While surfing through the almighty Digg this morning, I stumbled upon a link to a Wii Disc Dumper. No, this isn’t a disgusting scat video of Mario with diarrhea, it’s a small program that, when combined with the proper DVD drive in a PC, can dump the raw contents of a Wii Game Disc to your hard drive.
Seems you need an LG-8164b or LG-8163b DVD-ROM drive to make this work and the process takes over 50 hours to complete. Sure it takes awhile, but think of all the pirated scene release copies backups you’ll be able to make!
I think Wii disks are based on DVDs but modified.
Signa if you are running xp right click on my computer – >properties – >hardware -> device manager -> dvd/cd-rom drives it should tell you their what drive you have.
It should be noted that even tho you can backup your game you probably still need to get around the security measures using a mod chip or swap disc. The only system that ever had their protection fully hacked was the dreamcast. Every other disc based media needed a mod chip case mod or boot disc to run copies. I have not looked into the current circumstance surrounding the wii but I am fairly sure its the case here too. Whether or not their is a mod chip out right now is beyond me
holy crap! i have some LG drives! they are crap but they just might work. i cant find the model number on them to check
No you don’t read my post the wii uses a regular Dvd drive thats not speculation is fact.Thats why this exploitation is possible. Xbox360 also uses a regular dvd. The hd-dvd add-on is only to watch movies isn’t used for games. The only company that is using a new media format for the console is sony with the blue ray.
My only guess as to why you think they have a hi def format is the 480p which has nothing to do with the media format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television (read that it will explain hi definition formats)
yes i do know what i am talking about it is you who may not know what you are talking about
dont believe me
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-2742082-9532752?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=LG-8164b&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go
i doubt that the wii would use a normal dvd drive because everyone is talking about hd dvd and blue ray (unless nintendo is a tight wad and is using a normal dvd drive and just settling with flipper/swap disks so they can still get their high def resolution by spanning multi disks).
You have no idea what your talking about ejonesss the wii has a modified dvd drive. Probably reads the disc with the opposite spin of regular drives.
that does not seem right.
a wii disk is an hi def format of some kind and you are telling us that you can rip hi def dvds with a normal dvd drive?
i question that because hd dvd drives are very expensive over $400 for the drive and around $400 or slightly less if you are willing to remove the drive from the xbox 360 and apply the patches.
the LG-8164b is only less than $40.