Hardware Making backups from retail disks????

[squirt1000]

Hey all, Can anyone advise me what kind of drive I need to be able to dump my obese Wii game collection?? Im familiar with the whole custom firmware on a pc drive thing as ive got a Kreon Samsung for 360 games

Ta muchly in advance

 

[Elisa_]

Well, I've heard it's an LG-xxxx (xxxx = dunno number, suppose the first number is 6 which i think is right). There might be others

 

[Awdofgum]

These are the following drives that work.

* LG-8164b
* LG-8163b
* LG-8162b
* LG-8161b

 

[squirt1000]

Awesome, Thanks folks! Off to find said drives in the UK now

 

[myclock]

may i say there are alternative methods. such as SD dumping, its faster than using the dvd drive but is a bit more hassle

 

[bubbatub]

Is there an SD dumper that will dump DL disks (eg SSBB)? I've been using SDDVD 0.1g by softdev + SD Gecko, but development has been discontinued... I tried dumping SSBB with it, but it stopped after it finished with the first layer. I'd get an LG drive, but I only have a laptop.

 

[myclock]

theres a "wiikey" SD dumper card for around $5. not sure if it works or not but hey if it doesnt, thats only $5 that you wasted. (wiikey does not make a SD dump card so its a clone yet still works very well

)

 

[SchuchWun]

Ok I have that exact drive the LG-8164b. Now what do I have to do??? I'm gonna buy a SD dumper but for now I'll just use what I got. Help a brother out

 

[Prime]

may i say there are alternative methods. such as SD dumping, its faster than using the dvd drive but is a bit more hassle

Is that hardware or software?

 

[MasterXanthar]

Ok I have that exact drive the LG-8164b. Now what do I have to do??? I'm gonna buy a SD dumper but for now I'll just use what I got. Help a brother out

CODEhttp://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=1769 ^download rawdump, then just pop the Wii disc in the LG-8164b and hit start dump

If rawdump doesn't work then use friidump which is a command alternate.
CODEhttp://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/572714

Info on how to use friidump can be found here ^