10.27.09
Wii backups
I recently modified my Wii so I could make backup’s of my games and play them from an external USB hard drive.
I ran into one big hiccup that I could not not find any solutions for so I thought I would post it here in case someone else runs into the same issue.
While trying to install Waninkoko’s CIOS38rev14 it would just go to a black screen and turn off the wiimote. no matter what I did it wouldn’t load the boot.dol
I tried redownloading the files and coping them to the SD card. ( no luck always the same issue) every other boot.dol and wad would load up properly.
Solution!!
Reformat the SD card, do it again if you have to. I used the panasonic tool that is linked on many sites about this procedure.
Now I am playing wii games off the hard drive and not putting wear and tear on my discs or DVD drive.
ryan said,
October 27, 2009 at 9:32 am
have your load times improved, since the bandwidth to your hdd is probably better than to the dvd drive?
inthelifeofdoug said,
October 27, 2009 at 9:55 am
Yes, load times are A LOT better now.
Julian said,
October 27, 2009 at 10:47 am
julian here, long time reader, first time commentor…… so if this blog is called ‘a day in the life of doug’ but you are updating multiple times on different days? you really should have just stuck to the first day you posted the blog and then called it quits… either change the name to ‘days in the life of doug’ or delete it permanently. anyway, i love the blog keep it up (besides the one change i stated previously which means you should abandon the blog).
Madrigorne said,
October 30, 2009 at 6:38 am
Julian go take your meds.