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Chankast and Images
Aceldamor:
I'm a big fan of what I've read of Chankast, but I can't test it because I can't manage to make my own bootable ISO files from my DC games...
Is there a was to make an image from a DVDRW drive? I've read you can and you can't. Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks
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Thanks again
Lilwolf:
I never tried... I heard it was a pain in the butt..
but if you download an bootable image (one you already own I'm assuming)... then use alcohol 120% to burn it... It will work.
you can also just use the image and daemon tools are alcohol 120 to test the iso before burning.
pointdablame:
Making an image of a dreamcast game is a very difficult process. When I wanted to make copies of my games to take with me to college, I had to resort to downloading images as was mentioned. As far as I know, properly extracting an image takes at least a bit of specialized equipment, although that may have changed in the 2 years since I have tried. It may be possible to make one nowadays, but you would have to break through the GDROM's file structure.
As you probably know, a dreamcast game has an audio file, then a physical break in the burning process, followed by all of the game data. Last time I checked, no PC optical drives could read the discs natively. Hope that helps a little, and if anyone has tried this more recently and can debunk my claims, please do, because I was actually recently wondering if this had gotten any easier. Finding working images online is such a pain, I'd much rather deal with my actual copy of the game.
Generic Eric:
Man...as much as i would like to get into this conversation... I feel it safe to talk about principles...
Principly you are faced with the issue of the GD ROM, and the GDROM reader <-- The disc drive.
No matter what drive you have...cd, cdr, cdrw, dvd, dvdr etc... unless they are GDROM readers, your pc won't be able to read the data.
Having said that...
You are left with finding away to make your PC communicate with the Dreamcast.
Howard_Casto:
That's not necessarily true. In theory at least, dvdroms have the ability to read the discs.
The problem is special software/drivers will have to be written to skip the physical break and then piece the data back together. At this time nobody with intimate knowledge of how a dvdrom drive reads data has stepped up to make it work. I see it happening eventually though.