Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin!
from umbraroze@slrpnk.net to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 13 May 15:24
https://slrpnk.net/post/22116336

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.

40 Nintendo Wii and GameCube games, listed in the Dolphin emulator.

#retrogaming

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mesamunefire@piefed.social on 13 May 15:51 next collapse

Congrats on your forever games!

Sanctus@lemmy.world on 13 May 16:00 next collapse

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 on 13 May 17:03 collapse

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 on 13 May 17:08 collapse

Thank you, mission objectives received. We storin’ this for future generations to enjoy.

nsantoro73@lemmy.sdf.org on 13 May 16:30 next collapse

Way to go!

I don’t suppose you’d be willing to share that trove, would ya?

umbraroze@slrpnk.net on 13 May 18:50 collapse

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 on 13 May 16:20 next collapse

Great collection.

longshanks197@fedia.io on 13 May 17:42 next collapse

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.

wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 May 21:34 next collapse

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.

Profligate_parasite@lemm.ee on 13 May 21:50 next collapse

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 on 13 May 22:26 next collapse

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.

f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz on 17 May 00:06 collapse

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 on 13 May 23:17 collapse

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 on 14 May 00:01 collapse

Wii U cannot dump GameCube games sadly. I wish it worked too

JakobFel@retrolemmy.com on 17 May 12:30 collapse

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.