Ripping Gamecube Games On

17-09-2021

Ripping Gamecube Games On

Windows: Use ImgBurn It will ask you to install toolbars and other junk, choose custom installation, and deselect them. It does not install them if you say no like other programs. Instructions Put your PS1 or PS2 disc into your computer. Open ImgBurn Click ModeRead Choose the destination of the file, by clicking the little folder+magnifying glass button. Click the CD button at the bottom. Ive been wanting to try some of my games on an emulator, to make it easier to do glitches and stuff that Ive always wanted to try out but is too frustrating without savestates.

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This page explains how to rip GameCube and Wii games and/or saves to be used on Dolphin. Ripping games and saves using a Wii or Wii U console will require you to have homebrew software installed. See Homebrew Channel for instructions on how to use it, and see Homebrew setup for installation instructions. The term 'vWii' means a Wii U console running in Wii mode.

2Ripping Discs Using CleanRip
6Retrieving Game Saves

Ripping Discs Using a Computer

Certain old models of PC DVD drives are able to rip game discs with Rawdump or Friidump.

It's generally easier and faster to rip game discs via a Wii console, if you have one:

Ripping Discs Using CleanRip

CleanRip can rip a game disc to an SD card or an external USB storage device. It requires your Wii or vWii system to have the Homebrew Channel.

GameCube Discs

No GameCube titles take up more than 1.36 GiB (Gibibyte, or 1024³ bytes). It's generally a good idea to set Chunk Size to max, so that your ISO isn't split into parts. GameCube discs can store a maximum of 1.36 GiB, so the entire ISO can fit on a FAT32 drive. Simply follow the instructions on-screen and you'll be able to put the game straight from the SD card or USB drive into Dolphin.

Wii Discs

In order to rip a Wii disc, a storage device with more than 4.7 GiB of free space is recommended for single layer, 8.54 GiB for dual layer. However, by dividing the disc into chunks, an SD card with even a single gibibyte of free space is sufficient.

At the CleanRip Setup screen, set Chunk Size to 'Max', and New device per chunk to 'No' is recommended with SD cards or external USB storage devices large enough to hold the entirety of the ripped disc file at once. Otherwise, set Chunk Size to max possible ('1GB', '2GB', '3GB', or 'Max') and set New device per chunk to 'Yes' and when CleanRip is asking for the next device, remove it from the Wii and move the first or so ISO file to free up space and use it again. When all pieces have been received, check in the next subsection.

CleanRip will split the ripped disc file with more than 4 GiB in file size regardless to fit the FAT, FAT16, or FAT32 file systems. These file systems have a max file size of 4 GiB. To remedy this, it is recommended to rip discs to a USB external NTFS formatted storage device (as Wii cannot read NTFS formatted SD cards). The NTFS file system has a theoretical max file size of 16 EiB (Exabyte), or 16,777,216GiB.
Certain Wii discs are dual layer (or DVD9) instead of single layer (or DVD5). CleanRip will need to be configured in order to rip those kinds of discs. At the Wii Disc Ripper Setup screen, set Dual Layer to Yes. The rip will take roughly double the time than usual Wii discs of 4.38 GiB as the dual layer ISOs are 7.93 GiB in size.

Joining Split Files

A disc image in split parts will need to be joined before dolphin can read it. A simple command from command prompt and terminal can do it! Use the example command for your system. Use the 'cd' command to change directory to the file's location. The example command assumes CleanRip's 'GAMEID.part#.iso' filename nomenclature, and creates 'GAMEID.iso'. The part files can be deleted after the joined file is created.

Windows

Linux / macOS

Ripping Discs Using USB Loader GX

A Wii or vWii with the latest version of USB Loader GX and certain cIOS (such as d2x-cios) installed can rip Wii game discs. The Wii system may also be able to rip GameCube game discs as long as DIOS MIOS is installed. Wiis sold after late 2011 and Wii Us lack the GameCube controller and memory card ports, and can make no use of DIOS MIOS. CleanRip is recommended over USB Loader GX for not requiring any cIOS and it does not leave out any data when ripping (USB Loader GX leaves out unused data).

The USB Loader GX will ask the user two options when inserting a game disc: Install or Mount DVD drive; choose 'Install'. It will begin the ripping process to the storage device:

For Wii: X:wbfsGAMEID_*GAMEID.wbfs (and GAMEID.wbf1 as continuation file, if source is over 4,194,272 KiB)
- Dolphin build version 3.5 and later can accept Wii games in WBFS format.
For GameCube: X:games* [GAMEID]game.iso (NOTE: file system must be FAT32)

Extracting discs from the Wii U eShop

To create an ISO image from an eShop Wii title, a CFW-enabled Wii U, a Wii U NAND dump (specifically the OTP and SEEPROM), an external hard drive formatted by the console with the Wii game(s) installed, nfs2iso2nfs and DumpsterU are required.

