Hardware WiiKey SD Adapter?

[rockbox77]

what exactly is the WiiKey SD Adapter's purpose?

 

[DarkMatt]

It's used for GameCube homebrew mostly. It allows you to use an SD card as a GC Memory card, so you can put emulators, apps, music or whatever on it to use on a chipped GC or Wii. You can also back Wii or GC games up to the SD card using homebrew on the Wii. It's basically useful if you've got a chipped Wii but not too useful otherwise afaik.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

It's used for GameCube homebrew mostly. It allows you to use an SD card as a GC Memory card, so you can put emulators, apps, music or whatever on it to use on a chipped GC or Wii. You can also back Wii or GC games up to the SD card using homebrew on the Wii. It's basically useful if you've got a chipped Wii but not too useful otherwise afaik.

So it's impossible to use it on an unmodded GameCube/Wii to back up your saves to a SD-card? My memory card is pretty much full, and I can't find a new one for a reasonable price. I have some SD-cards, which are 128 MB and such. I don't use them, as they're to small, but for GameCube games it's almost unlimited space

 

[legendofphil]

You can't use an SD card adaptor for gamecube save games.
The official SD memory card adaptor was used for 1 (Animal Crossing+, maybe a few more) japanese games to save pictures but not the save game itself.

 

[DarkMatt]

I'm really not familiar with them enough to tell you, but from what I've read, it doesn't seem to be possible to simply use the SD adapter as a memory card. I know you can transfer saves from a real memory card onto one of them for backup, but whether or not this is possible without a modded cube/wii, I don't know. You're probably best off getting one of those Cube memory cards with a USB port on them at this stage I'd say.

 

[rockbox77]

Why can't the homebrew be put on the SD card and placed in the Wii's SD card slot?

 

[Maikel Steneker]

I'm really not familiar with them enough to tell you, but from what I've read, it doesn't seem to be possible to simply use the SD adapter as a memory card. I know you can transfer saves from a real memory card onto one of them for backup, but whether or not this is possible without a modded cube/wii, I don't know. You're probably best off getting one of those Cube memory cards with a USB port on them at this stage I'd say.

Oh, I didn't know about those! Thanks for the tip! I'll search for them.

 

[zi70410]

were can u buy it?

 

[Tylon]

I think I found one on Dealextreme.com

here's the link
Wiikey sd adapter

 

[Samutz]

Why can't the homebrew be put on the SD card and placed in the Wii's SD card slot?

The Gamecube hardware in the Wii can't access the SD slot.

 

[IxthusTiger]

Same as the Gecko? ow do I get Gamecube games to recognize a save besides my own? I can backup and restore my own saves, but not others. (using MCBACKUP)

 

[imgod22222]

Yeah, on ebay i found 3 different adapters. 1 wiikey

, 1 front-loading SD adapter

, 1 side-loading SD adapter

. Are they any different? Which one is the original SD-Gecko?

 

[Elo]

they are all basically the same..ie they give the same functionallity..
and yeah,have same problem as above..cannot use downloaded saves that i restore via mcbackup..ive hexedited them so they should work (in case they were maxpro saves etc.. removed headers) and they SHOULD work..but games dont read em