Wii U Transfer Tool

Wii U Transfer Tool
Type	Downloadable
Developer(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Wii Channels
Release date(s)	JP/NA/EU November 17, 2012
Genre(s)	Utility
Input methods	Wii Remote
Compatibility	3 Starts
GameIDs	HCSE01, HCSP01, HCSJ01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

The Wii U Transfer Tool is a channel that provides ability to copy your Wii content (including save data, purchased content from Wii Shop and all WiiWare and Virtual Console downloaded titles) to a Wii U system through the use of a SD card and Wii System Transfer.

Emulation Information

Network Certificates Required

Wii U Transfer Tool has functionalities that requires proper network certificates extracted from an IOS to work. Refer to the network guide for more information.

Missing Game List Banner

Certain Wii apps and homebrew apps never create savefiles that are handled by the emulated Wii's internal savefile lists, so no banners are ever generated for them in Dolphin.

Problems

Error 204701

This channel boots and loads fine, however, all you'll get is an error 204701. Fixed in 5.0-2874.

Error message

An error has occurred

Stops working nearly instantly after starting with a generic "An error has occurred" message. See issue 10985. Started happening in 5.0-3454 and was fixed in 5.0-11432.

Transfer Tool / Wii Shop Channel Country Mismatch

As of 5.0-21088, during the network check after the first 2 guide prompts, the app can show the message "The country setting for this console differs from when you last connected to the Wii Shop Channel from this console. (…)".

For players who've never visited Wii Shop Channel within Dolphin, or who've received a Dolphin error about device credentials (due to the certificate reasons mentioned above) and thus never reached the Wii Shop Channel, the country will effectively be none, making the Transfer Tool unable to proceed further without replacing the entire Dolphin NAND.

Configuration

No configuration changes are known to affect compatibility for this channel.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Wii U Transfer Tool since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

3.0-712

3.5-2143

5.0-2874

5.0-3454

5.0-11432

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5.0-21401 (current)

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2.0 (r5384)

Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

This channel has been tested on the environments listed below:

Test Entries
Revision	OS	CPU	GPU	Result	Tester
3.0-712	Windows 8	Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 @ 2.2 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	Freezes on boot	mbc07
5.0-2874	Windows 10	Intel Core i7-3630QM @ 2.4 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M	Works, stops on the "Verifying SD Card" screen with error 389005	mbc07
5.0-21088	Windows 11	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 @ 3.6 GHz	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	Got to the network check after the "Have you made these preparations?" prompt, during which it claims a country mismatch between Transfer Tool and Wii Shop Channel, very likely due to the certificate reasons mentioned above.	DandelionSprout