Tutorial: How to put WBFS files on a WBFS formatted drive with WBFS for Mac OS X

As many of you may know, WBFS for Mac OS X is an application that let's you put Wii games on a WBFS formatted hard drive with a mac. It is the only application for mac to do this as of present. However, it lacks some features its PC counterparts include, such as adding files in *.wbfs format to your drive.

This tutorial serves to provide a workaround for those who have used another backup manager on PC in the past and thus have *.wbfs backups already, or those who download in formats other than ISO.

New WBFS for Mac OS X Mountain Lion Fix

Ok so many of you Mac users like myself are familiar with WBFS for Mac OS X. As a result you may know that Mountain Lion practically broke the program when it was released last year. Still no fix has been implemented by the official developers. In addition to this, some of you may be familiar with the workaround to run the application as the root user using Terminal.

You simply type: sudo "/Applications/WBFS for MacOS X.app/Contents/MacOS/WBFS for MacOS X"

This is assuming the app is in your Applications folder on you mac.

Well I have some news. After working pretty much all of yesterday in applescript, I have created a launcher that does that for you (for those people who are not quite as tech saavy or scared to touch Terminal). The launcher will also serve as a way to take out the annoying process of using terminal to launch the backup manager EVERY TIME you want to use it (this is part of the reason I made it).

Anyhow, there are a few things I'd like to test before I officially release a download, but I will let you know when I do. Packaged with the launcher will be the app itself and a read me file.