Here's a little tutorial about how to play Wii or GameCube backups (iso or gcm images) on an unmodded (no modchip) Wii with the homebrew channel installed, using Softmii (v2.1.1 here): http://softmii.org/ Burni(nati)ng software: [Linux/Gnome] Brasero: http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ but it should be in your distro's repositories. [Windows] ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/ I apologize in advance for my voice. I edited it to try to make it as less annoying as possible, but it still weird, I know. And some parts are hard to understand, so here's a rouch transcript of what I'm saying: "Here's a tutorial about how to play Wii or GameCube backups on a Wii without any modchip or hardware modification. Here's what you're going to need. - An SD card of reasonable size - Lots of burnable DVDs, or you could just go with one rewritable DVD - A Wii, with the homebrew channel installed - The game you have a backup of - And and and you need... A computer, yeah, really. A computer with backups of the games you want. Here, I'm going to pick Zelda: The Wind Waker. So, first step is to insert your burnable or rewritable DVD into your drive... And your SD card as well. Your computer should tell you when it's been inserted. Once that's done, open your SD card and put all the files you've been told to put into your SD card by the Softmii manual included with the Softmii package, downloadable at softmii.org. I've highlighted these folders here, look at the manual if you want to know which thing does what. Once all these files are in place, we're going to burn the backup to a DVD. Let's get some more screen real estate... Here. You'll notice that some backups are in gcm format while others are in iso format. It makes no difference, really, as you can just rename gcm file to iso to make them burnable by most burning programs. Now, let's burn! I'm going to use Brasero, which is a nice and straightforward image burner for Ubuntu, which I'm currently using. For Windows, I recommend ImgBurn. Open Brasero, and click on "Burn image". A dialog should appear, like so... Select your burner in the menu on the top, then click on the Path thingy to select your game backup. Let's make this window bigger... Here... As you can see, only ISO images appear by default, but you can change that with the menu here, and you can burn gcm images this way, without renaming them. Let's burn The Wind Waker.iso, here... Then just click Burn and you're all set. It's going to check the checksum, here... And now it's initializing the recording process. Alright, now it has begun burninating the DVD. This can take a while, as most GameCube backups are about one and a half gigabytes in size, and Wii game backups are over four gigabytes. It's also important to burn at low speeds, here's I'm burning at 0.5x. The slower you burn, the less likely your burner is going to make a burninating mistake. Alright, this is getting boring, so let's fast-forward this thing... While the DVD is being burnt, uh, smokelessly, of course, install Softmii on your Wii. There's a good PDF manual included with the Softmii package, follow it and it should be alright. Alright, burnination is done, you can close Brasero, open your DVD drive, and let's try it out! Pop the DVD in your Wii, which should turn on automatically... Start the Wii, go to the game channel. As you can see, it actually shows that it's a GameCube disc, even though physically, the disc is not the right size for a GameCube disc. Which proves that the console identification is only done using software means, which is good. Start the game... Title screen... And here you go! The Wind Waker, running from a burninated DVD. But the best part is, look, you get to keep your save files from the original game if they're on your Wii or on a GameCube memory card. That's it, enjoy!" And yes, enjoy. For education and entertainment purposes, as long as you own the original game.
Author: WindyPower
Keywords: wii homebrew play gamecube iso gcm backup image burn home brew channel nintendo software no modchip mod tutorial how to softmii cd dvd brasero
Added: February 28, 2009
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