Load Homebrew off of a Hard Drive?

Sowden

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Hey guys, quick question. So back in the day I used to use a USB thumb drive to load my homebrew apps through Homebrew Channel. My question is that if I can do the same thing with a USB hard drive. The same one I'd be running Wii games off of with USB Loader GX. Thanks guys.
 

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It should work as long as the USB drive is formatted to FAT32 with 32KB clusters, although some older homebrew will only work properly from SD.

In the Homebrew Channel, just press 1 on the Wiimote to bring up the menu where you can set it to the USB drive.
 
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I guess I am wondering why you would want to boot from USB in the first place. All of the homebrew apps are small enough to fit on an SD card.
 

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I guess I am wondering why you would want to boot from USB in the first place. All of the homebrew apps are small enough to fit on an SD card.
Yeah, and at this point most of us probably have stacks of 4, 8 and 16 GB cards lying around after upgrading to bigger ones. SD cards have gotten super cheap lately.
 
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