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Dumping Wii/GameCube games |
Want to dump a GameCube or a Wii disk? There are two ways of doing so, depending on the tools you have available with you.
CleanRip
Requirements
- An SD card or USB drive with at least 4.7 GB of free space (8.5 GB if dumping a dual layer disc).
- CleanRip
Instructions
Section I - Downloading/Installing
- Extract CleanRip and put it in the
apps
folder on your SD card or USB drive. - Insert your SD card into your Wii, and launch CleanRip from the Homebrew Channel.
Section II - Ripping
-
Select your device that you will be dumping the game to - your USB drive or SD card.
-
On this screen, it asks you if you want to download a file with game checksums so you can verify the dump created is a 1:1 copy of the disc. It's your choice whether to say
Yes
orNo
to download this file. -
Set it as shown on the screen below.
If you are dumping one of the 13 games on this list, set
Dual Layer
toYes
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CleanRip will now dump your game. It can take a while, since it will dump the full 4.7 GB disc contents (8.5 GB for dual layer discs).
Dumping a game over a local network
Requirements
Your Wii and your computer must be connected to one local network. {: .notice--warning}
Instructions
Section I - Downloading/Installing
- Extract DVD Dump Tool and put it in the
apps
folder on your SD card or USB drive. - Insert your SD card into your Wii, and launch DVD Dump Tool from the Homebrew Channel.
Section II - Ripping
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Choose the disc that you want to copy (The options are:
GameCube Disc
,Wii Single-Layer Disc
,Wii Dual-Layer Disc
and press "A" -
Now put your game to your Wii. (If it's already in your Wii, eject it and put it back.)
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On your computer's web browser, go to your address bar and enter the Wii URL.
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Click on
Click here to download XXXX.iso
.The transfer speed is not the fastest, but if you can't use anything else, it's better than nothing. {: .notice--info}
Joining split files
If you dumped the disc on a FAT32 formatted, device, you should've got at least 2 files that end with .partX.iso
. They need to be joined up.
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Windows
- Copy all the files that share the same name and end with
.partX.iso
into an empty folder on your computer. - Open the folder in File Explorer.
- While holding Shift, right click on an empty space within the folder.
- Select "Open PowerShell window here".
- In the new window that appears, type
cmd
and press enter. - Finally, type
copy /b *.part?.iso game.iso
and press enter. - Wait until it finishes. You can confirm this when "1 file(s) copied." appears.
macOS/Linux
- Copy all the files that share the same name and end with
.partX.iso
in a folder on your computer. - Open up a Terminal.
- Use the
cd <path>
command and replace<path>
by the path to your.partX.iso
files. - Use the following command as is:
cat \*.part?.iso > game.iso
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To organize the games on your drive properly, you'll need to use Wii Backup Manager. {: .notice--info}