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alzen

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Registered: 2005-01-14

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Wii games manager(with FAT32 support) and unmounting WBFS

Hello, I'm curious, do we have any Wii games manager that supports FAT32? As far as I know using FAT32/NTFS instead WBFS is very popular now - it's better as we can use our Pendrive/SD Card for more things than just games like it is when using WBFS. But so far I didn't find any Linux program that supports it.

Second question is about WBFS, why cannot we unmount these pendrives(I am at workstation with Ubuntu 14.04 now but I guess it's the same for all Linux distros). I'm afraid about pendrive if I cannot unmount it - that's why I ask. Not sure if just plugging it out is 100% safe as Wii games are rather big in size. I remember that in Windows, it suggests me to format the pendrive as it doesn't "know" WBFS filesystem but even if I don't do that I can unmount the pendrive - in Linux - it's impossible, as it's not even mounted because Linux doesn't "know" WBFS file system either - but here I cannot unmount it.

Hope you will explain those things for me, thanks a lot.

Last edited by alzen (2014-11-02 15:03:05)

tuxador

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Registered: 2010-07-08

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Re: Wii games manager(with FAT32 support) and unmounting WBFS

you can find in [aur] different wfbs file managers depending on your DE: qwbfs writen in Qt5, linux-wbfs-file-manager  (gtk3) or wbfs-file (CLI)

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alzen

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Registered: 2005-01-14

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Re: Wii games manager(with FAT32 support) and unmounting WBFS

Hey there, problem solved.

Best way out is to use regular FAT32 formated pendrive, create "WBFS" directory and put .wbfs files there(you will need to split bigger games into more than 1 file, didn't do it but Wii Backup Fusion or sth like that for Linux can do that, probably some other programs too). USB Loader GX will see the games .

Steef435

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Re: Wii games manager(with FAT32 support) and unmounting WBFS

If you format it as NTFS(provided your loader can read it, which I think is very likely the case) you won't have to split the larger files.