WBFS Manager Wii

WBFS Manager
File:Wbfsmanagerwii.jpg
General
Author	AlexDP
Type	PC Utilities
Version	4.0
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2010/05/04
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WBFS Manager is an efficient and user-friendly application that helps you organize and manage hard drives or USB memories formatted with the WBFS file system, which is used by the Wii console. The program allows you to easily download and store backup copies of your favorite Wii games on your hard drive or USB memory. When you first connect the device to your computer, the program will give you the option to format the drive to be compatible with your Wii console. Note that it is important to select a storage device that will be used exclusively with your Wii console, as the WBFS format is not compatible with Windows.

WBFS Manager provides a variety of features to help you organize and manage your games. You can add new games in .ISO format, create channels, rename existing games, and even clone copies to another hard drive. Additionally, the program displays cover art for each game and allows you to download missing cover art from the internet. This is an excellent tool for easily accessing all of your favorite Wii games without having to deal with multiple physical discs.

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)

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 Operating 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.)

Instructions

• 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.
• Enjoy!

Media

How to use WBFS Manager - (Jan Manuelle)

Completed Future Plans

• Using libwbfs directly to achieve greater flexiblity.
• Use a separate worker thread to improve responsiveness when doing IO operations.
• UnRar functionality to automatically UnRar files and add the iso to the WBFS drive.

Remaining Future Plans (Cancelled)

• ISO library
• Additional info from ISO (Game image shown in Disc Channel,...)

Channel Creation Notes

• 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.

Changelog

3.0

• Added Channel Creation support. (Disabled by default, to enable go to Options->Channel Creation and Enable. Follow the instructions provided below.)
• Added "Large Cover View"s, which are two side panels that display the cover for the currently selected item.
• Added Automatically Check for Updates option (Requires Internet access, can be disabled).
• Added the option to cancel batch operations (cancellation occurs as soon as the current item is finished).
• Added drive status indicator under the left-hand list, blue shows amount of used space, green shows amount of used space after adding all entries from the "Games To Add" list.
• Added Help menu option.
• Added direct drive-to-drive copying for drive's with similar sector sizes. Drive-To-Drive copying will now first check if it's possible to do direct copying, if not it will revert to indirect copying.

• Fixes
• Now automatically requests to Run as Administrator.
• Fixed the estimated size being wrong for some games.
• Fixed an issue with CSV files being exported incorrectly sometimes.
• Save expander states, so the user doesn't have to keep re-opening them each time.
• Fixed Homebrew Channel creation. (Now using WiiCrazy's USB Loader DOL instead of Yal).
• Fixed an issue with the "Estimated Total Size" not updating correctly when games were removed from the right-hand list.
• Now checks the filesystem type of a drive before loading to make sure it's not NTFS, FAT or ext.
• Fixed an issue with games with ":" or other special characters causing issues during batch extraction.
• Fixed issue with game regions showing up incorrectly in initial 2.5 release.
• Fixed issue with RAR files in subfolders not being detected during drag and drop operations.
• Removed thousandth of a seconds from elapsed time in progress bar.
• Fixed mislabled blocks status (was Blocks Used, should be Blocks Free).
• Fixed some other minor issues.
• Changed installer (now prompts for .NET 3.5 SP1 before installing, also gives options for installing langauges, etc).

2.5

• Added indirect Drive-To-Drive transferring and cloning. (Click Drive-To-Drive expander (the line under the buttons) to show related options) (Need minimum 4.8 GBs free.)
• Added automatic RAR archive extraction (drag and drop or use the browse button).
• Added batch extraction and deletion. (Hold shift to select a range of items, or hold Ctrl to select separate individual items).
• Added exporting list of games on drive to a .CSV (Comma-separated values) file. Right-click on left-hand list and click export. Can export entire list or only selected items.
• Added ability to use more than one cover directory (all downloaded covers will still be downloaded to My Documents\WBFS Manager Covers)
• Added estimated total size for Games to Add list.
• Added Italian, German and Chinese (Traditional) language support
• Added information about the number of items in each list.
• Added message informing user that they're using the wrong version if they try using 32-bit version on 64-bit Windows.
• Updated some icons and imagery (courtesy of BarbaxX).
• All changes from previous versions are included.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with some buttons being hidden in some languages. (Now using a toolbar. Click on arrow on right side of toolbar to see any hidden icons).
• Fixed a bug with the 2.2.2 not working on Chinese OSes (released earlier as Chinese Edition).
• Fixed some special cases for region codes.
• Fixed some issues with some translations.
• Fixed a few other minor bugs.
• All fixes from previous versions are included.

2.2.2

• Improved multilingual support (can now add more languages by dropping "language packs" into the application's directory).
• Added Dutch support.

Fixes

• Fixed the libwbfs delete bug.
• Added functionality to help debug the "crash on startup" situations, namely what tommyv and kruy are facing.
• Added Spanish language support, coutesy of dgtor.

2.2.1

• Automatic cover downloading (You will be prompted the first time you run the program if you want to enable or disable this. You can also change this setting later from the Edit->Download Covers from Web menu). Please be a bit patient, it takes a couple of seconds to download as the site is somewhat slow. While it's downloading you'll see a placeholder image which will be automatically updated once the download is complete.
• Region code information
• Changed default location for covers to My Documents\WBFS Manager Covers for better UAC compliance.

Fixes

• Kept error messages from appearing when adding multiple files. If an error occurs, the entry will be marked with a red error symbol in the Games to Add list and a tooltip with the error message will appear if you hover the mouse over the icon.

2.2

• Added multilingual support (currently only French, courtesy of TheCrach), contact me if you'd like to add support for your language.
• Added Hombrew Channel creation (not completely tested).
• Added Cover support. Hover mouse over an entry to see the cover.
• Now defaults the selected drive in the drive combo box to the last used drive.
• Item counts for both lists.
• Added Check for Updates to Help menu. Currently only links to WBFS Manager blog which will list updates. Plan to implement proper updater later to help everyone keep up to date.

DISCLAIMER (Borrowed from Waninkoko, hopefully he won't mind )

THIS APPLICATION COMES WITH NO WARRANTY AT ALL, NEITHER EXPRESS NOR IMPLIED. I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR WII CONSOLE BECAUSE OF IMPROPER USAGE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

External Links

• Official Site - https://web.archive.org/web/20100304114146/http://wbfsmanager.codeplex.com/releases/view/26808
• Gbatemp - https://gbatemp.net/download/wbfs-manager-for-windows.26972/