I am feeling very geeky today. I have a Wii (actually two of them), that I soft modded a year or two ago. Soft modding enables you to run homebrew games and other non-standard software on your Wii. But the coolest thing is that it enables you to copy your games from the original media onto an SD card or a USB hard drive, then run them without having to actually insert disks. The process is esoteric and arcane and weird and frequently stupid, and the information is often obsolete, or fragmentary, or only applies to a limited subset of the Wiis out there... Its a highly user-unfriendly process. But there was just enough information scattered across the internets for me to figure out how to do it. Getting Wii games to work off the USB drive was moderately painless and it worked early on. But a huge source of frustration was trying to get GameCube games to run off the USB drive as well. I found some tutorials and other info about loading Gamecube games, and spent hours following the steps EXACTLY... but every time I tried to launch a Gamecube game, I got nothing but a black screen. No errors, no messages, and no clue as to what was wrong. The Wii will run Gamecube games perfectly off the original game disks, just not off the USB drive. Which was a shame, as I loved the Gamecube and really wanted this to work. Yes, I could still play Gamecube games by inserting the disks. But thats like using DVDs to watch a movie when you can just stream it on Netflix. After wasting a day or two and making no progress, I gave up on running Gamecube games. I figured that eventually, the modding community would come up with a solution. And in the mean time, I could still play Wii games off the drive - which was (and is) extremely cool. A few years have gone by, and now I found some new information. I spent the day yesterday trying a new method, using a new game loader called Nintendon-t (which you can find here: https://code.google/p/nintendon-t/). And it worked! It was a major pain in the ass, and required a ton of trial and error and other detailed struggles which are likely of no interest to anyone... but I FINALLY have a way to pack all my Wii and Gamecube games onto one hard drive, and run them directly on the Wii. You probably dont get what a big deal this is, and thats ok. But I feel pretty dang good about it. :) The video below is a pretty good walkthrough of most of the process, in case anyone out there wants to give it a shot. When I say most, I mean this is kind of the middle bit of the process. But its a good place to start.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:43:03 +0000
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