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Title: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: crashwg on June 21, 2009, 11:42:06 am: So I got myself a Wii.
Apparently it has a WiiKey in it which I do not doubt because it came with a burned game in the drive that worked fine when I booted it.
I tried to play a newer game and it updated the system menu to Ver. 4.0U.
The Wii Menu contains The Homebrew Channel.

How do I go about making DVD backups of games so my kids don't destroy them?

I have no idea what I'm doing here and trying to sift through the information on the web is futile knowing as little on the subject that I do.

As of right now I do not want to do anything with USB HDDs or anything of that sort, just a simple rip and burn.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: crashwg on June 21, 2009, 01:57:49 pm: Quote from: pinballjim on June 21, 2009, 12:41:01 pm
In before post hell.

Not quite sure what you think is wrong with my post but whatever... I just want to know how to backup the investment that buying games has become in this day and age of optical media.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: Dazz on June 21, 2009, 09:37:04 pm: USB HDD is THE way to go. I set mine up over the past couple days and it is freaking awesome.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: spiffyshoes on June 21, 2009, 10:53:03 pm: The only ways that I know of to dump your Wii games is to use Wii DVD Dumper or to use WiiHDDLoader. Wii DVD Dumper takes around 3hours to dump one game over a local network. Now that they have HDLoader it is the fastest way to dump your games. It only takes any where from 5 min to 30 min depending on the size of the game to dump it to your usb drive. And then it only takes about 5 min for WBFS Manager to extract it from the hard drive to your computer for burning.

If you don't want to actually play the games off of the hard drive Fry's sells 8gb usb flash drives for around $20.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: Red on June 22, 2009, 04:07:27 am: You can also dump your Wii games using your computer or laptop with a Hitachi-LG GDR-8164B DVD Drive, which are available on eBay.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: crashwg on June 22, 2009, 01:20:37 pm: So let's say I want to use WiiHDDLoader to dump the games. How do I go about installing that on a Wii with system menu 4.0U if I already have the Homebrew Channel?
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: crashwg on June 22, 2009, 03:44:17 pm: Quote from: pinballjim on June 22, 2009, 02:07:32 pm
You read the links in the other thread.

Ok, so I've followed a link from the other thread to HERE (http://www.mikeandheth.com/games/109-store-and-load-usb-wii-system-menu-4.html) and the only thing I can find is setting this up from the beginning. Do I have to start from the beginning or can I jump in in the middle somewhere after getting the homebrew channel up and running?
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: crashwg on June 22, 2009, 05:25:32 pm: Alright then. So I started at step 3.

Step 3: CHECK

Step 4: CHECK

Step 5: Followed link and downloaded "USB Loader GX V1.0 (updated to r316)"
this file does not contain "USB Loader GX[version].wad"

Now I'm stuck
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: hypernova on June 22, 2009, 09:20:58 pm: You extracted the entire folder (the folder itself included) into the apps folder on the SD card, correct?

Then loaded the HbC, and selected the usbloader_gx?

If so, it should work. If not, try the latest build, or waninkoko's or cover flow loader.

By the way, starting at step three, did you install DVDX and bootmii? bootmii is apparently as a safeguard, and DVDX to read regular DVD media.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: Generic Eric on June 22, 2009, 10:29:02 pm: The website lifehacker.com (http://lifehacker.com) has some good guides and links.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: crashwg on June 22, 2009, 11:04:32 pm: If I extract the folder to the apps directory on my SD I can load the program from the HomeBrew Channel. It will load up and say there is no USB HDD attached if I try either a USB to IDE adapter on a HDD or use a thumb drive that I have but that's a problem I'm going to try and work on once I get this installed...

What I'm trying to do is install the program "wad?" so that I will have a channel on my wii menu.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: Blanka on June 23, 2009, 07:26:27 am: There is no need to backup stuff on a Wii. Games get boring way before the discs become unreadable. A Wii is a 2-month gadget, not a serious gaming machine.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: ChadTower on June 23, 2009, 12:23:09 pm: Quote from: Blanka on June 23, 2009, 07:26:27 am
There is no need to backup stuff on a Wii. Games get boring way before the discs become unreadable.

