Dreamcast Rip DB

[Darkfalz]

I hope so! Vorlem would be okay, except it just crashes on some saves, doesn't support time stamps/read only files etc. properly (Uses vmi/vms instead of DCI) and other things. It's such a shame it never got an update.

I haven't tried lately, but would yours work for simply saving DCI files, via dc-tool CDFS redirection/iso mounting? Then I can use vmurip for ripping the files...

We really do just need a barebones save/load with nothing fancy... maybe you can do that first, then add all the fancy GUI elements and so on.

Also, what about a standalone command line tool to convert between DCI and VMI/VMS? The existing tools for doing so are extremely cumbersome (and don't preserve all attributes).

AFAIK, none of the available vmu app's support DCI files, you've to convert .DCI to vmi/vms before you can use 'em.

Actually the .DCI format it's pretty simple, although it has the data byte-swapped and has to be correctly swap-back before saving to the VMU.
For my future VMU Tool I'll work first on good save/load routines that support .dci, .vmi, .bin/.dcm dumps, etc. After I've that working fine, I'll work on the "neat" GUI.

About the command line tool for DCI <-> VMI/VMS, that should be quickly doable. I can't guarantee it, but I might work on it this week if I get some free time.

btw, if you want, add your Resident Evil 2 rip to the Dreamcast Rip Database!

Originally Posted by Darkfalz

We really do just need a barebones save/load with nothing fancy... maybe you can do that first, then add all the fancy GUI elements and so on.

Also, what about a standalone command line tool to convert between DCI and VMI/VMS? The existing tools for doing so are extremely cumbersome (and don't preserve all attributes).

About a week ago I began working on the barebones for the hopefully next-gen VMU CD app... and to test the C++ classes I coded I decided to do the DCI <-> VMI/VMS command line tool I promised you long ago.

I know there are other tools to do this same job, but I think this is the first tool to handle both-way conversions (DCI <-> VMI/VMS) without any other parameter than source file (a DCI or VMI file) and destination file (for .DCI target) or resource name (for .VMI/VMS target).

Check this page http://www.bucanero.com.ar/verpost.php?id_noticia=181 for more info and download links.

Right now there's just a Win32 binary, but I´ll release the source code and a Linux version as soon as I clean up the code.

Please test this tool and post your comments.

Merry Xmas & happy hollidays!

[Darkfalz]

Well no need to convert between formats for me (actually, might not be such a bad idea since Vorlem can upload them now?) but I've actually packed away my PC DC and serial cable, I just got a couple of 800 block memory cards and that's what I'm going to use instead.