SD Preparation

We will now place the required Aroma files on the SD Card.

WARNING

Your SD Card will need to be formatted as FAT32. If your SD Card is not formatted to FAT32, use GUIFormat with 32k (32768) allocation unit size to format it.
Do not label the SD Card as wiiu or it will cause issues with homebrew.

Instructions

1. On the Aroma site, scroll down to the Download section.
   • Read through the steps and click on the checkboxes.
   • Click on Download Payloads and Download Base Aroma.
2. Insert your Wii U's SD Card into your PC.
3. Extract and copy the wiiu folder of the two newly downloaded .zip files to the root of your SD Card.
   • The wiiu folders should be merged if not done automatically.

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If your computer asks you to overwrite existing files on your SD Card, you will need to click yes.

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If you're on a Mac machine, select Merge instead of replace. If the merge option does not show immediately, press and hold the Option key while moving files to the root.

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Extracting the contents of the zip to the root is done like so.

SD Card Layout

Click here to show the final SD Card layout.

💾sd:
 ┗ 📂wiiu
   ┣ 📂apps
   ┃ ┣ 📂AromaUpdater
   ┃ ┃ ┗📜AromaUpdater.wuhb
   ┃ ┣ 📜PayloadLoaderInstaller.wuhb
   ┃ ┗ (All other apps should be here too)
   ┣ 📂environments
   ┃ ┗ 📂aroma
   ┃   ┣ 📂modules
   ┃   ┃ ┣ 📂setup
   ┃   ┃ ┃ ┣ 📜00_mocha.rpx
   ┃   ┃ ┃ ┣ 📜10_wums_loader.rpx
   ┃   ┃ ┃ ┗ 📜99_autoboot.rpx
   ┃   ┃ ┗ (All other Aroma modules ending with .wms should be here too)
   ┃   ┣ 📂plugins
   ┃   ┃ ┣ 📜AromaBasePlugin.wps
   ┃   ┃ ┣ 📜drc_region_free.wps
   ┃   ┃ ┣ 📜homebrew_on_menu.wps
   ┃   ┃ ┣ 📜regionfree.wps
   ┃   ┃ ┗ (All other Aroma plugins ending with .wps should be here too)
   ┃   ┗ 📜root.rpx
   ┣ 📂payloads
   ┃ ┣ 📂default
   ┃ ┃ ┗ 📜payload.elf
   ┃ ┗ 📂nanddumper
   ┃   ┗ 📜payload.elf
   ┣ 📜payload.rpx
   ┗ 📜payload.elf

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If you already have the PayloadLoader installed, you may go directly to Finalizing Setup