Hi, I’m new to Wii U hacking and homebrew. I bought the Wii U for the games I started buying but also to play Wii discs and Gamecube isos via a USB hardrive. I don't need to run any other emulated games (well not Wii U yet). I’m trying to follow all this from scratch and feel overwhelmed by all the online video tutorials providing different paths to hack the console. The Wii Hacks Guide website is only useful to a certain extent as well. I also just discovered the Noob Guide to Wii Hacking on this forum but as I’ve already started some of the hacking I’m not sure what to do next. I’m not a technical guy and I have learning difficulties but I wondered if anyone could answer this long list of questions?
1) As someone who has just started out using the Wii U to add homebrew installer to it I feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of different paths you can take to hack it. According to Wii Hacks Guide their only approved way is using the new Tiramisu method. This once complete is supposed to give me everything including stuff like Nintendont? Their previous methods are no longer approved but I wonder what the advantages of Tiramisu are over other ways of homebrew hacking?
2) I have a USB drive and I have my GC isos. Should they just be picked up by Nintendont?
3) How do I make sure that all games run off my USB via my Virtual Wii save progress to my USB or Wii U drive?
4) Do I need to use the SD card every time I want to access the Homebrew Launcher and would transferring those files to a USB drive to run from there instead still make it all work?
5) I was interested in using my Gamecube controllers with my Wii U in Virtual Wii. I have a GC four player controller adapter and I’m aware only certain adapters work. Unfortunately I don’t have the Mayflash adapter. Does anybody have a link to a compatibility list for adapters. The one I bought was an YCCTEAM one. Will that still work?
6) I was trying to get cheats working for Gamecube and Wii games via Virtual Wii and I wondered which do you think is the best app to use and how can I convert the Action Replay cheats to a file it needs to read? I have ARtoWiiRD but it’s a jar file which doesn’t look like a text file. GameHacking unfortunately only has cheat files as CHT so not sure what to do?
7) Bearing in mind Gamecube and Wii isos are being played from a USB drive do I still need to inject converted Action Replay Max cheats into isos every time I load up Nintendont or should saving my progress for a game make this redundant?
8) Online tutorials talk about how if I don’t use a dual cable for USB there’s not enough power coming from the Wii U and my USB drive might stop working. My problem is this: I have a LAN adapter connected to one of the back ports and it’s said I need to use two ports (one back and one front) for the GC controller adapter. That leaves me with one USB port. I have a USB splitter box so could that work for the USB drive?
9) I own an Action Replay Wii SD card. Has the homebrew community made good use of it yet or is it just a utility I can still use for Virtual Wii games only?
10) Considering I’m using Tiramisu, wanting to run games off USB and not install them, wanting to use Gamecube controllers to play GC games via Virtual Wii, wanting to use Action Replay codes does anybody have a homebrew prescription list as it were of what I need and what apps I should avoid as I won’t need them for what I’m doing?
I apologise for all the questions it’s just there’s so much variety and finding the relevant info is like being in a maze so I'm nervous about making a mistake.
1) As someone who has just started out using the Wii U to add homebrew installer to it I feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of different paths you can take to hack it. According to Wii Hacks Guide their only approved way is using the new Tiramisu method. This once complete is supposed to give me everything including stuff like Nintendont? Their previous methods are no longer approved but I wonder what the advantages of Tiramisu are over other ways of homebrew hacking?
2) I have a USB drive and I have my GC isos. Should they just be picked up by Nintendont?
3) How do I make sure that all games run off my USB via my Virtual Wii save progress to my USB or Wii U drive?
4) Do I need to use the SD card every time I want to access the Homebrew Launcher and would transferring those files to a USB drive to run from there instead still make it all work?
5) I was interested in using my Gamecube controllers with my Wii U in Virtual Wii. I have a GC four player controller adapter and I’m aware only certain adapters work. Unfortunately I don’t have the Mayflash adapter. Does anybody have a link to a compatibility list for adapters. The one I bought was an YCCTEAM one. Will that still work?
6) I was trying to get cheats working for Gamecube and Wii games via Virtual Wii and I wondered which do you think is the best app to use and how can I convert the Action Replay cheats to a file it needs to read? I have ARtoWiiRD but it’s a jar file which doesn’t look like a text file. GameHacking unfortunately only has cheat files as CHT so not sure what to do?
7) Bearing in mind Gamecube and Wii isos are being played from a USB drive do I still need to inject converted Action Replay Max cheats into isos every time I load up Nintendont or should saving my progress for a game make this redundant?
8) Online tutorials talk about how if I don’t use a dual cable for USB there’s not enough power coming from the Wii U and my USB drive might stop working. My problem is this: I have a LAN adapter connected to one of the back ports and it’s said I need to use two ports (one back and one front) for the GC controller adapter. That leaves me with one USB port. I have a USB splitter box so could that work for the USB drive?
9) I own an Action Replay Wii SD card. Has the homebrew community made good use of it yet or is it just a utility I can still use for Virtual Wii games only?
10) Considering I’m using Tiramisu, wanting to run games off USB and not install them, wanting to use Gamecube controllers to play GC games via Virtual Wii, wanting to use Action Replay codes does anybody have a homebrew prescription list as it were of what I need and what apps I should avoid as I won’t need them for what I’m doing?
I apologise for all the questions it’s just there’s so much variety and finding the relevant info is like being in a maze so I'm nervous about making a mistake.