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- Ripping Gamecube Games Once
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- Rip Gamecube Games On Wii
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- Ripping Gamecube Games One
- Rip Gamecube Games On Pc
Ripping Gamecube Games Once
I’ve had a few people ask me lately if you can copy your original Dreamcast games onto your PC and then burn them onto backup CDs.
Techincally, the answer is “yes”, but it’s not what you think. (Let me explain in a bit)
Basicically, I just give the answer “no” because it’s more complicated, time consuming, and expensive than the make it worth it.
Ripping Gamecube Games Onto
Let me explain…
First of all, all retail Dreamcast games use a special disc format called a GD-ROM (more info). To make a long story short, a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive cannot read information off of a GD-ROM.
In addition, a GD-ROM holds about twice as much as a CD-ROM. So even if you got the information off the GD-ROM, it, in most cases, would not fit on a CD. And you cannot put it on a DVD because the Dreamcast cannot read DVDs.
The only way to rip a Dreamcast game to a PC is to have the game in Dreamcast and connect the machine to your PC using expensive connection hardware and software.
THEN, once you have the data onto your PC, you have to, in most cases, compress, cut out and/or downsample (reduce the quality) of the audio and video so that everything fits on a CD.
Even after you have reached that point, you need to go through a significant amount of hacking just to get the game to boot on the Dreamcast.
So the moral of the story is that you are just better off leaving this process to the few groups that have experience with the subject. If you want a backup copy of your Dreamcast game, you should just obtain an existing rip from somebody else.
Even if you have some extremely rare game, all you have to do it announce it to the Dreamcast community, and some experienced ripper will do it for you 🙂
If you have any addtional question, corrections, or comments about ripping Dreamcast games, just use the comments option below.
Game Ripping: Gamecube/Wii
Definitely the simplest platform for archiving/emulation if you have an old Wii. I got my entire Wii/Gamecube library backed up recently, and it barely took any longer than the time to scan the discs (9min GCN, 24min/45min Wii single/dual layer). PC disc drives are NOT recommended, I had two not work for me, but the Wii worked immediately…
My test disc, in one of many failed PC drive rip attempts. It is claimed that certain PC drives can rip GCN/Wii games. On Windows 7, I have tried one of these drives (a SATA drive, GH20NS15) and had it fail repeatedly with multiple pieces of software (Rawdump 2.1, 2.0, and friidump 0.5.3). On Windows XP, I have tried an IDE equivalent (also on confirmed lists), and it failed with all software as well.
A successful rip in progress!
So softmodding a Wii is actually really easy by comparison. It makes no hardware modifications, and basically just takes an older SD card firmware tweak (very easy, just sending the Wii a reset message from the LetterBomb website, then opening a file on the Wii) and having CleanRip on the SD card as well. That’s it! Took less than 30min to setup. Then you can rip any Wii or GCN game to the SD card using Homebrew Channel + CleanRip, and you have your fair use backup in case of fire/earthquakes.
Extra deets:
LetterBomb is at http://please.hackmii.com/ and just needs your Wii MAC address, easily found in the Wii network settings.
I used hackmii_installer_v1.2, which comes with both Homebrew Channel and BootMii too (don’t remember what I used BootMii for, but my notes say it was useful).
Rip Gamecube Games On Wii
You probably have System Software 4.3 on the Wii, the latest update - from a number of years ago (2010). The homebrew firmware update for this is the LetterBomb.
Ripping Gamecube Games On Pc
8GB SDHC card did not work for installation! Required 1GB SD card instead. Both worked for actual ripping (and Homebrew/CleanRip can be moved onto the Wii itself to make room for game files)
Ripping Gamecube Games One
Old Wiis are good because this breaks your warranty. Warranty only lasts 1yr anyways though.
Rip Gamecube Games On Pc
Sometimes the games have to be split into parts, but you can merge them back together on Windows with command “copy /b file.part1 file.part2 file.part3 fileFinal.iso” where file is the file name, and fileFinal is where you want them merged. If requested, I have a batch file I can upload that does this in bulk, but unless you rip your whole library at once, doing this by hand isn’t so bad.
And that’s it! If you have any other questions, Google first! This stuff is really well documented on http://wiibrew.org/ for everything I mentioned here. Any questions about my post specifically (and not Wii game ripping, which is all on wiibrew.org) you can reach me on gmail as BlinksTale.