Using 2,5" drives is only possible with an Y cable as the Wii U doesn't offer enough voltage on the USB ports where the good old Wii did.There are however three things you should know when using a drive on the vWii:
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If you don't know how to do that formatting magic, write back here and I'll try to help you. Just be sure to format it into one big FAT32 partition and use MBR instead of GPT. 5 or even 8 TB are completely fine (although I don't know why you would need 8 TB lol). Also loading times are as slow as in Loadiine due to the shitty Ninty FAT driver.įor the Wii or vWii (both are technically the same when it comes to hard drive usage) you can use any drive size. So the big advantage that you could use your FAT32 (v)Wii drive for your Wii U games too turns into a disadvantage as there's only 2 TB in which everything for your Wii U, Wii and GC (Nintendont) has to take place. It's tricky, buggy, takes a long time to set up (ftpiiu is slow) and the biggest downside: You're still limited to 2 TB even on your FAT32 drive. Method 4 sounds promising but it's the worst one, really. You would however have the same issues as in 2 as it's still Loadiine after all. So everything that could be done with a SD card before (including method 2) can be done from USB now.
You'll have long loading times also.įor method 3 there's a special build of Mocha CFW that supports FAT32 drives so from the moment where you launch that Mocha build, you're Wii U uses an attached FAT32 drive as its SD card. The problems are obvious: You can't store many games on a SD card, it's slow and due to the way Loadiine works it has some issues (cutscenes in Twilight Princess are buggy) and not every game works (One Peace Unlimited World Red and a few others). Method 2 was the main method until the WUP method (also known as Brazilian Exploit btw) came up.
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With method 1 you have full compatibility which means every game runs without any issues and in full speed. You can use bigger drives but that would be a waste as the Wii U can only use 2 TB and the rest of the space would be unusable. Also keep in mind that 2 TB is the absolute max size for that drive. You would need an extra drive for that, that is only being used by the Wii U, not the (v)Wii, as it has to be formatted into the Wii U filesystem. The only good solution in my opinion is 1.
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Install them with WUP Installer GX2 to USB (or nand if you want).On the Wii U there's four ways to play games: Don't get confused about that Wii U part.