Continue to play Wii games on WiiU with WiiFlow

Yesterday I set up my Wii U to be able to run WiiFlow, and I was able to play games I previous prepared for use with  USBLoader GX.  It worked very well, but then I realized a few problems:

• I let USBLoader GX formated the harddisk, and that harddisk cannot be recognized by Windows OS.  Thus, I can't backup or copy over games easily.
• Ripping disc using Wii is too slow.  And Wii U seems to NOT able to rip disc at all.

So I checked around and found that I can use Wii Backup Manager to rip my disc into wbfs files.  But how do I use them?

Turns out it's pretty simple:

• Format your harddisk with NTFS format (I did it on Windows 8.1)
• Create a folder called "wbfs"
• Put all the folder ripped by Wii Backup Mangers into the wbfs.

The result will be like this.

In fact, I even tried formatting the 80Gb harddisk in FAT32, and it didn't work at all.  Also I need to make sure I plug the USB cable to the LEFT of the 2 USB part at the back of my Wii U.

Since the covers are all downloaded on the SD card that has WiiFlow in it, it's very important to have big enough SD card to store all the content.  In fact, I encountered problem last night with my 128Mb SD card when I tried to get all the cover images on it.

And turns out my 4Gb SDHC card worked pretty well with WiiFlow.

Another tidbit:  after you added new games to your hard disk, remember to refresh the cache in WiiFlow by:

• Use WiiMote to point to the home icon at lower right of the screen
• Click [Reload Cache] button.  It's in the middle of the left column.

So far I have one problem (but a big one): can't copy New Super Mario Bros Wii save from my Wii to Wii U.  Tried and tried and still failed, and eventually I am giving up.