Wednesday, March 11, 2009

GameCube Backup Launcher for Wii Made Easy!




A little dated news here, but WiiGator, the brilliance behind the Wii Backup Launcher (now in version 0.3 Gamma), has made an excellent backup launcher that can launch GameCube games.

The news here, however, is that the launcher has been constructed so it can launch a multiboot disc. This means that .gcn and .iso files alike can be combined into one single .iso file.


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A user of Bitsoup has made this process very easy. His latest contribution has been the uploading of an array of Gamecube games, 4 at a time, packaged with the Multigame ISO Creator. Here are a couple images:










Image taken from Bitsoup.org

This is the MultiGame ISO creator. As you can see, you can add ISO and/or Gamecube files and it displays the logo, size, name, and gives you the option to shrink. Shrinking is not advised, as it may mess up the game and give the Wii a disc read error.

This newer version now allows you to choose a DVD5 (4.7 GB) or DVD9 (8.5 GB).

After you have all your ISO's desired, simply cick "Create MultiGame ISO. It will ask you beforehand to specifiy its save destiniation, so I recommend making a separate folder on your desktop labeled "Multi ISO" or something so you don't confuse the new ISO with the individual old ISO's.

Burn using ImgBurn or other and put it in your Wii!

I am hoping that in the near future WiiGator makes the GCN backup launcher CHANNEL, just like the BackupLauncher 0.3 Gamma Channel. But for now, you have to access the GCN launcher via Homebrew Channel. From there, you can press left and right on your GCN conttoller to pick your game. Pressing A, B, Z, X, and Y depends on how you want to launch the game...but pressing A auto detects the version and boots from there, which is recommended. Here is a demo of me using the launcher from start to end. Enjoy!




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