How To Use Homebrew Wii

WiiFlow

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WiiFlow

This is a quick start guide on how to use WiiFlow, a USB loader for the Wii that'due south used to play games from a USB drive or SD card.

What yous need

A Wii
A USB drive and/or SD card
WiiFlow Lite

Brand sure you have installed cIOS before following this!

We recommend you lot copy games over with Wii Fill-in Managing director if you utilise Windows, Witgui if you lot employ macOS, or Wii Backup Fusion for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

If you want to play games that are in NKit format, use this program to convert them to ISO get-go. You tin also employ a development build of Dolphin, right click on a game, and use "Catechumen File" to convert information technology.

If you are not copying games using Wii Backup Manager, Witgui, or Wii Backup Fusion, make a binder on the root of the USB drive or SD card named "wbfs" and put the games in there.

To play games, we recommend using an external hard drive for your Wii. Wink drives should exist usable likewise, but external difficult drives are recommended every bit they are more reliable, and tin can shop more games.

Dissimilar USB Loader GX, WiiFlow can load games of an SD card.

Make sure your USB drive and/or SD carte is formatted every bit FAT32 or NTFS. Exercise not format information technology as other types such every bit exFAT, extFS, or WBFS, the latter is an former format of storing Wii games.

Instructions

Downloading

Extract WiiFlow and put the apps and WiiFlow folders on your USB drive or SD card.
Insert your USB drive, and SD card if you're using one, into your Wii and launch WiiFlow from the Homebrew Channel.

Getting Started

This is not a total comprehensive guide on using WiiFlow. This is intended to aid y'all larn how to employ it, by giving you a quick start. Y'all should be able to figure out all the great features of WiiFlow past using information technology.

WiiFlow by default is set to only detect games on the SD card. This can be changed by going in to settings, startup settings and so turn off "Mountain SD Only".
You can toggle betwixt viewing Wii games, GameCube games, Wii Channels, Plugins, Homebrew apps by clicking the push button second to last push button on the right.
You can download game covers by going to "Settings" and then "Download Covers and Banners"

User Interface

When WiiFlow detects games, they are displayed in flow view. When you click on a game you are given these options:

Star - Adds game to favorites.
Bookshelf - Adds the game to 1 of half dozen categories of your choosing.
Gears - Opens the settings menu for the specific game. Changing settings here volition only effect the game you inverse the settings for.
10 - Deletes the game from the USB drive or SD card

When you bring the cursor to the bottom of the screen while in menstruation view, in that location are 6 icons:

Bookshelf - View the games that are sorted in the categories yous chose.
Star - View games you lot favorited.
Gears - Opens WiiFlow Settings.
Game Blazon - Toggles between unlike types of apps/games. The logo changes depending on what game type y'all have selected.
Disc - Loads game that is in disc drive.
House - Will open this menu. This menu tin also be launched by pressing the home push.

WF_menu

Help Guide - Shows all the controls y'all tin use in WiiFlow.
Reload Cache - Press this when WiiFlow is not detecting a new game on the USB drive or SD card.
File Explorer - Allows you lot to kick games/apps from anywhere on your USB drive or SD menu.
Select Plugins - Allows yous to select plugins.
Credits - Shows the people who worked on WiiFlow.
Shutdown - Allows you to either go into full shutdown, or Standby mode.
Exit To - Lets you exit to Wii Menu, HBC, neek2o, Priiloader and Bootmii.
Settings - Will open the WiiFlow Settings menu