N64 Virtual Console Wad
N64 Virtual Console Wads
WiiWare is a companion to the Virtual Console, which specializes in emulated games originally developed for other systems instead of original titles. WiiWare Compatibility List This is the main list of games released on WiiWare for the Wii video game system, organized alphabetically by their localized English titles or, when Japan-exclusive. (I only have 2 N64 games and 1 SNES game, and I don't know what to do on the last step for SNES games; if someone knows what to do with the final file please comment!) This will take you step-by-step to help you extract the ROM from a Virtual Console game in your NAND backup (if you need to dump that still go here ).
I know of one way to do this (NAND dump and then access the VC channel from the system menu) but I don't want to emulate within an emulator. I read in that it is possible to extract an N64 ROM from a wad of the virtual console game. Download autocad 2010 full version. The only problem is I do not have the wad of the game (because, as I understand it, wads are installers and the Wii Shop Channel automatically installs for you). I only have the meaningless numbered folder with.app files and.tik, etc. Is there a way to either re-pack the previously installed (and backed-up) VC game into a wad, or maybe re-download the wad from Nintendo (on my Wii) and stop it from installing so I can just get the wad? I want to play Majora's Mask on my computer (I got it for free from the Club Nintendo program, so now I don't have to worry about trying to play it on my damaged Collector's Edition disc). (, 10:00 AM)linkinworm Wrote: MM VC doesnt work on dolphin Yeah I ended up figuring that out when the extracted N64 ROM (which was only 32 MB by the way) didn't work.
(, 10:00 AM)linkinworm Wrote: I found that any VC n64 game that has a 40mb package doesn load for some reason Actually, one of the other games that I have (Paper Mario) is a 40 MB ROM and it works fine in both Dolphin and Project 64. I'm not so sure that the correlation that you noticed between 40 MB ROMs and problems in Dolphin is entirely correct in all cases.
I plan on making a guide to make it easier for people on these forums to extract the original console ROM from a NAND backup of their games. I'll see about posting that up soon. Axxer, got your PM, but unfortunately you yourself don't have PMs enabled, so I couldn't respond:p Anyway, feel free to post such a guide here in the Support forum, or in General Discussion. It's not entirely unrelated to Dolphin, since we do get a lot of questions about playing N64 VC games. The best solution, more often than not, is to use an N64 emulator, but that doesn't help those who own only the VC titles and not the N64 ROM.