It’s here: USB Mass Storage Support!
May 11th, 2008
Posted by nedthehead
Yup. Homebrew coder svpe has released his application that allows you to read and write to USB Mass Storage devices. It is in it’s VERY early stages, but it looks promising. It looks for any device connected to the Wii, and then scans the root structure to see every file and folder. Some words of warning to pass on:
- FAT Filesystem only! According to svpe, FAT16/FAT32 and any other system will corrupt your data
- Make sure to make a backup of important data! This isn’t the most stable application (yet)
It comes with no Readme, but is very simple to use. Can be used with a Wiimote or a Gamecube controller.
Now all we need is an ISO loader.
almost there!!
no iso loader unless it supports ntfs
very cool….so showstopper why does it have to be the ntfs filesystem? new to wii
Because different file systems can only handle certain file sizes.
So FAT12 can only handle files less than 16MB and FAT32 can handle 4GB minus 2 Bytes. As most Wii games are 4.4GB it would need to be a NTFS file system.
You’re forgetting that the program would have to be able to run on a modchip/hacked firmware, since as soon as a game was loaded, the program by svpe would be wiped from the wii memory.
But really, NTFS might not be needed if the different files on a wii DVD could be accessed and copied each file to a HDD, it would depend on the file sizes. And I’m guessing FAT32 would be enough! Kinda like the XBOX hack goes. (Yes I know XBOX uses XFAT)
Ohhh thanks everyone, that clears that up lol