Insert the drive into a computer with DumpsterU installed. Do not format if prompted.
Open DumpsterU. Select your drive and OTP/SEEPROM locations.
A game list should appear. Double-click the Wii game you want to extract and select a safe location in 'Output Folder'.
Select 'Dump Game'. After DumpsterU finishes, navigate to the chosen folder.
Navigate using a command line/terminal to the content folder in your dump (for example, Rhythm Heaven Fever: 101B0700gamecontent)
Run nfs2iso2nfs.exe -dec to begin the conversion process.
The game should appear as game.iso in the same directory.

Rename the output to whatever you wish and copy it to your Wii dump directory.

The image will most likely be missing its UPDATE partition and have a few minor errors. This is normal.

You might be able to dump the Wii game to your computer using another program such as Dumpling or DDD, however DumpsterU is the fastest method and is fairly straightforward.

Exporting Wii Channels

In order to turn a channel installed on a Wii or vWii into a WAD file that can be played in Dolphin, follow this guide. When asked if you want to fakesign the ticket or TMD, you should press B. (Most fakesigned WAD files do work in Dolphin, but they don't work better than correctly signed WAD files, and Dolphin may show warnings about them.)

Alternatively, if you do not want to use WAD files, you can copy the whole NAND memory of a console into Dolphin by following the NAND Usage Guide. This not only copies all channels that are installed on the console, but afterwards, you can also transfer channels between the console and Dolphin by using an SD card and the Wii Menu's data management screen.

Retrieving Game Saves

GameCube Memory Card

A homebrewed Wii with GameCube memory card ports or GameCube with SD Gecko is required.

Download GameCube/Wii Memory Manager (GCMM for short) and launch it through Homebrew Channel on the Wii. It's a homebrew app that can transfer save files between a real GameCube Memory Card and an SD card. It can extract an individual save as .GCI file or dump the entire contents (RAW or batch dump .GCI files) from a real memory card to the root of SD card. For the purpose of this guide you should extract what you need for Dolphin onto the SD card. Then they should be placed into GC for Dolphin to use while emulating a game. It is also possible for the data that was created with Dolphin to be added back into the real GameCube Memory Card using GCMM and an SD card.

Wii/vWii Internal Storage

This section is for ripping individual saves to be used on Dolphin. To dump an entire Wii's internal storage for use with Dolphin, skip this section and move ahead to NAND Usage Guide.

Download SaveGame Manager GX and launch it through Homebrew Channel on the Wii or vWii. It's a homebrew app that can transfer save files between the console's internal storage and an SD card. It can extract an individual save from the Wii's internal storage for Dolphin to use. Like GCMM, it is possible for save files that were created in Dolphin to be added back to the Wii by selecting the game in Dolphin to export the Wii save into a X:privatewii[GAMEID] format, then adding it back into the real console's NAND using SaveGame Manager GX and an SD card.

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It used to be easy to obtain ROMs for emulators. One could easily go online and download all the games they desired. But there are many reasons why you can’t and shouldn’t now. Legality issues, risk of viruses, and Nintendo’s actions against sharing their ROMs online make downloading ROMs a bad idea.
However, all hope is not lost! It is possible to dump your own games without violating any legal or copyright rules, and therefore have games ready to play on these emulators. In this article we’ll begin discussing how one could legally obtain ROMs of Nintendo games.

Preface

Emulators are very popular nowadays, and they’re a fantastic way of enjoying your favorite classic video games. They come with so many benefits, such as improved resolution and support for any controller or device, to name a few. You can even use a console as a dedicated emulator system. But, of course, you need actual games to play on the emulator.
Nintendo has made this very hard, as of late. They’ve threatened legal action against many ROM hosting sites and had their games taken down. Even if you do manage to find a (sketchy) site that still has ROMs available for downloading, technically you’re breaking the law. But not if you can work around it!

