The thing is, we spent a bit of time playing on Google, looking for the most straightforward way to do this,and I'm not intending on posting a blog to tell you how to do it in it's entirety, but I will post the links you need to make it as painless as possible:
Step one:
Go here, follow the instructions.
Although the instructions may appear complicated, they are in fact relatively painless.
Step two:
Once you've got your Wii modded, it opens up a whole new range of possibilities, the one I like the best is the one I mentioned to start with, copying games to an external hard drive, and playing games from there. So, get the hard drive you intend to use, and download 'WBFS Manager' from:
Nice and straightforward installation, once it's up and running, plug your hard drive into your pc, find it in WBFS manager in the drop down menu, and hit the 'Format' button.This does mean that any of your data will get wiped, so backup first.
(If you're intending on using your Wii to play movies, music etc too, then it might be useful to only format a partition of your hard drive, I have a Tb hard drive, with a 200Gb partition for my games, currently using about 100Gb for 40 games, and the other 800Gb for films and music, my next blog tells you how to play these on your Wii).
Ok, so now you have a Softmodded Wii, and an external hard drive your Wii can recognise/read/write to.
Step three:
Now you have the neccesities, all that remains to be done, is to plug your hard drive into your Wii, this is also nice and easy. I have my Wii lying down, and it goes into the port at the bottom, with it standing up, it goes in the port below the USb symbol, not the writing (vague description, but you'll manage) . Now we have it all ready to go, turn it all on, and go to the 'Uloader' channel, hit Start, put a game in your Wii, hit the 'Home' button, select 'Add Game' and wait for the copying to be done. You now have your first game copied to your hard drive! This can obviously be done with as many games as your hard drive can store, and Uloader lets you play them all directly from your Wii.
Additional ramblings:
One of the nicest features of Uloader is that it adds covers to your games for you, just like Windows Media Player does with your album art. Once you have a shed load of games ready to play, hit 'Home' on the game select screen, and select 'Add PNG Bitmap', Uloader will then download all the covers for your games making it much prettier than before.
So you should have, after going through this, a Wii, capable of copying games from their original discs on to your hard drive, and playing them back.
n.b For those of you with your Wiis offline, all of the covers in .png format can be downloaded from:
And also, WBFS Manager lets you transfer games from one hard drive to another, so get a friend to bring his round and swap games.
this is awsome m8 just need to get a external hdd now :)
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