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FOR ANY DAMAGE IN YOUR WII CONSOLE BECAUSE OF A IMPROPER. Contents and select the WAD package to (un)install. Reply WAD MANAGER 1. Have with manager 4. And wiiflow used 4 7. How to install Wii Wad Files. Comments Off on Wad Manager For Wii 4.3e. I am not responsible for any damage your wii takes by doing this! WAD Manager 1.7 download link. 9) Put your SD card into your Wii, open the Homebrew channel, and select your favourite wad manager. Install the wad. 10) Return to your system menu and the VC game should be on the channels list.
If you have ever tried to install NTSC SNES and NES VC games on your PAL Wii, you probably got a blank screen when you tried to play it. Priiloader settings and freethewads don't solve this problem either. This method will allow any NTSC SNES and NES game, and probably any Virtual Console game, to be played on a PAL Wii. I have tested this with around 15 NTSC SNES and NES titles.
Put WAD files on your SD card. On the same card, make a folder called 'wad,' and fill it with any WADS you want to install. While some WADs are safe and legal to install, others may be dangerous, illegal or both. Make sure you can trust the files you are going to install. Thiese wii wads will appear on the wii menu you have installed using this method and wii system menus has to be installed 1st before and wads will appear on. Put WAD files on your SD card. On the same card, make a folder called 'wad,' and fill it with any WADS you want to install. While some WADs are safe and legal to install, others may be dangerous, illegal or both. Make sure you can trust the files you are going to install.
NOTE: Some PAL Virtual Console titles are the 60Hz versions, and can be played without this method simply by installing them, usually games that have never had a PAL release. Examples are Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy III and Super Mario RPG. Get the PAL versions if you can as they are identical to the NTSC ones, and they will work without patching. For all other games, you need to patch them.
How To Install Wads On My Wii
First, download this. https://gofile.io/?c=6O7ePY (updated link, 16/05/19) It is a combination of wwPacker and Custom Nand-Loader MOD 1.1. I combined the files into one as it is hard to find a download link for them individually that isn't dead.
You will also need NTSC wads. You'll have to acquire these yourself.
Now the steps (tested and working on Windows 10):
- unzip the wwPacker folder.
- Put your NTSC wad into the wwPacker folder. I recommend you start with one at a time.
- First you need to ascertain what IOS your VC wad uses. Drag your wad onto the file called 'WadDataInfo.exe'. This will result in a screen popping up with information about the wad. You need to look at what IOS it uses, e.g. IOS9, IOS53 etc.
- Press any key to exit, then look in the folder called 'custom-nand-loader-MOD-1.1'. Open the 'bin' folder. You will see 4 folders here, each one corresponding to an IOS version. If you see the IOS you require here, great. Open the folder. If not, no problem; open the 'forceNTSC_loader' folder instead. This is used for IOS older than 53. Most VC wads I installed using this method used this file; for example, Legend of Zelda for NES uses IOS9.
- COPY the 'loader.bin' file from the folder (do not CUT, you only want to use a copy of it and keep the original here). PASTE it in the wwPacker folder.
- Now you have the correct loader in the folder for your wad, you can start the patching. Drag your NTSC wad into the file called '_wwpacker-Loader.bat'. This will start the process. It will give you a few choices, but you want to press 'X' for every one of them until the window closes. The 'loader.bat' file you pasted here is specifically for using NTSC wads on PAL Wii, so all we need to do is press X until the process is finished.
- The window will close itself and it will leave you with a file called 'game name [Patched][Loader][RegionFree]', as well as your original wad. This patched file can now be installed to your Wii using a wad manager.
- Move the patched wad onto your SD card. Delete the original wad from the wwPacker folder, as well as the loader.bin you pasted there earlier (this last step is simply to reset the folder to set up for a new wad to patch, but you will find that many wads all use the same loader. The file name is very specific though, so you cannot have all the loaders in the same folder, hence the separation).
- Put your SD card into your Wii, open the Homebrew channel, and select your favourite wad manager. Install the wad.
- Return to your system menu and the VC game should be on the channels list. Test it and it should work no problem.
And that's how to get NTSC Virtual Console games working on a PAL Wii. Please let me know if you have any questions. I am not the one who created these programs, credit goes to alpha0000 on gbatemp (https://gbatemp.net/threads/wwpacker.95479/) for wwPacker, and stev418 for the modified bin files (https://gbatemp.net/threads/custom-nand-loader-mod-1-1.198242/). I simply combined the two, and expanded the instructions supplied by stev418. Also a thank you to /u/LocutusOfBorges for introducing me to this method.
EDIT: Google Chrome doesn't like the file very much. I guess it doesn't like bin files? The file is safe, I simply zipped the folder containing wwPacker and stev418's mod.
How To Install Wads On Wii 4.3u
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