[Dreamcast] TOSEC 2 REDUMP and vice versa dumps converter

[jhmiller]

LedZeppelin68: Can you check the conversion of MOHO (Pal).
Fail to convert between Track 4 and 5.
PM if you need the game.

[LedZeppelin68]

Hello, jhmiller

Thanks for this notice.

Track 4 consists of 0x00h, that's why there are so many matches.

So, i modified util to stop searching after 1st succesful match

[jhmiller]

Perfect

I have noticed a minor bug: if the dirs "dat" or "audio" don't exist, produce an exception when click in the point 3 (Choose dat).

I will continue using the application. If I find some other problem, I'll warn you.

Many thanks for this tool LedZeppelin68 !!!

[F1ReB4LL]

I have noticed a minor bug: if the dirs "dat" or "audio" don't exist, produce an exception when click in the point 3 (Choose dat).

There are other exceptions, like, when you try to run it offline and load the TOSEC dat, it crashes, because it can't load the .dtd file from the url in the dat.

[wiggy2k]

if you're still around @LedZeppelin68 and still have the source code and fancy updating it?

Had to use this today - doesn't work going from TOSEC to redump with the new .cue based DATs

if you open the DAT with your editor of choice and replace all instances of ".cue" with ".gdi" it will work again. (ctrl+h is your friend)

or if you're like me an inline sed will do the trick

sed -i 's/.cue/.gdi/g' /path-to-and/name-of-dat.dat

[kingspoons]

Just came to use this today, having taken Dumper's advice to get it working and convert my self-dumped set the last time I used it, but it seems the program now has an error.

On selecting a .dat file it's trying to connect to www.logiqx.com, and as that no longer seems to exist, the program won't work.

System.Net.WebException: The remote name could not be resolved: 'www.logiqx.com'

[samsam12]

Seemingly the only thing stopping me from getting this to work is "datafile.dtd" pointing to the now dead logiqx.com - it pulls this from the DAT file itself so redirecting it (pulled from archive.org) "should" be possible, but I can't parse the "PUBLIC" identifier - SYSTEM is obviously pointing to a URL, but I assume these both have to be corrected for the application to parse the path to the datafile correctly (?)

Hoping to get this sorted, at the very least it's a good alternative for verification dumps if you already have a Plextor and a Dreamcast - happy to fill out the existing guide as well https://wiki.redump.info/index.php?title= … ping_Guide

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> <!--
>    ROM Management Datafile - DTD
> 
>    For further information, see: [url]http://www.logiqx.com/[/url]
> 
>    This DTD module is identified by the PUBLIC and SYSTEM identifiers:
> 
>    PUBLIC "-//Logiqx//DTD ROM Management Datafile//EN"
>    SYSTEM "[url]http://www.logiqx.com/Dats/datafile.dtd[/url]"

[CastingDreams]

Sorry to necro this thread - I was also trying to solve the problem with the datafile.dtd hosted on the long-dead logiqx.com.

Using the Internet Archive, I was able to find an old copy of the DTD file from 2023 here.

I thought maybe changing the URL in the DAT accordingly would do the trick, like so:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE datafile PUBLIC "-//Logiqx//DTD ROM Management Datafile//EN" "https://web.archive.org/web/20230405091520/http://www.logiqx.com/Dats/datafile.dtd">

...but then I get an error saying:

Expected DTD markup was not found. Line 1, position 3.

Next attempt: Download the DTD file and use it locally (put it in the same folder as the DAT):

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE datafile PUBLIC "-//Logiqx//DTD ROM Management Datafile//EN" "datafile.dtd">

...and that works!

Hope it's able to help someone.

I have a question in return: can this tool also generate Redump-style CUE sheets if I provide the correct DAT?  So far all I've been able to get it to do is write GDI.  Maybe I am misunderstanding the instructions...

[iCEQB]

Thank you for the tool and thank you all for the workaround(s), to get it to work in 2026

A note to the next poor soul trying to convert a modern .cue Redump ROM to a TOSEC one:
You need to use the .gdi files provided in the download section on the main page AND you need to make sure, that there is no .cue file in the source directory.

Otherwise the tool will just say "Complete" without doing anything - the .cue file seems to stop all operations, so it has to be removed beforehand.

This so far is the only application, that realy produces a matching TOSEC dump, from a redump set.
The other usual tools suggested online (like gdidrop, gdi-utils, etc.) don't produce TOSEC compatible ROMs.

I got a hint, that NKit is also able to do this conversion, I'll test it out and let you guys know here.
It seems to be a good candidate to make a mass conversion - the tool in this thread can only make one conversion at a time.

[Nemok]

This so far is the only application, that realy produces a matching TOSEC dump, from a redump set.

Had some fun a while ago writing a program that could do this for my own usage. I did put it on github : https://github.com/jonblau/gdicnv

It's CLI so not as beginner-friendly, but works faster, offline, without database, and creates .gdi files on its own.
For your purpose, the command would be something like :

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./convert --to-gdi 13 13

The two trailing numbers being the original disc offsets you want to restore (specific values for every disc are on redump.org).