DOS76 Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 there should be a way to extract as wbfs as I have them on my hard drive are you trying to get to them off of your wii's harddrive
carldell Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 so lordmonkus how did you drag them to LB?
Lordmonkus Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 I just dragged them in from my file manager and followed the Launchbox import process from there. I don't know if this would make a difference or not but I don't use the file manager built into Windows, I use a program called 2xExplorer and have done so for many years. Though I cannot for the life of me see how that would matter but maybe there is something to the .wbfs extension than the Windows file manager hates for some strange reason.
carldell Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 no its on an external . and only program that lets me see it is WBFS manager . and i cant figure how to get it into LB.
carldell Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 windows do recognize the hd , and ask to reformatted it . i can only see the games in WBFS manager .
DOS76 Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 Yeah I don't have a clue if you can't access the drive from file Explorer than I don't see how you will be able to drop them in
Lordmonkus Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 What file system is the hard drive ? fat, ntfs or some other weird file system ?
DOS76 Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 I'm guessing what ever wii uses for the file system 1
carldell Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 ya i really dont know , i just click format HDD . and know windows cant see it only that program
Lordmonkus Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 Ok so what we need is some sort of tool that will recognize the file system and read it and be able to pull files off it to a normal hard drive in your pc. Correct ?
Zombeaver Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 You need to extract them via WBFS manager. There's obviously a way to do this for the .WBFS files themselves (not just converting to iso) because people use individual WBFS files in Windows in association with Dolphin. The specific instructions for doing that isn't something I can help with because I've never used the manager. It's not something you'd be doing though LB - it's with the manager.
carldell Posted August 16, 2016 Author Posted August 16, 2016 thats what im assuming . im looking for one now.
Zombeaver Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 2 minutes ago, lordmonkus said: Ok so what we need is some sort of tool that will recognize the file system and read it and be able to pull files off it to a normal hard drive in your pc. Correct ? Yep. It's called WBFS Manager.
Lordmonkus Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 Ok, I wasn't sure if that tool could pull them off or not. I don't have a Wii and never used that tool to know what it could and couldn't do.
Zombeaver Posted August 16, 2016 Posted August 16, 2016 I've never used it either, but I did some reading on it and the feature list for it specifically mentions "bulk extraction and deletion".
imdavid555 Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Yeah sounds like his External Hard drive is formatted in the WBFS file system that only Wii recognizes. I remember using a software called Wii Backup Manager some years ago that can manage hard drives like that. Worth a look as well.
Zombeaver Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 Yes, WBFS is it's own file system (that's actually what the "FS" stands for) just like FAT32 or NTFS that's not natively readable by Windows. That's what WBFS Manager is designed to do.
Pietro Posted August 18, 2016 Posted August 18, 2016 Bro, when I first install LB, to use the wii games I only configured LB to open Dolphin and everything then was automatic
Lordmonkus Posted August 18, 2016 Posted August 18, 2016 4 hours ago, Pietro said: Bro, when I first install LB, to use the wii games I only configured LB to open Dolphin and everything then was automatic You made the same mistake I did when I jumped in to this thread He's trying to get games off of a hard drive he has hooked up to the Wii and that hard drive is formatted using the file system WBFS and Windows doesn't like to recognize and read it.
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