This tutorial will help you dump your Wii games to a SD ram card in your Wii. Then you can easily transfer the game to your computer to burn a backup copy of it. This will NOT allow you play the game off hte SD ram card, just a way to make backup copies of your games without buying that special drive that seems to be hard to get now:

Tools/Things needed to succesfully follow this tutorial

1. WiiVision's WiiKey Utilities v1.5 (Download Here) at the bottom of the article where it says, "Download:Here" click "Here" and save it to your desktop. Once saved, open that file and it will extract the contents to your "C:" drive. Go into your "C:" drive and open the folder called "WiiKeyUtilities". Inside there, right click on "WiiKey_Utilities" and click on 'Send to' then 'Desktop'. This creates a shortcut on your desktop for easy access to the program.)

2. Softdev's SDDVD dump tool version 0.1g (attached below. Un-rar to your desktop)

3. HJ-Split by FreeByte.com (Download Here) *also avaliable for linux users

4. SD Card (I used a 2GB SanDisk)

5. Geko adapter (either purchased from somewhere, homemade or did the internal 'Geko' mod by Jakweeze found here ((Direct link to Internal 'Geko' Mod) or (PSX Forum Thread))

6. ImgBurn (free program to burn image files.(Download Here))

7. GameCube Controller (If you don't have one, barrow one or buy one. They are fairly cheap now)

8. Blank DVD's

Guide

Step 1: (Creating Boot Disk with DVD Dump tool added) Open WiiKey Utilites. Click the 'Advanced Build/Burn' tab. Select your appropriate region. Click the'Add DOL' button and select Softdev's SDDVD dump tool that your un-rared to your desktop. From here I clicked the button 'Create ISO' and it created an image file located in the "isos" folder inside the WiiKeyUtilites folder in your "C:" drive. Then I used ImgBurn to burn that ISO onto a DVD to place inside my Wii's Drive.

Step 2: (Dumping) Instert the disc you just made into your Wii and start it up through the Game channel. Once it starts, use a GameCube controller to click on "GCOS MB". Then click on "Boot DVD", then select 'A'. Click on "Dols/", click on "sddvd-01g.dol" and follow the instructions on the screen (now would be a good time to insert the SD Card). This will format your SD card and prepair it for dumping. Then insert original game when promted to, and it will continue to dump the game onto the SD card in chunks. Once a chunk is done, you can then bring the SD card to your computer and Cut and Paste the files it creates into a folder on your computer. Once all chunks have been saved onto your computer you may continue to next step.

Step 3: (Creating ISO) Now open "hjsplit". Click 'Join'. Click on 'Input File' and select the FIRST chunck of the game (note: all chunks MUST BE in the same folder!). The Output should automatically be filled in. Then click on 'Start'. Once it finishes go into that folder and you'll see the newly created image file of the game. You may continue to burn that file onto a DVD to later be played on your WII!

Also, you may be able to use the WiiKey Utilities program to also 'dump' the chunks onto your computer by clicking on the "Dump SD Data" button located in the 'Disc Backup' tab of that program. Follow the promts if you do it this way and when the last chunk has been dumped, it will continue to create the image for you that you can then burn

The following is for Wii's with the D2CKey or Argon



1. Instead of using WiiVision's Wiikey Utilities v1.5; download this file BootableDisc3.rar (attached below) and unrar it into your C: drive.

2. Place SoftDev's sddvd-01g.dol file into the "my_bootable_disc" located in the C: drive. Also place a file in the same folder that is at least 500MB. It doesn't matter what it is, it's just for padding.

3. Open up the command prompt by typing in "cmd" (without the quotes) into the run command (click Start, then click on Run). Once the command promt has opened, type in "cd\" (without the quotes) and then hit enter. This will get you to the root directory which is "C:\". Now type in "mkisofs.exe -R -J -G C:\my_bootable_disc\gbi.hdr -no-emul-boot -b sddvd-01g.dol -o GameCopy.iso C:\my_bootable_disc" (without the quotes) then hit enter.

4. Now there should be a file called GameCopy.iso in your C: drive. Just burn that with ImgBurn and place it in your wii. Once you start up this disc, it'll go straight into the DVD Dumping screen.

Here are the Files for the last part of this tutorial:

http://modmasters.net/14842-tutorial-all-use-dumping-games-sd-card-bootabledisc3.rar