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The Tiny Revolution: Inside the World of Highly Compressed Wii ROMs

Dolphin Emulator: Right-click any game in your library and select "Convert File..." to change an ISO into a highly compressed .RVZ [1]. nintendo wii roms highly compressed

A primary reason for the large size of raw Wii ISOs is the inclusion of "junk" or "dummy" files. Nintendo used these files to push meaningful game data to the outer edges of the physical disc, where the read speed is faster due to the disc's rotational physics. The Tiny Revolution: Inside the World of Highly

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• Hard drives read data sequentially. A 400MB highly compressed file requires far less physical read time than a 4.3GB ISO.
• Modern CPUs (even in low-end laptops) decompress WBFS on the fly faster than a DVD drive could spin.
• Exception: If you have a very old Pentium 4 or Celeron laptop, the decompression overhead might cause slight lag. For any Core 2 Duo or newer, you are safe.

3. Wii U Virtual Console injections

Some users convert highly compressed Wii ROMs into injects for Wii U. This requires the ROM to be in WBFS format first.