Shenmue self rip not working

[Darkfalz]

Never use that automated crap, learn how to do it properly from scratch, it's much better.

[Shiki]

Cool, thanks for the detailed info. I'll try it again this weekend.

One thing I'm not sure though, is how do I know if Dreamrip has finished copying successfully? When I woke up and checked on TeraTerm Pro, it showed some chinese/japanese characters on the terminal.

The reason I'm making this backup (along with Shenmue 2) is so that I can mount a full, un-downsampled image and run it in Chankast. Do you know if that's possible?

[Shiki]

Ok I have followed your instructions up to the point where I open the image with IsoBuster. How do I create a sorttxt.txt file and what does it do?

Also, this image isn't self-bootable yet is it?

I tried to extract out all the files, and use binhack with the 1st_read.bin in the image and bootfile.bin that fixiso created, but it gave this error:

Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
General Protection Fault at eip=00001c06
eax=00000000 ebx=00050006 ecx=00000043 edx=00490000 esi=00000054 edi=000166c0
ebp=00056694 esp=00056660 program=D:\FASTBO~1.29\FASTBOOT\BINHACK.EXE
cs: sel=01a7 base=029a0000 limit=0048ffff
ds: sel=01af base=029a0000 limit=0048ffff
es: sel=01af base=029a0000 limit=0048ffff
fs: sel=017f base=000054b0 limit=0000ffff
gs: sel=01bf base=00000000 limit=7ffeffff
ss: sel=01af base=029a0000 limit=0048ffff

Call frame traceback EIPs:
0x00001c06
0x000022c6

One more question. How do I include the CDDA files into the image? Thanks in advance.

[Darkfalz]

Making a full sized image is not possible with big games, because the ISO LBA spec stops at 99 minutes, which is less than a DC size. So until Chankast supports raw iso rips (assuming it ever gets another release in the first place) then that particular hope is just a pipe dream. You can't make an image anyway, because the image must be multi-session, and you need to burn that to a real CD and rip it back first, so you're still limited to 80 minutes any way you look at it.

There are various self boot and ripping tutorials that can tell you what you need to know. Some have misinformation. I could write one myself some day but I couldn't really be bothered. It's a lot of work. Use my GDDA Patcher from my website to get CDDA working in Shenmue. Also remember to hack the other files which need it.

On my website is the sorttxt tutorial.

If you have used Dreamrip and TeraTerm pro a number of times, you'll recognise a successful rip, it will have the same small number of characters down the bottom. If you have a screen full of junk, then it messed up and is incomplete. It's very finicky and you should leave your computer completely alone while ripping.

You can also tell because the total sector size of the iso files and CDDA files after ungzipping (2048 and 2352 respectively) should always be the same, 504150, taking into account 150 block pregaps for CDDA and things like that.

[SunDragon]

Darkfalz

(or use my shrinker which can automatically search subfolders).

Whence it it is possible download?

[Darkfalz]

Look at my profile and go to my homepage...

[SunDragon]

shrinker I have not found