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Forums - Gaming - Wii U external hard drive required to download Lego City Undercover, Nintendo says

oni-link on 20 March 2013
dahuman said:

So anyways, I downloaded Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on Wii U, like I have mention in another thread, download size 6221MB, finished in 1 hour 30 minutes on USB network adapter(which I believe is 10 BASE-T, if I'm wrong please correct me), install time 11 minutes, install size 6072MB, on boot 136MB patch with mid download failure about 1 and half minute or so in then resumed after I canceled launch and relaunched with less than 20s download time for the rest of the patch.

Not sure how long Need for Speed: Most Wanted U took since it downloaded while I was playing Monster Hunter, install size 5990 MB(install time 12 minutes) with about 170~MB patch, patching was also fast on that one.

No problems encountered with any loading speed, works as intended and prolly faster but I haven't done any benchmarks compared to other people, no issues so far, just like I had no issues with Mighty Switch Force or Nano Assault.

This is a 500GB USB2 drive that's prolly 3 years or so old.

In Short, what's the big fucking deal again? I still don't see it.


I know...I don't understand what the problem is suppose to be?



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Bong Lover on 16 April 2013

Perhaps already covered, but I bought an external hard drive based on someones recommendation earlier in this thread, hooked it up, and had all sorts of problems trying to download anything afterwards. I assumed the model hard drive I got required a Y cable and unplugged it until I would really need it, figuring I'd get a Y cable whenever. But, just recently my kids got back into their Skylanders addiction and I had to connect the little wireless USB dongle for the Skylanders portal when I (seemingly) made a shocking discovery: Only two USB ports in the back of the Wii U? I immediately foresaw doom for my hard drive Y cable idea if one USB is needed by Skylanders.

So my question is this: Did I in the heat of battle and in a constricted space simply just overlook some of the USB outputs? There has to be more than two, right?



Kaizar on 16 April 2013
Bong Lover said:
Perhaps already covered, but I bought an external hard drive based on someones recommendation earlier in this thread, hooked it up, and had all sorts of problems trying to download anything afterwards. I assumed the model hard drive I got required a Y cable and unplugged it until I would really need it, figuring I'd get a Y cable whenever. But, just recently my kids got back into their Skylanders addiction and I had to connect the little wireless USB dongle for the Skylanders portal when I (seemingly) made a shocking discovery: Only two USB ports in the back of the Wii U? I immediately foresaw doom for my hard drive Y cable idea if one USB is needed by Skylanders.

So my question is this: Did I in the heat of battle and in a constricted space simply just overlook some of the USB outputs? There has to be more than two, right?


There's 2 in the front, and 2 in the back. A total of 4 USB ports.



Bong Lover on 16 April 2013
Kaizar said:
Bong Lover said:
Perhaps already covered, but I bought an external hard drive based on someones recommendation earlier in this thread, hooked it up, and had all sorts of problems trying to download anything afterwards. I assumed the model hard drive I got required a Y cable and unplugged it until I would really need it, figuring I'd get a Y cable whenever. But, just recently my kids got back into their Skylanders addiction and I had to connect the little wireless USB dongle for the Skylanders portal when I (seemingly) made a shocking discovery: Only two USB ports in the back of the Wii U? I immediately foresaw doom for my hard drive Y cable idea if one USB is needed by Skylanders.

So my question is this: Did I in the heat of battle and in a constricted space simply just overlook some of the USB outputs? There has to be more than two, right?


There's 2 in the front, and 2 in the back. A total of 4 USB ports.

Thank you!