Anyway, I (when doing research on ULGX outta curiosity) hear people recommend to use Wii Backup Manager. In the past I have used that program, but only to convert .wbfs to .iso for games that are too scratched to be ripped to ULGX. But apparently, with Wii Backup Manager, you don't need to convert it to .wbfs; you can install the .wbfs and keep the drive as FAT32. If this is what it seems to be, then there is absolutely no reason to be using WBFS Manager (not to mention it has more functions than it, i.e. wbfs-to-iso).
so I've been trying to get xenoblade, I have the iso already and have been trying to format my USB on WBFS manager. Problem is I keep getting an error when I do it. The USB is empty and I ran the program as admin. Any other way to get it to format?
ok, what I am essentially attempting to figure out is how to take (or create) a .wbfs file that I can mount as a loop to run backups of Wii/GC games... the compression rate is about the highest I have seen for ISOs. I was able to backup New Super Mario Bros as a 4.4GB ISO and compress down to a 1.2GB tar.xz while I was able to get it down to 0.56GB within a 2GB SD formatted to WBFS with WBFS Manager.
Like with any other partition filesystem, I'd like to be able to back it up to a larger drive and mount it whenever possible... but I can't seem to find any concrete info on how to mount a .wbfs filesystem (as a file vs a physical partition) so that it can be accessed by the wbfs manager and/or by dolphin-emu... if anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciated.
A summary of different WBFS Managers out there...
Similar to the USB Loader releases page, but to list out the different manager tools to load images to your WBFS device, without using the Wii itself...
By downloading WBFS Manager for Wii you'll always have your games backed up. Avoid the consequences of accidental data losses with this WBFS file system manager for Windows.
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