Hacking Burned DVDs to .wbfs files on the fly?

[leo_bsb]

I have 350 burned backups and now I'm starting to use USB Loader GX with NTFS formatted drive.
Does any WBFS manager extract .wbfs files from my burned DVDs directly to my NTFS drive? Or I'll have to create ISOs from every single game and after that convert them to wbfs?

 

[DMzda]

CFGLoader extracts .wbfs files on FAT32, probably the same on NTFS. I have only tried it with original game discs, so I am not sure is backups will work. Just try it

 

[oggzee]

I have 350 burned backups and now I'm starting to use USB Loader GX with NTFS formatted drive.
Does any WBFS manager extract .wbfs files from my burned DVDs directly to my NTFS drive? Or I'll have to create ISOs from every single game and after that convert them to wbfs?
wbfs_file 2.7 command line tool can do that:
wbfs_file -g D: convert E:\wbfs
where D: is the DVD drive and E: the usb hdd.

QUOTE(DMzda @ Jan 6 2010, 04:49 PM) CFGLoader extracts .wbfs files on FAT32, probably the same on NTFS. I have only tried it with original game discs, so I am not sure is backups will work. Just try it

Sorry but NTFS for the moment is read-only in both gx and cfg loader, so you can't install on that using the loader.
Installing to FAT however works fine.

 

[leo_bsb]

I have 350 burned backups and now I'm starting to use USB Loader GX with NTFS formatted drive.
Does any WBFS manager extract .wbfs files from my burned DVDs directly to my NTFS drive? Or I'll have to create ISOs from every single game and after that convert them to wbfs?
wbfs_file 2.7 command line tool can do that:
wbfs_file -g D: convert E:\wbfs
where D: is the DVD drive and E: the usb hdd.

QUOTE(DMzda @ Jan 6 2010, 04:49 PM) CFGLoader extracts .wbfs files on FAT32, probably the same on NTFS. I have only tried it with original game discs, so I am not sure is backups will work. Just try it

Sorry but NTFS for the moment is read-only in both gx and cfg loader, so you can't install on that using the loader.
Installing to FAT however works fine.

Thanks guys.

oggzee, the names for the .wbfs files can be extracted automatically or do I have to type a name for each file?
I could probably to a .bat to speed the process.
Thanks again.

 

[XFlak]

wii backup manager by fig2k4 can also do this, and it has a user-friendly GUI

 

[leo_bsb]

CFGLoader extracts .wbfs files on FAT32, probably the same on NTFS. I have only tried it with original game discs, so I am not sure is backups will work. Just try it

A pratical way would be let the Wii install the game using USB Loader GX, I tried but it won't write to the usb drive. I hope they fix that on new releases.

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QUOTE(xflak40 @ Jan 6 2010, 02:28 PM) wii backup manager by fig2k4 can also do this, and it has a user-friendly GUI

wow, perfect find! I'll try that later, thanks!

 

[XFlak]

no prob, but u should be thanking fig2k4 and oggzee... i must've thanked them so much that their prolly sick of me by now! lol

 

[oggzee]

oggzee, the names for the .wbfs files can be extracted automatically or do I have to type a name for each file?
I could probably to a .bat to speed the process.
Thanks again.

If the destination is a directory (e:\wbfs) then the name is created automatically, actually the directory and the name, since it will by default put it to gameid_title\gameid.wbfs.