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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
Instructions
Insert your Wii U’s SD Card into your computer.
Copy the apps
folder from the CleanRip-v2.1.1.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.
Go on this page to see if your disc is dual-layered.
Set everything to match the following:
Dual Layer: Yes/No
(Select Yes
if your game’s disc is dual-layered)
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
.