It's out, and it works; the WiiGator GameCube Backup Launcher we mentioned
last week has been released to the open arms of a community of incredibly clumsy gamers. Yes, you who can't possibly keep your discs from getting scratched or cracked or covered in peanut butter by your two-year-old sibling can now play backups of GameCube games on your Wii without having to install any modchips or void any warranties. The app, available with source at the read link, runs in the Wii's Homebrew Channel and enables the playing of GC games from a DVD-R (demonstrated in some incredibly dramatic shakeycam footage below). There are some issues with save games on certain types of memory cards, and not all titles work, but before you complain feel free to crack open those C files and try fixing things yourself, Mr. Critical.
[Thanks, Omega]
posted Feb 9th 2009 9:03AM
omg ....
doesn't work with dvd-rw??
The wii and Especially the Gamecube have Always been picky about media as far as i know. If i remember correctly using RW discs is pretty much impossible with the hardware of the wii /gamecube
over ad mod that cube and mod ya wii (same site i believe) it does into the technical details. I remember with the Gamecube i physically had to adjst the laser aperature through the potentiometer via a small phillps screw. so ....
long story short...
no
and ritek R04 discs worked the absolute best with my The gamecube. Wii is less picky... but slightly..
Just go Ritek or Ridata, you'll be in good shape.
I can confirm that it works just fine with Verbatim DVD+R (burnt at 2.4x) if you change the book type on your DVD burner to DVD-ROM.
My Dell laptop has a NEC burner, which required a hacked firmware in order to allow changing the book type for DVD+R media. However, the patching and booktype setting all went off without a hitch, entirely within Linux. And didn't even need to reboot.
One word of warning, if you don't have a full GameCube controller (all I have is a DDR Mario Mix dance mat), you will be unable to play PAL dance games on an NTSC television. The reason is that your dance mat is missing the X, Y, L, and R buttons that the gcloader uses to change video modes, so you can only use autodetect.
Not that I know if PAL games work on an NTSC Wii if you do change the video mode, only that autodetect won't work.
Nevertheless, I'm now happily enjoying DDR Mario Mix. I tried to borrow the game, but the disc was lost so all I have is the dance pad.
What are my options for playing wii backups? Without voiding my warranty off course. Or should I just train place my wii out of toddler reach?
oh, i thought the whole point in this was to run off of sd card, now i just dont care, i hate optical media, managed to get rid of cd's and dvd's, havnt used a disk in my computer for about a year, just a couple of 360 and wii disks now to go.
you can run games from sd.
oh, well good then lol
Looks like someone is trying to thwart Nintendo's future GC to Wii releases.
it's not like there were any GC game worth playing that isnt on Wii already....
but I am all for sticking it to Nintendo, so great job guys.
wat
Metriod Prime Wii. upgraded with 3's control system.
RE2 wii, maybe
RE0, may come stateside.
Finally. I hope this updates the wii backup as well.
Now I'm going to spend the afternoon ripping my GC games over wifi, assuming the ripper supports GC discs.
THANKS WiiGator!
I have this and it works great.
You can even use the MultidiscISO program to combine more than one game to a single Disc.
RE0 is just for japan because the gamecube one never hit there. It's the same exact one as our gamecube one. That's why they are rereleasing resident evils in japan. =]
So you're not being left out, japan was the one being left out.
Also, you play games on DVD-R! Not SD.
And the Wifi backup tool also does gamecube. :D
It plays more than GameCube games! Oh yeah, Nintendo is going to hate this. There's also an application that disables the system updates included with many Wii games, making it almost impossible for Nintendo to fix the security issues.
god some people are so fucking stupid and horrible when it comes to making you tube videos. turn the fucking background music down or dont play any at all, stop tryin to show your not so good video editing skills, and quit moving the camera back and forth thinking we can read the words that fucking close, i hit stop i was gettin to pissed off at this reject, anyways, this looks cool by reading it, but it doesnt play wii games sooo you kno
there is already a wii backup launcher simply called backup launcher the current version is gamma it's pretty close to being compatible with all games and is also created by wiigator it's originally based of waninkos modified gecko os region free launcher. i'm very interested in trying out the new flat mii chip i just recently became aware of though. apparently with it you are able to stream gc and wii backup iso's straight from your pc to your wii through a usb 2.0 connection, although i believe 1.1 is usable it's not recommended. its a solderless clipless solution that can be used with or without any software or other hardware mods.
how do you run multi iso disc on the wii?
i believe that multi iso discs are now possible on wii using the new version of wii scrubber to create them
Hello Everyone,
Could someone give me some help please?
I have got Backup Launcher and I would like to make copies to dvd I have copied an ISO but it hasn't worked would anyone give me some guidance on this please or point me in the right direction for this
Thanks