The Nintendo Wii is one of the most popular game consoles around and it’s easy to see why. It’s great fun for all ages and the games are awesome. In fact, there are so many great Wii games out there that most Wii owners end up spending a small fortune buying them all. The problem, though, is that this pricey collection of games is highly vulnerable to damage, getting lost, and of course unplayable thanks to scratches and general misuse.

What you really want to be able to do is use cheap blank DVD media to back up your Wii games so you don’t need to use the originals and risk damaging them. However, as you can imagine, this is not an easy process. Thanks to copy protection measures, it is actually very difficult to copy Wii games.

In the past, the only way to play a copied Wii game was to install a mod chip in your console. This isn’t an easy process, as it requires you to open up your Wii (this voids the warranty, of course) and then solder the thin wires to the main board. As you can imagine, this has real potential for disaster, and unless you really know what you’re doing, there’s a good chance you’ll end up damaging your Wii beyond repair. The other thing about mod chips is that they are pretty expensive, sometimes up to $100 or more, and they don’t always work with every game.

So what can you do to copy Wii games without a mod-chip? Well, the answer is much simpler than you think. Thanks to some clever programming, you can now buy a piece of software that works like a virtual ‘copier’ for your Wii discs. This software can be downloaded from the Internet and costs less than your average Wii game disc. You install it on your Windows PC, this only takes a few minutes, and then you are ready to go. To copy a Wii game, simply place the original in the drive, press the green button on the screen, and wait for the contents of the discs to be copied to your hard drive. Then reverse the process, copying the image file to a blank disk. It’s so simple that a 5 year old can do it.

The reason this works is that this software cleverly creates an exact replica of the original drive, copy protection and all. Your Wii thinks it’s an original disc, so it won’t refuse to play it, and you don’t need to install mod chips, gizmos, or other dubious plugins for it to work. Simple, cheap and works every time, what more could you ask for?