How to Backup and Burn Wii Games
Backing up Wii games and then burning them is pretty simple if you have the right tools and knowledge. In a nutshell, the process is basically as follows: you must first download the game data as an ISO, and then burn that ISO to a new disc.
This is done using a tool called imgBurn, which is available on the Internet (just Google “imgburn” to download it). ImgBurn is a utility that allows you to copy discs, “rip” data from discs, and burn ISOs to discs. It is a complete solution for backing up your games and is the main component of this tutorial.
To get started, you must first put the Wii game disc into your DVD drive. There are rumors that you need to have a specific disc to read Wii games, but the only way to find out if yours does is to put the game in and see if imgBurn copies it. After installing the game on your PC, you need to download and install imgBurn. This will allow you to download the game data and put it on your PC as an ISO file.
Once you’ve installed imgBurn, simply load it and then find the “burn CD” option. Click on it and then let it continue downloading the ISO file to your PC. If everything goes according to plan, you should be able to see that there is now a 4GB file on your PC. This is where the Wii game has been downloaded to your hard drive and is ready to be burned.
To later burn this to a backup disk, you need to load imgBurn again, this time clicking the “burn from ISO” option. This will allow you to put the game data from your PC onto a blank disc and by selecting this option you will be able to put the game data onto a blank DVD. You just need to select the game ISO file and then get imgBurn to burn it to disc. An important note here is that you should burn your new disc using 4X write speed as it has the highest success rate.
While this tutorial should work, there are a few other parts of the puzzle that will help increase your chances of being able to backup and burn Wii games. You need to be able to do several important things on your PC and your console to get it working 100% of the time, and that’s where some more advanced tutorials are needed.
