Make backup copies dreamcast games

This is just for emulation purposes. If you own the original copy or the rights to it, there is absolutely nothing wrong with emulation. No sane person would download a GDI of Crazy Taxi and emulate it poorly, rather than buy it or download a selfboot copy. They download it because they have no means to make their own backup of their copy.

I went out of my way to acquire a BBA temporarily, and spent 25 hours in a couple days backing up my collection, solely so that I could feel comfortable knowing that my discs now no longer my only means of accessing the data inside. You are nothing but a narrow-minded anti-pirate, and you think anyone who copies a digital disc is a bad person.

I never said that I was anti-piracy. Backing up your own games is fine. Furthermore, providing games to others who own those game and want backups should be entitled to them. Self-booting images for virtually any Dreamcast game are already out there on a number of sources. Having these higher-quality rips are just giving people a higher-quality, but less flexible alternative.

Bottom line: If someone is going to pirate the games, they are going to do it very easily without these new rips or not. In fact, like Mozgus is saying, I would be very surprised if the casual pirate is going to give these much of a chance. Another way to look at it is like gun ownership. Lower quality guns are already available to potential killers and not everybody that has or wants a gun is a killer. But only if you make that copy yourself. Even if that copy dies, you are not allowed to download it to make up for it.

Anyone who downloads a rom or iso from a website is braking the law, original copy or not. But no, my point was that emulation, while made illegal by law, is morally right. Because of that some very positive changes have occured in my life:.

I hunted down a genesis, saturn and dreamcast, which, I never owned any of them before. I just the other day bought a neo geo pocket color on ebay. It made me decide I wanted to be a game developer, now I am down that path in life still in college.

Again, I appologize. Computers are becoming more powerful and less expensive, and storage is even more affordable. Whether or not the higher quality stuff it out there, there are already other rips out there for them to pirate.

Who really care if they do choose the higher quality one over the original. They are pirating no matter what.

To be honest, I only used that word to decorate the title and spruce up the wording a bit. Let me just say that I think this is a great idea. I mean, there are a few Japanese titles that came out recently that could be considered unethical to distribute, but for the most part Dreamcast games are limited to collectors. Technically, you are only legally allowed to have a back-up copy if you produce it yourself.

That is true. However, I feel that the Dreamcast is something of an exception in that the hardware required to back up games is not available to the average consumer. The cheapest option is probably to get the BBA, which is very expensive these days. Actually, my BIOS is legally backed up as well. I dumped it myself. Another thing worth mentioning is that my 41 game torrent collection is extremely meager compared to whats coming. Nearly all the active dumpers are people who physically own s of Dreamcast games.

And yet, most of the common pirates you hate so much actually have little to no interest in what we do! Right now, Dumpcast is a very small group of people with vast collections working together to preserve what we put so much money into. Your copy is legit, as a result. I donot have the broadband adapter, and do not wish to spend on one to rip games.

Any links to coders cables that will work would be appreciated. Also is there a huge speed difference between coders cable and broadband backup? Actually if you make the trap disks you can rip Dreamcast games with a regular cd rom drive. Iv tried making a direct cd to cd copy using nero. Actually it is now possible to rip Dreamcast games with certain drives. Gamecopywizard is just a scam and does not work. Probably works for them.

Someone needs to do a good, working bangai-o. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Guides Journal Together Retro Forum. May 9th, at am by racketboy. Dreamcast , Retro Gaming. August 25, at am. Anonymous says:. February 4, at pm. Thad says:. June 2, at pm. June 3, at pm. June 14, at pm. September 12, at am. November 25, at pm. You will have to do your research on those my friends.

You can find downloads for those as well. Again at your own risk. The original disks themselves playstation for example will NOT work. Now go have a ton of fun! Now enjoy your old games and re-live that certain feeling you get when you play a good classic! Yeahh dude!!! Anyone know how games bigger than MB work to burn, use a bigger disc or use 2 discs?

Cause I know some older consoles dont work unless the disc is a certain size ie GameCube. It also able to create multigame compilation CDI images:. I did this for my dreamcast, but i used a light-scribe CD so that i can burn the cover art on the CD. It worked really well and i don't have to use a sharpie to label my backups.

Reply 11 years ago on Introduction. Reply 12 years ago on Introduction. Its called Bleemcast or a bleemed game. Not all ps1 games are compatible. U cant just pop in a ps1 game. You have to find bleemed games. Burn em and your good to go! Thanks for the instructable. I've been looking in to the dreamcast homebrew seen but I couldn't find any helpful tutorials until now. Disc images aren't called roms, they're called isos.

Roms refer more to image files derived from cartridge based mediums. Keep up the good work. You forgot. It avoids the subscription issues involved with using Disk Juggler burn speed limit, and wait screen before each load I might make a guide on this. Ah right i forgot about that but my main focus was the diskjuggler cdi files because of the ease of burn and little to no failure rate.

I forgot all about bootdreams! Oh the memories! As far as the burn speed with diskjuggler its best to burn at the slowest possible speed to avoid errors.