Hacking What was the point of the WBFS file system?

[impeeza]

what a bump thread. you only need to update all your homebrew to latest versions, use Fat32 for your SD and USB, even there is a tutorial here on GBATemp about formatting HDD 2TB on FAT32, use the search function at top. (https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-...a-single-fat32-partition.602038/#post-9640478)

It's the easy way to handle your external drive.

WiiBackupManager is a must tool http://www.wiibackupmanager.co.uk/downloads.html

 

[Gamemaster1379]

If I remember right during the time, NTFS had no support, only FAT32. FAT32 was incredibly inconvenient because it didn't support any files over the 4 GB limit, of which I think, with padding, just about any Wii game was. Certain games, even trimmed (like Smash Bros Brawl) are still over 4 GB. WBFS was the solution "at the time"

 

[impeeza]

Yeah, that's why the WBFS files can be splitted on 4GB files, and the WiiBackupManager takes care of that. I actually have a 320 GB hard disk with 152 games on the /WBFS/ folder and each game on his own folder, some games have .wbfs and .wbf1 files on it

 

[joshiors]

the @PsyBlade tool wbfs2fat (https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-convert-from-wbfs-to-fat32-or-ntfs.292391/) its okay to do the wbfs->fat32 formatting?

 

[impeeza]

the @PsyBlade tool wbfs2fat (https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-convert-from-wbfs-to-fat32-or-ntfs.292391/) its okay to do the wbfs->fat32 formatting?

yeah