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Below is a small guide for burning the downloaded games from sites & the dumping guide I used for original games...

Remember that to play the backups you will need a modchip!

Using Downloaded Games:

DL the .rar links. Using Winrar, extract them to the game named folder (you will find they combine into an .iso-just like with the psp games. Using Nero-Go to Nero burning rom & select DVD (ISO) go to last header (Burn)-on the top of the app., change write speed to 4.0 or lower & on same screen, down bottom, you will see "open" with a folder next to it-click on it & find your game ISO. Double click on it and another screen will appear showing your drives & click ok. Once you've had a successful burn-You're good to go. When you load them into your Wii-give it a moment & you should see the picture & title of your game appear in the 1st Wii picture window. Hope this helps.

Below is the Backup guide I used to dump my original Games.

Backup tutorial with Rawdump 2.0 and Nero burning rom software.


First step in copying your games for backup purposes is to get the right software and hardware. You will need one of the following DVD drives to copy games (no others will work).
* LG-8164b
* LG-8163b
* LG-8162b
* LG-8161b

Personally I have the 8164b and have had zero problems. I'm sure the others are fine also.
Once you install this drive into your computer you will need to download a few applications.

* Raw Dump 2.0
* .Net Framework 2.0
* Software to unzip the Raw Dump files (Winrar)

Once you download the files above then right-click on the rawdump2.0.rar and select "Extract to rawdump2.0\"
this will make a folder on your desktop called rawdump2.0.

Now insert your Wii or Gamecube game into the LG drive that you have ordered and installed. Then open the rawdump2.0 folder and double click on the rawdump2.0.exe file.

After doing this you will be presented with the following.



The next step is to just click "Start Dump." On my computer this process took just about 2.5 hours. When it is complete you will be greeted with a nice finished message. The file it creates will be in the same directory as the rawdump.exe file. It should be called "Game Name.iso." This ISO is an image of the actual game and is ready to be burned. You can burn this image with many different applications, but I will be providing screenshots for Nero Burning Rom.

This step is very important. You need to check your file and see how many KB large it is. To do this Right-Click on your ISO (this is in your rawdump directory) and select properties. It should say,

Nintendo Wii ISO size: 4.37 GB (4,699,979,776 bytes).

Nintendo Gamecube ISO size: 1.35 GB (1,459,978,240 bytes)

All Nintendo Wii and Gamecube images will be this exact byte size. If your Wiiimage is off by any then you have a bad dump and need to try again.

So next step is to open Nero.

The first step once nero opens it to just cancel out of the create new dvd/cd/etc dialog. Once you have exited from this dialog you go to Recorder->Burn Image



After making it this far you are almost done. When you click burn image you will be asked to locate the image. The image will be located in your Rawdump2.0 folder. For me, this is on the desktop.



Select the game that you have dumped with rawdump and click open. You will then be presented with the below dialog. Make sure to select a relatively slow burn speed at first to attempt to prevent DRE's(Disc Read Errors). These seem to be common among people that do not use high quality dvd's.



I hope this mini-guide helps you.

Remember only certain DVD drives can properly copy Commercial Wii games theses are the ones:

* LG-8164b
* LG-8163b
* LG-8162b
* LG-8161b

This does not apply to downloaded games ANY DVD burner will work!

Novice

Can anyone suggest what to do?

1. I downloaded a Wii game using uTorrent
2. Used Win RAR to extract
3. Tiger.iso verified by WinRAR and checked on "my computer" as 4.37GB
4. Installed Nero 8.0 setting "iso" filetype as default
5. Clicked on tiger.iso and DVD BURNING ROM of NERO opened automatically
6. Burning successfully completed 4x, verification 4.37GB written, no errors
7. Put into Wii - unable to read disk??

What steps can I take to see where it is going wrong?
What else can I try?

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Do you have a mod chip in your Wii?

Complex_209

how to u check if u hav one of these

* LG-8164b
* LG-8163b
* LG-8162b
* LG-8161b
??????????????

jaymonal

I have downloaded a NTSC USA WII Game from the website. After that, I double -clicked on that downloaded folder. I saw there are 31 WinRAR Archive Files & 58 R Files( I mean R30 File to R87 File). Each of these 89 Files have 47.6 MB size. I mean total of all these Files is 4.14 GB. I want to know that Which files should I extract or unzip to make an Image File ? Please help me what to do?
Thanks in advance.

computerdoof

ok guys, I am really trying to figure this out and am frustrated. Anyone who can help me would be great. I have the software I think I need, winrar, nero, utorrent. When I download the torrent, a file appeard in my documents. I clicked on the file and utorrent is downloading it now.. taking hoursss to do this, is this normal? Also, how do I use winrar to extract it, and how do I change it from a .rar to a .iso? I know I have lots of questions but I would love to figure this out soon so I still have some hair left when its over. I found this link and it helped a little but since I don't know the technical details I am still lost. Can anyone help me.....?????

ftb

OK
My first post and I have not tried but look like you need to unrar your downloaded file using Winrar and then (per Admin) using raw dump 2.0 to convert to ISO file (not sure if other SW will work as: Ultra ISO, ...)
Gook luck

bobyoung

I have downloaded two Wii games, used Winrar to expand and then used Nero to burn them onto disks. Everything seemed to be successful until I put the disk into my Wii console, upon which I got the message, unable to read disk, please consult Wii manual for explanation.

Any suggestions??

bobyoung

I did exactly the same thing and got exactly the same results. I have no answer, but hopefully someone will!!

agnew

where do you get a mod chip? Any idea on the price range for this?

Thanks