Wiikey, the hackers who invented mod chips and soft mods for the Nintendo Wii and many other consoles, have developed a new hack for the Wii U that lets them play content and games from a custom ...

You should be able to play the games from the USB drive! heck, even people with hacked Wiis can stream full DVD games from a USB drive, I would think the Wii U would be able to handle it. 0 5 ...

Save your Wii games to an external hard drive with this handy tutorial for speedier and scratch-free playback. [Update: Mike's tutorial is no defunct.

The builders of Wii hacking devices, Wiikey, have announced that they've found a method to hack the Wii U to play content via USB media. The kit also claims to work on devices from any region and ...

As Lifehacker points out, this impressive Wii hack isn't as simple as plugging an external hard drive into our Wii, but it isn't masterclass-level stuff, ...

Stay tuned for updates!" The WiikeU, as it's called, is described as the first optical drive emulator to enable users to play Wii U games from any USB media.

Wii U users have found a workaround for enabling the console to play games from an SD card - all it needs is a USB card reader.

Before the launch of the Wii U, Nintendo confirmed that software could not be played from an SD card, but it would appear that it is technically possible - provided you have one of those cheap USB ...

Why would you want to play your games off a hard disk? Wii games cost anywhere from $20-50, while an external hard drive that can hold all your Wii games—assuming you don't already have one on ...

Update: Nintendo says it is "aware" of hacking claims, but has "no reports" of Wii U games being played from USB media.

Nintendo has released a 700MB firmware patch for Wii U that introduces a particularly interesting bit of functionality. Users are now able to play Wii games via Wii Mode on their Wii U GamePad.