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Installing it as a forwarder is preferred as it allows you to save settings and download cover and disc art. Installing the USB Loader GX channel (instead of the of the forwarder) takes up more system memory and allows for fewer customization options (and no cover art!) but you can play without an SD card in the Wii. A channel is actually an application installed on the Wii. A forwarder is like a shortcut on the Wii System Menu that points at the app on the SD card. Note: If you’re curious about the difference between a Channel and a Forwarder, we’ll explain here briefly. Remember, keep the folder structure the same!

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Copy the following files from the ZIP file to your SD card: the entire \apps\usbloader_gx\ folder as well as \wad\USB Loader GX-UNEO_Forwarder_2.0.wad. If you don’t have your Wii SD card mounted on your computer now would be a good time to do so. Also, once you’ve installed one loader you’ve essentially installed them all so it won’t be much of a hassle to try out other loaders like the eye-candy-a-riffic WiiFlow.įirst let’s take a peek at the contents of the AllInOnePack you downloaded from the USB Loader GX web site. USB Loader GX is user friendly, feature rich, and offers a good balance between usability and eye candy. Why USB Loader GX? There are more than a few USB loaders available but we selected USB Loader GX for this tutorial. Installing USB Loader GX and Setting Up Your Hard Drive This tool isn’t necessary unless you want to back your games up to another drive or to your computer.ĭouble check the list and make sure your Wii is modded for homebrew playback with the patched IOS and CIOS installed before proceeding.

A copy of WBFS Manager if you wish to interact with and manage your Wii HDD from your Windows computer.

(You should already have one if you’ve modded your Wii for homebrew.) It looks awesome sitting next to the Wii. The drive pictured above with the Wii-matching blue/silver/white color scheme is the FileMate 3.5″ to USB 2.0 enclosure. While we’ve never had any compatibility issues you can play it safe and browse this list of hard drives if you’re shopping for a new one and want to play it safe. We recommend grabbing the AllinOnePack for ease of setup. If you don’t have these things, start with our homebrew guide and then our guide on safeguarding and supercharging your Wii to get up to speed.

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A Wii already modified to play homebrew software and with the Trucha patch IOS and cIOS installed.

It’s so cheap and easy to perform this hack (and the benefits of backing up your expensive games and enjoying faster load times are so big) there’s no reason not to do it.įor this hack you’ll need the following items: Check out the video below to see it in action if you need a little convincing: Brawl off the disc, for example, it can take up to 20 seconds or more the same load time off a USB HDD is usually around 3-4 seconds. How speedy? When loading a new level in Super Smash Bros.

What does this mean to you, the end user? It means that once you have hacked your Wii for homebrew software you can easily add in a loader and a cheap USB drive for game backups and speedy playback. (Some people use flash drives, but the cost to GB ratio on flash drives is still poor compared to external hard drives.) Wii game loaders are a sub-class of Wii homebrew software designed to load games from an external source, typically a USB 2.0 external hard drive. Now we’re taking a peek at Wii game loaders so you can backup and play your Wii games from an external HDD.

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We’ve shown you how to hack your Wii for homebrew software and DVD playback as well as how to safeguard and supercharge your Wii.