Use Wii Backup Manager (Windows only, but excellent).
Your Wii USB drive will become a time capsule—217 clicks into two decades of waggle-powered, sword-swinging, mushroom-collecting joy. 217 Wii games. -wbfs format-
Large games can be "split" into multiple files to fit on FAT32-formatted drives, which the Wii requires for certain homebrew apps. Use Wii Backup Manager (Windows only, but excellent)
It is also a quiet rebellion against the modern subscription model. The Wii Shop Channel is dead. Disc rot is real. The only way to play Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon or The Last Story in 2026 is through a backup. This collection is a local, permanent, offline library. Use Wii Backup Manager (Windows only