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chrisnkaz
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17. February 2009 @ 12:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hi all i have downloaded a wii iso a back up of one i own what i want to know is how was this shrunk from 4.37 down to just over 700mb
what program did they use and what method
if anyone can shed any light that would be great id love to shrink my collection down to this size
many thanks chris
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17. February 2009 @ 13:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They use Wii Scrubber to scrub the games so it can be compressed the ISO for file transfer.

File transferring a scrubbed game is really the only benefit. When you extract the ISO it is still 4.7GB in size.

I guess if you save all games on HDD for backup purposes scrubbing and compressing them would be a benefit as well.
chrisnkaz
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18. February 2009 @ 12:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hi thanks for the reply i have downloaded wii scrubber but i do not have a clue what to do is there a guide or can you walk me through this process
penguin98
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18. February 2009 @ 12:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I dont think theres a guide since its pretty self-explanatory. Start the program, select the iso you want to scrub, run it and wait while it generates an output. It will be something like 'Wii Sports(compress).iso'

Then rar the file with (compress) in the name. It will still be 4.37gigs until you rar it, then it will drop down to a much smaller size. How small it gets depends on the game. The final size could be anywhere from 300mb to 4gigs.
dacore84
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30. March 2009 @ 03:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
After I scrubbed a game and rar:ed it. Can I just unpack it and burn it or do I need to unscrub it also before burning it?
karlroby
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30. March 2009 @ 05:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You simply just take the ISO out of the rar archive and then burn it with imgburn, simple as that :)
dacore84
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30. March 2009 @ 06:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by karlroby:
You simply just take the ISO out of the rar archive and then burn it with imgburn, simple as that :)
Ok just to be 100%, you mean I don´t need to unscrub it before burning?

Do you also know if there is any disadvantages with scrubbing games? Can there be any problems when playing or burning the game? Or are there just advantages with this method?
karlroby
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30. March 2009 @ 06:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You definately dont need to unscrub the game, simply just pull the ISO out of the rar archive and burn with imgburn at 1x. All that the wii scrubber does is takes out 'dummy' files from the ISO that are not needed in the game, this does not affect game play. If you seem to get issues with some games then that could simply be a problem with the speed that your burning at and the type of media your using or even if your wii is soft or hard modded :)

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 30. March 2009 @ 06:17

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dacore84
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30. March 2009 @ 08:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by karlroby:
You definately dont need to unscrub the game, simply just pull the ISO out of the rar archive and burn with imgburn at 1x. All that the wii scrubber does is takes out 'dummy' files from the ISO that are not needed in the game, this does not affect game play. If you seem to get issues with some games then that could simply be a problem with the speed that your burning at and the type of media your using or even if your wii is soft or hard modded :)
Oh excellent! Thank you very much!
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