The Legality of Emulators and ROMs

Legally speaking, downloading ROMs from the internet is pretty much always considered piracy. It’s downloading games you didn’t pay for. On the flip side, however, there is nothing illegal about downloading and running emulators. So, if we want to use emulators for their various benefits over standard consoles, how do we get games to use with them legally? The answer is something I want to encourage and teach all readers here to do: dump your own game collection.
The legality of this is that it is perfectly okay to make backups of data that you legally own. So, if you legally own a cartridge or disc, you can take a backup of its data for safe keeping on your hard drive. It’s useful in the event your game gets lost or breaks (the downfall of both discs and cartridges). And it of course has the added benefit of being able to use with emulators.
However, this becomes illegal when you decide to share that game you just dumped. You end up with two copies of a game, and the person you shared with gets a copy that he or she did not pay for. I would like to make it clear that this article, this blog, and I myself do not support sharing or obtaining games by any illegal means whatsoever. We are only focusing on and encouraging legal methods of obtaining these games.

What Can Be Dumped, and The Methods of Dumping

I’d like to show that it is possible with little to moderate difficulty to obtain ROMs from pretty much anything. Many of these methods involve hacking consoles, which I won’t discuss, but I will include tools needed on those hacked systems. This article simply shows what systems and tools can be used to obtain ROM backups. Future guides will show in detail how to actually use these tools to dump your games. Click here for Part 2, which is on dumping Nintendo discs!

Here’s a list I put together on how to obtain ROMs or ISOs of all types of Nintendo games.

NES/SNES/N64 games:

Method 1: Cartridge dumper
Example 1
Example 2
Method 2: Dump a Virtual Console title from a hacked Wii, Wii U, or 3DS
Wii VC:
Requires: Hacked Nintendo Wii, PC
Tool: vcromclaim
Can extract NES, SNES, and N64 ROMs from VC titles.
Wii U VC (as well as SNES Classic):
Requires: Hacked Wii U or SNES Classic, PC
Tool: Wii U VC Extractor
Can extract GBA, NES, and SNES ROMs from VC or SNES Classic titles.
3DS VC:
Requires: Hacked 3DS
Tool: GodMode9
Can dump GB, GBC, GBA, NES, or SNES VC titles, then ROMs can be extracted.

Gamecube/Wii/Wii U games:

Dump from disc on GameCube, Wii, Wii U or PC with supported disc drive
Gamecube:
Not recommended by me, but I will include it for informative purposes.
Requires: GameCube with Action Replay or Modchip, SD to memory card adapter, SD Card, Swiss (homebrew loader)
Tool: CleanRip
Can dump only GameCube games.
Wii:
Requires: hacked Wii with Homebrew channel, SD Card or USB drive
Tool: CleanRip or USBLoaderGX
Can dump Wii and GameCube games.
Wii U:
Requires: hacked Wii U + hacked vWii mode if ripping Wii games, SD Card or USB drive
Tool: Disc2App (Wii U disc), USBLoaderGX or CleanRip (Wii discs), DDD (Wii U digital titles)
Wii or Wii U discs can be dumped, as well as Wii U digital titles.
PC:
Requires: Supported disc drive (see below)
Tool: FriiDump (Wii & GC),
Can dump GameCube or Wii games with supported disc drive.
List of supported disc drives for Wii & GC

Nintendo Switch games:

Dump from cartridge using a hacked console
This method is complicated and not recommended. The Nintendo Switch hacking process is much more challenging and risky than the other consoles. You could also get banned by Nintendo for playing games that were dumped (even the original cartridge). But, once again, it’s worth including to show that it is possible!
Requires: Hacked Nintendo Switch Console
Tool: GCDumpTool (cartridges), Goldleaf (Digital titles)
Switch Game Carts and digital titles can be dumped.
More information on dumping Switch carts

Game Boy/Game Boy Color/Game Boy Advance games:

Method 1: Cartridge dumper
Example 1 (GB and GBC games only)
Example 2 (GB/GBC/GBA support)
Method 2: Dump GBA cartridge using GameCube
Required: Gamecube, Action replay or modchip, SD to memory card adapter, Game Boy Player or GBA Link cable
Using a Game Boy Player
Tool: Game Boy Interface
Using a GBA Link Cable
Tool: GBA Link Cable Dumper
Method 3: Dump GBA games from Wii U/3DS virtual console
Wii U
Requires: Hacked Wii U
Tools: Wii U VC Extractor
Can dump GBA Virtual Console games from Wii U
3DS
Requires: Hacked 3DS
Tools: GodMode9
Can dump GB/GBC/GBA virtual console games from 3DS

Method 4: Dump GBA cartridge on DS
Requires: Nintendo DS Phat or DS Lite, DS Flash Cartridge
Tool: GBA Backup Tool