(02-07-2012, 08:24 AM)ikebana Wrote: [ -> ]3. Problem, the computer does not recognize the wii game discs... after spending hours reading the threads and doing some Google research, I understand that I need to make a copy of my original CD but I am still not able to figure how to make it using a Mac computer...
You need a "special" DVD drive which is supported by one of the dumping tools, or you need to use a Wii to dump your games. You can buy one of the drives at ebay or so for about five bucks.
I'm wondering why the mac people always see the need to boldly emphasize that they're using mac... even it's really likely to be totally unrelated to the issue... ;P
Hi, are there any modern drives (best for me with BLURAY playing), which can read my gamecube Games?
I am completely new to dolphin, but i was curious about two things.
1) Is there any particular reason why only certain types of dvd drives work for dumping wii/gc games?
2) Is the list at the beginning of this thread still the only drives that work and are they still being produced?
Just wondering so I can purchase a new drive if necessary?
Thanks
(02-13-2012, 03:56 PM)BlackRaven001 Wrote: [ -> ]1) Is there any particular reason why only certain types of dvd drives work for dumping wii/gc games?
Yes. Basically, the Wii/GC disks use a different data layout than regular DVDs; thus, if your operating systems tells your DVD drive to read a block, it'll just return a read error (because the checksum is wrong, or similar). If this happens, the DVD drive will not give any data to your operating system, except for "read failed" (because it assumes that data is useless anyways). You can try it out if you want.
Programs like RawDump / FriiDump "abuse" some very specific behaviour of the firmware of the supported devices; that way, they're able to read data from the discs although the DVD drive itself thinks it is corrupted. They then have algorithms to decrypt the raw data in the same way the drives' firmware normally does, just slightly different (so it works with Wii/GC disks).
So basically, I guess there's two main reasons why only some drives are supported:
1) it might be easy to support model A, but nearly impossible for B because of different firmware behaviour
2) the guy who wrote that program had that particular drive at hand.
As buying a supported drive costs roughly five bucks, there's probably not too much effort going on to support more devices.
(02-13-2012, 03:56 PM)BlackRaven001 Wrote: [ -> ]2) Is the list at the beginning of this thread still the only drives that work and are they still being produced?
I don't think they're still produced. There's plenty of them for sale on ebay or so, tough.
Personally, I don't think it's ammoral to use dolphin without a wii... I buy games, but I will not buy inferior hardware such as the wii... this emulator will exist long after the wii is gone..
I buy the game Xenoblade PAL to play on my pc, and I am surprised that I can't create an ISO of my game, digging site is I realize it takes a special player for me unfortunately my drive is incompatible TSSTcorp CDDVDW SN-S083C, I wonder if it is possible to recover the game in ISO format legally?
thank you in advance
After my TSST SATA drive and my GDR 8160B (mmmh, only one of this that doesn´t work
) i bought an GDR 8162B0017 for 5€ (I dont have a wii) and it dumps with 2360 MB/h
wouldn't a virtual drive work? I downloaded the rawdump and it just puts spyware on the computer.
