I remember years ago that a recommendation for Wii game dumping was a set of specific drives that could read Wii games via software that could utilize a driver quirk (free dump?) to read Wii/GC discs.
In the past I actually attempted to procure one from a seller and when i received it it was the wrong model (The seller insisted it should work to replace the drive in any PC that drive was in when I complained) and despite numerous attempts it wouldn't read the discs. To this day I've just had a homebrewed Wii set aside to dump my games and while it's worked it requires several extra steps to move the files on top maintaining shelf space for a machine that only dumps Wii/GC games. I have knocking around in my head the idea of an all in one game dumping machine and I have a spare PC upstairs that I could do that with. I already have a USB DS cart dumper, a USB SNES/Genesis/GBA/GB cart dumper, and the regular DVD drive I have can dump PS1/PS2 games. Getting a Wii/GC drive along with an external Blu-ray drive of the type that could read PS3 games could really get me close to that goal.
Anyway with that out of the way I was curious if any of these drives are still around and can be purchased new/still working used without an exuberant fee.
In the past I actually attempted to procure one from a seller and when i received it it was the wrong model (The seller insisted it should work to replace the drive in any PC that drive was in when I complained) and despite numerous attempts it wouldn't read the discs. To this day I've just had a homebrewed Wii set aside to dump my games and while it's worked it requires several extra steps to move the files on top maintaining shelf space for a machine that only dumps Wii/GC games. I have knocking around in my head the idea of an all in one game dumping machine and I have a spare PC upstairs that I could do that with. I already have a USB DS cart dumper, a USB SNES/Genesis/GBA/GB cart dumper, and the regular DVD drive I have can dump PS1/PS2 games. Getting a Wii/GC drive along with an external Blu-ray drive of the type that could read PS3 games could really get me close to that goal.
Anyway with that out of the way I was curious if any of these drives are still around and can be purchased new/still working used without an exuberant fee.