CleanRip will need to be configured in order to rip those kinds of discs. Certain Wii discs are dual layer (or DVD9) instead of single layer (or DVD5).The NTFS file system has a theoretical max file size of 16 EiB (Exabyte), or 16,777,216 GiB. To remedy this, it is recommended to rip discs to a USB external NTFS formatted storage device (as Wii cannot read NTFS formatted SD cards). These file systems have a max file size of 4 GiB.

CleanRip will split the ripped disc file with more than 4 GiB in file size regardless to fit the FAT, FAT16, or FAT32 file systems.When all pieces have been received, check in the next subsection. Otherwise, set Chunk Size to max possible ( '1GB', '2GB', '3GB', or 'Max') and set New device per chunk to 'Yes' and when CleanRip is asking for the next device, remove it from the Wii and move the first or so ISO file to free up space and use it again. However, by dividing the disc into chunks, an SD card with even a single gibibyte of free space is sufficient.Īt the CleanRip Setup screen, set Chunk Size to 'Max', and New device per chunk to 'No' is recommended with SD cards or external USB storage devices large enough to hold the entirety of the ripped disc file at once. In order to rip a Wii disc, a storage device with more than 4.38 GiB of free space is recommended for single layer, 7.93 GiB for dual layer. Simply follow the instructions on-screen and you'll be able to put the game straight from the SD card or USB drive into Dolphin. GameCube discs always have a size of 1.36 GiB, so the entire ISO can fit on a FAT or FAT32 drive. It requires your Wii or vWii system to have the Homebrew Channel. It's generally easier and faster to rip game discs via a Wii console, if you have one:ĬleanRip can rip a game disc to an SD card or an external USB storage device. 4 Extracting discs from the Wii U eShopĬertain old models of PC DVD drives are able to rip game discs with Rawdump or Friidump.

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