I'm a little confused about an ISO that is wiiscrubbed. I unRAR-ed it and it's 4.7gb which is normal. But if its been wiiscrubbed, doesnt that mean that its meant to be smaller??
Do I still need to do anything to this full 4.7gb (I've checked the kb size, its a normal wii game size) for it to work perfect with the wii or is the fact that its a 4.7gb file mean that its perfectly ok already?
when the iso is wiiscrubbed its a smaller size for downloading but when its extracted it adds dummy files to the iso to make it 4.7gb otherwise it wouldnt work in the wii, so to answer your question you just need to burn it and it should work perfectly.
Sometimes they mention wiiscrub, but sometimes not. But whenever I un-RAR it, its still 4.7gb. So I take it that as long as its 4.7gb, whether its wiiscrub labelled or not, its ok??
Cos I hear of people damaging the laser of their wii if its not burnt correctly to Wii format...and when I play these burns, there's lots of drive activity coming from my wii (loud disc seeking sounds). Whereas with originals, there is just the whirring noise of a spinning disc (much less seeking apparently). Any thoughts??
All scrubbing the iso does is it takes the padding data from the image and replaces it with all zeros so that the iso can be compressed better for storage or filesharing. For example: Wii sports. The image is 4.7 gigs but the game itself is only about 400mb. So a scrubbed image will compress down to around 400mb even though uncompressed the image is still 4.7gigs.
And as for the drive being louder, it has nothing to do with the image being scrubbed or not because the wii dosent read any of the data thats been changed. Its just that its harder for the laser to read a burned disk than an origional. It probably does cause more wear and tear on the drive but I've been using mine for well over a year and it still reads fine.
there's 2 ISOs of the exact same game and one is scrubbed at 2.90gb and another unscrubbed at 4.21gb zipped.
So what you're saying is that both of them are exactly the same and it doesnt matter which I use right?? (i.e. get the smaller, easier to download one?)
Well, there is a chance that nintendo will roll out a new update that will make the wii check on the filler data and if its been messed with block the game from playing.
However, for now, I'd go for the smaller one since both will work just fine.
