Burn Wii Games - Copy and Make Wii Backups

To Burn Wii games or not to ? That's the question. The Wii is improving in popularity, and as such there is a huge requirement for games. Even worse, games are high-priced, so what occurs if you scratch the disc or something? Read on to find out how to burn Wii games that you can use as a backup.

Right now before you get into this, it's update yourself on the copyright laws in your area. In most points, it's legitimate to burn Wii games, as long as you have the original, and that the copies are for your individual use only, IE as backups. This is the most common law, but please check it out in your area all the same - there are no Wiis in jail, so you don't truly want to end up there right?

First of all, it's not feasible to do any copying or anything with the Wii itself, so you'll need to use your computer, and you will need a specific kind of DVD Drive in order to get it working. You demand one of the LG-816 series, most notably 8161b, 8162b or 8163b. There is plenty of data about these on Google, so perform a quick search if you need to, and if you are having trouble finding the drives you need to burn Wii games, check Ebay, you can usually get them there.

You should establish an image of the disc before you are able to burn Wii games, so in addition to the DVD drive, you will have to to establish some software package called .net Framework 2.0, and Raw Dump 2.0

The first thing you need to do to burn Wii games is to put the game you desire to burn inside your LG dvd drive. Once it's in, open the Raw Dump file (should have been created after installation) and double click on the rawdump.exe file to get the rawdump program fired up.

Once rawdump opens, you will get a dialog box. Click the button that says Start Dump, and you will soon be ready to burn Wii games. The next part of the process is largely about patience. Due to the size of the files on a DVD, you will need to wait quite a while for the dump to finish. Waiting time will vary due to computer spec and hardware etc, but it can be anywhere between 1 hour and about 5 hours, if you have a slow computing device.

Once it's finished, you should see a new file in the rawdump folder, an ISO file, with the same name as whatever game you copied. An ISO file is simply a perfect image of what was previously on a disc. You'll get familiar with these files if you intend to burn Wii games as a habit.

The ultimate two components of the procedure are credibly the simplest thing you need to do when you burn Wii games. Firstly, once the dump finishes, right click on the new file and choose Properties. What you are looking for here is the size of the file. ALL Wii game ISOs are 4.7 Gb in size, which is the same size as a blank DVD, so you can see that the image dump has found everything. Anything different from this and you will need to start again, as it's not feasible to burn Wii games if the ISOs are the wrong size!

Once you get the right size, all you need to do to perform the sure burning of the Wii games is to get your wanted burning software, start a new project, and instruct it to burn the ISO image onto a brand new blank DVD. This part can be a bit finicky, and if you use low quality disks you'll discover you have troubles with crabbed games etc.