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Will any of these CD drives work for dumping Wii Game?
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Will any of these CD drives work for dumping Wii Game?
10-23-2017, 09:55 AM
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PikabrawlerGamez
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I really want to emulate my wii games with no homebrew, so which of these would work? (Rawdump)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/CD-R-RW-GCR-8481B-CD-ROM-48x-IDE-Desktop-Drive-HITACHI-LG-Data-Storage-/292279945012?hash=item440d3e0734:g:Vm4AAOSwG7lZ1Gr4

https://www.ebay.com/itm/LG-H-L-Data-Storage-GH22NS70-Super-Multi-DVD-SATA-Optical-Drive-DVDA-R-A-RW-/332034546519?epid=1122999496&hash=item4d4ecd1b57:g:GmcAAOSw23lZqW-n
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10-24-2017, 09:35 AM
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Before anyone says anything about those specific drives, I'm going to mention that it's usually a lot easier and a lot cheaper to buy a used Wii for dumping games. If you keep it, you can also use other things like a NAND dump to enable extra functionality in Dolphin, or if you're on a tight budget, you can sell it again for roughly what you bought it for.

Rawdump and Friidump are generally pretty unreliable and exceedingly slow. With the vast majority of drives that support them at all, they only actually can dump a subset of disks. For example, some may only work for Wii games, some may only work for GameCube games, some may not support dual layer disks, and some may have multiple issues.
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10-24-2017, 10:07 AM
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Well, not cheaper, that drive is 10 dollars lol

But infinitely less finicky and more reliable, yeah.
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10-26-2017, 05:42 AM
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I've seen used Wiis for less than that, so it might still be cheaper, especially considering that it's easier to sell a used Wii at cost than a DVD drive.
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