Look ma, I’m pirating a Wii disk!

After getting my Nintendo Wii several months ago, and almost immediately getting a Wiikey installed, I’ve been slowly downloading the must-have isoz of games I wanted to play. Red Steel, Zelda Twilight Princess, Super Mario Galaxy, you know the ones.

I also have a ton of friends that have Wiis, that all buy games, and I borrow where necessary. I even rent from video shops in the area when I feel the need. The problem so far though, was I haven’t been able to make a copy of these borrowed and rented games, because of some silly protection the disks have, that makes only specific DVD-ROM drives be able to read the disks.

UNTIL NOW!

Check it out:

That’s Zelda – Twilight Princess, the original, being rawdumped on my brand spanking new LG 8164b DVD-ROM. And it didn’t even cost me an arm and a testicle. I found it Digital Planet, via a tipoff from a friend-of-a-friend, for a mere R90.32 plus the mandatory R50 courie fee. Rock On! (Hurry, they might still have stock left!)

I’m following the seemingly overly verbose tutorial in an afterdawn.com thread on how to backup Wii games (which is where I found out about the 816x drive requirements). Other drives may also work. Honestly, it’s not difficult:

• Find rawdump 2.0 (or 2.1) somewhere (or somewhere else)
• Alternatively use FriiDump (or get it here, sources included
• Run it
• Dump the file to an iso
• Then find ImgBurn
• Burn the iso using ImgBurn
• Done

Not rocket science people.

God I love the internet.