Do I need a specific kind of SD card and USB stick

[sullen fulcrum]

Hello, I am just beginning, I just need to know if there is a specific SD card type and USB stick that I need for this. Like will some not work with the wii? If someone could recommend the good SD card and USB stick for doing this please let me know

[knotty laurel]

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-UHS-I-Memory-SDSDUN4-032G-GN6IN/dp/B08GYG6T12/ref=asc_df_B08GYG6T12?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80058300289782&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583657831979993&psc=1

I use this it works well with the wii

[sullen fulcrum]

thank you, what USB stick do you use

or do u even need one if you have a big enough SD card?

[knotty laurel]

Well for games you would use a hard drive but you can use sd card i think

but i use a hard drive for games just give me one sec

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBUZG0010BBK-WESN/dp/B07DZ35FTJ/ref=asc_df_B07DZ35FTJ?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80126965543937&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583726542022205&psc=1

This is the one I use for games

[sullen fulcrum]

ah ok, thank you

one more question

did you use wii.guide to set everything up

[knotty laurel]

Yes

[sullen fulcrum]

ok thank you very much

[knotty laurel]

Np

[sullen fulcrum]

@knotty laurel sorry one more question, you dont need any other externals besides the SD card and Hard drive right?

[knotty laurel]

No

@sullen fulcrum

[boreal lichen]

That’s the one I use lol

[boreal lichen]

There are some that can have specific issues yeah

[knotty laurel]

Yeah but the ones i listed work well so

[knotty laurel]

lol

[boreal lichen]

@sullen fulcrum just so you know, to Format your USB drive: The drive should be 2tb or smaller, formatted to MBR and have a single primary FAT32 partition with 32kb (32768) or 64kb (65536) cluster/allocation unit size. Double check the partition style is MBR: https://www.howtogeek.com/245610/how-to-check-if-a-disk-uses-gpt-or-mbr-and-how-to-convert-between-the-two/
Drive is 64gb or less: Format it to FAT32 with 32kb (32,768 bytes) cluster / allocation unit size. Drive is larger than 64gb: Format it to FAT32 with 64kb (65,536 bytes) cluster / allocation unit size. If the drive is larger than 32GB, you will need third party software like GUIFormat or Wii Backup Manager to format your drive to FAT32 Wii Backup Manager: https://wii.guide/wiibackupmanager GUIFormat: http://ridgecrop.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

[knotty laurel]

Right

i forgot about all that

[sullen fulcrum]

@boreal lichen So once I buy the hard drive I want to use disk manager to check if its mbr, if it isnt download a converter and switch it to MBR. And then check to see if it is formatted as FAT32?

[boreal lichen]

You can change to MBR from disk management.

To format to fat32 you need a third party software

[sullen fulcrum]

ok, so if I get this 1TB drive I will need GUIFormat or wii backup

[boreal lichen]

I personally used gui format but yeah

You can also have up to a 2TB hard drive, which is what I use

[sullen fulcrum]

ok, thank you

[boreal lichen]

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CRG94G3/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=WGF44XJ5IO8Z&keywords=seagate+2tb+external+hard+drive&qid=1674450373&sprefix=seagate+2tb%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-3

[sullen fulcrum]

once I get the drive in the mail I might ping you again to make sure I didnt screw anything up, thanks again 🙂

[boreal lichen]

You can probably write down the instructions somewhere

But I won’t mind being pinged

[sullen fulcrum]

so once I convert it to MBR and fat32 can I use disc manager to confirm its correct

[boreal lichen]

Yee