Wii Backup Manager Version History — From 0.3.x to 0.4.5 Build 78 How Wii Backup Manager grew from the 0.3.x releases to the final 0.4.5 Build 78 — including the verified Build 76 and Build 78 changes, and whether updates will ever resume. Quick Answer Wii Backup Manager grew from the 0.3.x releases into the…
Wii Backup Manager on vWii (Wii U): What Is Different and What Is Not The vWii is the complete Wii system built into every Wii U console, and preparing a USB drive for it with Wii Backup Manager works exactly the same as for an original Wii — the same .wbfs files, the same /wbfs/…
Using Wii Backup Manager with USB Loader GX, WiiFlow Lite and Nintendont Wii Backup Manager runs on your PC and prepares the drive, while USB Loader GX, WiiFlow Lite and Nintendont run on the Wii itself and play the games — the two sides never meet directly, and they cooperate through one shared agreement: a…
What Is the WBFS Format? WBFS stands for Wii Backup File System, and the name is used in two different ways: historically it meant a dedicated partition format for a Wii USB drive, but today it almost always means the .wbfs game files that sit in a /wbfs/ folder on an ordinary FAT32 drive. Both…
What Is a CISO File? A CISO is a compressed ISO image — a Wii disc image in which the empty, unused blocks of the original 4.7 GB ISO have been stripped out so the file takes up far less space, while still being a single file that backup managers can open and convert like…
RVZ Format Guide: Smaller Wii Game Archives RVZ is a compressed disc image format created for the Dolphin emulator that stores Wii and GameCube games in a fraction of the space of a full ISO while preserving the game data losslessly, and modern managers such as TinyWiiBackupManager can convert between ISO and RVZ — including…
WBFS vs FAT32 vs NTFS: Which Format for a Wii Drive? FAT32, NTFS and WBFS are three different ways to format the USB drive you attach to a Wii, and the modern recommendation is FAT32 — not because it is the newest, but because every Wii USB loader, every homebrew app and every PC backup…
wiitdb.xml Guide: GameTDB Titles, Covers and Fixes wiitdb.xml is the offline database file published by GameTDB that Wii backup managers and USB loaders use to look up a game’s correct title, region, publisher, genre and cover art from its six-character Game ID — it is the reason the game you added as an ugly file…
How to Dump Your Own Wii Games with CleanRip CleanRip is a Wii homebrew application that copies a Wii or GameCube game disc you own onto an SD card or USB drive as an ISO image, giving you a personal backup file that you can then organize, convert and archive on your PC with Wii…
