How to copy nintendo wii games

Applies to:  Wii U Deluxe, Wii U Basic

In this article, you'll learn how to copy content between the SD Card and the Wii Menu System Memory.

  • The channel and the save data is stored and managed separately.
  • Some game save data will not be transferrable to an SD Card. These games will be grayed out and you will not be able to select them.
  • Channels are attached to the serial number of the console and cannot be played on other consoles using the SD Card.

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Wii Backup Manager is a program to copy Wii games from your computer to a USB drive so you can play the games on your Wii. It also can download game covers from GameTDB and can be used to list what games you have. This tutorial will tell you how to copy over games from your computer to your USB drive. The other features are able to be used in the easy-to-use interface.

What you need

  • A USB drive
  • Wii Backup Manager

We recommend you copy games over with Witgui if you use macOS, or Wii Backup Fusion for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Wii Backup Manager is only compatible with Windows.

To play multiple games, we recommend a USB-powered external hard drive for your Wii. We will refer to it as a “USB drive” in this guide. Most of the ones you can find on the market should work fine if they have USB 2 backwards compatibility. Drives with 1 TB or more in capacity will work. A flash drive will also work, but due to the size of a flash drive, it won’t be able to store as many games.

Make sure your USB drive is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Do not format it as other types such as exFAT, extFS, or WBFS, the latter is an old format of storing Wii games.

Instructions

Section I - Downloading
  1. Extract Wii Backup Manager, and launch the program.
  2. Insert your USB drive into your computer.
Section II - Copying Games Over
  1. Go to the Drive 1 tab, then select Drive.
  2. Select the drive that you’re using for the Wii games.
  3. Go to the Files tab, then select Add.
  4. Select Files to add multiple games to the program, or select Folder to add a whole folder of games.
  5. Select Transfer, then select Drive 1 to transfer the games over. It might take a while for the games to copy over.
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How to copy nintendo wii games

As a Wii hardcore gamer, it's so disappointed that there are few adult games, weak online community, and lack of DVD movie collections playback on the Wii console. And can we copy Wii games to DVD discs and play burned DVDs on Wii console? Yes, we can do it after you just read this post.

On the other hand, Wii doesn't allow us to back up Wii games for only personal use. For example, if our Wii discs get some serious scratches, totally damage or lost? So we need to back up our Wii games. So I will show you how to use your Wii as the real DVD Player and play burned DVD games or purchased DVD movies on Wii.

What you'll need

First if we want to back up your Wii games and play a burned games or movies, we'll need to softmod and then then install a backup manager software. What is softmodding? It's a new way to mod a Nintendo Wii which doesn't require any chips. What shall we do is to download some software onto an SD card and install them on your Wii. It just takes only less than 5 minutes for everyone to do it.

1. SD Card

It's very common for us to buy them on any electronics store. Maybe you might have it already from mobile phone or a camera.

How to copy nintendo wii games

Price: $18.95

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2. DVDs (or an external hard disk) and imElfin DVD Creator

Any type of blank DVD discs will be required: DVD-R, DVD +R, DVD+RW, etc. Make sure you have a DVD burner drive and professional DVD burning software. I recommed imElfin DVD creator.

The price of one DVD: $4.32

Get a blank DVD disc from Amazon.com.

Download and install imElfin DVD creator for free. The powerful of this program is to burn protected iTunes movies or torrent Wii games to a blank DVD disc as easy as ABC and create a 3D DVD disc from 2D videos as you prefer.

How to copy nintendo wii games
How to copy nintendo wii games

How to copy nintendo wii games

3. Wii Unlocking software

We need Wii Unlocking software to softmod your Wii. Once you download the software and transfer it to SD card. Get Wii Unlocking software from www.wiiunlockplus.com.

How to softmod your Wii step by step

1) Download the Wii Unlocking software from www.wiiunlockplus.com and unzip them with free WinRar software at the first. And then transfer unziped files to the root of the SD card.

2) Insert the SD card in the Wii console and turn it on. Navigate to Wii options->Data management->Channels->SD Card. The pop-up window will prompt you to press "Yes" to load "/boot.dol". The onscreen instructions will show us to install dvdx and the Homebrew Channel.

3) Once you have install the Homebrew Channel, so we can play any DVDs such as purchased Wii DVD games, homemade DVD games, burned DVD movies collections. All we do are to install an application to the homebrew channel. Here are all lists of Homebrew applications.

4) Installing the Backup Launcher and the USB loader. Launch the Homebrew Channel and click the cIOS_installer. Just follow the on-screen instructions and then the Wii console will reboot automatically. Now if you want to play burned DVD collections, just insert the DVD in the Wii and run the "Backup_Launcher" on the Homebrew Channel Menu. By the way, you can install CoverFloader which is a USB ISO Loader for Nintendo Wii.

How to copy nintendo wii games

5) Insert a Wii game disc and run the USB ISO loader to click the install button. Once the game is finishing copying, it will show in the USB loader. And then press 1 from the Wiimote to select the Cover download menu and download cover art as you want. Now we can copy and play Wii games as what we want.

Download and burn Wii games to play on Wii

Here are some torrent Wii games for us to download. All we need is to download and install the uTorrent software. For example, we can search one of the following homepages and search free torrent Wii Games.

1) www.mininova.org

2) wiiiso.com

3) www.torrentgamesps2.com.br

4) torrentsgames.org

5) gamingsnack.com

6) games.torrentsnack.com

7) www.gamestorrent.biz

8) downloadgamestorrents.com

9) www.gamestorrents.com

Once you download this torrent from the above sites, now use imElfin DVD creator to burn these free torrent Wii games to DVD discs as easy as ABC. By the way, the torrent files are always .ISO, .WBFS, .WAD format. The imElfin DVD creator can create DVD discs from torrent Wii games (.ISO). If the torrent Wii games format is .WBFS format, you can use this free program to convert WBFS to ISO file at the first.

How to copy nintendo wii games
How to copy nintendo wii games

The easy way to hack Wii in just 3 minutes (100% work)

The basic principle of the process is to visit this http://please.hackmii.com/ and choose system menu version. According to you Wii console, please input system menu version and you Mac address. After you have filled all content, you will download the LetterBomb.zip file and unzip it with using free WinRar. To learn from more info about how to hack Wii, please watch the following video.

How to copy nintendo wii games