This file system cannot be read by Windows, but just the soft modded nintendo Wii. WBFS Manager: With this Backup manager you will have to mark a partition with. Now how much its reduced by depends on how much garbadge nintendo has put onto the disc. ISO of a file size 4.3GB can be easily reduced to as little as 1.6GB (.wbfs). iso's and leave you with just the game itself. Both of these awesome apps are able to get rid of this garbadge from the. There is a program called WBFS manager and Wii Backup manager. Nobody wants to waste any disk space when it comes to backups which is where the. The thing with the original wii game discs is that not all disk space is used, and because of this, the remainder of the disc is filled with unnecessary garbage. Its a format that you will likely end up with when making backup of media such as DVD's and Games. I prefer the CFG USB Loader over the uLoader, and I will explain as I'm writing this tutorial. Both of these loaders are able to make your Wii play your BackUp games. The two loaders that I'll be referring to are uLoader and CFG USB Loader (there are many more loaders out there but i prefer CFG). This is more of a follow through of the thread above, going to throw everything that I have learnt whilst softmodding my wii in this thread.

I decided to make a tutorial about how to setup your USB HDD to play Wii BackUps (Soft modded Wii) after successfully modding my Wii (4.3e) by using the following tutorial:

Wii backup manager homebrew