
Back up/play Wii games through a hard drive
GoNintendo —
This is for those of you that actually purchase Wii games. Backing up your games, on the most basic level, is completely legal. Direct link here More details here Posted May 24th, 2009 at 9:16 pm | News by RMC , Wii Comments RSS | Leave a Comment | Trackback
Wii mod lets you play backups from USB hard drive
Destructoid —
"My face melted," said the Head Robot in an email where he forwarded along this tip about a Wii mod that allows the storage and booting of Wii game backups via a USB hard drive. And now I'm trying to hold my face together as I stumble about the office looking for my portable USB drive. The mod process, detailed by Mike, doesn't look too difficult. In fact, it just may be the perfect project for a rain Memorial Day afternoon. You need only the Homebrew Channel, a few free files, and a USB hard disk. A video of the loader (after the jump) shows how sexy and elegant this whole mod is. How great ...
Store, And Run, Your Wii Games On A Hard Drive [Wii]
Kotaku —
Of all the things people like to bitch and moan about the Wii, its lack of storage is right up there. This easy-to-follow tutorial, however, will render that argument a moot point. Using the Wii's Homebrew Channel, a USB 2.0 hard drive and a few files, anyone feeling mildly adventurous (really, this doesn't sound that hard) can copy all their Wii games over onto the HDD, then run them straight off the same device. No more discs, no more disc-swapping. Convenient! Shame the Xbox 360's recent "install" option didn't let you go this far. Back Up and Play Your Wii Games From an External Hard Drive ...
Learn to Use an External Hard Drive to Back-up and Play Wii Games
Kombo.com —
For the longest time, Wii owners cried out for a hard drive attachment for their beloved white console. And eventually, Nintendo answered... not with a hard drive, but by letting us save Virtual Console games, WiiWare titles, and Wii Channels to an SD Card. Good enough.
For some.
For others-- namely, the sort who use the Wii Homebrew Channel, sometimes you want to do more. "A disc that never leaves the case can never be scratched," says Lifehacker, who found the following tutorial about how to use the Homebrew Channel to allow you to save Wii titles to an external USB 2.0 hard drive.
For further information on doing this yourself, you can find the tutorial here. ...


