Can you hack your wii u with something other than sd card

[makajavelin]

Can you hack your wii u with other external storages, like hdd because i have one hdd all redy and don't want go buy a new sd card, so can i hack my wii u with hdd. And also i saw in the nintendos own website or something that wii u doesent support sd cards with uhs speed thing but i can't find any sd cards that don't atleast have uhs 1 so if i have to get a sd card does it matter if it has uhs 1. And if i need to hack with sd card do i need an external sd card reader or can i use the build in sd card reader that is in wii u.

 

[Hayato213]

Need a SD for the CFW files.

 

[makajavelin]

Can you hack your wii u with other external storages, like hdd because i have one hdd all redy and don't want go buy a new sd card, so can i hack my wii u with hdd. And also i saw in the nintendos own website or something that wii u doesent support sd cards with uhs speed thing but i can't find any sd cards that don't atleast have uhs 1 so if i have to get a sd card does it matter if it has uhs 1. And if i need to hack with sd card do i need an external sd card reader or can i use the build in sd card reader that is in wii u.

 

[Ryab]

Can you hack your wii u with other external storages, like hdd because i have one hdd all redy and don't want go buy a new sd card, so can i hack my wii u with hdd. And also i saw in the nintendos own website or something that wii u doesent support sd cards with uhs speed thing but i can't find any sd cards that don't atleast have uhs 1 so if i have to get a sd card does it matter if it has uhs 1. And if i need to hack with sd card do i need an external sd card reader or can i use the build in sd card reader that is in wii u.

Not that I know of no. USB wouldnt work either way since the system formats it into a custom file system once its inserted.

 

[makajavelin]

Need a SD for the CFW files.

im sorry what are CFW files i don't know

 

[AdenTheThird]

im sorry what are CFW files i don't know

Custom Firmware files. The stuff that the Wii U interacts with and what presumably launches and maintains the custom firmware software (I'm guessing here as I'm not very familiar with Wii U hacking). The CFW is presumably designed, and only possible with, an SD card. They aren't that expensive or difficult to obtain in most cases.

 

[makajavelin]

so does this matter "And also i saw in the nintendos own website or something that wii u doesent support sd cards with uhs speed thing but i can't find any sd cards that don't atleast have uhs 1 so if i have to get a sd card does it matter if it has uhs 1."

 

[AdenTheThird]

so does this matter "And also i saw in the nintendos own website or something that wii u doesent support sd cards with uhs speed thing but i can't find any sd cards that don't atleast have uhs 1 so if i have to get a sd card does it matter if it has uhs 1."

Again, I'm not an expert on Wii U stuff, but if NIntendo's website says it isn't compatible then you probably shouldn't get a card with UHS 1. There are plenty of cards on the market (I'd wager most of them, in fact) that don't have this. Just a regular old 8GB card from Walmart or something should work just fine.
And you shouldn't need an external reader. You should be able to just use the Wii U's reader. You might need an adapter if your PC doesn't have one, but one shouldn't be necessary for the Wii U itself.

 

[makajavelin]

Again, I'm not an expert on Wii U stuff, but if NIntendo's website says it isn't compatible then you probably shouldn't get a card with UHS 1. There are plenty of cards on the market (I'd wager most of them, in fact) that don't have this. Just a regular old 8GB card from Walmart or something should work just fine.
And you shouldn't need an external reader. You should be able to just use the Wii U's reader. You might need an adapter if your PC doesn't have one, but one shouldn't be necessary for the Wii U itself.

I can't find any i have chearched with "no uhs sd cards" but only thing that pops up is something like "witch is better u1 or u3" and when i look at differen't stores catalog of memory cards every single one has atleast u 1

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Can you hack your wii u with other external storages, like hdd because i have one hdd all redy and don't want go buy a new sd card, so can i hack my wii u with hdd. And also i saw in the nintendos own website or something that wii u doesent support sd cards with uhs speed thing but i can't find any sd cards that don't atleast have uhs 1 so if i have to get a sd card does it matter if it has uhs 1. And if i need to hack with sd card do i need an external sd card reader or can i use the build in sd card reader that is in wii u.

UHS-I cards will work, just not at UHS-I speeds. They're backwards compatible.
You can't hack it with a HDD, the HDD is only usable for installing games to (or running homebrew in Wii Mode but you still need a SD card to hack the vWii)

 

[Hayato213]

so does this matter "And also i saw in the nintendos own website or something that wii u doesent support sd cards with uhs speed thing but i can't find any sd cards that don't atleast have uhs 1 so if i have to get a sd card does it matter if it has uhs 1."

You can get a Class 10 A1 card if you want, if you don't want to spend too much money. The Wii U can't utilize A2 U3 speed.

 

[SDIO]

You already have a thread here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/can-you-hack-your-wii-u-with-something-other-than-sd-card.653477/

 

[makajavelin]

You can get a Class 10 A1 card if you want, if you don't want to spend too much money. The Wii U can't utilize A2 U3 speed.

ok thank you i will get one

 

[Hayato213]

ok thank you i will get one

If that hard drive is a 2.5" drive you would want to get y cable to power and allow the wii u to read data depending on your HDD and its enclosure.

 

[makajavelin]

i found this in an old camera that we have can this work?

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If that hard drive is a 2.5" drive you would want to get y cable to power and allow the wii u to read data depending on your HDD and its enclosure.

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my hdd has like a cable that powers it strait from the wall don't know what thats called something like externally powered or something so do i need the y cable still

 

[Hayato213]

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i found this in an old camera that we have can this work?

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my hdd has like a cable that powers it strait from the wall don't know what thats called something like externally powered or something

You should be fine then with the 3.5 HDD you have if you have a power supply, as for the SD card, it is enough just for CFW files, if you want to copy game files to install with you need a larger card.

 

[makajavelin]

You already have a thread here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/can-you-hack-your-wii-u-with-something-other-than-sd-card.653477/

ye i accidentally posted this twice when i was creating an account

 

[makajavelin]

You should be fine then with the 3.5 HDD you have if you have a power supply, as for the SD card, it is enough just for CFW files, if you want to copy game files to install with you need a larger card.

but can't i use the hdd for that

 

[Hayato213]

but can't i use the hdd for that

If you want to install game you get from Wii U USB helper you need a larger card, but you can also do this if you want, depending on how you want to install your game.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/nusspli...nintendo-update-servers-to-your-wii-u.566055/

 

[Tri-Z]

The games are put on the sd card and you load gx wup installer and that will install the game files from sd card to the hard drive.