[Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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[Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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Automatically translated from French.

2026 update: this topic dates from 2009 and the tools have changed since. The up-to-date method is in our tutorial Wii: playing your games from a USB hard drive in 2026 (d2x cIOS, WBFS, USB Loader GX).

This topic is a supplement to the 1st Download, install and use WBFS Manager.

What you need:

[*]A computer with WBFS Manager installed
[*]A hard drive (a 2nd for the wbfs to wbfs part)

1 - Extract an iso from the external hard drive:
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Right-click an iso then click on "Extract the iso..." and choose where you want to put it. The larger the iso, the longer the extraction will take
On the 1st image the extraction is in progress, on the 2nd it's finished.
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2 - Rename an iso:
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Right-click on the iso to rename then click on "rename".
On the 2nd image you have renamed your iso
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3 - Delete an iso:
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Right-click then delete and finally click on "yes". Your iso will disappear from the hard drive.
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4 - Copy a WBFS partition to another WBFS partition(more simply, copy all games to another hard drive automatically):
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Warning, you will have to wait 5h30 for a 210gb partition
Now that you are warned, let's begin. First choose the hard drive that contains the games to copy at the top left. Then you must click at the bottom left on "Drive to drive" to expand the interface.
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Then just below "Drive to drive" you must load the hard drive that will receive the games. Finally click on "clone" and wait more or less depending on the number of games to copy.
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5 - Create a channel
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DOES NOT WORK WITH ALL GAMES

*You must first enable and configure the option.

Go to Edit - Options - Channel Creation and fill in this:
Enable channel creation: Check the box
Base WAD file: Indicate the path of the file base.wad
Key file (common-key.bin): Indicate the path of the common-key.bin file (not provided here)
USB Loader Preselection: Choose between WiiCrazy 1.5 or Sorg Direct-USB-Loader
The rest fills automatically.
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*Now let's move on to channel creation.

You must have the ISO on your hard drive. It doesn't work with ISOs on the WBFS partition. But to be able to put a game in the right column, you still have to connect your HDD.

Right-click on the game and on "Create channels"
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*Then just indicate the destination path of your created.wad.

And there you have it, you just have to install it.
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The little +: the covers
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To know if you have the covers on WBFS Manager, you just have to leave your mouse on the name of a game. If you have like in the picture it's good.
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If it's not good, we will activate it. First click on "edit" then "Options..." then check the "See covers" and "Download covers from the Internet" boxes.
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Last edited by Tgames on Mon 5 Oct 2026 19:36, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: Ajout d’un lien vers la méthode à jour (2026)
https://www.tgames.fr/propositions-tutoriels-wii/recensement-des-ios-et-systemmenu-t2699.html
https://www.tgames.fr/guide-underground-f75/telecharger-la-chaine-internet-gratuite-t2758.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-patcher-new-super-mario-bros-wii-t2869.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-telecharger-installer-et-utiliser-wbfs-manager-t2998.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-utiliser-plus-en-profondeur-wbfs-manager-t3005.html
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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Using WBFS Manager in more depth!!
a whole program :93:
thanks for taking the trouble to write the instructions,
but why make another tutorial?
completing the 1st one would have been enough? no
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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That would have made a lot, and it gives me one more message :98:
https://www.tgames.fr/propositions-tutoriels-wii/recensement-des-ios-et-systemmenu-t2699.html
https://www.tgames.fr/guide-underground-f75/telecharger-la-chaine-internet-gratuite-t2758.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-patcher-new-super-mario-bros-wii-t2869.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-telecharger-installer-et-utiliser-wbfs-manager-t2998.html
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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would it be possible to explain how to use the "create a channel" function?
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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That I don't know. I just know that it makes a wad which, when installed on the wii, creates a shortcut on the desktop for the chosen game
https://www.tgames.fr/propositions-tutoriels-wii/recensement-des-ios-et-systemmenu-t2699.html
https://www.tgames.fr/guide-underground-f75/telecharger-la-chaine-internet-gratuite-t2758.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-patcher-new-super-mario-bros-wii-t2869.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-telecharger-installer-et-utiliser-wbfs-manager-t2998.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-utiliser-plus-en-profondeur-wbfs-manager-t3005.html
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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Hi!

