Under U.S. DMCA 1201 exemptions (2021, renewed 2024): “Preservation of video games that require server communication” allows dumping and sharing of authentication data for abandoned consoles.
The Wii’s NAND is divided into:
We dumped a North American Wii with 90 installed titles (including World of Goo , Castlevania ReBirth , and Pokémon Rumble ) and all system channels. After redaction, the NAND size was 512 MB. The Internet Archive item “wii_nand_4.3u_preservation_2024” was created with: wii nand internet archive