Wiiflow/emulated nand

NAND emulation is a feature to launch channels, Virtual Console and WiiWare games from an emulated NAND that can be found on your SD card or USB device. It doesn't use the real NAND, making it a safe alternative to play your games if you're worried about bricking your Wii by installing WADs. It is also a way to have more than 47 channels installed, since the Wii menu has a limit of 48 (-1 for the disc channel).

Contents 1 Information 2 Usage

Information

Install the latest WiiFlow beta revision and the d2x v7b1d WAD pack from here before you continue.

Usage

First of all, you need to make a NAND backup with BootMii or Simple FS Dumper. If you have a SNEEK compatible backup, you can use it as well.

BootMii:

If you created a backup with BootMii, you need to extract it first. We will use Giantpune's Wii NAND Tools as an example. Get it from here (original topic). Put the BootMii nand.bin and keys.bin in a folder and start NANDExtract.exe, then use File, Open and locate the nand.bin like the image below.

Select the root / folder and right click, choose Extract and then select a new folder called "nand".

Simple FS Dumper:

A full dump is required if you use this method.

If you created a backup with Simple FS Dumper, you will have the NAND directly on your SD Card/USB device. Transfer the folders import, meta, shared1, shared2, sys, ticket, title, tmp and wfs into a new folder called "nand" in your SD card or USB device.

Setup Wiiflow:

The best thing is to use the emulated NAND from USB. You can use it from SD card also, but it is very slow. To do this, copy the "nand" to the FAT32 partition of your USB HDD. If you don't have a FAT32 partition, you need to copy it to SD. Now, open the wiiflow.ini located in apps/wiiflow. Scroll down to [NAND] and change "path=" to "path=/nand/". You can now launch WiiFlow and press the "B" button on the channels icon to enable the emulated NAND. If it gives you the message to change your partition, select the right one where your emulated NAND is. It is recommended to keep nand.bin from BootMii on SD card/NAND Folders from Simple FS Dumper on SD/USB, but if you're low on space and you want to free up some, you can transfer it to a safe place on your PC for later use.

Adding games:

ShowMiiWads is the tool you need to add your games. If you have a 64bit system, get the x64 version. If you have a 32bit system, get the x86 version. Open ShowMiiWads, it will ask you to take the risk to edit WAD files and to create a common key. Do it. In the main window, go to options - change NAND backup path and locate your NAND folder that is either on your SD card or USB device. After you pressed OK, go to view - ShowMiiNand. Now you should see your emulated NAND content. Just right click something in the content and choose install - file and select the WAD file you want to install.