backup wii games to external hard drive anyone?

[fastbilly1]

We can fake out the NAND now? Looks like I need a bigger SD card going forward. I have one question though, what if you boot it up without the card in it?

[irixith]

We can fake out the NAND now? Looks like I need a bigger SD card going forward. I have one question though, what if you boot it up without the card in it?

Then it just boots your normal Wii NAND.

SNEEK works really well as a solution when you've got multiple people sharing the same Wii, and everyone else but you just needs to insert a disc and play. You can play all of your pirated games with the pop of an SD card, and when it's out your Wii can be 100% legit and no-one knows the difference.

..or it works really well as a way of using different system menus. For example if you want your 'legit' Wii to be upated to 4.3, but you really prefer using system menu 3.2, you can do that with SNEEK. You can have a different SD card for any system menu version you feel like.

Everyone who softmods their Wii should be using SNEEK, it is the ultimate Wii tool. Never worry about which version of wankerkoko's cios is compatible with whichever version of usb backup loader you've been using. 100% compatibility with everything. When all the kiddies were trying desperately to work Metroid Prime Trilogy in their favourite loader, us SNEEK folks were concentrating on actually playing the game. :p

[DownSince86]

SNEEK just keeps getting better and better. I'm currently running UNEEK+DI, have my NAND and all my games loading from the HDD. I can't use the real NAND anymore because I'm running out of space for save files.

This is interesting:

http://gbatemp.net/t253058-looking-for- ... enced-user

If he really has all that working I'll be giving it a try when he releases it. I'd love to get my Wii to the point where I don't have to mess with it anymore. Every time I get it set-up the way I want something new comes out.

My only issue right now is the lack of cIOS support in SNEEK, meaning my emulators and mplayer won't work in SNEEK. I *think* that issue has been solved now but I haven't had time to upgrade. For now I have a channel that allows me to switch back to my real NAND anytime I need to run homebrew that requires a cIOS.

[optmusprimenumber]

care to tell more about SNEEK?

[DownSince86]

care to tell more about SNEEK?

sneek is basically just a way to lie to the PPC in the wii. the wii has 2 processors ARM and PPC. games, the system menu, channels, most homebrew, and pretty much every other program that accepts user input and draws on the screen run on the PPC. when these programs want information from the wii's internal memory, internet, dvd, sd card, or pretty much anywhere else, they have to ask the program running on the ARM (an IOS usually) for it (except when the wii is in gamecube mode).

sneek runs on the ARM and it redirects where information comes from and in some cases, patches that information with false data. the end result is that the program running on the PPC asks for data from the wii's nand and it gets it from the sd card instead. if the PPC wants data from the dvd drive, sneek can give it data from a usb drive instead. when the system menu asks how much space is used for channels, sneek flat out lies about it and gives a low number so the system menu doesnt give the "system memory is full" message.

about cIOS and sneek, since IOS and sneek both run on the arm, there is a chance that they will not play nicely together. they are both trying to patch stuff and be smart, but they dont realize that each other is there and both are trying to be smart. the end result is that when sneek tries to load a cIOS, it doesnt load all of it and the parts of it that do load start doing their normal cIOS stuff and end up patching memory where sneek is and both of them end up not working right.

- giantpune

[optmusprimenumber]

thanks, that's pretty informative, a little over my head though... at this point i'm basically ready to follow a tutorial to get Homebrew and USB Loader GX running on my Wii. but i just heard of SNEEK. is SNEEK a better way to go than going with Homebrew and USB Loader GX? i picked up that SNEEK works no matter what version of the Wii OP (or whatever u call it). any chance one would care to elaborate on the pros and cons of the usb loader setup versus sneek? oh, and can sneek have a "channel" for browsing and loading backups on a hard drive? i'm pretty convinced that i'd rather have backups on a hard drive than on SD Cards or DVDRs. i'd rather not play around with backup discs. the hard drive setup is appealing.