so i have been downloading games and they dont seem to work. for example: i have the house of the dead overkill. extracted the folder "Isos". inside the "Isos" folder is another winrar file. when i try to extract that it says it is not in archive or damaged. i tried to just burn the winrar file in the "Isos" folder. it shows up in the home menu of the screen, but when i play it on the disc channel, it gives me a black screen. when i load it on my back up player wii gator gamma it will either say it has corrupted files, or it will play but the screen is rolling continously. PLEASE HELP I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE THIS STUFF OUT FOR DAYS!!! thanks
First of all: make sure you have a decent download.
Secondly, don't open the .iso file. I know you can open it with WinRAR but that's not the idea, burn the .iso file to a dvd-r with imgburn. More info in threads that are stickied.
also it could be your backup loader also i had a black screen of goodness with burger island then i softmodded the wii and it plained clean when it was able to play threw disk channel
You could also try booting the .ISO through a 5 gig USB stick through the use of a USB launcher application in the Home Brew Channel. People have had better success through that.
the .iso file isnt there. when i download the games i get a winrar file that contains some internet links and a folder that says isos. after extracting there is a second winrar file that might be the game itself, but when i try to extract it it says its damaged
i have read a couple of other threads with the same problem but i dont understand what/how he did. here is the thread.
If its says iso then its an iso. Your file assocoations must be set up to have iso images open with winrar, though in my experience winrar can rarely open them.
In this case it definatly won't be able to open the iso since I dont know of any programs that can open a wii iso.
Ah thank you, I think these are indeed iso files....I unchecked "iso" in winrar's file associations and the zelda file is indeed listed as an iso and not winrar archive now. Is it normal for the properties to show it as 4.37gb size and 4,699,979,776 bytes in brackets though?
Yes it is normal, they are supposed to be 4.37 Gb, which is actually 4,589,824KB in windows display. Any lower, and they are damaged, or otherwise scrubbed. Hope this helped, just pop in the DVD and burn using IMGburn! :D
