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hi
you are a guy that i can relate to, because I have a problem copying original games but when you ask questions, yes, you do get extremely vague answers
look at my DC2PC posting
anyway, this is what i know
to transfer games from your DC to your PC you need DC2PC cable, this is available from www.liksang.com and comes under dreamcast coder cable (£16).
then you need a GD rom rippin' toolkit, available from www.dccopyworld.com inder DC Utilities
or you can get dreamrip from
http://xboox.virtualave.net/dl/dreamrip.zip
a serial upload slave from
http://www3.sympatico.ca/fulg/
a terminal emulator from
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/ttermp23.zip
once you have ripped the files from the GD Rom, you need to unzip them with
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/beambitious/distrib/eo150.exe (no other compressing software will do) this is in japanese but extremely straight forward to use
when you are looking for instrucions on what to do with all this software, check the readme in the dreamrip directory
As for copying backups its really just trial and error, but you will find that the newer the CdR the easier it will be, there is a post on theis forum that tells you what burner people use, with what software and what games they have done.
I also need help with backing up, when you are extracting images from your GdROm the terminal emulator puts them some where and when i do a search on my PC for trackxx.iso.gz or trackxx.raw.gz I cannot find it, can somebody tell me how to set up the tera term so that i know where these files are going (theres nothing more annoying than waiting 18 hours for a game to go onto your machine then not being able to find the file)
one more thing, using the DC2P calbe is slower than spending a week in solitary confinement but www.doubledutchdesigns.com used to do a pci card that increased the speed of the transfer but i a not sure if it is still available
bet you all that is as clear as mud
purepest
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