Holy poop

Great another piracy tool that'll damage the homebrew scene.

@ Magnalon,
The psp is this generation of easy piracy, but yeah it does seem like the wii is an easy target for piracy.

@killatia
I was also talking about the DS :-D

@lem

Are you sure about making them load faster? I'm pretty sure that if a system reads from both the game disc and hardrive it makes them run faster. But I'm not too sure about reading soley from a hard drive.

@CocoJambo
Because it's working under the assumption that people on Dtoid don't use this for piracy purposes. It does however prove that sometimes pirated games are superior to their real counterparts.

@Chronic Logic

Definitely loads faster for most games. It's pretty apparent, since you can copy your own games and put them directly from the Wii to the hdd. Like he said, Brawl is great, so is MP3, and other larger games.

Anyway, although you can just rent a game and pop it right on the hard drive in about 10 minutes, I would strongly encourage buying the games. The Wii has 99% shit games as it is, we don't need another reason for developers to drop good support for it.

Is this possible with the latest firmware? Or was I too damn excited about SD support?

4.0 its possible, but you have to go to 3.2 for most homebrew to be fully compatible.

old news, but still pretty fuckin cool.

* Itīs like the flashcards. The people want easy way to get the games. But Nintendo, Sony and MS do to little selling full games by download. And it contributes a lot for piracy. Even more outside USA, where games in disc cost much more.

I've been using this for quite a while, it's great.

As can t0pc0w.

@Coco,

This mod was made necessary by the fact that Nintendo has no plans to make a Wii hard drive and thousands of people have full SD cards worth of games.

Sure, this CAN be used for piracy, but it can also be used to load games faster and actually have a single space for all of your Wii games.

The information is out there for anyone to easily find. What you are calling for is essentially censorship of information. It should ultimately be up to the person to interpret and use information in the manor they see fit. Banning all talk that can be related back to piracy is simply absurd.

This is illegal! Reggie!

This mod is pretty great. Because now i can take a laptop USB HDD and take the wii with than and nothing else to a friend's house and play the games without having to carry around disks.

And as people already said above Brawl plays a million times better on this loader since it's almost inatant for everything. Many games play great. However is not perfect yet. The newest version craps anything WiiConnect24, so no extra levels on any game, no animal crossing, no ghosts on mario kart and excite bots...

Games do work online thought, but no feature that uses WC24 works. Also, it's the perfect solution for importers, since enabling this thing lets me play captain rainbow, tatsunoko VS capcom and dissaster without any hassle. (There was already a region free soft mod solution, but this way everything is on one place.

I'm surprised at how many different variants are available for this. There's no less than a dozen interfaces for the Windows frontend to install games, yet every single one is a Visual Basic frontend for the same CLI.

This is quite old, This trick was discovered back in late march.

lol@Paroxysm.
i'm sure there are quite a few people who f***ed their Wii's in the early days with soddering guns.

@DanGale

I fail to see anywhere in this article that is promoting piracy. What I see is an article about backing up your legally owned wii games to a usb hard drive and playing them all from one convenient location. The only people talking about using this for piracy is you and CocoJambo, so effectively it's your fault if people read your comments and proceed to use this for pirating.

My copy of Super Paper Mario has a tiny scratch and is now unplayable. The game freezes up during the opening cinematic. This is the perfect solution that doesn't involve buying a second copy of the game. Kudos to the hard-working people that made this possible.

Finally my white WD Passport has a permanent home. :-)

And beauty magazines are about prostitution, There is no legitimate reason for people wanting to look good.

Hey guys, the RIAA is gonna put a ban on CD-burners now because they make stealing music and passing ILLEGAL COPIES OF SOMEONE ELSE'S HARD WORK so easy!

Of course people CAN use this for piracy, but you know what? I can use a car to kill someone. Or maybe help me rob a bank. Or you know, as a bomb. Should we ban cars? Of course! Now everyone's gotta walk to work and you just pissed off a whole mess of people. But hey, there aren't any accidents anymore and people don't rob banks as quickly as they have to run. Man, I wonder how you can sleep at night having completely finished off the entire auto industry. And we thought the economy was bad now!

Do any of you have a PSP? You're all filthy pirates and I hope you all burn in Hell forever (and I hate you too)! What's that you say? You've never downloaded an ISO in your entire lifetime? Well too bad, screw you, I'm tossing you in with the lot of the dirty bunch! Sorry, but the only victims here are the people you claim not to be stealing from!

Are people gonna use this for piracy? Of course. But is that the intended use? I don't think so. It has legal uses (though that's a big grey area with Ninty). And there's a big potential illegal use, but hey, think of it this way. You can use a spoon in a number of legal ways, but can't you use it to liquefy a crack rock so you can put it in a syringe to inject yourself?

Almost everything can have an intended and unintended use. Safe and unsafe. Legal and illegal. Etc.

@Coco

Just shut up please, you are by far the biggest moron on this website. You come in every one of these types of articles on your white horse and and start damning everyone for even talking about it as if your the cleanest person on the planet and have never stolen, borrowed, or lent out something in your life. But please keep fighting the good fight, I'm sure in your little mind you feel your making a difference somewhere.

@chrono

Ok mate, you win. Your name calling and lack of reasoning capabilities truly have made me see how wrong I was. I now realise I am the biggest moron on a website, and I will proceed to punish myself, maybe even pirate some games, and try to justify somewhere that I am but a human, flawed and incapable of logical thought.

@Magnalon

Because chronoswing really made an argument with that last post, specially when he insults me for being against piracy.

About Dinnertimeninja's post, I did agree that having all your games directly accessible from a HDD is a better service than currently available on any console. I don't however, agree that people have SD cards full of games (assuming its WiiWare/VC), when the limit is around 40MB.

Is that enough?