#this feels so unhelpful but tbf it's literally for me in the future

[foreveranonymousfa]

Ok so I was having a really hard time trying to figure out what went wrong with my SD card while trying to homebrew my wii

My friend figured it out so I'm posting it both for myself and anyone else that gets a No FAT device found! error on Nintendont

My formatting was incorrect, and I say this knowing NOTHING about how it works but here's how I was able to correctly format it and do it again without fail on the same type of card. It is a SanDisk ImageMate, notably the cheapest card at Walmart (hehe)

How I did it:

I used HPUSB to format to FAT32

Then from Windows format the file system to NTFS (default allocation was 4k so I left it) instead of exFAT (which was my default)

Then in guiformat pick 32768 as cluster size

and that's it! It ended up being a really easy solution but I was having SUCH a hard time trying to figure out what to do. I literally don't know what any of this means so if this doesn't help then I'm sorry! but I also cannot help. I also don't know how much the allocation numbers matter. I just know this worked for me and I'm honestly posting this for me because I WILL forget if I ever have to do it again

#shitposting #wii homebrew #save for later #this feels so unhelpful but tbf it's literally for me in the future #hi future me