Saturday, January 8, 2011

If You Want to Protect Your Investment, You Should Learn How to Copy Wii Games

By John Farkowski


If you don't already know, the most important reasons to learn how to copy Wii games are the one-two punch of games being both expensive and fragile. Let's discuss that in more depth.

The first reason is that game discs are not cheap! If you pay up to $55 on just one game, you don't want to lose it or have it become damaged. As a Wii gamer, you've probably experienced this, and have had to face the reality of paying another $50 or more for another copy. When you find out how to copy wii games, you'll be protecting your pocketbook, so that you don't go broke replacing games

It's also worth noting how easily damaged games can be. Back when games came in cartridges, we didn't have to stress about it. However on discs like CDs or DVDs, it's very easy for games to get scratched, cracked or otherwise destroyed. When we had cartridge style games, you could allow your toddler aged siblings mess around with them and even put them in their mouths and the cartridges would be fine.

But you wouldn't even think about doing this with your optical discs, right? They're far too easily rendered unusable. This is another reason to make backups of of your precious discs. When you create burned discs, then only use the burned discs to play with, you won't have to worry to such a degree, because you know that the master disc is safe and sound.

And what about losing games? Wii games are tiny. They're not even the size of a standard CD or DVD. Once again, this is to Nintendo's benefit. When games are small, they're easy to lose. And when you lose games, guess what? Yup, you have to buy another copy, which is money out of your pocket and into Nintendo's.

So now your interest might be piqued, but you're probably wondering just how you go about making copies of games. I'll give you the skinny. The 411 as the hipsters used to say. You probably know that you can't just make a copy using a tool like Nero. No, you have to use specialized software that can do 2 important things. 1st, it can burn in an ISO format to make the Wii think that the disc is an original Nintendo disc from the store. 2nd, it has to strip off the encryption.

So the basic overview of the process is this: You download the software (it costs around 20 bucks) and install it onto your computer. It will then walk you through the steps of creating a backup copy using blank disc and your computer's optical drive.

From beginning to end, it'll take you about 15 minutes. Maybe a little longer the first time as you learn the process. That's really a very small time investment, though, to protect your entertainment investment.

So don't forget, make copies of your master discs, and you will always have more money on hand to expend for NEW games, and stop buying existing games over and over.

That's it for now - Take care!




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