IMPORTANT UPDATE: I will no longer be providing links to ROM/emulator websites in the descriptions of my tutorials in order to not violate Nintendo's copyrig. The complete and simply to use backup solution for your Wii games. Current developer version: 2.0 Current release version: 1.1 Features: - List games from images, WBFS partitions and DVD with all game infos - Transfer game images to WBFS partition or file - Transfer game from DVD to WBFS or image - Patch game images (directly or while transfer) - Extract game contents from WBFS or images.

Welcome to the official Wii Backup Manager Website. Wii Backup Manager is a program to work with DVD backups, FAT32, NTFS and WBFS drives to convert between DVD, ISO, CISO and WBFS. It can also extract Wii games to the format used by SNEEK. A partial list of features is below. Read RAR, ISO, CISO, WBFS File.

As a Wii hardcore gamer, have you ever encounter the following occasions: some few adult games, weak online community, and lack of DVD movie collections playback on the Wii console? Your Wii discs get some serious scratches, totally damaged or lost? Is it possible that we can burn Nintendo Wii games to DVD discs? Yes, we can do it perfectly if you just have read this post. The Nintendo Wii can be modified to play copies of games that have been burned onto a DVD on a computer. The modification does not require opening up the Wii and so, while it voids the warranty, it can be reversed at a later time without incident. No special skills are needed, although you will have to first download some programs. Below we will show you some programs that can help burn Nintendo Wii Game to DVD, Brasero, InfraRecorder and Leawo DVD Creator.

Part 1: Preparation

At first, as we are supposed to burn and back up Nintendo Wii games and play a burned games or movies, what we need is to install a backup manager software.
1. DVDs (or an external hard disk)
2. Some kinds of DVD Creator(Brasero, InfraRecorder and Leawo DVD Creator)

Part 2: Burn Xbox Nintendo Wii Games Using Brasero

Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop, which is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly. It is reported that it supports multiple backends: cdrtools, growisofs and libburn (optional). This maximizes hardware compatibility with a large range of different writing devices. Check out below how to burn Xbox Nintendo Wii Games using Brasero.

In general, if you are using the GNOME desktop, Brasero would be installed by default. Just go to Applications > Sound & Video, then you cannot miss the Brasero Disc Burner entry. If not, you will have to install the application. This is simple if you follow these steps:

Step 1. Open up your package manager (i.e. Synaptic, gnome-packagekit, Ubuntu Software Center, etc), search for “brasero”, mark the resulting Brasero entry for installation. Next, just hit Apply to start the installation.

Step 2. Now you can insert a blank disc, either a Nautilus or Brasero window will open. Not long later, you will get a complete menu (as opposed to when you just insert a blank CD/DVD – more on that later). From this menu, you can create audio, data, and video CDs as well as copy discs.

Step 3. From the main window, you can click the Data Project Button, which will open a data project-specific window where you can begin to add your files. Generally, there are two ways to add files to your project. First, you can click the “+” button, navigate to your files (or directories), and click Add in the navigation window. The other method is to open a Nautilus window, navigate to where your files are held, and drag and drop said files/directories into the Brasero window.

Step 4. Name your disc by replacing the text with the desired name. Just erase that text and add your you can configure many options such as startup screen options, advanced burning settings, etc. The software comes with multilingual support as well. It even offers Windows context menu support that enables you to right click on image files to burn them right from Windows explorer.

Step 5. When you’re ready to burn, click > OK. The burning process in progress is demonstrated in the screenshot below.

Infrarecorder is simple to use and even has some advanced options for expert users. However, quick as it may be, we have encountered some problems such as errors while burning and at times some files fail to get burned without any discernable reason, although these issues may be due to some kind of CD/DVD or file problems on our end.

Part 4: Burn Nintendo Wii Games Using Leawo DVD Creator

Leawo DVD Creator is a powerful DVD burning program with an intuitive user interface that allows you to create DVDs with videos in different formats easily. You can make DVD out of videos in formats like MKV, MP4, MOV and AVI, etc. Leawo DVD Creator is capable of burning video to DVD(DVD-9/DVD-5), converting video to DVD folder and/or ISO image file. What is more, for DIY enthusiasts, this is the perfect DVD Creator to convert video to DVD as it gives users the power to change their disc menu templates and the items on the disc menu. Learn the steps to burn Nintendo Wii Games using Leawo DVD Creator.

