[Chrono Archangel]

yes it is illegal. becaues u do not own right to use the firmware if u dont own the console. just like in pcsx2 it has bios you have to get that from your own system to use the emulator. i think that making the masterkey required to play wii games should be brought back aswell it just opens up another door for pirates.

That does not apply in this case. The "bios" as you refer to (or "firmware") is not required like in the case of PS2. One could go out, buy a game, dump it and play it on Dolphin. It IS legal to do that. The masterkey for the Wii is a simple AES key. Nintendo cannot copyright a key... (at least not yet :lol

However, we do not encourage piracy. The simple fact of asking if he should get the 4GB or 8GB version is enough to know that we're talking about downloading here. So I'm going to close this thread.

Finally I still think emulation does not beat the console experience. But that's a personal opinion...