Ripping as bca files?

[mommytimes]

Look, I'm gonna be honest. I have no clue what I'm doing other than what I read on a couple wiki pages and the dolphin faq. I used cleanrip to rip a couple of GC games, and dolphin won't play them. They downloaded as bca files, which I read about and are clearly not what I wanted. What can I do to correct this?

[JosJuice]

CleanRip will create both a BCA file and an ISO file. The ISO file is the one that you need.

[mimimi]

There are bca files for gamecube games? There are very small files that contain some additional data. I think it's only used as copy protection, for example in new super mario bros. I have no idea though why Dolphin doesn't need the bca file there, it should need it, or else the game should reset every 5 minutes.

[mommytimes]

(07-31-2017, 11:46 PM)JosJuice Wrote: CleanRip will create both a BCA file and an ISO file. The ISO file is the one that you need.

I was being an idiot. Thanks for helping though. On a different subject, while Double Dash works perfectly, whenever I try to launch Melee it says, "The disk could not be read (at 0x49235a80 0x49235aa0)" Do I have a bad rip, or is there another simple solution?

[JosJuice]

(08-01-2017, 03:52 AM)mommytimes Wrote: On a different subject, while Double Dash works perfectly, whenever I try to launch Melee it says, "The disk could not be read (at 0x49235a80 0x49235aa0)" Do I have a bad rip, or is there another simple solution?

Check the file size of the ISO. If a GameCube game isn't 1 459 978 240 bytes large, it's not a proper rip. (Some tools let you modify a rip so that it gets smaller, but CleanRip doesn't do that, so if the file that you get from CleanRip isn't that size, something is wrong.)

[mommytimes]

(08-01-2017, 04:01 AM)JosJuice Wrote: Check the file size of the ISO. If a GameCube game isn't 1 459 978 240 bytes large, it's not a proper rip. (Some tools let you modify a rip so that it gets smaller, but CleanRip doesn't do that, so if the file that you get from CleanRip isn't that size, something is wrong.)

It is not that size. Should I try to rip it again? (My Melee disk has a couple of scratches if that could affect it)

[JosJuice]

Yes, try to rip it again.