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Infinite Jest 
Thanks for the info, but I'm not sure that will actually just rip it off of the disc. I think hyou use that to format your HDD when you do a disc rip via wii homebrew and then after to view them. I've been googling around and there doesn;t seem to be a solution without doing a little homebrew. (rep) I may just wind up modding it this weekend anyway.
Well, I used WiiBackupManager and I was allowed to rip the .iso image. You can rip it out as other formats too. It works perfectly fine on my Wii. I have this cheapo Chinese Wii (although it came with Japanese as the preset language) with the Homebrew Channel which runs Configurable USB Loader (one of the backup bootloaders on the GBATemp site). I have a 320GB hard drive that I formatted to FAT 32 since the Wii doesn't accept NTFS (I forgot what program I used) which has the .iso images. I select the source the USB loader reads from (which I set to USB) and all of my games are there.
Simply put, it should rip it off the disc. I do have games that actually work with the CD drive but those I purchased in China. I think they use the NTSC-J format (or something like that but I'm pretty sure my Wii is land locked).