Wii Backup File System Manger 1.0
April 2nd, 2009
Posted by The_Wii_Nes_Boy
AlexDP over at WiiNewz has released this very useful app. Now with Waninkoko’s USB Loader out this app will make life a little easier and let you access your ISOs that are stored on the drive you are using with ease.
Wii Backup File System Manger 1.0 (WBFS Manager)
Written by AlexNote: There is no shared code with the other wbfs_win GUI apps that have been released.
The wbfs_win.exe from the wbfs_win_delta release however is being used by this application, mainly because the source code for it was so tightly coupled and unflexible that I though it better to do it this way for now and possibly look into a cleaner, less hacky way of using the source code for that directly, based on how much interest is shown.Note 2: Although I’ve tested this a good deal it’s only the first release and it may have some bugs. If you notice any let me know. For the most part everything should be ok as the actual work with the ISOs and WBFS drive are done in libwbfs. Of course, pulling your USB cable out while copying files isn’t going to help.
Note 3: You might notice that the application window will not respond or may turn black when your copying files. This is expected behavior and will hopefully be resolved in the next iteration.
Requirements:
-.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (the installer will prompt you to automatically download and install it if you don’t already have it.What it does:
This application basically provides a GUI for the command line-based wbfs-win, used for accessing legal Wii Backups stored on disk drives that have been formatted to the WBFS file system.
As a front-end to wbfs-win, it provides all the basic functionality that comes with wbfs-win, including formatting to wbfs, adding backups, getting a listing of backups already on the drive, extracting ISOs from the WBFS drive, etc.Features:
-Listing of games with titles, sizes and codes.
-Drag-and-drop support for adding multiple files at once to the WBFS drive from Windows Explorer.
-Easy to use interface which also reports available, total and used disk space at a glance.
-Batch processing of multiple ISOs.Instructions:
-Extract and Install using setup.exe (not the .msi)
-Plug in the hard drive or USB stick.
-Run the application.
-Choose the correct drive letter.
-Click Load. (If you haven’t already formatted the disk to WBFS, you can do that by clicking format).
-You should now see any backups on the drive on the left hand side.
-You can drag and drop ISO files from Windows Explorer onto the right hand side or you can click the browse button.
-Click the Add to Drive button to copy them over to the WBFS drive.
-Enjoy!
-(You can uninstall it like any other program if you dont like it, from Add/Remove Programs (XP) or Programs and Features (Vista) under the name WBFS Manager 1.0)Future Plans:
-Using libwbfs directly to achieve greater flexiblity.
-Use a separate worker thread to improve responsiveness when doing IO operations.
-ISO library
-Additional info from ISODISCLAIMER (Borrowed from Waninkoko, hopefully he won’t mind )
THIS APPLICATION COMES WITH NO WARRANTY AT ALL, NEITHER EXPRESS NOR IMPLIED.
I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE IN YOUR WII CONSOLE
BECAUSE OF A IMPROPER USAGE OF THIS SOFTWARE.Thanks to Kwiirk for the wbfs tool, Waninkoko for a good deal of things and Team Twiizers.
Hopefully I’ve given everyone thier due credit. If you feel you deserver credit for a portion of the code used in this application please let me know.
Not working on Vista 32bit, at least not for me
should run the screenshot shows a vista theme. i found another file system manager and posted into 1.1 usb loader update but the comment got deleted?
So i am not going to post up another link but you can google
WBFS GUI TOOL V2
first link from tehskeen and in the comments there are also solutions to problem and also other managers. I am also running vista 32bit and the program i suggested works fine.
thanx for the info, too bad link was deleted
btw, the tool u mentioned is working for me, Thanks Again!
no problem glad to help
Application works great but when I plugged in the HDD to the wii it did not see the new iso that was loaded.
I will keep working on it but i f anyone else has any suggestions pls let me know.
Running XP sp3
Oh in reference to it not being seen by the wii I mean by the usb loader
Ok figured it out-
Had to format as FAT32 in windows then plug into wii and use
Waninkoko’s USB Loader to format the same partition in WSFB.
Then plug back into the computer and it allowed The file system manager to recognize the partition and load the iso’s.
After that the USB loader recognized my iso’s just fine.
Hope this helps someone else.
-oh and as a side note I made this as a second partition on a WD 160 GB portable HDD
mine keeps saying error could not open drive:no error? any help with this?
Have you tried any other managers? Give details about your hard drive setup such as brand? size? partitions?
I’ve tried paritioning it in many different sizes both fat32 and ntfs. I’ve also tried version 2 of this manager as well, its a 500 gig free agent drive i’m trying to work with. My last attempt was 80 gig fat 32 and it just says:
“An error occured while attempting to format the drive: could not open drive: No error
wbfs windows port build delta
!!! Warning ALL data on drive H will be lost !!!
Are you sure? (y/n)”
my only option on the dialog box is to hit ok after that and nothing happens
zguy15 hdd will format in usb loader 1.1 but i am getting the same error message and gui tool v2 not recognising drive either but can install from dvd for some reason but not isos
usb loader 1.1 doesn’t recognize my hdd either tho
zguy15 i have a 500gb seagate freeagentdesk if thats the same one you got the reason why it may not be working with your usb loader is to leave it unplugged until wii starts up then plug power back in…althought im still trying to figure about the pc part im getting same error….also i have a seagate freeagent go 250gb and it give sme same erros on pc
oh forgot to mention though some have got both the 500gb and 250 gb to work find heres a list if youd like
http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/index.php/USB_Devices_Compatibility_List
i just figured out why both my seagate drives would give me error when running either wbfs manager 1.0 or wfbs gui v2..it was due to not running the program as administrator and just running it by doulbe clicking
zguy15 try right clicking the gui ur using and click run as administrator i think that will solve it for you it did for me
when i right click it won’t let me run as an admin either, i’m not sure what is going on with this thing but thanks for the help
i was able to get it to work on the wii by plugging it in on startup thank you! now if only the pc apps would work!