Pancakes R Us
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Thanks a lot. I'm lacking physical space big time, and haven't played my Wii U in months, so will see what happens when I get my Gamecube back from the colour job (I've been on a retro trip for ages). I guess my main concern is GC games not working as they should via Nintendon't. Have yet to come across any issues playing them on Wii though.Can do:
Keep in mind before you do anything that you need both a regular SD card (2GB or less) for installing all the homebrew and an SDHC card for actually using Nintendont. (You can just copy all the files to your SDHC card once you're done installing everything.)
Main guide to getting started
This is probably the hardest part of actually setting it up (and the only part where you can actually break something if you're completely careless.) The guide recommends that you use the Lego Batman exploit, but Smash Stack is far easier (IMO) if you have Smash Bros.Brawl on hand, so I'd look at this guide for using that instead of doing steps 2-3 in the main guide: If you happen to have neither of those there are four more exploits listed in the guide.
General advice on safety measures
A lot of it is stuff you probably know about, but it never hurts to review this kind of thing in case you plan to do more with your vwii in the future. The main guide actually covers some of the safety measures listed in here (hence why this is listed second)
Nintendont thread, including installation guide: http://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendont.349258/
Actually installing Nintendont is super-easy (you just stick files on your SD card and rename them correctly). I recommend you have a Wii U Pro Controller unless you're dying to use a different controller. Nintendont is able to use the Pro controller right out the box so that removes the need to set up the controllers if you're playing solo.
Make sure to delete Smash Stack once you've done everything. (Or else if you try to play Brawl the console freezes at the stage select screen with a hideous screeching noise and the only way to fix it is to unplug the console.)
Hopefully that helps.
Thanks.Youre gonna want Wii U specific forwarders too. I'll post some later.
Apologies to the guys that are asking for this discussion to be moved elsewhere. This is all due to our appreciate of the Gamecube and its amazing little library, and being able to preserve it, promise!