii games in it, no problems.

 

You can have apps and games in the same USB or HDD with no problems, the only thing it cant be done is mods for games like Project M that you need to have it in the SD

 

Hello.

Nothing,but
Nintendont does not work on NTFS Devices.
And if you want to use NINTENDONT/GameCube and Wii Games on ONE HDD/Drive the FIRST Partition ALWAYS must FAT32.

Thank you.