There's always a risc when tempering with NAND. Probably not easy to do as it's saved on an encrypted chip. Don't have much more infos, this kind of talk is on a developer oriented Discord server.
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Power consumption. There are a lot of threads about this.can you tell what are the drawback of an external wiiU drive in comparison to wiiu MLC?
Well, if your Wii U dies, there's multiple ways of fixing it depending on what happened.Well, I'm Thinking of something V10lator....If you have one external usb drive with plenty of games on it......suposing you have a backup of this usb drive......but you Wii-U "dies".....And you are happy with your2 external Usbdrives (one is backup)....Well you can't use your drives anymore nowhere! You are Toast man, you forgot this "little" drawback, so how do you do if you thought you were backupped?
Not related, but just wanted to say you have a great avatar! It brings back sweet memories of playing Gitaroo Man.Guy buys 4 Wii Us
Proclaims it's for "convenience"; starts lashing out at dumbasses attempting to convey the fine art of extended storage
My night has officially been made. Quite possibly my week as well.
you literally bought 4 wiius to have extra storage when you could've used an hdd. I don't think you of all people have the right to call anyone a dumbassOf course, I have 4 WiiU Gamepad because of this fact (but sorry dumbass, can't you figure out one Gamepad in front of TV is better than been obliged having 4 in front of Tv or some in Drawers??)
You can, actually. You just gotta go into a Disk Manager on a PC or something, and format it. I'd know, I have done that myself multiple times.Well, I'm Thinking of something V10lator....If you have one external usb drive with plenty of games on it......suposing you have a backup of this usb drive......but you Wii-U "dies".....And you are happy with your2 external Usbdrives (one is backup)....Well you can't use your drives anymore nowhere! You are Toast man, you forgot this "little" drawback, so how do you do if you thought you were backupped?
Hell, if you plug the drives into another Wii U, you should get a prompt to format them there as well.You can, actually. You just gotta go into a Disk Manager on a PC or something, and format it. I'd know, I have done that myself multiple times.
Because of that in this case, i prefer having dumps/installations files of the games backed up and not clone. There are several tools to dump them. Then archived with zip, 7zip other that support CRC correction against bit errors of the files.But your Wii-U "dies".....And you are happy with your2 external Usbdrives (one is backup)....Well you can't use your drives anymore nowhere!
Ok? If 1 of your 4 Wii U dies, the games stored in it's internal NAND die with it, so you are traped in a paradox.Well, I'm Thinking of something....If you have one external usb drive with plenty of games on it......suposing you have a backup of this usb drive......but you Wii-U "dies".....And you are happy with your2 external Usbdrives (one is backup)....Well you can't use your drives anymore nowhere! You are Toast man, you forgot this "little" drawback, so how do you do if you thought you were backupped?
How is that a drawback when it's the exact same with games on NAND? You can't just restore your NAND backup to another Wii U or it will be bricked.Well, I'm Thinking of something V10lator....If you have one external usb drive with plenty of games on it......suposing you have a backup of this usb drive......but you Wii-U "dies".....And you are happy with your2 external Usbdrives (one is backup)....Well you can't use your drives anymore nowhere! You are Toast man, you forgot this "little" drawback, so how do you do if you thought you were backupped?
Well, depends on the price, If I had them around 20$ every consols (talking about the "box"), every gamepad around 20$, NO! (so depends on the price and I can use them, and even resale them later "maybe" higher, I'm not a scalper, but why hesitate when you have a bargain? so it all depends on space in your house).Stealphie
you literally bought 4 wiius to have extra storage when you could've used an hdd. I don't think you of all people have the right to call anyone a dumbass
I was not talking that the HDD is dead, I was speaking of loosing the games (Dumbass...)You can, actually. You just gotta go into a Disk Manager on a PC or something, and format it. I'd know, I have done that myself multiple times.
Confidence....In one scenario, you may loose all your game if you don't have another backup elsewhere, just that, of course, if you made another backup of the 2....that makes if you have 3 backup.How is that a drawback when it's the exact same with games on NAND? You can't just restore your NAND backup to another Wii U or it will be bricked.
Indeed, a kind of program like this would be genious work....Or maybe when aroma will be out, something like this might be possible.This has got me thinking about some kind of horrible proxy using drc-sim.. GamePad connects to a Pi and the Pi connects to one of four WiiUs, and just forwards all the packets along...
The funny thing is, the WiiU pad uses 5,2 ghz Wlan for transfering the picture and controller input. The Raspberry Pi zero only provides 2,4 ghz. So he would need at least a Raspberry pi 3 or 4. The lowest version with 2gb ram starts at about 50€ (without the needed Powerplug and cooling unit)....This has got me thinking about some kind of horrible proxy using drc-sim.. GamePad connects to a Pi and the Pi connects to one of four WiiUs, and just forwards all the packets along...
I've tried with a CM4 and was unable to get drc-sim to play ball - the wiiu has some "fuck you" modifications to WPA/WPS that only certain chips and drivers can work around. I've had luck with some USB WiFi dongles though (tp-link "panda" ones, aka rtl2800usb).The funny thing is, the WiiU pad uses 5,2 ghz Wlan for transfering the picture and controller input. The Raspberry Pi zero only provides 2,4 ghz. So he would need at least a Raspberry pi 3 or 4. The lowest version with 2gb ram starts at about 50€ (without the needed Powerplug and cooling unit)....
"The project into it, is very interresting, because u could implement also other wireless controllers (bluetooth) to be used with it. So every supported controller could be used as HID device on vWii/WiiU loaders. By using a zero W to interact with fakemote or hid to vpad."
there is maybe or for sure a useable HAT or dongle to attach to the zero.
tp-link "panda" ones, aka rtl2800usb