Step 1. Launch Leawo Prof. Media and click 'Blu-ray/DVD Creator' or you can click Burn tab on the top to enter the DVD creator module.

Step 2. After going to the home page of Leawo DVD Creator, you can import the targeted file that you desire to burn to DVD. Leawo DVD Creator allows users to directly drag and drop the video file into the program or click Add Video > Add Video/Add Video Folder to import the source file.

Step 3. Select subtitle and audio track from the source video or even import subtitle from local files by clicking the drop-down menus of 'Subtitle' and 'Audio'. Besides, you can reset DVD movie parameters, like video output format (DVD-5 or DVD-9), the video resolution and aspect ratio (16:9 or 4:3) at the bottom.

Step 4. If need, you can also edit video by clicking the edit button to the right of the 'Audio' drop-down menus. After entering the video editor, you can see 6 editing video functions that Leawo DVD Creator provides, like trimming or cropping videos, adding watermark to videos, making 3D movies, removing noise from the source movies and so on. According to your own needs, you can use these editing tools to edit videos. Finally, click the 'OK' button to save the changes.

Step 5. Click the green Burn button on the interface to call out a sidebar. In the Burn to options, you are able to create DVD folder, DVD ISO image and then save them to your computer hard drive or even burn the file into a disc after inserting a blank writable disc into the DVD-ROM. Also, you are allowed to rename disc label and set the output path. Finally, click the Burn button at the bottom of the sidebar to start burning the video to the blank disc.

Part 5: Comparison and Conclusion

Below, we have make some comparison of Brasero, InfraRecorder and Leawo DVD Creator.

In conclusion, we find Leawo DVD Creator works better, for it is powerful, stable and reliable. Besides, if you need, you could even create photo slideshow video and burn it to disc. Come an have a try!

This page explains how to rip GameCube and Wii games and/or saves to be used on Dolphin. Ripping games and saves using a Wii or Wii U console will require you to have homebrew software installed. See Homebrew Channel for instructions on how to use it, and see Homebrew setup for installation instructions. The term 'vWii' means a Wii U console running in Wii mode.

• 2Ripping Discs Using CleanRip
• 5Retrieving Game Saves

Ripping Discs Using a Computer

Certain old models of PC DVD drives are able to rip game discs with Rawdump or Friidump.

It's generally easier and faster to rip game discs via a Wii console, if you have one:

Ripping Discs Using CleanRip

CleanRip can rip a game disc to an SD card or an external USB storage device. It requires your Wii or vWii system to have the Homebrew Channel.

GameCube Discs

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No GameCube titles take up more than 1.36 GiB (Gibibyte, or 1024³ How to play gamecube games on mac with a controller. bytes). It's generally a good idea to set Chunk Size to max, so that your ISO isn't split into parts. GameCube discs can store a maximum of 1.36 GiB, so the entire ISO can fit on a FAT32 drive. Simply follow the instructions on-screen and you'll be able to put the game straight from the SD card or USB drive into Dolphin.

Wii Discs

In order to rip a Wii disc, a storage device with more than 4.7 GiB of free space is recommended for single layer, 8.54 GiB for dual layer. However, by dividing the disc into chunks, an SD card with even a single gibibyte of free space is sufficient.

At the CleanRip Setup screen, set Chunk Size to 'Max', and New device per chunk to 'No' is recommended with SD cards or external USB storage devices large enough to hold the entirety of the ripped disc file at once. Otherwise, set Chunk Size to max possible ('1GB', '2GB', '3GB', or 'Max') and set New device per chunk to 'Yes' and when CleanRip is asking for the next device, remove it from the Wii and move the first or so ISO file to free up space and use it again. When all pieces have been received, check in the next subsection.

