Issues with Wii eShop Games Running on Wii U USB Drives

By Jorge Ba-oh 18.01.2015 4

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Some users have been reporting problems when trying to run downloaded Wii titles from an external USB hard drive.

Now that Nintendo is offering players the opportunity to download Wii titles via the Wii U eShop, it seems that there are some issues that need to be fixed. A small number of users have reported bugs like black screens and game crashing when running the likes of Super Mario Galaxy 2 off an external storage device.

When loading the game from the Wii U's internal storage, however, it appears to work correctly.

Nintendo have yet to comment on the issue at time of writing.

Have you encountered issues with running Wii titles on Wii U via a USB drive?

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RudyC3 is offline. RudyC3 18.01.2015#1

Damn... Never had any issues with my own Wii games installed on an external HDD on my old Wii, but Nintendo fails to get this right on Wii U :/. I wonder what's causing the problem, some people got it and others didn't. Might have something to do with incompatibility with certain types of external drives?

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Sonic_13 is offline. Sonic_13 19.01.2015#2

RudyC3 said:
Never had any issues with my own Wii games installed on an external HDD on my old Wii
That was possible? How did you do use an external hard drive with Wii?

 
heathenmagic is offline. heathenmagic 19.01.2015#3

Via Homebrew. I still do  it on mine. All games that I have on disc, works great :-Smilie

 
Azuardo is offline. Azuardo 19.01.2015#4

heathenmagic said:
Via Homebrew. I still do  it on mine. All games that I have on disc, works great :-Smilie
Same. Modded Wii = best Wii.

 

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