Rip Dreamcast Disk with Dreamcast SD Rip

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Dreamcast

 · 10 Feb 2019

Requirements

• a Dreamcast console.
• a Dreamcast SD card adapter and SD card.
• a System Disc 2 (only needed for GD-Rs, not necessary for retail discs)
• Dreamcast SD Rip v1.1, by jj1dom and selfbooted by atreyu187.
• Burn it to a CD-R, e.g. with DiscJuggler

Steps

• Connect the SD adapter.
• Boot the Dreamcast SD Rip disc.
• After the menu shows, swap in the System Disc 2. This will unlock GD-R dumping (skip this step for retail discs).
• Swap in the disc you want to dump.
• Select GD-ROM all track.

The speed has about 650KBytes/sec.
Time to ripping GD-ROM is about 35 minutes in total.

SD card to confirm the operation:

• HAGIWARA.SYS-COM / SD / 128M
• Transcend / SD / 1G
• A DATA / microSD / 1G
• Kingston / microSD / 2G
• A DATA / SDHC / 4G (but slow because of FAT32 Problem of this SD card?)
• Transcend / SDHC / 8G