How to Backup Wii and Gamecube Games

I just bought a Wii and at the price of the system, controllers, and then the additional games I don't want any of my games to crap out just because it has scratches on the surface. So I backup all of my games so that if it happens I am protected, but keep in mind if you want to play backed-up games you must have a modified Wii console. The normal Wii will not allow you to play burned games without the Wiikey. You can get a Wiikey here (www.wiikey.cn).

So if you either have your system modified or planning on it then we can continue in our process of backing up our Wii games. First you will need some equipment that is required and I know it sounds weird but you will need a CD/DVD combo drive (not a burner, this drive is just for reading the game and ripping it to your hard drive) that is one of these models.

LG-8163b or LG-8162b

This is the one I have been using and it has been working great. I am not saying other drives won't work but many people have said that their drives don't work and the drives listed above have proven they work and they are cheap.

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16827136088

After you have your drive bought and installed then you will need some software that you can easily download. Get these two software programs:

Raw Dump 2.0 (http://rapidshare.com/files/25002998/rawdump2.0.rar)

.Net Framework 2.0 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en)

I then use WinRAR to unzip the files but WinZip or another Zip program will work just as well if you don't have any of these then get

WinRAR here (http://rarlabs.com/rar/wrar37b3.exe)

Once you have WinRAR installed then you will want to right-click on Raw Dump and choose extract to "Extract to rawdump2.0\" this should make a folder on your desktop called rawdump2.0.

Now put in your Wii or Gamecube game into the Drive (the one you bought from the list above) and open the Rawdump folder and double click the Rawdump.exe.