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Yeah, those high capacity batteries are pretty good. It feels silly when you open the battery compartment on the gamepad to realize how poorly the original battery fills the available space.
For the first point, that depends. Some games need the gamepad for all inputs, some for auxiliary information or uses. It varies from game to game if it's an absolute requirement (like Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker) or not, but if it isn't, you might be able to use a pro classic controller, instead (like Bayonetta). Auxiliary can be as little as knowing what dice sides have been thrown in Mario Party 10.
As for the usb hard drive and seeking, the people have it, again. No solid state drives like a standard usb stick ("plug and play") because the Wii U will read/write so many times, it'll kill the stick because solid state drives have limits (not a small amount, mind you, but not intended to be constantly "seeking"). The usb y-cable is to supply enough power to a device, such as a portable hard drive, without using another power source.
Thank you that is good to know that solid drives are no good. I assume SD cards are also not ideal? Or what do you recommend when you want to store wii games and wii u games. I believe you can't have both on the same drive. Would love to hear back from you.
Most Wii saves are stored on the internal flash, only some can be moved to the SD card. Brawl does not allow you to move its save file to SD card.