Confused about how chanka runs games

[Shynos]

I read many things about ripping and such. Just wondering does chanka run DC games saved on your hard drive, or do you have to rip them onto a disk to run them. Im confused by the many ways to rip games. Is there more then one way of ripping. I read that you can rip games onto DvDs and play them on ya DC. I also think I heard you can save games to ya hard drive and run them through chanka. Is that correct?
Im obviously confused, hope I worded that so its understandable.

 

[MasterPhW]

You have to mount your selfripped images on a virtual drive or only burn them on a cd, because it only can loads from a CD. It can't load images. A good thing would be to make them selfbootable, too! there are a lot of tools out there, try exoboot, a wonderful tool I have to admit!
A the alst thing is the save thing: chankast emulates a VMU, that means virtual Memory Unit (if I remember the right way) that's a memory card for a DC, that means you can play and save your games like on a real DC, but don't have to buy a new mem card if your one is full. Only make a new one and you can play other games!
Hope your questions are answered! If you have more, only ask!

 

[General Plot]

That's VISUAL memoory unit. Just messing with ya. But seriously, that's what it is.

 

[PsyMan]

That's VISUAL memoory unit. Just messing with ya. But seriously, that's what it is.

Actually it's both visual and virtual memory unit. The name differs from the US and PAL version.

 

[life_247]

DVD's do not run on a dreamcast in any shape or form, it is a Yahama modified CD-rom drive (IE, custom GD-rom firmware).

You either have to burn the image of a Cd onto a CD or emulate a cd rom drive. So really chanka only plays copied games. If you're wondering how to rip ure own u need a broadband or lan adaptor (Serial cable is hella slow) and a few tools, have a search around.

 

[Machiney]

DVD's do not run on a dreamcast in any shape or form, it is a Yahama modified CD-rom drive (IE, custom GD-rom firmware).

You either have to burn the image of a Cd onto a CD or emulate a cd rom drive. So really chanka only plays copied games. If you're wondering how to rip ure own u need a broadband or lan adaptor (Serial cable is hella slow) and a few tools, have a search around.

www.gamecopyworld.com (its a legal site..) should help you alot, like it did to me