When laid out screen-by-screen this guide is quite lengthy, but the process itself only takes about 10 minutes start to finish-if you're not stopping to take lots of screenshots and write a tutorial along the way! This guide will show you how to activate an exploit on your Wii to allow more advanced Homebrew software to run, how to set up and format an external USB hard drive to play nice with your Wii, and how to manage the process of backing up your games and displaying them in cover-flow inspired style. Save your Wii games to an external hard…Read more Read In response to the demand, here's our own complete guide to setting up your Wii to play games from a USB hard drive.Īdvertisement Back Up and Play Your Wii Games From an External Hard DriveĪ disc that never leaves the case can never be scratched. Setting up your Wii with an external hard drive is a wildly popular topic, however, and since the old guides went offline, we've received daily emails on the topic. Unfortunately, like many things on the internet, the guides faded into the digital night (read: they were taken down). Last year we shared two guides with you that other people had written-the original and a revision-on how to back up and play your Wii games from an external hard drive.

Connecting an external hard drive to your Wii to back up and play your games is a simple way to keep expensive discs out of harms way, decrease game load times, and organize your collection with swanky cover art.

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