I used Wanniko's DVD dumper v1.3 with cIOS249 installed on my 3.2e wii with HBC and DVDx to dump my Super Smash Bros. Brawl game to my SD card, I was told it was a DL-DVD so thats what I chose to backup, now I have 5 parts of the game, all 5 files are called RSBP and there all .iso format, I have nero but the problem is that I can only burn 1 to a disk, is there any way I can join the 5 parts together? also If i have a GamecubeISO can I burn it to a CD if I shrink it enough?? also can I shrink wii games using wii scrubber???. thanks in advance
You do have to combine the chunks into the full iso to burn a working game. I think you use hjsplit to combine them but I forget for sure since I usually direct people to the wifi disk dumping method available here. Whatever guide you were following to dump the game should say how to combine them.
The wii cannot read CDs, so burning a GC game to one will not work.
The way wiiscrubber works is that wii games contain padding data to make them 4.37gigs. Wiiscrubber removes that padding with different padding that compresses well. So a scrubbed game will still be 4.37gigs, you only see the difference in file size when you compress it with winrar or some other file compressing program.
Any particular reason you would want to remove the padding data? For archiving and sharing you can rar them down to the small size. And if you could somehow completely remove the padding from the game it probably wouldnt work anymore.
well Dolphin gamecube emulator could compress my animal crossing game from 1.4GB down to 200MB by removing the dummy data and making it the same game but a lot smaller, If I could do that with SsBB maybe it could fit on a normal DVD instead of a DL-DVD...
GC games can be shrunk, wii games can only be scrubbed. Currently its not possible to shrink a wii game and still have it work.
As for brawl, you think they'd spend extra for DL disks if it could be fit on a normal one? Brawl doesn't contain much padding data, it's filled it up with cutscenes.
If you look around online there are single layer copies of the game that they made by removing the cutscenes, but the game will crash when it tries to load one of them. So the story mode and some other features are unusable.