It's a good tutorial but I have a question, to clone games onto another hard drive, does the empty hard drive's partition need to be the same size as the one containing the games, or does it not matter??
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What's needed is for the receiving disk to have enough space to receive all the games from the source disk.
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Ok so as long as the other hard drive has enough space to receive all the games, everything's fine :D
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Create a channel

I just completed your tutorial on the wiki by adding channel creation to it. Copying it here ;)
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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Thanks. Fixed (1 mistake) and posted on the forum :bravo:
https://www.tgames.fr/propositions-tutoriels-wii/recensement-des-ios-et-systemmenu-t2699.html
https://www.tgames.fr/guide-underground-f75/telecharger-la-chaine-internet-gratuite-t2758.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-patcher-new-super-mario-bros-wii-t2869.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-telecharger-installer-et-utiliser-wbfs-manager-t2998.html
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:accord: guys :74:
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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Hello and happy new year to all,
Can someone tell me more about the covers on WBFS. I checked both boxes but they don't all show up. Is there a way to search for a cover online and put it on WBFS when downloading the game. Thanks for your answers.
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it's not a big deal but well...: https://www.wiitdb.com
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:arff: I'm not really an expert in English......
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I have an issue with WBFS Manager.
It no longer downloads covers and creates 0 KB png files for me. I tried deleting the covers already downloaded by the app and it no longer wants to redownload them and creates those famous pngs for me.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program but nothing works.
Am I the only one in this case?
Is there a solution to my problem?
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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me too I don't have the covers, yet I did check the boxes and nothing at all
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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There I can't do anything for you :arff:
https://www.tgames.fr/propositions-tutoriels-wii/recensement-des-ios-et-systemmenu-t2699.html
https://www.tgames.fr/guide-underground-f75/telecharger-la-chaine-internet-gratuite-t2758.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-patcher-new-super-mario-bros-wii-t2869.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-telecharger-installer-et-utiliser-wbfs-manager-t2998.html
https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-utiliser-plus-en-profondeur-wbfs-manager-t3005.html
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Well after several searches, I still haven't managed to restore cover downloading via WBFS Manager. I think it blocks as soon as you have more than 80 games on your HD.

I still managed to find a workaround. I downloaded WBFS Sync. Unchecked the cover download options, deleted the 0 KB covers, and chose the same cover folder as the one used by WBFS Sync in WBFS Manager.
Result, I download the covers by launching WBFS Sync and it shows them for me in WBFS Manager.

It's possible to use WBFS Sync the same way as WBFS Manager since it's the same type of program, but the look is a bit more austere.
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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Thanks for the tutorial :bravo:
I'm hopeless with computers so I love tutorials :mrgreen:
I tried everything and succeeded with everything except for the covers, where I'll keep doing it as usual (I don't want to mess things up)
so thanks again!
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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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hi

I have a newbie question!!! I buy my wii, my hard drive, I run this program, transfer my games copied onto the hard drive (following this tutorial), I plug my HD into my wii.....and can I directly play the games I burned?
Or do I need to hack the wii?

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Re: [Tutorial]Use WBFS Manager in more depth

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You won't be able to run the program, you need to "hack" it
https://www.tgames.fr/propositions-tutoriels-wii/recensement-des-ios-et-systemmenu-t2699.html
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https://www.tgames.fr/en/wii/tutoswii/tuto-telecharger-installer-et-utiliser-wbfs-manager-t2998.html
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and there's nothing to burn since all your isos will be on your HDD with a space saving that varies depending on the games.
And if you already had burned games, you could recreate the iso with nero for example in order to move them onto your wii's HDD.

and you need a 2 GB SD card, no more no less if you want to be safe, which will be reserved for your wii.

another option your wii offers you: (decision to make on the day you prepare your HDD). You'll be able to create several partitions on your HDD besides the WBFS partition for games. At the start of your disk you can create a Fat32 partition to put divx, MP3 and plenty of other media files on.
Plenty of other options are available to you, without wanting to go into detail. (see triiforce)
All this to say that once the partition for the games is created (WBFS) and the games are in place, you won't be able to resize or move that partition.

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