Wii U:Dump Wii Games: Difference between revisions

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Dumping your Discs allows you to: play them on a Wii emulator (namely Dolphin), play them using a USB/SD Card loader such as Wiiflow, make Virtual Console injects that can be installed on a Wii U formatted USB drive or the NAND and launched from the Wii U Menu.

Dumping Wii games require a working homebrew setup on vWii, so make sure to finish the vWii Modding Guide beforehand.

It is ILLEGAL to share the files dumped with this guide. If you intend to use this guide to share your dumped games, don’t.

What you need

The latest release of CleanRip.
The wii.dat file.

Instructions

Insert your Wii U’s SD Card into your computer.
Copy the apps folder from the CleanRip-vX.X.X.zip file to the root of your SD Card.
Copy the wii.dat file to the root of your SD Card.
Take the SD Card out of your computer and plug it into your Wii U console.

Dumping the Disc

Turn on your Wii U then choose the Wii Menu icon to boot up in vWii.
Launch the Homebrew Channel.
Launch CleanRip.
Read the Disclaimer, then press A.
Select Yes to enable Checksum Calculations.
Select either USB or Front SD depending on which device you want to use for the dumping process.
- Please note that the device you choose needs to be formatted in either FAT32 or NTFS.
Press A to continue.
Select No on the screen that asks you to download redump.org DAT files.
Insert your disc, then press A.
Set everything to match the following:
- Dump Size: Auto
- Chunk Size: Max
- New device per chunk: No
If you want to dump multiple discs, select Yes to remember your settings. If not, select No.

Be prepared to wait a while. The dumping process can take 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on your destination device speeds.

Joining Split Files

If you dumped the disc on a FAT32 formatted device, you should’ve got at least 2 files that end with .partX.iso. They need to be joined up.

Windows

Copy all the files that share the same name and end with .partX.iso in a folder on your computer.
Open up a Command Prompt window.
Use the cd <path> command and replace <path> by the path to your .partX.iso files.
Use the following command as is: copy /b *.part?.iso game.iso.

macOS/Linux

Copy all the files that share the same name and end with .partX.iso in a folder on your computer.
Open up a Terminal.
Use the cd <path> command and replace <path> by the path to your .partX.iso files.
Use the following command as is: cat *.part?.iso > game.iso.

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 Dumping your Discs allows you to: play them on a Wii emulator (namely Dolphin), play them using a USB/SD Card loader such as Wiiflow, make Virtual Console injects that can be installed on a Wii U formatted USB drive or the NAND and launched from the Wii U Menu.
-{{info|text=Dumping Wii games require a working homebrew setup on vWii, so make sure to finish the [[wiiuguide:vwii-modding|vWii Modding Guide]] beforehand.}}
+{{info|text=Dumping Wii games require a working homebrew setup on vWii, so make sure to finish the [[wiiguide:get-started|vWii Modding Guide]] beforehand.}}
 {{warning|text=It is '''ILLEGAL''' to share the files dumped with this guide. If you intend to use this guide to share your dumped games, don’t.}}
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 # Insert your Wii U’s SD Card into your computer.
-# Copy the <code>apps</code> folder from the <code>CleanRip-v2.1.1.zip</code> file to the root of your SD Card.
+# Copy the <code>apps</code> folder from the <code>CleanRip-vX.X.X.zip</code> file to the root of your SD Card.
 # Copy the <code>wii.dat</code> file to the root of your SD Card.
 # Take the SD Card out of your computer and plug it into your Wii U console.
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 # Launch the Homebrew Channel.
 # Launch CleanRip.
-# Read the Disclaimer then press A.
+# Read the Disclaimer, then press A.
 # Select Yes to enable Checksum Calculations.
 # Select either USB or Front SD depending on which device you want to use for the dumping process.
-#* Please note that the device you will choose needs to be formatted either in FAT32 or NTFS.
+#* Please note that the device you choose needs to be formatted in either FAT32 or NTFS.
 # Press A to continue.
 # Select No on the screen that asks you to download redump.org DAT files.
-# Insert your disc then press A.
+# Insert your disc, then press A.
-# Go on [https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Category:Dual_Layer_Disc_games this page] to see if your disc is dual-layered.
 # Set everything to match the following:
-#* Dual Layer: <code>Yes/No</code> (Select <code>Yes</code> if your game’s disc is dual-layered)
+#* Dump Size: <code>Auto</code>
 #* Chunk Size: <code>Max</code>
 #* New device per chunk: <code>No</code>
 # If you want to dump multiple discs, select Yes to remember your settings. If not, select No.
-{{info|text=Be prepared to wait a while. The dumping process can take 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on your SD Card’s speeds.}}
+{{info|text=Be prepared to wait a while. The dumping process can take 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on your destination device speeds.}}
 === Joining Split Files ===
-{{info|text=If you dumped the disc on a FAT32 formatted, device, you should’ve got at least 2 files that end with .partX.iso. They need to be joined up.}}
+{{info|text=If you dumped the disc on a FAT32 formatted device, you should’ve got at least 2 files that end with .partX.iso. They need to be joined up.}}
 ==== Windows ====