Do you still have a dusty WBFS drive in a drawer? Or did you convert years ago? Let me know in the comments below!
But is WBFS still relevant in 2025? Let’s crack open that external hard drive and find out. Unlike a standard .iso or .wbfs file (note the lowercase extension), the WBFS format was a partition type. You couldn’t just drag and drop games onto a drive. You had to use tools like WBFS Manager for Windows to format the entire drive to WBFS. wbfs wii games
Published by: The Retro Modding Hub Reading time: 4 minutes Do you still have a dusty WBFS drive in a drawer
For the uninitiated, WBFS (Wii Backup File System) was the proprietary file system created to rip original Wii discs to a USB hard drive. It was clunky, it was weird, and it let us boot backups using loaders like USB Loader GX and WiiFlow. But is WBFS still relevant in 2025