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Old 14 December 2009, 06:43 PM
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Who is using their wii with a modded usb hard drive??? I have just bought a WD 320 passport drive for ease and I was wondering if it is the better route? I'll be pleased to get rid of the game disks from under the TV
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alot easier and quicker i never use discs anymore
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Another USB'er

No more discs to damage - got heavy-handed kids.

Even put the USB Loader on the front channels for ease of use.

Love it

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me too its brilliant how it downloads the covers
Old 14 December 2009, 09:55 PM
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So what do you all do? upload the disk on to the HD and play it from that???
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yeah you need to soft mod the wii though
Old 14 December 2009, 11:59 PM
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Cool, i'll have to get a HD and soft mod the wii and then off to Blockbusters to hire a **** load of games
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Originally Posted by mr_impreza
Cool, i'll have to get a HD and soft mod the wii and then off to Blockbusters to hire a **** load of games

Hire Thats what newzbin is for
Old 15 December 2009, 05:36 PM
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Whatusb loaders all you guys using ?? wiiflow rules !! for those that have not seen it look it up on youtube- YouTube - WiiFlow v1.0

Took a bit off work to get it softmodded / usb loader working but got there in the end ( countless hours off headaches to only find out in the end it was my HDD that was not compatable even thou it was on the official list off working ones !!

have a drivekey chip fitted but as already mentioned it a must to softmod it to enable you to play your backups via the external drive. in saying that the softmod does open up a whole new scene - dvd player / mp3 player etc, etc, etc !!!
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im using the latest usbloader gx, has a cover flow on it, also can update OTA
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im using the latest usbloader gx, has a cover flow on it, also can update OTA
Yep good loader with a well supported theme developers group but still say give wiiflow a try mate, nothing to stop you having more than one loader on your sd card / HDD, infact think I now have 4 HD loaders on my sd card ??!!

cfg usbloader
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yeh, using usbloader_gx
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Originally Posted by stevebt
Hire Thats what newzbin is for
Forgot about that


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Can this sort of thing work with the ps3??
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Is the USB HD you have a good un Steve?
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Never tried it out yet? I switched it on yesterday and me mate has added 50 games to it. I'll let my daughter decide how good it is
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