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Wii Backup Manager is a program to copy Wii games from your computer to a USB drive so you can play the games on your Wii. It also can download game covers from [GameTDB](https://gametdb.com/) and can be used to list what games you have. This tutorial will tell you how to copy over games from your computer to your USB drive. The other features are able to be used in the easy-to-use interface.

### Requirements

* A PC running Windows
* Una unidad USB
* [Wii Backup Manager](https://static.wiidatabase.de/Wii-Backup-Manager.zip)


We recommend you copy games over with [Witgui](https://desairem.com/wordpress/category/witgui-download/) if you use macOS, or [Wii Backup Fusion](https://github.com/larsenv/Wii-Backup-Fusion) for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Wii Backup Manager is only compatible with Windows.
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To play multiple games, we recommend a USB-powered external hard drive for your Wii. We will refer to it as a "USB drive" in this guide. Most of the ones you can find on the market should work fine if they have USB 2 backwards compatibility.
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A flash drive is not recommended, as they are small and may vary in behavior even between the same product. <br> As an alternative, you may simply use an SD card, but the Wii's SD card slot is slow.
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Make sure your USB drive is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Do not format it as other types such as exFAT, extFS, or WBFS, the latter is an old format of storing Wii games. <br> You may format it as NTFS, but it won't work with a majority of apps (eg. The Homebrew Channel, Nintendont)
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### Instrucciones

#### Sección I - Descarga

1. Extract Wii Backup Manager, and launch the program.
1. Insert your USB drive into your computer.

#### Section II - Copying Games Over

1. Select the drive that you're using for the Wii games.

    ![](/images/desktop-apps/WBM/select_drive.png)

1. Go to the `Files` tab, then select `Add`.
    + Select `Files` to add multiple games to the program, or select `Folder` to add a whole folder of games.

    ![](/images/desktop-apps/WBM/select_games.png)

1. Go to the `Drive 1` tab, then select `Drive`.

    ![](/images/desktop-apps/WBM/select_games2.png)

1. Select `Transfer`, then select `Drive 1` to transfer the games over. It might take a while for the games to copy over.

    ![](/images/desktop-apps/WBM/transfer_todrive.png)

### Options once complete

[Continue to cIOS](cios)<br> cIOS is needed for your Wii to use a USB Loader.
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[Continue to USB Loader GX](usbloadergx) USB Loader GX is a USB Loader that you can use to play games on your Wii from a USB drive.
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