Dumping Wii/GameCube games

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This guide covers dumping GameCube or Wii game discs. You can either dump directly to an SD card or USB drive, or over the local network.

Dumping a Disc to SD/USB (CleanRip)

Requirements

  • An SD card or USB drive with at least 4.7 GB of free space (8.5 GB if dumping a dual layer disc).
  • CleanRip

Instructions

If you are dumping one of the 13 games on this list, set Dual Layer in Step 6 to Yes.

  1. Power off your console.
  2. Insert your SD card or USB drive into your computer.
  3. Copy the apps folder from the CleanRip .zip to the root of your SD card or USB drive.
  4. Reinsert your SD card or USB drive into your console.
  5. Power on your console.
  6. Launch the Homebrew Channel.
  7. Launch CleanRip from the list of homebrew.

  8. Select your device that you will be dumping the game to - a USB device or SD card.

  9. When prompted, select Yes to download the redump.org DAT files.
    • This is required to ensure that the resulting dumps are clean/accurate.

    You may get an exception error if you do this. If so, simply skip and verify your dump on Dolphin Emulator if needed.

  10. Insert the game disc you would like to dump.

  11. Set the settings as shown on the screen below, while verifying if your game disc is dual layer or not.

  12. Press A to start dumping the disc.
    • This process can take quite some time, since it will dump the full 4.7 GB disc contents (8.5 GB for dual layer discs).

  13. Proceed to joining PART files.

Dumping a Disc over LAN (Wii DVD Dumper)

Requirements

  • A Windows/macOS/Linux PC with an internet connection
  • DVD Dump Tool

Instructions

Download speeds will be slow due to limitations in the network hardware of the Wii, but it remains a valid solution if you are willing to be patient.

Your Wii and your computer must be connected to the same local network.

  1. Copy the DVDDumpTool folder from the DVDDumpTool .zip to the root of your SD card or USB drive.
  2. Reinsert your SD card or USB drive into your console.
  3. Power on your console.
  4. Launch the Homebrew Channel.
  5. Launch DVD Dump Tool from the list of homebrew.
  6. Press right on the D-pad, then press A.

  7. Choose the disc that you want to copy (The options are: GameCube Disc, Wii Single-Layer Disc, Wii Dual-Layer Disc) and press “A”

  8. Insert the game disc into your Wii.
    • If it is already inserted, eject and reinsert the disc.

  9. Select the proper disc type.

  10. Press any button to begin the dumping process.

  11. Remember or write down your Wii’s URL (IP address).

  12. On your computer, open the browser, go to your address bar and enter the Wii URL.

  13. Click on Click here to download XXXX.iso.
  14. Proceed to joining PART files.

Joining PART files on a FAT32 device

If you dumped the disc (regardless if it was to a PC or Wii) on a FAT32 formatted device, you should have gotten at least two files that end with .partX.iso. They need to be joined.

Windows

  1. Copy the files that share the same name and end with .partX.iso into an empty folder on your computer.
  2. In this folder, click the address bar in Windows Explorer and copy its PATH.
  3. Open a PowerShell or Windows Terminal window.
  4. Run cd [PATH].
  5. Type copy /b *.part?.iso game.iso and press enter.
  6. Wait until the merging process finishes.
    • It should end with the terminal outputting 1 file(s) copied.

macOS/Linux

  1. Copy the files that share the same name and end with .partX.iso into an empty folder on your computer.
  2. Open up a Terminal.
  3. Run cd [PATH], replacing [PATH] with the folder path to your .partX.iso files.
  4. Use the following command as is: cat \*.part?.iso > game.iso.
  5. Wait until the merging process finishes.

To organize the games on your drive properly, you can use Wii Backup Manager.