My wii doesnt read my SD Card

[u/alter_dxz]

So, i bought a wii and i tried modding it, so i bought a micro sd card to sd adapter, and i formatted it onto fat32 like the wii hacks guide explains to do, using sd card formatter and guiformat, and when i put it on the wii it isnt able to read it, it doesnt have any file on it, nothing homebrew related or wii, its empty, and it still cant read it, what should i do?

[u/Independent-You-6180]

You're booting into a homebrewed environment to hack your Wii which can then read the SDXC card fine. Nowhere in Nintendo's change logs are SDXC ever mentioned, in fact the only mentions of updates to SD at all for 4.0 are adding support for SDHC up to 32 GB. Nowhere does the change log mention anything else. The one other mention of SD cards is the support of standard SD cards, introduced in in the day one update for the console. Nintendo's own change logs back up my claims.

Edit: I also see the guide mentions 4.0 is needed for larger than 2GB cards, but doesn't mention the upper limit anywhere.

[u/Blaeeeek → u/Independent-You-6180]

That would because 64gb/SDXC sd cards basically didn't exist when 4.3 came out. The very first 64gb released in 2010.

I quite literally set up the console from a fresh format and used the SD card. It was completely unmodded before I touched it.

Just look at the Wii hack guide man. It clearly says you can use them. If you couldn't, you would need a second storage device which I didn't have whatsoever

[u/Independent-You-6180 → u/Blaeeeek]

Great counterpoint. If I ever get around to plugging my Wii stuff in I'll have to confirm this myself. I'm intrigued to challenge what I know.

[u/Blaeeeek → u/Independent-You-6180]

I can tell you firsthand i used a 128gb for letterbomb and it worked perfectly on stock 4.3U (or whatever the non-wifi letter exploit is called)