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How to Transfer Wii Programs to Another Wii

While you can copy and paste programs in the form of channels onto an SD card for back-up on your own Wii console, transferring them from your system memory to the card as often as you wish, you cannot download programs and transfer them in one piece to another Wii. Nintendo does not entirely lock a program to one console, however. If the second Wii already has the program downloaded, you can transfer your version of the program onto that Wii.

Things You'll Need

SD or SDHC card

Instructions

Copying the Channel
- 1
  Turn on the Wii from which you want to copy a program and insert an SD card into the SD slot.
- 2
  Click the Wii options button in the lower left corner and choose "Data Management" followed by "Channels."
- 3
  Select the channel you want to transfer and click the "Copy" button. When the Wii asks you whether you want to copy the channel to the SD card click "Yes." The copying process may take a few minutes.
- 4
  Copy all the programs you want to transfer to the SD card in the same way.
- 5
  Turn off the Wii and press the SD card to eject it from the slot.
Transferring It to a New Wii
- 6
  Turn on the second Wii and insert the SD card containing the files you want to transfer.
- 7
  Click the Wii options button and choose "Data Management" and then "Channels" from the options.
- 8
  Access the "SD Card" tab.
- 9
  Click on the program you want to transfer and press "Copy." When the Wii asks if you want to copy it to the system memory, click "Yes" to proceed.
- 10
  Repeat the copying process with each program you want to transfer to this Wii.

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