Why use Dumpling over DumpsterU?

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[Kopimist]

So, I followed the guide here to dump a bunch of my games. In some places, the guide recommended using Dumpling to dump the games, so I dumped most of my games using it, including large Wii U games, onto my SD card on my Wii U. The whole process took like 8 hours.

Then, today, I go to the section about dumping Wii games, and it recommends using DumpsterU. So I download DumpsterU, and connect my Wii U's hard drive to my computer, and find out that I could have just used DumpsterU the whole time, for all of my games, and it would have taken a very small fraction of the time it took to dump to an SD card using Dumpling.

So, uh, why even use Dumpling for anything besides dumping discs? I wish the guide I had followed had just recommended DumpsterU for all cases. I'm kicking myself over the time that was wasted.

Edit: This isn't meant to be a knock on the developers of Dumpling. Obviously there's no way to get around the slow throughput of the Wii U's SD reader.

Dumpling specifically rips your games to a format that CEMU is compatible with. That's the only reason I could see someone wanting to use it. Also works good for dumping your games for modding purposes

 

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[lendunistus]

So, I followed the guide here to dump a bunch of my games. In some places, the guide recommended using Dumpling to dump the games, so I dumped most of my games using it, including large Wii U games, onto my SD card on my Wii U. The whole process took like 8 hours.

Then, today, I go to the section about dumping Wii games, and it recommends using DumpsterU. So I download DumpsterU, and connect my Wii U's hard drive to my computer, and find out that I could have just used DumpsterU the whole time, for all of my games, and it would have taken a very small fraction of the time it took to dump to an SD card using Dumpling.

So, uh, why even use Dumpling for anything besides dumping discs? I wish the guide I had followed had just recommended DumpsterU for all cases. I'm kicking myself over the time that was wasted.

Edit: This isn't meant to be a knock on the developers of Dumpling. Obviously there's no way to get around the slow throughput of the Wii U's SD reader.

Hi. One of the writers of the guide here.

Dumpling was my first choice since it's easy to use and doesn't require any other equipment than what you already had to hack the Wii U in the first place. It also works if you have a MacOS computer or even a phone.

I've never dumped a large amount of games myself so Dumpling has always worked fine for me but when you're dumping a large amount of games, I can see why it'd be frustrating.

Thanks for expressing your grievances. I'll consider adding "with USB" and USB-less methods to the MkDocs rework of the guide which can be seen here: https://lendunistus.github.io/wiiuvcextract-slatetest

 

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