• CleanRip will split the ripped disc file with more than 4 GiB in file size regardless to fit the FAT, FAT16, or FAT32 file systems. These file systems have a max file size of 4 GiB. To remedy this, it is recommended to rip discs to a USB external NTFS formatted storage device (as Wii cannot read NTFS formatted SD cards). The NTFS file system has a theoretical max file size of 16 EiB (Exabyte), or 16,777,216GiB.
• Certain Wii discs are dual layer (or DVD9) instead of single layer (or DVD5). CleanRip will need to be configured in order to rip those kinds of discs. At the Wii Disc Ripper Setup screen, set Dual Layer to Yes. The rip will take roughly double the time than usual Wii discs of 4.38 GiB as the dual layer ISOs are 7.93 GiB in size.

Joining Split Files

Disc image in split parts will need to join before dolphin can read it. A simple command from command prompt and terminal can do it! Use the example command for your system. Use the 'cd' command to change directory to the files location. The example command is assumed on CleanRip's 'GAMEID.part#.iso' filename nomenclature.

Ripping Discs Using USB Loader GX

A Wii or vWii with the latest version of USB Loader GX and certain cIOS (such as d2x-cios) installed can rip Wii game discs. The Wii system may also be able to rip GameCube game discs as long as DIOS MIOS is installed. Wiis sold after late 2011 and Wii Us lack the GameCube controller and memory card ports, and can make no use of DIOS MIOS. CleanRip is recommended over USB Loader GX for not requiring any cIOS and it does not leave out any data when ripping (USB Loader GX leaves out unused data).

The USB Loader GX will ask the user two options when inserting a game disc: Install or Mount DVD drive; choose 'Install'. It will begin the ripping process to the storage device:

• For Wii: X:wbfsGAMEID_*GAMEID.wbfs (and GAMEID.wbf1 as continuation file, if source is over 4,194,272 KiB)
  • Dolphin build version 3.5 and later can accept Wii games in WBFS format.
• For GameCube: X:games* [GAMEID]game.iso (NOTE: file system must be FAT32)

Exporting Wii Channels

In order to turn a channel installed on a Wii or vWii into a WAD file that can be played in Dolphin, follow this guide. When asked if you want to fakesign the ticket or TMD, you should press B. (Most fakesigned WAD files do work in Dolphin, but they don't work better than correctly signed WAD files, and Dolphin may show warnings about them.)

How To Backup Wii Games On Macbook

Alternatively, if you do not want to use WAD files, you can copy the whole NAND memory of a console into Dolphin by following the NAND Usage Guide. This not only copies all channels that are installed on the console, but afterwards, you can also transfer channels between the console and Dolphin by using an SD card and the Wii Menu's data management screen.

Retrieving Game Saves

GameCube Memory Card

A homebrewed Wii with GameCube memory card ports or GameCube with SD Gecko is required.

Download GameCube/Wii Memory Manager (GCMM for short) and launch it through Homebrew Channel on the Wii. It's a homebrew app that can transfer save files between a real GameCube Memory Card and an SD card. It can extract an individual save as .GCI file or dump the entire contents (RAW or batch dump .GCI files) from a real memory card to the root of SD card. For the purpose of this guide you should extract what you need for Dolphin onto the SD card. Then they should be placed into GC for Dolphin to use while emulating a game. It is also possible for the data that was created with Dolphin to be added back into the real GameCube Memory Card using GCMM and an SD card.

Wii/vWii Internal Storage

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This section is for ripping individual saves to be used on Dolphin. To dump an entire Wii's internal storage for use with Dolphin, skip this section and move ahead to NAND Usage Guide.

Play Backup Games Wii

Download SaveGame Manager GX and launch it through Homebrew Channel on the Wii or vWii. It's a homebrew app that can transfer save files between the console's internal storage and an SD card. It can extract an individual save from the Wii's internal storage for Dolphin to use. Like GCMM, it is possible for save files that were created in Dolphin to be added back to the Wii by selecting the game in Dolphin to export the Wii save into a X:privatewii[GAMEID] format, then adding it back into the real console's NAND using SaveGame Manager GX and an SD card.

How To Play Wii Backups