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Dumping Original Wii Discs
Dumping your Discs allows you to: play them on a Wii emulator (namely Dolphin), play them using a USB/SD Card loader such as Wiiflow, make Virtual Console injects that can be installed on a Wii U formatted USB drive or the NAND and launched from the Wii U Menu.
?> Dumping Wii games require a working homebrew setup on vWii, so make sure to finish the vWii Modding guide beforehand.
What You Need
Instructions
- Insert your Wii U's SD Card into your computer.
- Copy the
apps
folder from theCleanRip-v2.1.1.zip
file to the root of your SD Card. - Copy the
wii.dat
file to the root of your SD Card. - Take the SD Card out of your computer and plug it into your Wii U console.
Dumping The Disc
- Turn on your Wii U then choose the Wii Menu icon to boot up in vWii.
- Launch the Homebrew Channel.
- Launch CleanRip.
- Read the Disclaimer then press A.
- Select Yes to enable Checksum Calculations.
- Select either USB or Front SD depending on which device you want to use for the dumping process.
- Please note that the device you will choose needs to be formatted either in FAT32 or NTFS.
- Press A to continue.
- Select No on the screen that asks you to download redump.org DAT files.
- Insert your disc then press A.
- Go on this page to see if your disc is dual-layered.
- Set everything to match the following:
- Dual Layer:
Yes/No
(SelectYes
if your game's disc is dual-layered) - Chunk Size:
Max
- New device per chunk:
No
- If you want to dump multiple discs, select Yes to remember your settings. If not, select No.
?> Be prepared to wait a while. The dumping process can take 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on your SD Card's speeds.
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.
- Copy all the files that share the same name and end with
.partX.iso
in a folder on your computer. - Open up a Command Prompt window.
- Use the
cd <path>
command and replace<path>
by the path to your.partX.iso
files. - Use the following command as is:
copy /b *.part?.iso game.iso
.