Was wondering if anyone had an idea on if there is a way to get this to work. I recently got a hold of a device called a Wireless Media Stick from HSTi. Great little device that plugs into the USB port and then connects via wireless to any shares I have on the network. So I had this brilliant idea, let's store all of my games and homebrew on a network share and use the Wireless Media Stick to access it over the network. Saves me the trouble of moving the external hard drive around anytime I need to load something new. Well I bought one and it's not working as I had hoped. Go me for not researching this a bit more. lol

The problem is with how the Wireless Media Stick mounts and presents shares to the device it is plugged into. For example, if the share on my network is \\server1\wbfs then the Wireless Media Stick would present it as \server1\wbfs\ (if plugged into a Windows machine). Whatever it is plugged into it always uses the folder structure of "hostname\sharename" which puts the wbfs folder way too low. I've already asked support if there was the remote possibility of adjusting how the Wireless Media Stick present shares and there wasn't much they could do.

So I guess the question at this point is this: does the wbfs folder have to be in the root and there is a way to change the path that my Wii uses to look for games? I'm currently using the Configurable USB Loader but I am willing to change to anything that might help me out. I've looked around GBAtemp as well as other Wii related sites but have come up empty so far.

 

Thanks for the quick reply. The original idea was to be able to access all of my Wii games from over the network instead of having to deal with an external drive each time I need to load something new. I know the built in wireless cannot even think of reaching the speeds needed to stream an ISO over the network, that’s why I thought the Wireless Media Stick could work since it is 802.11n capable. As far as streaming everything else (pictures, movies, etc), I honestly don’t care since I have a HTPC built for that.

It may be a fool’s errand at this point, but my original question still stands… is there a loader out there that I can point to look somewhere else other than the \wbfs\folder?

 

I kind of figured I would need to delve into some source code somewhere, just thought I would see before I go to the trouble.

Thanks for letting me know and thanks for wishing me luck, I know I'll need it.

 

Well unless you plan on using it to install games you won't need to enable it to write to the stick anyways although changing the read/write directory should be all you need if it only presents as a storage device and not a wireless adapter. although like I said it may not be able to obtain decent enough speeds to work very well if at all. Wireless network speeds are minimal compared to wired and on top of that if I recall correctly the last loaders based on a network streaming (this was for the Gamecube with a BBA) They never did manage to come up with a solution that would make games playable in such a manner. the loaders were either slow and stable or quick and very unstable. Either way it's just not a reliable solution. Like I said if you wish to attempt this then best of luck to you and please share your findings.

 

You're talking about the wii's built-in wireless adapter, which is basically a piece of crap and can barely reach 700KB/s. A proper wireless network adapter using USB2 would have plenty of bandwidth to run a game at full speed.