Pop the SD card in your computer and then copy the game saves onto the SD card. In order to copy your own game save backups, your friend’s game save backups, or the backups you’ve grabbed off the web, onto your Wii you just need to be able to drag and drop files.
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Now that you know how to copy game saves from the Wii you’re ready to copy them from your computer. If you mix up all your data.bin files there isn’t an easy way to tell them apart.
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Make sure to preserve the full folder structure \private\wii\title\R9IE\ for ease of restoration. From here you can copy that game save to your hard drive, to another SD card, or pack it up and email it to your friend. That self-contained file holds all of the game save data for that game. Each /gamecode/ directory will have a data.bin file inside it. The data.bin file is where the magic resides. Let’s open up that folder and take a peek: Our own demo transfer here is proof of that, we saved Pikim (a game ported from the Game Cube) and the title code is R9IE. It’s neat to know that but beware that sometimes there are deviations, especially with Game Cube ports and games with tons of related titles (such as all the Metroid releases). The first letter indicates the system (R for Wii, N for N64), the second letter is the first letter of the game name (such as M for Mario), the third letter is the fourth letter of the name (such as I for Mar io) and the last letter of the game code is the region code (such as E for English or J for Japanese). If you want to geek out for the sake of geeking out, you can also use a simple algorithm to figure out which game is which. How do you decode that mess? The easiest way is to consult a list of Wii game codes, such as this massive list at WiiSave. If this is your first transfer you’ll only see one directory, if you’ve copied multiple game saves you’ll have multiple and confusingly named directories within the /title/ folder, like the screenshot below:
Here is where all of the saved games you’ve transferred to the SD card are located. Plug in the SD card and navigate to the directory /private/wii/title/. We’re using a PC running Windows 7 for this tutorial but any computer that can read the FAT file system will work just fine. When it’s done copying, eject your SD card from the Wii and take it over to your computer. Select any game you want using the Wiimote and then press the Copy button in the dialog box that pops up, like so: Right now you’re looking at all the Wii game saves stored on the Wii’s internal memory.