TinyWiiBackupManager

🔧 A simple WBFS manager written in Rust

✨ Downloading

Prebuilt executable (recommended)

Just grab the latest release for your platform

From source

git clone https://github.com/mq1/TinyWiiBackupManager.git
cd TinyWiiBackupManager
cargo build --release

The executable will be located at target/release/tiny-wii-backup-manager

💾 Setting up the drive

⚠️ Obviously this will delete ALL data on the device

🍏 MacOS

• Open the Disk Utility app (Applications -> Utilities)
• Use CMD+2 to make sure physical devices are visible
• Pick the USB drive from the sidebar
• From the toolbar select Erase
• Name the drive a meaningful name (like WII), please make sure the format is "MS-DOS (FAT)" and the scheme is "Master Boot Record"
• Click on the "Erase" button

🪟 Windows

• Download Rufus from https://rufus.ie/, choose the portable version
• On "Device" select your drive
• On "Boot selection" pick "Not bootable"
• Choose a meaningful name (like WII) and put it into the "Volume label" box
• On "File System" pick "FAT32"
• Click on the "START" button

🐧 Linux (GNOME)

• Open the Disks app
• Click on your drive in the left sidebar
• Click on the menu (three vertical dots in the top-left of the window) and select "Format Disk"
• Make sure Erase is set to Quick and Partitioning is set to MBR/DOS and click "Format"
• Under "Volumes" for your device, click on the "+" button
• Click "Next"
• Choose a meaningful name (like WII) and put it into the "Volume Name" box
• On "Type", choose "For use with all systems and devices (FAT)
• Click "Next" and then "Format"

🐧 Linux (KDE)

• Open KDE Partition Manager
• Click on your device in the left sidebar
• Click on "New Partition Table"
• Select "MS-Dos" and click on "Create New Partition Table"
• Click on "unallocated" and then on "New"
• On "File System" select fat32
• Choose a meaningful name (like WII) and put it into the "Label" box
• Click "OK" and then "Apply"

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