Saturday, January 24, 2009

Burning Wii Games is Easy! Here's How You Can

By Sam Lockwood

The very popular Nintendo Wii offers a lot of fun, plenty of games, and a unique interface that no one else has duplicated. That means it's no surprise when people want to copy their games to keep backups of the originals.

These games come on disks that bear a strong resemblance to ordinary burnables, but they aren't copied the same way as your music CDs or DVDs. The process is a bit more complicated. This short guide will tell you all the basics of making a copy of your Wii games, plus when you should do it.

Regular disk burning software won't be able to copy Wii games the same way as it can an audio CD. Nero, Roxio, and other similar top of the line programs aren't able to make copies of these disks because of the encoded copy protection that keeps your computer from reading them.

Like most types of copy protection, this encryption didn't last long before there was a way around it. Programs are available which will read through this encryption and help your computer understand the information on the Wii game disk.

After the software has been installed, it's really quite easy to make a copy of the game. That's because the information your computer couldn't understand is now easy to deal with. This works for games on just about all systems, including the Wii, but also the Xbox 360 and PS3.

There are even some PC games that make use of copy protection, but these programs can help you deal with it. If you own more than one kind of gaming system, you can use this kind of program to get backup copies for all your games, not just the ones for the Wii.

Once you've found the right program for breaking encryption and installed it on your computer, the next step is copying game data as a disk image. After you've stored this image on your hard drive, you just need to put a blank disc into your burner, then tell the program to burn the image there.

Much of the time, you don't even need to use your regular burner, since decryption programs include copying and burning functions. That keeps your chances of an error during ripping and burning much lower.

Copying programs are now available which allow you to copy your games without needing to do more than go through a few menus and click a few buttons. Wii game copying is an excellent way to back up any game at all. After all, a backup is a great way to make sure the original stays in good shape. - 15275

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