

HOW TO HOMEBREW WII U WITH USB SOFTWARE
It doesn't have much of the software I bought the Wii U to have (mostly great indies), and why the heck would I reward Nintendo's previous incompetence with MORE MONEY? Attachments consola-nintendo-wii-u-con-error-160-1400-D_NQ_NP_925455-MLM27539890398_062018-F.jpg (55.14 KiB) Viewed 2786 timesĮlkinFencer10 wrote:So a couple things here, and please forgive me if I missed something.įirst off, why are you using a flash drive? Nintendo was very clear that flash drives shouldn't be used for extra Wii U storage, only external HDDs with an external wall-supplied power source. This is easily Nintendo's weakest effort (My first system was a Virtual Boy, and it worked MUCH BETTER THAN THIS).Įveryone says: "just go by a Switch", BUT NO THANKS. And Better Yet, the SD card should have been usable as primary storage for Wii U and not legacy Wii files. USB is NOT a great technology (when compared to others like Firewire or eSATA), and leans very hard on processors - which of course is a bit of a problem for Wii U - using the same IBM PowerPC "G3" technology as Apple's colorful Y2K iMacs and Nasa's Casini Spacecraft, but a proper I/O controller on the board would have made a huge difference here. While not every USB is "Power Smart" and goes to sleep, it is likely that most will still suffer from this Sync problem and loose-contact with the system making it think the drive has been removed.

What it points to is a sync-bug in the Wii U when it falls behind during an operation and fails to re-sync before the USB looses interest. The USB at each of these moments will go to sleep, and simply not wake up. This ALWAYS happens when doing continuous reads or will in a "preparing" state getting ready to do something like copying files.

Well the Wii U often will throw an error with this USB relating to it being disconnected and will often go to black screen 160-0106 (forcing a reboot). Needing more space I picked up a 128GB Flash Drive made by SanDisk and this particular drive has a very responsive indicator light that not only shows when it's transferring data, but also when it puts itself to sleep, after non-use. There are SCADS of discussions about power, y-cables and the like, but I might well have stumbled onto a very real bug in the system causing at least some of these 160. Like a number of people, the Wii U has been for me a bitter pill when it comes to basic things like storage and file handling.
