Connecting an external hard drive to your Wii to back up and play your games is a simple way to keep expensive discs out of harms way, decrease game load times, and organize your collection with.
Maybe the WiiU isn’t considered retro yet, but feel free to browse my other retro gaming articles on this site. To back up your games, you'll need to softmod your Wii and install a backup manager program. This article will be the one convenient place to walk you through all the steps to ‘hack your WiiU, get that homebrew software running and playing backups of games! To download the latest version USB Loader GX click on one of the following links provided (Updated 2019) USBLoaderGX (2.3MB).
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Like all my articles, I put this together because I found the information on how to do this scattered in a number of places on the internet and not in one convenient place. It is used for launching homebrew, backup Wii games and back up game cube games on the Nintendo Wii or WiiU vWii mode. This article will 1) walk you through setting up an SD card with all the necessary programs, running the WiiU exploit, installing the homebrew software and then downloading and installing backups of your games onto your WiiU. No more need to switch disks and no more worrying about scratched disks for those prized games. Is there a proper way of backing up downloaded games I googled it and found some details such as soft mods. If you have a WiiU kicking around, this is a jailbreak project for your WiiU you need to take on today. I just preordered Super Mario Maker, and it occurred to me, if the hard drive on the Wii U craps out and the Nintendo servers are no longer operational, I basically lost a 70 game.
Be sure to read the notes on which location will become your primary location for save data. It is fantastic! A homebrew setup will also allow you to use emulators (for older Nintendo or other retro games), custom games, and mods. To back up your save data, you will need to copy the save data to a new location. I’ve just ‘hacked’ my Nintendo WiiU and installed homebrew software to allow me to run backups of my games from an external hard drive.