Altering original Wii virtual console games to work on another Wii

[Ryloft]

Kind of a dumb question but does any one know of a way to take preexisting Wii virtual console titles and alter them to work on a different Wii? I am well aware that Nintendo locks each game to a specific console when you download it and that I could very easily homebrew the Wii and it would be infinitely easier that way, but I want to rip the VC games off of old Wii and combine them to create a Wii that has all the virtual console games accessible while maintaining as much originality as possible. bit of a side note but I was also curious if VC games even contain game data and if there was a way to unpack them into a playable wad?

 

[JuanMena]

Kind of a dumb question but does any one know of a way to take preexisting Wii virtual console titles and alter them to work on a different Wii? I am well aware that Nintendo locks each game to a specific console when you download it and that I could very easily homebrew the Wii and it would be infinitely easier that way, but I want to rip the VC games off of old Wii and combine them to create a Wii that has all the virtual console games accessible while maintaining as much originality as possible.

Well... I think emuNAND could work. It's literally a copy of the Wii's "OS" that you could theorically use to replace another's Wii original NAND. Although I'm not sure since it's something I've never used before.

Also, the Wii's Internal Memory is just *512mb in space. All the VC channels requires at least 10GB in space if not more. Not sure how many there are and the size in blocks depends on the console it's emulating. But it's usually 3/8mb for 1 NES VC channel (when the original rom is like 30kb or something)

And no, rom injections won't reduce the size of a VC channel.

 

[impeeza]

dump the title to a wad removing the signature, and the wad can be installed on any other wii.

https://wii.guide/dump-wads.html

 

[Ryloft]

thanks for the fast responses, does this prosses make the VC games launch off of any Wii regardless if it has been modded or not, I would think not due to the VC game being dumped as a wad. I also neglected to mention that all of my VC games are stored on an SD card and I no longer have the Wiis that they are originally from, am I just out of luck trying to get them to work on a different Wii?