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.
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.
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)
Thank you, mission objectives received. We storin' this for future generations to enjoy.
Congrats on your forever games!
How long did it take to dump them? I want to do something similar
Not OP, but I have dumped my own collection of GameCube and Wii games.
The easiest way to do it is with a jailbroken Wii since it's not hard to do. Once jailbroken, the dumping process is about 12 minutes for a GC game and about 20-30 minutes for a Wii game (I forget the exact time). So with that in mind, you can make a rough calculation for how long it will take to dump your collection.
There are a few unmentioned steps, like converting the games from .iso to .rvz to save on space, but it's rather easy to get going when you have a guide to follow.
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.
do you have such guide? I already jailbroke my Wii... i think since I have homebrew and clean ripper
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
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...
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.
Wii U cannot dump GameCube games sadly. I wish it worked too
Jailbreaking the Wii U is a little bit more involved as it requires some "special" equipment. It's in quotes as not many are going to have a USB A to ethernet adapter, nor a compatible model, but they aren't all that rare either. But once it's done you don't have to worry about jailbreaking it again. Dumping Wii U games isn't much harder than GC/Wii either.
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.
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.
Great collection.
I see Lost Kingdoms and Baten Kaitos on that list... Immediately a top tier list of games
Way to go!
I don't suppose you'd be willing to share that trove, would ya?
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.
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