#WITGUI MAC SOFTWARE#
Then click on the link Download Witgui (macOS Lion or newer)put the check mark next to the box I am not a robotsolve the captcha that is proposed to you (you may have to select the photos that portray a certain subject) and press the button Download to start the software download. To download Witgui to your computer, connect to his official website and click on the link Download your own Witgui now (macOS Lion or newer) located in the middle of the page.
#WITGUI MAC FREE#
Use a Mac? No problem: you can format keys and hard drives in WBFS using a special free software: its name is Witgui and it is a game manager for Wii and GameCube based on two other free software, wit And wwt.
#WITGUI MAC HOW TO#
If you need some more information about it, read my tutorial on how to format in FAT32. You can format a volume to FAT32 using the Wii Backup Manager (following the procedure above and selecting FAT32 rather than WBFS in the drop-down menu File System) or in Windows by right-clicking on the drive icon in My Computer and selecting the item Format from the menu that opens. It is a very simple operation but, as mentioned above, it can also be done by formatting the drives in FAT32. That’s all! Now you know how to format a drive in WBFS and how to store Wii software and games on it. All you have to do is go to the tab Files application, select the item Files from the menu Add and select the game or software files to copy to the volume.Īt the end of the import, put the check mark next to the names of the files to be transferred on the key or hard disk you have just formatted and select the item Transfer> from the menu at the top.
#WITGUI MAC PC#
You can check the drive letter of the key or hard disk to be formatted by opening the File Explorer Windows and selecting the item Computer / This PC from the left sidebar.Īfter preparing the drive to accommodate files for the Wii, you can transfer software and games to it using the Wii Backup Manager again. Then select the volume to be formatted via the drop-down menu Drivechoose the option WBFS from the menu File System and presses the button Start to start formatting.Īttention! Formatting a drive in WBFS completely erases its contents, so make sure there are no important files on the drive before proceeding.Īlso, make sure you choose the right drive letter from the drop-down menu Drive by Wii Backup Manager. Then, to format your USB key or hard disk with the WBFS file system, go to the menu Tools Wii Backup Manager and select the item Format drives. In the window that opens, click on the button Yup. If you get an error message it means you are using a 32-bit system, so run the executable WiiBackupManager_Win32.exe instead of the 64-bit one. Then insert the USB key or hard disk from the PC into the PC format in WBFS and run the executable WiiBackupManager_Win64.exe. WiiBackupManager_Build78.zip) and extract its contents to any folder.
#WITGUI MAC ZIP#
When the download is complete, open the Wii Backup Manager zip package (eg. Next, click on the entry Download (in the center of the page), wait for the countdown to finish and click on the button Skip which appears at the top right. To download it to your PC, all you have to do is connect to the its official website and click on the first link on the page (eg. But the "Scheme" popup menu does not appear in the panel.If you want format in WBFS a disk or USB stick and you use the operating system WindowsI advise you to use the software Wii Backup Manager, which does not require any type of installation in order to function. If I select the secondary item in that list (Lexar), I can successfully do a format operation. No matter what Scheme I choose, I get an error when trying to format the item higher in the hierarchy in the sidebar to the left (Lexar USB Flash…), as shown in the screen shot above. Mysterious error when formatting higher item The third one ( Apple Partition Map) is for booting old Macs (68K and PowerPC rather than Intel chips). Why is this offered as a scheme for "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)"? That really threw me, and prompted this Question. The second one ( Master Boot Record) is old, from the 80's DOS 2, for old PCs. Booting is not an issue for my use of this flash drive. I know the first one ( GUID Partition Map) is for booting modern Macs. When using Disk Utility 16.3 with macOS Sierra to format a "thumbdrive" USB 3 Lexar flash drive (64 gigs), when I choose a Format of ‘Mac OS Extended (Journaled)’, I get a list of three Scheme items: