Plus I cloned my Wii's NAND so I have all of the Virtual Console games and savegames, and I also dumped all of my GameCube memory cards and put everything to the Dolphin memory cards images.
Everything is cool and future-proof now!Highly recommend doing this if you have a working Wii - just install Homebrew Channel and CleanRip.
19 Comments
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
Damn. Did you rip the discs yourself or just upload your memory and NAND images? I should do something similar soon as I have 1 GameCube that never gets played.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 1y
Ripped all of the discs using a softmodded Wii. Used a few homebrew apps, CleanRip (disc dumping), GCMM (for GameCube memory cards) and I think there was another tool for backing up the Wii NAND (could have been just part of bootmii/homebrew channel)
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Thank you, mission objectives received. We storin' this for future generations to enjoy.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 12 pts · 1y
Congrats on your forever games!
Igilq@szmer.info · 5 pts · 1y
How long did it take to dump them? I want to do something similar
Pirky@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y
Yup, those times sound about the same as what happened with me. Plus the time spent swapping SD cards, because I couldn't get CleanRip to work with the USB drives I had at hand, only FAT32 SD cards.
Also, at every step of the way when converting ISOs to RVZ, I ran Dolphin's verification thing, just for paranoia I guess.
Igilq@szmer.info · 5 pts · 1y
do you have such guide? I already jailbroke my Wii... i think since I have homebrew and clean ripper
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y
I don't want to be condescending. Dolphin Wiki has an article about ripping games. You have to Google it. Or something. I can't give a link because 🎶 Nintendo has orbital lazors 🎶 /bill wurz
Profligate_parasite@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
If I were to try dumping my collection... do you know if you can do the same soft mod using wiiu? I know I cant do gc with it but it is backward compatible w wi ... Id love to save all my vc stuff...
Pirky@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
No adapter is necessary, I set mine up recently.
Some WiiU NAND chips have been prematurely failing, so I recommend adding isfshax when done with the Aroma setup; it makes it easier to unbrick a console with bad NAND.
bronxasaur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah, you can do the soft mod for the Wii mode on wiiu and dump your wii games. It actually might work for gc games too, I can't remember for sure.
HoloPengin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Wii U cannot dump GameCube games sadly. I wish it worked too
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
Sweet! I did similar with backing up my DS carts and saves so I could play them all on 3DS off the SD card with Twilight Menu.
longshanks197@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y
congrats! I did a similar thing a few years back. I dumped disks and was playing everything off a hard drive attached to the Wii before the disk drive died. I then dumped my NAND and GameCube cards when the video card in the Wii started to die (low signal/dim display). Moved it all to dolphin emu with dolphin bar, real wiimotes, and mayflash GC adapter for real GC controllers.
nsantoro73@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
Way to go!
I don't suppose you'd be willing to share that trove, would ya?
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 1y
Would love to, but Nintendo nukes people who do that from the orbit. (Actually, this whole thing started when I tried to download ISOs and found most of the sites down.)
However, if you do personal archival projects, they legally can't do shit! We have laws here.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Great collection.
JakobFel@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 1y
Genuinely have no idea how to dump my games. I have quite a few GameCube and Wii games myself, just wouldn't know where to start trying the process of dumping.
ishambard@cupoftea.social · 1 pts · 1y
@umbraroze
I see Lost Kingdoms and Baten Kaitos on that list... Immediately a top tier list of games