Will Dolphin support wbf format ?

06-22-2010, 11:58 PM #1

Will dolphin support [color=#FF0000]wbf[/color] format in future ? Smile

achaw · 06-23-2010, 02:56 AM #2

I think the format is wbfs, not wbf

shawnanastasio · 06-23-2010, 06:19 AM #3

dolphin is supposed to run homebrew, so try running the wbfs loader .dol file.

**Ocean** · 06-23-2010, 01:57 PM #4

What's the point when you can use ntfs or fat32? Other than running games ripped by a modded wii to a wbfs formatted drive.

Just use rawdump 2.0 and rip disk to a normal ntfs HDD & boot from there on dolphin, much easier.

Or maybe you thought "wbf" [it's wbfs, or wii backup file system] is a file format like iso, which it's not. It's a filesystem for storing data.
.WBF is "windows batch file" and has nothing to do with wii. There is .wbi (wii backup image) but it's inconvenient compared to iso image.

07-16-2010, 07:58 AM #5

(06-23-2010, 01:57 PM)Ocean Wrote: What's the point when you can use ntfs or fat32? Other than running games ripped by a modded wii to a wbfs formatted drive.

Just use rawdump 2.0 and rip disk to a normal ntfs HDD & boot from there on dolphin, much easier.

Or maybe you thought "wbf" [it's wbfs, or wii backup file system] is a file format like iso, which it's not. It's a filesystem for storing data.
.WBF is "windows batch file" and has nothing to do with wii. There is .wbi (wii backup image) but it's inconvenient compared to iso image.

There's actually a WBFS file format, which is nothing more than a "file-system-on-a-file" with just one game, and it's the default format when using Hermes CIOS222 (and the associated USB loaders for wii). It's easier to use than a WBFS partition, since there's the possibility of using just FAT32 or NTFS, and the files can be manipulated without the help of any special tools. Anyway, it would be nice if Dolphin implemented WBFS file format support, it's basically a iso file with the garbage data removed.

http://wbfs.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=...Title=Home