WBFSManager Editor's Review

Use a GUI to examine the hard drive on your Wii with this cool Windows tool.

If you've got a Wii set top gaming console, managing data on that drive just got easier.

This application basically provides a GUI for working with hard disk drives that have been formatted to the WBFS file system. The file system used by the console for this purpose is WBFS (Wii Backup File System), a system that is similar to NTFS, that you will now be able to handle thanks to WBFS Manager.

Customizing your gaming experience takes a bit of know-how. Getting custom content to your Wii is now possible with WBFSManager.  The app lets you list the games on the drive so you can see what you have. You get most of the standard drive manager features you'd expect – contents, space used, space available, etc.  You can also copy, move and rename files as you wish.

The biggest and perhaps best use of WBFSManager is that you can use it to clone your drive to another one. If you want or need to move the content to a different or perhaps bigger drive, then WBFSManager can get you there.  If you've got a lot of Wii channels on your system, this can be a huge plus.  Bigger and faster drives make for a better gaming experience.

App Pro’s: Free

App Con’s: No update since 2009

Conclusion: I never really got into hacking the Wii systems we have in the house; but then again, I'm not much of a gamer, either.  However, if you want to build custom channels for your Wii or want to mount ISO images that you've copied to the drive, this the best way to get the content there.  The app hasn't been updated since 2009, but then again, the file and drive formats haven't changed either.