[crushilista]

Is there anyway I can rip the roms from the virtual console games I have bought on the Wii? If so please tell me how.

 

[Hard core Rikki]

Yes. The games hold a rom, html docs, and needed emulator. Extraction should be straightforward enough.

 

[Lex_Light]

Where can I find a tutorial about extracting roms from .wad files? xD

 

[crushilista]

Sadly no. How would I get the games onto my SD card? I tried going to the channel menu and putting the game onto it, then putting it into my computer, but it shows up as a .app and not a wad.

 

[Lex_Light]

Search "How to dump .wad files" in Google. xD

 

[Hard core Rikki]

From the same places where instructions are available for turning roms into wad files.
Dump the filesystem to an sd card with apps like fs dumper, and dig in WII_FS/TITLE/00010001/4A414D4D/CONTENT and open 00000000.APP or 00000007.APP with a textpad to see which game is witch. Despite the firmware updates, I doubt the methods changed much.

 

[Lex_Light]

Thanks!
BTW, do you know that some Spain men collabored in the Wii scene? xD

 

[crushilista]

I extracted the NAND.Bin so I could get the roms I bought from the virtual console and run it in an emulator. How do I go about getting them from this?

 

[rcnrcn927]

Would this be a legal thing to do?

 

[Gareth1977]

It's legal to rip games that you own.

 

[rcnrcn927]

It's legal to rip games that you own.

So that's to say it's legal to rip an actual game disk or a cartridge?

 

[Yeloazndevil]

So that's to say it's legal to rip an actual game disk or a cartridge?

yes as long as you own them

 

[Hard core Rikki]

Perfectly legal.
Once extracted from their container, the files are even in regular ROM format and play in emulators without any edits needed. Once you have a VC game bought, you basically obtained the right to it.
It's an interesting way to turn a ROM collection legal, especially as physical ripping is unnecessary, yet you remain entitled to a backup.

An old guide was posted at 1emu
Nintendo Wii Virtual Console games just ROMS and HTML files? - 1Emulation.Com

 

[rcnrcn927]

So I copied a VC channel to my SD card and put it into my computer. The first time I got a .bak and a .dat file, as well as a zipped file which started an endless loop of zipped files. The second time I got different folder names and only the zipped file. Which too-straightforward-to-be-correct function was incorrect?