Step 1. Download Wii game(s) from The Pirate Bay
Note: This guide is for educational purposes only.
A. Install uTorrent, if you don’t already have it.
B. Visit The Pirate Bay here.
C. Search for your game.
- If you are actually looking for a specific game, then go ahead and type in the game title, deselect All, select Games and click on Pirate Search. For the torrent with most Seeders (fastest download speed), go to the top right corner of the search results and click on SE. This will list the torrents from high to low seeders.
- If you simply want to find a popular game with high seeders, select Browse Torrents>Wii>SE.
D. Once you find a torrent you want, click on it.
E. Click on DOWNLOAD THIS TORRENT.
F. Open the torrent file, then uTorrent will show you what files are included in the torrent. Just click OK.
G. To the left of uTorrent, click Downloading to check your download.
H. To get your download faster by limiting how much you upload, you right-click the download and select Bandwidth Allocation>Set Upload Limit.
Note: I have a 12 MBPS internet connection, and I find that limiting my upload to 25 kbps makes my download the fastest. However, you should experiment because your connection is probably different.
Note: Please seed for a little while!
Step 2. Extract your download as an .ISO file, if it isn’t already
A. After done downloading, click on Completed to the left side, and double-click your download.
B. You should be taken to where you downloaded your game.
- In some cases the .ISO is uncompressed and ready to be imported.
- In most cases, there is a .RAR file or multiple .RAR containing a compressed .ISO. Just double-click the first one to begin .ISO extraction.
C. Now you should see the compressed .ISO file. To confirm, look under the “Name” column for .iso at the end.
D. To extract the .ISO, simply “drag and drop” it anywhere you want. You’ll import this into a USB Drive soon.
Note: You should have all your .ISOs in one folder so you can import them easily in Part 4.
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Hi, do you have to format your Hard Drive every time you want to add more games through WBFS? Because its not letting me add any more games until I format again. Which means I’ll again have to put on the games that are already on there again?
oh wait, nevermind. thanks.
Hey great job on this guy Homebrew! I’m really impressed! I definitely bought the same crap guide that you did, and it was so complex and useless, such a rip off. I asked for a refund it was so bad.
Hey,
i just download a game from Piratebay, and is that normal if the game was already in .iso? If yes, can i burn it directly on my disc?
Thank u ^^.
Yes, it is normal if it’s already in .iso. Yes, you can burn it directly on your disc. However, your Wii might not be able to play it. Look at the troubleshooting section please.
Hey bud, I jst installed home brew. I have a black wii… I didnt kno or havent tried if plays dvds, if thts the case does that mean I cant play wii games im new at wii js and want to enjoy.
You can play original Wii game discs. You cannot play burned DVDs. You can, however, play games through a USB hard drive.
i wanna hack my wii 4.3U, do i really need to download a game first after the hack ?
I assumed the game would finish downloading as you finished hacking your Wii. It’s up to you.
i downloaded game from pirate bay…evrytime i try to drop the iso file from the torrent…it says i cant….dont know how to move it from there so i can put on my sd…
You have to stop the torrent from seeding before you can move the file. You’re not supposed to put it on your SD card.
Thanks so much to those that maintain this site. The tutorials were easy to follow and all worked and I have softmodded my wii after many unsuccessful attempts with other sites and tutorials. Again – thanks. This site is awesome and a great resource. I can’t say thanks enough!! Keep up the awesome work.
Hello and merry Christmas
I have a wii and I did the unlock procedure. Because unlock not completed I read that it needs version 4.3. Because I had the version 3.4 upgrade and from this moment wii not see the files from the sd card. I think lock !!!!
Do you know if i can do something ?
Best regards
Loukas
Update to 4.3.
how do u seed???
Oh, you just let the torrent upload when you’re done downloading. If everyone leeched then no one would be able to download the games.
Does this tutorial works on the black wii that already comes with the 4.3 version?
Yes, it does. You need to use a regular Wiimote without WIi Motion Plus, though.
thank you homebrewpirate! this was effortless. you are awesome.
In the “type of file section”, it says the file is a iso file, but its not a disc file image will it still work.. I have installed power iso, dameon tools, winzar, do i use any one of these programs to make it into a disc file image??
Oh, if it doesn’t read disc image it’s OK. As long as it is a .ISO.
Do you have to download the game off pirate bay??? Can I use a game I downloaded previously from btjunkie???
You could download it from anywhere.
ok thx homebrewpirate i have mines working just fine ur the best bro
For gamecube games how do i download them? And do i need a hard-drive or can I us a USB? What program do I need?
Before you download GC games, you need to make sure your Wii can play burned DVDs, because you can’t play GC games through USB. The new Black Wii for example, has the new D3-2 drive which cannot play burned DVDs. You can check if your Wii can play backup DVDs here:
How Do I Know if a Wii Can Read DVDs
I downloaded a copy of the game for backup of Super Mario but the file suffix is .wbfs. It is not a .ISO. How do I decompress that file?
You can convert it from WBFS to ISO with WBFS manager.
After I downloaded the game and open it up. For some reason its with the WinRAR archive and i can not open it. How can I make it open with “To Disc”?
You need to install WinRar to open it.
i orady did this thanks alot how can i put amulatonr on my like nitendo super nitendo n64 n gamecube
You need to finish Part 2 & 3 and then you can download the apps and games you want. Just Google “wii ____ emulator” and put whatever console you want. You’ll find the apps (emulators) you can install into the homebrew channel. As for loading games, you can actually store a lot of SNES games on a SD card. For n64 you might need a hard drive.