With years of awesome fun, writing, and hardware-modding antics at How-To Geek under his belt, Jason helped launch How-To Geek's sister site Review Geek in 2017. After cutting his teeth on tech writing at Lifehacker and working his way up, he left as Weekend Editor and transferred over to How-To Geek in 2010. He's been in love with technology since his earliest memories of writing simple computer programs with his grandfather, but his tech writing career took shape back in 2007 when he joined the Lifehacker team as their very first intern. Jason has over a decade of experience in publishing and has penned thousands of articles during his time at LifeSavvy, Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker. Prior to that, he was the Founding Editor of Review Geek. Prior to his current role, Jason spent several years as Editor-in-Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on tips, tricks, and advice on everything from kitchen gadgets to home improvement. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the site to ensure readers have the most up-to-date information on everything from operating systems to gadgets. Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. The other USB port is reserved for games with USB accessories and you'll run into errors if you try and use it. It's important to use the USB port closest to the bottom of the Wii-in this case the bottom being the port near the rubber feet. Plug in your USB drive to the USB port on the back of the Wii. Once you've copied the USB loader GX files over, it's time to pop the SD card back in your Wii. If you're still curious you can read a point-by-point comparison here. Installing it as a forwarder is preferred as it allows you to save settings and download cover and disc art. Installing the USB Loader GX channel (instead of the of the forwarder) takes up more system memory and allows for fewer customization options (and no cover art!) but you can play without an SD card in the Wii. A channel is actually an application installed on the Wii. A forwarder is like a shortcut on the Wii System Menu that points at the app on the SD card. Note: If you're curious about the difference between a Channel and a Forwarder, we'll explain here briefly. This tool isn't necessary unless you want to back your games up to another drive or to your computer. A copy of WBFS Manager if you wish to interact with and manage your Wii HDD from your Windows computer.(You should already have one if you've modded your Wii for homebrew.) It looks awesome sitting next to the Wii. The drive pictured above with the Wii-matching blue/silver/white color scheme is the FileMate 3.5" to USB 2.0 enclosure. While we've never had any compatibility issues you can play it safe and browse this list of hard drives if you're shopping for a new one and want to play it safe. We recommend grabbing the AllinOnePack for ease of setup. If you don't have these things, start with our homebrew guide and then our guide on safeguarding and supercharging your Wii to get up to speed. A Wii already modified to play homebrew software and with the Trucha patch IOS and cIOS installed.For this hack you'll need the following items:
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