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ATTN Dreamcast Dumpers

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:17 pm
by MrFaust
If you have successfully dumped a Dreamcast game with the guide posted here, then please list which drive you used and what the mainboard or motherboard brand and model was in the machine you used to dump with please. We are trying to narrow down the needed hardware to be able to do this task.

iR0b0t :
Drive = Lite-On SOHD-167T
MB = ASUS P4B
OS = XP Pro w/SP3

also on...
Drive = Lite-On SOHD-167T
MB = ASUS P4GV-MX
OS = XP Pro w/SP3

I have tried on 3 Dells, 1 Compaq and 2 Frankenstein machines (A-Bit MB in one, not sure about the other). None of these have worked. All with fresh installs of XP Pro w/SP3. Any additional information that can be provided here would be great. Right now it is looking like the combo of an ASUS P4* mobo and the Liteon drive seems to work pretty well.

Re: ATTN Dreamcast Dumpers

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:58 pm
by Rocknroms
Rocknroms :
Drive= Samsung TSSTCorp SH-D162D
MB = Asus P5K
OS= XP Pro w/SP3

If needed Sound Card = Creative SB X-Fi

Lite-On SOHD-167T doesn't work on y system.

Re: ATTN Dreamcast Dumpers

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:46 am
by amarok
Drive: Samsung TSSTCorp SH-D162D w/ Kreon Firmware (through an IDE-to-USB connector)
MB: MSI MS-7358
OS: Vista64, up-to-date

Re: ATTN Dreamcast Dumpers

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:26 am
by iR0b0t
amarok, cdrwin is accepting your connector? What type of connector is that? Do you have the exact type name?

Re: ATTN Dreamcast Dumpers

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:30 am
by amarok
Nope, I'm using IsoBuster (+CD-Bremse to slow down the drive). Works pretty well. I could never get CDRWin to work...

No idea about that thing's name, the packaging is long gone Image All I can say is that it's by a company named DeLock, and on bottom side there's a sticker that says "Ver:108B0".

Re: ATTN Dreamcast Dumpers

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:33 am
by iR0b0t
okay, then i don't need its name

not sure if isobuster extracts them correct, did you ever verify any dumps on this way?

Re: ATTN Dreamcast Dumpers

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:37 am
by amarok
Yes, a bunch Image All my DC dumps were made that way. Why do you think IsoBuster wouldn't do it right? ^^

Re: ATTN Dreamcast Dumpers

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:41 am
by iR0b0t
because i had inconsistent results back then when i tried to use USB2IDE-Connector

i will try it once again now, maybe i was mistaken

Re: ATTN Dreamcast Dumpers

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:44 am
by amarok
The biggest problem is that IsoBuster has no option to limit the extraction speed. I use CD-Bremse for that, but it only goes down to 4x. So I extract everything twice (usually in chunks of 50,000 or 100,000 sectors), or more often if I get inconsistent results. Worked pretty well so far, but it does take time Image

Re: ATTN Dreamcast Dumpers

Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:56 am
by iR0b0t
okay, i can now say, my connector suckz, i can not speed down the drives even with cd-bremse, so the drive tries to speed up every time and aborts some when.

seems your connector is any better though  Image

does it look like that?
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