Shenmue self rip not working

[Shiki]

Hi, I have the PAL version of Shenmue. I used the DC serial cable, dreamrip and the serial uploader boot disc. It ripped 4 files from disc 1:

track03.iso
track04.raw
track05.raw
track06.iso

I then use extract.exe to extract track03 and track06. I get a bunch of files and folders totalling 275MB. The weird thing is that the 1st_read.bin file it creates is blank (0KB). Is that normal?

I tried to create an image from these files using DC-CDR but it doesn't work. I then tried using ExoBoot, but it says that no bin files were found or they are in the incorrect format.

What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

[Darkfalz]

I never use extract.exe, it's a piece of garbage. Your best bet is to make a full ISO file with empty space where the CDDA tracks were.

Basically, the formula is this:

1032499200 - (track03.iso + track06.iso)*

*track06.iso is the last track, could be track08.iso etc. instead.

Now make a dummy file of this size (use newfile.exe or something)

Then copy /b track03.iso+dummy.bin+track06.iso c:\newpath\track03.iso

Now you have a full sized iso with the CDDA section filled in. Now use

isofix track03.iso 45000

And then open fixed.iso with ISOBuster. This allows you to make a sorttxt.txt also which preserves the sort order.

I wrote tools to automate this but they are pretty much designed to my own setup so there's no point in providing them. I could clean them up and make them more flexible but couldn't be bothered really.

For Shenmue 1, you can and should actually keep the CDDA tracks. Use my GDDA patcher for this, because cdda.exe fails. This gives you the cool music in the start, and the music track on the motorcycle ride back (missing on most rips, which is terrible). To make it all fit you need to use dc_afsshrink (or use my shrinker which can automatically search subfolders). You also need to hack the LBAs of the other files such as HANGON.EMU (I think) and so on. Passport disc needs some major downsampling of the video files.

Anyway, have fun. Shenmue was a big task to backup for me, but Shenmue II was much worse, considering I preserved as much of the free quest speech as possible! Unlike a certain release group who shall remain nameless So I get to play the best backups and keep my originals safe, hehe.

[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

[Darkfalz]

AFS Shrinker