Wbfs Manager Wii - Gamebrew

Wbfs Manager Wii - Gamebrew

WBFS Manager is a Windows program that helps you organize and manage hard drives or USB memories formatted with the WBFS file system.

Note: The WBFS Manager is one of the first WBFS tools. It has known bugs and destroys frequently WBFS partitions. So use other WBFS tools.

Features

  • Listing of games with titles, sizes and codes.
  • Drag-and-drop support for adding multiple files at once to the WBFS drive.
  • Easy to use interface which also reports available, total and used disk space at a glance.
  • Batch processing of multiple ISOs.
  • Rename discs on the WBFS drive.
  • Multilingual support.
    • French, courtesy of TheCrach.
    • Italian and Perugino, courtesty of cerocca.
    • German, courtesy of BarbaxX.
    • Spanish, courtesy of dgtor.
    • Dutch, courtesy of villadelfia.
    • Chinese (Traditional), courtesy of IvanChen.
  • Homebrew Channel entry creation.
  • Indirect Drive-To-Drive transferring and cloning.
  • Automatic RAR archive extraction.
  • Batch extraction and deletion.
  • Exporting list of games on drive to a .CSV.
  • Ability to use more than one cover directory.
  • Channel Creation (NEW).

User guide

Requirements

  • .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (the installer will prompt you to automatically download and install it if you don't already have it.)

Supported Systems

  • Windows Vista (tested thoroughly. May need to "Run as Administrator" depending on user's settings and UAC settings).
  • Windows 7 (tested and working. May need to "Run as Administrator" depending on user's settings and UAC settings).
  • Windows XP (tested by a few other users, should work fine.)

How to use

  • Install using setup.
  • Plug in the hard drive or USB stick.
  • Run the application.
  • Choose the correct drive letter.
  • Click Load. (If you haven't already formatted the disk to WBFS, you can do that by clicking Format).
  • You should now see any backups on the drive on the left hand side.
  • You can drag and drop ISO files from Windows Explorer onto the right hand side or you can click the browse button.
  • Click the Add to Drive button to copy them over to the WBFS drive.

Channel Creation

  • To enable channel creation, go to Edit > Options and click on the Channel Creation tab. Then specify the base WAD file that you want to use, the location of the common-key.bin file, as well as the loader that you want to use. Click OK to confirm the changes.
  • Once channel creation has been enabled, you can choose one or more entries on the Games To Add list then click "Create Channels" (or right click and choose "Create Channels").
    • If you choose multiple entries, you will be asked to choose a folder to save the WAD files in and a batch creation process will begin.
    • If you choose a single entry, you will be prompted for the 4 letter Channel ID you want to use and where you want to save the file.
      • Be careful with the Channel IDs you choose, if you have an existing channel with the same ID, it will be overwritten when you install the channel.
    • If you want, you can specify a USB loader DOL file other than the packaged presets. To do this, fill in the "USB Loader DOL File" setting with the DOL file you want to use, then type in the placeholder title ID in the "Title ID Placeholder" field, then click OK to confirm the changes.
    • A base WAD is not included with this application, you must supply your own. It is best to use a WAD file that belongs to a channel and one that is the same region as your console.
    • The common-key.bin file is not included with this application, you must supply the common-key.bin file.
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