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Title: Dreamcas CD image
Post by: Jedirampage on April 25, 2007, 10:16:48 pm

Hi all,

Can someone walk me through the process or at least point me in the general direction of turning my Marvel Vs Capcom 2 dreamcast game into a CD image to emulate on my PC.

Title: Re: Dreamcas CD image
Post by: DarkBubble on April 25, 2007, 11:41:57 pm

Save yourself some time and money and just download it somewhere.  You'll need extra equipment to interface your Dreamcast to your PC to copy it, as a PC cannot read GD-ROMs.  The only thing a PC can read are the occasional .bmp backgrounds in standard CD format that were slipped onto some games as extras.

Title: Re: Dreamcas CD image
Post by: Organic Jerk on April 25, 2007, 11:56:40 pm

I'm fairly certain that DC's MvC2 uses a GD-ROM disc, and you unfortunately can't rip those types of discs on your PC unless you purchase the proper cable to use your Dreamcast as a drive....

This guy explains it a bit more in depth:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2005/05/can-you-copy-dreamcast-games-on-your.html (http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2005/05/can-you-copy-dreamcast-games-on-your.html)

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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.

EDIT: Yeap.  ;D

Title: Re: Dreamcas CD image
Post by: DarkBubble on April 26, 2007, 05:10:12 pm

Quote from: OrganicJerk on April 25, 2007, 11:56:40 pm

I'm fairly certain that DC's MvC2 uses a GD-ROM disc, and you unfortunately can't rip those types of discs on your PC unless you purchase the proper cable to use your Dreamcast as a drive....

All official releases were GD-ROM.

Title: Re: Dreamcas CD image
Post by: Organic Jerk on April 26, 2007, 05:12:51 pm

Quote from: DarkBubble on April 26, 2007, 05:10:12 pm

All official releases were GD-ROM.

Gotcha.  I only recently came into possession of a Dreamcast, so I didn't know for sure.