Comments on: Proof that a Nintendo Wii with a Hard Drive Exists

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:31:22 +0000

I actually purposefully updated to 4.0 from a previous version because I did not have access to Twilight Princess and BannerBomb is actually quite easy and effective in installing the HBC on System Menu 4.0

By: John Reyes

John Reyes — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:19:23 +0000

If you use Homebrew channel, and install the 1.4 loader from waninkoko, u can load your iso’s directly from an external harddrive – simpel solution actually which i use, and the even load faster from the hdd than from the disc. too bad the new sysmenu 4.0 blocks for installing HBC through twiligt, so dont update unless its nessesary. and in the new sysmenu 4.0 there’s a new SD channel option.

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:04:04 +0000

I noticed your post to a Ted Tedson asking for details on how to hook up a wii to a pc. I would love to know if you hear back from him and his answer.

I have heard of a new wii mod that allows this, but the part just came out a few months ago. However, I haven’t seen any solid response yet to convince me to purchase the part and tear into my wii to try it. Here is a link:

http://www.flatmii.com/

There also seems to be other information about how to stream an iso from the wii to the pc using an additional plug in the homebrew channel so that you have the iso’s needed for this part to work.

I don’t know about you, but my boys only work from copies of my movies so it doesn’t matter when they scratch them up. Since I can’t save the games or make copies of the games we have directly to the wii, my wife and I are left to do the disk swapping for the boys.

Hope this helps, and let me know what you find out.

Thanks,

Troy.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:19:25 +0000

Yo, Ted I am also interested. Can you email me on how to hook up to the PC and stream games? or Wiimod can you email me on where to get an HDD for the Wii?

email: pepsiblast08@yahoo.com

By: Jen Lefebvre

Jen Lefebvre — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:46:07 +0000

Ted, can you email me and let me know how you have connected your wii to pc? Or what modchip you have? I’m very very interested!
Thanks!
jenlefebvre@gmail.com

By: Ted Tedson

Ted Tedson — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:51:48 +0000

I have my wii connected to my pc and accesss to over 100 games on hdd at touch of a button.

By: wiimod

wiimod — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:02:16 +0000

There is actually a mod device that will let you boot wii isos from a external hard drive. I cant remember what it is called but you can find it on most modchip sites. They cost about $60 but it would be worth it to load games from a hard drive instead of burning all your game backups.

By: Mark Baland

Mark Baland — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:30:59 +0000

I have read on several websites about Nintendo possibly releasing a Wii HD or Wii 2 in 2011, which will include a hard drive (or maybe a solid state drive, by then?) for additional storage space.

I have also read, online, that in the Nintendo World store in NYC, there is a standard (looking) Wii with an external hard drive attached to it, where shoppers can browse through MANY Wii disc games by pictures of the boxes (like cover flow in iTunes) that have been copied to the external storage device. Apart from obvious arguments against making playing pirated material easier to access, what other problem does Nintendo have with enabling this technology for the rest of us, I wonder…

It seems to me that with a Wii System Update, Nintendo could enable storage and playback of Virtual Console and WiiWare games from either the SD card in the SD card slot, or a USB connected flash drive (SD or SDHC) or hard drive, giving us anywhere from 2 GB to 1 TB or more of additional, usable game storage.

That would solve the crisis that plagues myself and many other Wii owners: there are 4 screens for channels, but with just the standard, downloadable channels, plus half of the second page filled up, I already have no blocks left on my Wii system memory.

In order to download the WiiWare games I wanted (7 of them, so far), I have had to move all of my Virtual Console games to my SD card, which they will not play from, as there is no menu to access them, other than just to copy them to and from the card.

Why not make an “SD Card Channel” for now, so users can utilize the software they have purchased, and then, as soon as possible, make channels for thumb drives and hard drives? I mean, what are those USB ports for, anyway. I’m not going to buy one of those silly, loud fans, or stick a nightlight in there!

And while they are at it, Nintendo could put a cherry on top for Wii owners and allow the Wii to use it’s Wi-Fi connection to play back compatible media from a networked source (computer, router, etc…) on the TV, like an Apple TV does. Maybe that’s the answer to the gaming problem. Let us copy them from our SD card to a computer with lots of storage space and then access them across our home network?

By: gatnick

gatnick — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:43:45 +0000

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“only reason that it’s not on the market is because Nintendo wants it that way, not because they can’t do it.”

Can you blame them?