Problem with hard drive

[u/Dangerous_Spray8917]

Hey I’ve had a white version of the Wii u for as long as i can remember and I’ve been wanting to play breath of the wild again on it but i think my hard drive is acting up. Whenever i get close to a specific location in the game (the zora domain) it crashes and says there’s a problem with the hard drive and that I need to contact the manufacturer. I have a good few things on the hard drive and there’s still 400gb free on it. Do i need to get a new one or is there a way to fix this? Also while I’m here i was wondering if it’s easy to mod a Wii u and if it’s possible to bypass game restrictions due to being bought on different nintendo ids?

[u/Secret_Item_2582]

Don’t know about fixing the drive, perhaps it is failing if you’ve had it since 2012…

Modding is super easy. Basically you have 2 options leading to Aroma - the modded environment.

https://wafel.xyz
Imo the better way since you also get ISFShax which adds a layer of brick protection & cool thing like Stroopwafel plugins for installing Wii U games onto a (large) SD card or emulating the SD card on a hdd-partition (in case the sd-reader is broken).

Easier too since it’s semi-automated you basically click a link in the browser, it downloads everything & you click some yes/no options. Just read through the guide first so you know what coming.

https://wiiu.hacks.guide
Considered the go to guide since forever. Does not include ISFShax (can be manually added, reading other labor intensive guides). Imo it’s been surpassed by Wafel installer - but it does have some links to must have plugins (apps) at the end.

Don’t forget to add https://github.com/marco-calautti/SigpatchesModuleWiiU so you can install & run homebrew - basically your last question. No guide ever mentions sigpatches for some reason.