So the big advantage that you could use your FAT32 (v)Wii drive for your Wii U games too turns into a disadvantage as there's only 2 TB in which everything for your Wii U, Wii and GC (Nintendont) has to take place. It's tricky, buggy, takes a long time to set up (ftpiiu is slow) and the biggest downside: You're still limited to 2 TB even on your FAT32 drive. Method 4 sounds promising but it's the worst one, really. You would however have the same issues as in 2 as it's still Loadiine after all. So everything that could be done with a SD card before (including method 2) can be done from USB now. You'll have long loading times also.įor method 3 there's a special build of Mocha CFW that supports FAT32 drives so from the moment where you launch that Mocha build, you're Wii U uses an attached FAT32 drive as its SD card. The problems are obvious: You can't store many games on a SD card, it's slow and due to the way Loadiine works it has some issues (cutscenes in Twilight Princess are buggy) and not every game works (One Peace Unlimited World Red and a few others).

Method 2 was the main method until the WUP method (also known as Brazilian Exploit btw) came up. With method 1 you have full compatibility which means every game runs without any issues and in full speed. You can use bigger drives but that would be a waste as the Wii U can only use 2 TB and the rest of the space would be unusable.

Also keep in mind that 2 TB is the absolute max size for that drive. You would need an extra drive for that, that is only being used by the Wii U, not the (v)Wii, as it has to be formatted into the Wii U filesystem. The only good solution in my opinion is 1.

Play them from your FAT32 USB drive installed with WUP Installer GX to a none FAT32 place (either NAND or a Wii U formatted USB drive) and move them over to a FAT32 drive using your PC and ftpiiu everywhere, then use FAT32 Mocha CFW build again to use that drive for your Wii U.

Play them from your FAT32 USB drive with Loadiine using the FAT32 Mocha CFW build.Play them from your SD card using the homebrew Loadiine.Install them with WUP Installer GX2 to USB (or nand if you want).Hello i have been looking about and i have read that you can use a large hard drive as long as you format it like this

How to format usb drive wii mod