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<p>This guide provides instructions on how to manage your Wii backups, from joining .PART files that are output through CleanRip, to shrinking game files that can be copied onto a FAT32 device. Two programs that can be used to manage your Wii backups are Wii Backup Manager (for Windows) and Wii Backup Fusion (for Linux and MacOS) and are covered below.</p>
<pclass="notice--info">For storing multiple games, we recommend an external hard drive for your Wii. Most of those found on the market should work fine.</p>
<h3id="joining-part-files-on-a-fat32-device">Joining PART files on a FAT32 device</h3>
<pclass="notice--info">If your disc was dumped to a FAT32 device, you should have gotten at least two files that end with <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.partX.iso</code>, due to filesystem limitations. They need to be joined (on a supported filesystem like NTFS) so the file can be read correctly.</p>
<p>Copy the files that share the same name and end with <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.partX.iso</code> into an empty folder on your computer.</p>
<p>In this folder, click the address bar in Windows Explorer and type in <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cmd</code>, this will open a command prompt window there.</p>
<p>Type <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">copy /b *.part?.iso game.iso</code> and press enter. Wait for the command to finish, your terminal output should be similar to the below.</p>
<p>If the copy process executed correctly, the checksum from the game dump info file (located where you dumped your disc at) should match the resulting joined file.</p>
<p>Copy the files that share the same name and end with <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.partX.iso</code> into an empty folder on your computer.</p>
<p>Use the following command as is: <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cat `ls *.part?.iso | sort` > game.iso</code>. Then, wait for the merging process to finish. Like in Windows, the resulting checksum should match the dump.</p>
<li>Go to the <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Files</code> tab, then select <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Add</code>.
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<li>Select <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Files</code> to add multiple games to the program, or select <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Folder</code> to add a whole folder of games.</li>
<p>Go to <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Select</code>, then click <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Games not on drive 1</code>.</p>
<p>Select <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Transfer</code>, then select <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Drive 1</code> to transfer the games over. The progress will be displayed on the right side of the window.</p>
<li><ahref="https://wit.wiimm.de/download.html">Wiimm’s ISO Tools</a></li>
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<h4id="section-i---installation-1">Section I - Installation</h4>
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<p>Download Wiimm’s ISO tools for your OS and extract the .tar.gz into a folder that you can access with the terminal. The extracted folder should have these files inside:</p>
<li>Open a terminal in the folder that you just extracted, and run <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">sudo ./install.sh</code>.</li>
<li>Download Wii Backup Fusion for your OS and install. If on Linux, you will need to make the appimage executable by running <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">chmod +x [FILE]</code>.</li>
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<h4id="section-ii---copying-games-1">Section II - Copying Games</h4>
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<p>Open Wii Backup Fusion and press <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Load</code>.</p>
<p>Right click on the game that you want to transfer to a drive, and press <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">Transfer to image</code>. Use the following settings:</p>
<p>If there is not already a <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">wbfs</code> directory on your game drive, make one.</p>
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<p>Make another directory inside of the <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">wbfs</code> folder for the game backup. Take note of the Game ID in Wii Backup Fusion as you will need this for the game folder.</p>
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<p>Make a game folder for your game, formatted as <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">game name [GAMEID]</code>. For the game dumped as an example in this guide, it would be named <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">New Super Mario Bros. Wii [SMNE01]</code>.</p>
<p>Copy the game.wbfs file that was made in Step 3 to this new folder. The drive should be ready to use on a Wii.</p>
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<pclass="notice--info"><ahref="cios">Continue to cIOS</a><br/>
cIOS is needed for your Wii to use a USB Loader. Once this is done, you can use <ahref="wii-loaders">USB Loader GX or WiiFlow</a> to play games from your USB drive or SD card.</p>
