What are the USB ports on the Wii for?

Usefully, those two USB ports can come into play again: simply plug in a USB keyboard and you can type away on Hotmail or Google Mail to your heart’s content. As you may already know, the Wii Photo Channel lets you take photos from a digital camera’s SD card and draw on them or turn them into jigsaws.

Does USB 3.1 work on Wii?

The regular Wii does not normally support USB storage devices, but a modified Wii will support them. This works any usb port really. Its designed to give self powered devices like 2.5inch external HDD’s extra power when the usb port is low power. Also USB 3.0 will work on older usb 2 and even 1 ports.

What USB format does Wii use?

Make sure your USB drive is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Do not format it as other types such as extFS or WBFS, the latter is an old format of storing Wii games.

Can Wii plug into HDMI?

The original Nintendo Wii, unfortunately, does not have an HDMI port. There are many adapters that allow you to connect your Wii to an HDMI port, by plugging directly into the console. This makes adapters like the Portholic Wii to HDMI Converter easy to use. Connect the HDMI adapter into the back of your Wii.

Can Wii Play USB movies?

If you have the Homebrew Channel installed, yes. You need a program caled mPlayer. If you do not want to hack your wii, you can not.

Does Seagate work with Wii?

As I previously mentioned, this Seagate drive almost works reliably with the Wii U. It costs like $5 at Amazon and it will supply any slim 2.5″ portable hard drive with enough power (up to 1000mA) to run with the Wii U.

Does Wii USB have to be FAT32?

The Wii Homebrew Applications (such as The Homebrew Channel, Emulators, Games, Media players, etc.), USB Loader GX’s NAND emulation feature and DIOS MIOS (Lite) require a FAT32 partition format. You can use a FAT32 SD/SDHC card for that purpose and set your USB hard drive as NTFS or Ext partition format.