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Topic: Issue with transferring from my Wii to my WiiU

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HunkyDunk

I recently got a Wiiu and since I didnt have enough space on my Wii I put a lot of the games I downloaded on my SD Card. Today I did the transfer over to my WiiU thinking I'd be able to do it again to move my SD card games over afterwards but now its not letting me move games from my SD card onto my Wii. Is there any way to bypass this problem? Or maybe some way to fix it? At least someone to tell me theres no hope even

HunkyDunk

Yoshi

This is my guess, anyone else feel free to tell me if I'm wrong.

Although the games are stored on your SD card, the licenses that you need to be able to play those games are on your Wii. When you did the system transfer, your licenses were moved to your Wii U. You should be able to play the games on your Wii U, but you won't be able to on your Wii.

In other words, don't fret! You still have your games!

[Edited by Yoshi]

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Yoshi

Actually, I think you can just stick your SD card into your Wii U and it should work. Can someone confirm this?

Formally called brewsky before becoming the lovable, adorable Yoshi.
Now playing:
Final Fantasy XIV (PC) | The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch) | Celeste (Switch)

HunkyDunk

AWWWWH YEAH! Thanks, for whatever reason I didnt try to put my SD card in my WiiU yet and figured I had to transfer those too. Alright awesome. Thank you!

HunkyDunk

HunkyDunk

Wait. I think some of the games on my SD card dont work on my WiiU...

HunkyDunk

jariw

HunkyDunk wrote:

Wait. I think some of the games on my SD card dont work on my WiiU...

Try to copy them from the SD card to the Wii U and remove the SD card.

jariw

HunkyDunk

jariw wrote:

HunkyDunk wrote:

Wait. I think some of the games on my SD card dont work on my WiiU...

Try to copy them from the SD card to the Wii U and remove the SD card.

When I try to copy them from the SD card to the Wii U it says "This channel cannot be copied to this Wii console" same with moving it. I think I might try deleting them and re-downloading from the Wii Shop

HunkyDunk

HunkyDunk

Yep, just redownloading them from the Wii Shop worked. Thanks for helping me think through this one guys!

HunkyDunk

gamr4life

So wait, can you put just one game on the sd card and move it to the wii u without moving everything else?

gamr4life

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