The SD card I ordered finally arrived in the mail today, so I spent all day playing with it. Here is some (not so interesting) information I've discovered so far...
You can transfer your Wii's Virtual Console games to an SD, save that to your PC, and erase them from the SD card to free up space for other things, and then transfer them all back (PC - SD - Wii), and they will still work fine. Obviously, the VC games have to be played on the same Wii you bought them on, so no sharing for you!
Secondly, when you peruse the Wii data on your PC, you'll see this folder tree:
private - wii - title -
Within the "title" folder you will see folders with 4 capital letters. What these are, of course, depends on your data, but what I can tell you is....
REXE = Excite Truck save data
RRBE = Rayman Raving Rabbids save data
RTHE = Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam save data
I saved one Virtual Console game to the card, which is also listed in this folder as:
PAAE = Bomberman '93 (TG-16)
So, from raiding Wikipedia for obscure console aliases, I have deduced....
The first letter in these folders represents the console it is from. For example:
R = Wii (think Revolution and it will make more sense)
P = TurboGrafx-16 (I'm thinking the P stands for PC Engine, which was the TG's name in Japan)
F = NES (Famicom in Japan)
N = Nintendo 64
M = Sega Genesis (or the Mega Drive in Japan)
Now, the only one I don't know is Super Nintendo, because I haven't downloaded any of Super Nintendo games, but it might be an 'S'.
I'm taking a guess on this part, but I believe the last letter represents the language of the game...
E = English
I guess we'll have to wait and see if J = Japanese when it hits over there to know for sure.
Now, for the two letters in between, the only identification marker we have left is the game, right?
EX = Excite
RB = Rayman Raving Rabbids
TH = Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
AA = Bomberman '93
I think all VC titles are going to be represented by an alphabetical two-letter code. Bomberman '93 is the first TG-16 title, so it gets 'AA', Bonk is the second one so it gets 'AB', and so on. That's just a guess though, but if it does in fact follow that formula, that means we can look forward to 676 titles for each system, yes? Maybe? I'm not good at math. I wonder if the code will always be limited to four letters....
So, in conclusion, I think, the Wii game data reads like this:
System - Game - Language
Examples:
REXE = Wii - Excite Truck - English
PAAE = TG-16 - Bomberman '93 - English
Also of note, perhaps, is that VC games are stored within their cryptic folders as content.bin, while save data is stored as data.bin.
And for the uber-nerdy among you, Bomberman '93 takes up 3.54mb (considerably more than a ROM... quality? control schemes?).
And now, I have to go to bed before my white- and nerdiness overtakes the world.
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