How to Soft-mod your 4.3u Wii Step 4- Installing WiiFlow 2.2

This is a how-to tutorial explaining how to install and use the many great features of WiiFlow 2.2. WiiFlow is a USB loader that allows you to play your back-up Wii games from a USB storage device like a hard drive or a USB stick. With WiiFlow 2.2, you can organize your game collection by placing them into 12 different custom categories, play your mp3 files while you browse your games, set parental controls to lock or even hide certain games, WiiFlow can also rip your Wii games straight to your hard drive without the need for a PC and even download the game covers.

Most USB storage devices are compatible with soft-modded Wii's, however there are some that just won't work. The link below can help you determine if your device will be suitable or not. I personally use a Western Digital My Passport and have great success.

http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/USB_Devices_Compatibility_List

Below are the links to WiiFlow 2.2 and a themes pack for WiiFlow.

WiiFlow 2.2:
http://wiiflow.googlecode.com/files/r304-249.zip

WiiFlow Themes:
http://wiiflow.googlecode.com/files/2.2-RC-1-%28No-Dol%29.zip

Both usb ports on the Wii can't be used for your hard drive, only the outer-most port (port 0). If your Wii is up-right on it's stand, it will be the port closest to the side.

Copy themes and paste into the themes folder inside of the Wiiflow folder on the root of the SD card. Wiiflow will create this file once it has been run for the first time. If you don't see the newly created folders after running WiiFlow, open the tools in WiiFlow's home screen and adjust a few settings to fit your needs, the folders should then be created.

The first time using Wiiflow, you will have to download game covers. Once Wiiflow has created it's folders on the root of your SD card you can go into the settings and select download covers, and download missing.

To change the names of the categories, find the correct ".ini" file on the SD card and rename them to suite your likes. You can place a game in more than one category, for instance: Mario Kart can go in a category called "Mario Games" and a category called "Kids Games". Special characters will not work in the category names so try to stick to letters only.

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[joshman196]

WTF? How big is your USB drive?! That looks like you have more than 50 games...

[JOKPAX11]

if I download a game iso and copy it into the external hard drive will it Wiiflow detect the game?

[yafucknwanka]

@Carlitos5963 after you've formatted it and added games ect ect microsoft will see the drive and ask you to format it just DON'T because microsoft can't recognise it anymore because it's nintendo! hope this helped

[yafucknwanka]

@Carlitos5963 yeah mate I had the same issue you need to get WBFS manager 3.0 just google it...it's free it comes in either 32 or a 64 bit version just download it....you'll need a BLANK hard disk drive before you start so that you can format it using this program THEN drag over whatever you've downloaded and it will format the games for nintendo because at the moment they're proberbly all in a microsoft table or whatever your running. another thing is everytime you go to plug in that drive...

[yafucknwanka]

@Carlitos5963 yeah mate I had the same issue you need to get WBFS manager 3.0 just google it...it's free it comes in either 32 or a 64 bit version just download it....you'll need a BLANK hard disk drive before you start so that you can format it using this program THEN drag over whatever you've downloaded and it will format the games for nintendo because at the moment they're proberbly all in a microsoft table or whatever your running. another thing is everytime you go to plug in that drive...

[yafucknwanka]

@lamar7862 hey man just get ALL the files that came in THAT particular download from memory theres about 6-8 files??? just put them togeather in a folder and call it whatever you wanna call it call it my dick if ya want to....THEN it will run!

[yafucknwanka]

formatted correctly to be able to play. so yeah one small technical glitch but mate THANKYOU! From the bottom of my heart....I spent all weekend on this thing! Thanx again!

[yafucknwanka]

yeahhhh boyyyyiii!!!! totally frieken worked! HUGE THANKYOU....I've always dowloaded movies but now I know how to get games on my wii and it's all thanx to you. The one and only drama I'm having is it won't work when I go to load themes...they come up but the games won't run....it goes to wiiflow loading (FOREVER)...lol...meh I just got rid of the themes and it works again...the only step you forgot to mention is I needed to get wbfs manager 3.0....so that after I download a game it gets....

[MrPixelgeek]

After connecting the Wii online, I was prompted to update Homebrew to 1.0.8 and IOS58.25.32. After I updated, I ran through the whole thing again, starting after Homebrew. Now everything works ! THANKS !

[lamar7862]

@TheWiickedness can you show me how to install CIOS38 re17 I renamed the file and its not reading it can you plz help me :(