Sometimes, I’m astounded at the number of people who haven’t learned to copy Wii games yet. I even have some friends that ask me why it’s so important to make copies at all. They say that they have one copy, so why do they need another? Well, I’m about to elucidate…
Above all, games cost a lot of dough! Have you ever bought a game, only to have something happen to it? It usually happens right when you’re the heaviest into the game, meaning that if you want to finish up and “save the princess” so to speak, you have to run out and buy another copy of the game. Epic fail.
And then there’s the fact that games are fragile. It’s like a one-two punch. If they were just fragile, but not expensive, or expensive but not fragile, then perhaps making backups wouldn’t be so important. But the games get damaged at the drop of a hat, and then cost a lot of money to replace. A lot of times you CAN’T afford to replace them right away, and then you’re stuck playing whatever crappy old games you’ve already beaten. The best policy is to burn copies of your games, and then only use those copies to play with; you put the master copy up where it’ll be safe.
On a final note, think back to all of the times that you’ve misplaced Wii games. You’re playing a game, having a grand old time on a Saturday night. Then, you get up on Sunday to play that same game, and it’s not where you remember leaving. In fact, you scour the house, and come up empty handed. You never see the game again, and are left puzzled over what actually became of it. This never happens now that I make backups. I have 2 or 3 copies of each game ready to go, so if something happens to one, I just grab the next disc in line.
However, you may wonder how disc burning software works.? I’m happy to answer that question! As you probably realize, you can’t simply burn a game disc in the way that you might burn a music disc. If you’ve ever tried, you’ll realize that you’ll receive an error message when you attempt to play a copy made this way. This is because the game manufacturers encrypt the games . No legal impediments exist on cloning Wii games for personal usage, as a result of the Fair Use Act of last year. On the other hand, that ruling doesn’t mean that the game manufacturers have to make it simple for gamers to do this.
So you begin by downloading special applications that gets past the code and then burns the game in a way that the game system will play. You install this application onto your computer, then load the original game disc into your Windows or Mac PC’s CD or DVD burner. With 3 steps, the app downloads the disc to your hard drive, and follows that up by burning it to a brand new optical disc that you supply. The entire procedure will take just over 15 minutes per disc that you want to backup, however you certainly understand that that’s a very small amount of time to sit on your hands waiting to ensure that you games are safe.
So whatever you do, start backing up those games so that you’re not constantly hemorrhaging money replacing old games. Have fun!
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