Depending on your media and drive some can be glitchy. I have a couple games that like to crap out at random times that would work a whole lot better off a hard disc.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: hypernova on June 23, 2009, 08:04:25 pm: Quote from: Blanka on June 23, 2009, 07:26:27 am
There is no need to backup stuff on a Wii. Games get boring way before the discs become unreadable. A Wii is a 2-month gadget, not a serious gaming machine.

Opinion about the Wii noted. Irrelevant to the situation.

crashwg, perhaps you could list what parts of step 5 you've gotten done? Or perhaps it may be your HDD or flash drive. I don't believe they are all fully compatible with the Wii.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: spiffyshoes on June 23, 2009, 08:54:27 pm: Quote from: crashwg on June 22, 2009, 11:04:32 pm
If I extract the folder to the apps directory on my SD I can load the program from the HomeBrew Channel. It will load up and say there is no USB HDD attached

Make sure you have it plugged into the correct USB port. The new versions of the loaders only work with the Hard Drive plugged into the left USB port.

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What I'm trying to do is install the program "wad?" so that I will have a channel on my wii menu.

Check out this thread.

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=114165 (http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=114165)
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: danny_galaga on June 24, 2009, 05:56:47 am: wow. this all seems so complicated. I think I'll just be careful with my wii games...
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: ChadTower on June 24, 2009, 09:53:26 am: He's right, the Wii is totally not a serious gaming machine. It does require some prep time, though. Takes me 20 minutes to get my clown makeup on every time I want to use it.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: crashwg on June 24, 2009, 02:28:39 pm: I went out and bought a Western Digital My Book Essential Edition because it's the closest thing I could find to the list of "hardware recommendations" on THIS PAGE (http://www.mikeandheth.com/games/109-store-and-load-usb-wii-system-menu-4.html) Matter of fact it has the same model number other than being 500 GB rather than 1 TB.

I've plugged the HDD into my computer, created an unformatted partition and formatted a partition with WBFS Manager. I plugged the HDD into the Wii and loaded up USBloaderGX from the Home Brew Channel and in either port is says "No USB Device." I then tried waninkoko's SD/USB loader v1.5, pressed "A" when USB Mass Storage Device is selected and instantly this whole thing shows up:

Code: [Select]
Mounting device, please wait... (30 seconds timeout) ERROR! (ret = -1) Press and button to restart...

Quote from: spiffyshoes on June 23, 2009, 08:54:27 pm
Make sure you have it plugged into the correct USB port. The new versions of the loaders only work with the Hard Drive plugged into the left USB port.

By "left USB port" are you referring to the one nearest the top of the console when it's layed on it's side?
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: crashwg on June 24, 2009, 03:37:39 pm: Figuring that the problem was either USB ports just plain not working or a previous step not working for some reason I went back to step 4, installing cIOS and instead of installing the recommended 38 I used the 249 that it defaults to and everything works now.

Thanks everyone.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: hypernova on June 24, 2009, 07:37:42 pm: Feel like this? :banghead:

:)
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: shmokes on June 24, 2009, 10:46:58 pm: Quote from: ChadTower on June 24, 2009, 09:53:26 am

He's right, the Wii is totally not a serious gaming machine. It does require some prep time, though. Takes me 20 minutes to get my clown makeup on every time I want to use it.

:laugh2:
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: skim36 on July 12, 2009, 01:25:55 pm: Yes, 249 rev 10 is the most compatible. I get all my info from wiihacks.com A great place to start.
Title: Re: Total Wii Noob, where do I go from here?
Post by: hypernova on July 13, 2009, 06:29:49 pm: I've found rev10 to be the best as well. rev13 requires setting all the games to enable the error 002 fix. I've only had to do that on two games with rev10.