backup wii games to external hard drive anyone?

[Opa Opa]

I never had a problem with Monster Hunter 3 online off my harddrive.

My cousin received a message from Capcom during a game warning him about his modded system. I don't think you'll get in trouble with a modded Wii unless you cheat during the game.

[AmishSamurai]

One note though: you can't load GC games off an HD because the Wii doesn't recognize the USB ports while in GC mode. You can still back them up to disc though, and that works just fine.

This would have seriously been the top reason I modded a wii should I get one. That makes me sad. Now they need to mod the wii to recognize USB mode when playing gamecube games.

[fastbilly1]

This would have seriously been the top reason I modded a wii should I get one. That makes me sad. Now they need to mod the wii to recognize USB mode when playing gamecube games.

Theres a group working on it - they have a proof of concept on youtube

Good to hear Opa Opa

[DownSince86]

I never had a problem with Monster Hunter 3 online off my harddrive.

My cousin received a message from Capcom during a game warning him about his modded system. I don't think you'll get in trouble with a modded Wii unless you cheat during the game.

He cheated, that's why he got caught. Note that in that game cheating offline and then going online with items you earned through the cheat can get you banned from the server.

Ironically you can unban yourself with a cheat code that changes your Wii's MAC address.

[D.D.D.]

I highly recommend it. It's so damn smooth once USBLoaderGX is on your system you'd think it was professionally done.

I have a custom background music that I made from the Zelda OOT shop music. If you like it I can upload the file and you can use it on your USB Loader. Every time you load up USBLGX you'll think you're back in Hyrule perusing the items for sale (just don't smash the pots please!).

Yeah please upload it; that was nice!

BTW, how do you have so many channels on the main Wii page? Are you using NAND emulation off an SD?
What version of the GC backup launcher are you using?

[Niode]

I highly recommend it. It's so damn smooth once USBLoaderGX is on your system you'd think it was professionally done.

I have a custom background music that I made from the Zelda OOT shop music. If you like it I can upload the file and you can use it on your USB Loader. Every time you load up USBLGX you'll think you're back in Hyrule perusing the items for sale (just don't smash the pots please!).

Yeah please upload it; that was nice!

BTW, how do you have so many channels on the main Wii page? Are you using NAND emulation off an SD?
What version of the GC backup launcher are you using?

There's the MP3: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6050287/zeldashopmusic.mp3

What do you mean regarding the channels? They're stored on my Wii's internal memory, I swap them in and out using WAD manager. I've never really needed to use the SD swapping thing, is that what you mean?

Regarding GC Backup Launcher, I'm not sure. It's the one that's compatible with GC Multi Disc images... It's not been updated for a while but it's compatible with every game that I've thrown at it. I have all my GC games on several multi game DVDs to save space (and keep all the games in the loft).

Sorry I don't have any more information.

[optmusprimenumber]

are you guys talking about other hacks?

[D.D.D.]

I highly recommend it. It's so damn smooth once USBLoaderGX is on your system you'd think it was professionally done.

I have a custom background music that I made from the Zelda OOT shop music. If you like it I can upload the file and you can use it on your USB Loader. Every time you load up USBLGX you'll think you're back in Hyrule perusing the items for sale (just don't smash the pots please!).

Yeah please upload it; that was nice!

BTW, how do you have so many channels on the main Wii page? Are you using NAND emulation off an SD?
What version of the GC backup launcher are you using?

There's the MP3: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6050287/zeldashopmusic.mp3

What do you mean regarding the channels? They're stored on my Wii's internal memory, I swap them in and out using WAD manager. I've never really needed to use the SD swapping thing, is that what you mean?

Regarding GC Backup Launcher, I'm not sure. It's the one that's compatible with GC Multi Disc images... It's not been updated for a while but it's compatible with every game that I've thrown at it. I have all my GC games on several multi game DVDs to save space (and keep all the games in the loft).

Sorry I don't have any more information.

Thanks for the mp3.

NAND emulation is where you can make your SD card think that it's really system memory so that you can have a Wii with however big your SD card is and not ever have to switch SD to run stuff.
I thought you were doing that because it looked like you had a lot of high block games on there (at least more than 512MB worth).

GC backup - thanks anyhow. I'll search more~

[Niode]

Thanks for the mp3.

NAND emulation is where you can make your SD card think that it's really system memory so that you can have a Wii with however big your SD card is and not ever have to switch SD to run stuff.
I thought you were doing that because it looked like you had a lot of high block games on there (at least more than 512MB worth).

GC backup - thanks anyhow. I'll search more~

Oh wow, I didn't know that was possible! I'm going to look into that, thanks!

[DownSince86]

You can also use a usb device for NAND emulation now. The only problem is the limit on channels is hard coded into the system menu, so you'll need homebrew software (like Triiforce) to load any titles that are installed after you reach that limit. If you use UNEEK or SNEEK you can also use what they call the +DI module that allows you to load Wii backups from a usb device through the disc channel without a cIOS installed.

There is a GC backup loader in the works but it hasn't been released yet. The author is putting some sort of anti-piracy in place so you'll actually have to own a copy of the game and rip it yourself. You'll also need SNEEK/UNEEK working to be able to use it.

http://code.google.com/p/sneek/