Why You Need to Backup Your Wii Games

Because video game discs use a form of "copyright protection" that prevents your computer from being able to make a copy. So if you attempt to use your burning program you have it will not be able to bur it due to the protection code blocking it from extracting to data it needs to make a copy.

Regular burning software - even high end programs like Roxio and Nero - can't copy this kind of disk due to the encryption included on it. The copy protection that comes as part of one of these disks means that your computer just doesn't have a way to make sense of the data.

One thing many new Wii owners are no doubt wondering is how to backup Wii games. After all, the games could become lost or damaged, on loan to friends or otherwise unavailable to you - just when you wanted that game the most! Learning how to backup your Wii games means you'll never have to face the disappointment of wanting to play a particular game, only to find it has gone AWOL on you.

There is software available for just this purpose. In fact, you're going to need this special software to even get started - this software is used to backup game discs, or at least it takes care of the most difficult portion of the process. Armed with this software, you'll be able to read and copy that data from Wii discs and then copy them to DVDs. Without it, your computer will not even recognize Wii discs placed in your optical drive (CD/DVD burner).

There are a few different choices out there for backing up your Wii games onto DVDs, evaluate your options carefully before making your decision on how to backup your games onto discs for safekeeping and of course, playing. Not every program for this purpose performs equally well. Once you have made your decision about software, however, the process is very simple.

In a nutshell, this is the procedure to backup Wii games: use the aforementioned software to read and copy the data for your Wii games from the disc, then use the same software for burning your backup as you would to burn any other DVD disc. All that's left is to play your new backup, or simply bask in the security of having one. Now that you've learned how to backup Wii games, you can get started on it yourself.