Wii Backup File System Manager Changelog
What's new in Wii Backup File System Manager 3.0
Mar 26, 2013- Changes:
- Added Channel Creation support. (Disabled by default, to enable go to Options->Channel Creation and Enable. Follow the instructions provided below.)
- Added "Large Cover View"s, which are two side panels that display the cover for the currently selected item.
- Added Automatically Check for Updates option (Requires Internet access, can be disabled).
- Added the option to cancel batch operations (cancellation occurs as soon as the current item is finished).
- Added drive status indicator under the left-hand list, blue shows amount of used space, green shows amount of used space after adding all entries from the "Games To Add" list.
- Added Help menu option.
- Added direct drive-to-drive copying for drive's with similar sector sizes. Drive-To-Drive copying will now first check if it's possible to do direct copying, if not it will revert to indirect copying.
- Fixes:
- Fixed the estimated size being wrong for some games.
- Fixed an issue with CSV files being exported incorrectly sometimes.
- Save expander states, so the user doesn't have to keep re-opening them each time.
- Fixed Homebrew Channel creation. (Now using WiiCrazy's USB Loader DOL instead of Yal).
- Fixed an issue with the "Estimated Total Size" not updating correctly when games were removed from the right-hand list.
- Now checks the filesystem type of a drive before loading to make sure it's not NTFS, FAT or ext.
- Fixed an issue with games with ":" or other special characters causing issues during batch extraction.
- Fixed issue with game regions showing up incorrectly in initial 2.5 release.
- Fixed issue with RAR files in subfolders not being detected during drag and drop operations.
- Removed thousandth of a seconds from elapsed time in progress bar.
- Fixed mislabled blocks status (was Blocks Used, should be Blocks Free).
- Fixed some other minor issues.
- Changed installer (now prompts for .NET 3.5 SP1 before installing, also gives options for installing langauges, etc).
New in Wii Backup File System Manager 2.5 (Mar 13, 2010)
- Changes (2.5)
- Added indirect Drive-To-Drive transferring and cloning. (Click Drive-To-Drive expander (the line under the buttons) to show related options) (Need minimum 4.8 GBs free.)
- Added automatic RAR archive extraction (drag and drop or use the browse button).
- Added batch extraction and deletion. (Hold shift to select a range of items, or hold Ctrl to select separate individual items).
- Added exporting list of games on drive to a .CSV (Comma-separated values) file. Right-click on left-hand list and click export. Can export entire list or only selected items.
- Added ability to use more than one cover directory (all downloaded covers will still be downloaded to My Documents\WBFS Manager Covers)
- Added estimated total size for Games to Add list.
- Added Italian, German and Chinese (Traditional) language support
- Added information about the number of items in each list.
- Added message informing user that they're using the wrong version if they try using 32-bit version on 64-bit Windows.
- Updated some icons and imagery (courtesy of BarbaxX).
- All changes from previous versions are included.
- Fixes (2.5)
- Fixed an issue with some buttons being hidden in some languages. (Now using a toolbar. Click on arrow on right side of toolbar to see any hidden icons).
- Fixed a bug with the 2.2.2 not working on Chinese OSes (released earlier as Chinese Edition).
- Fixed some special cases for region codes.
- Fixed some issues with some translations.
- Fixed a few other minor bugs.
- All fixes from previous versions are included.
- Indirect Drive-To-Drive transferring and Cloning/Auto RAR Extraction notes
- In this version drive-to-drive transferring and Auto RAR extraction are done using an intermediary temporary directory that is set when you first launch WBFS Manager.
- The drive with the temporary directory on it should have at least 4.8 GB free space for single layer games. Double-layer games will require more space.
- You can change the temporary directory by going to Edit->Options.
- To do a drive-to-drive transfer:
- Load the source drive.
- Open the Drive-To-Drive section and load the target (secondary) drive.
- Click "Clone" to copy all games from the source drive to the target drive OR Choose some games from the left-hand list (source drive) using Shift or Ctrl, then click "Copy to this Drive".
- Direct drive-to-drive copying will be available in WBFS Manager 3.0.
- Notes
- For those of you having issues starting WBFS Manager, please make sure your using "Run as Administrator" for Win Vista and 7.
- If the program is crashing at startup with a message saying "This program has stopped working...", the reason for this 99% of the time is that your .NET FW version is 3.5 instead of 3.5 SP1. Please note, theres a significant difference between these two. To avoid problems, allow the setup to install .NET 3.5 SP1 for you. If you don't want to do that, please use the following correct link for .NET 3.5 SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=AB99342F-5D1A-413D-8319-81DA479AB0D7&displaylang=en
- If your having issues with drive detection make sure the drive was initially formatted as FAT32 and that the partition is a Primary partition.
New in Wii Backup File System Manager 2.2.2 (Jul 3, 2009)
- German language support has now been added. In order to enable German language support in WBFS Manager 2.2.2, download the German Language Pack, extract the zip file and copy the "de" folder into Program FilesWBFSWBFS Manager 2.2.2 (or ProgrammeWBFSWBFS Manager 2.2.2).
- Chinese language has now been added. In order to use the Chinese version, uninstall WBFS Manager, then download ChineseEdition-x86 (for 32-bit Windows) or ChineseEdition-x64 (for 64-bit Windows).
- Changes (2.2.2)
- Improved multilingual support (can now add more languages by dropping "language packs" into the application's directory).
- Added Dutch support.