Resident Evil Code: Veronica

[M79]

hi again, this really doesn't have anything to do with Chankast but i really don't know where else to ask this. i bought resident evil code veronica for dreamcast and at a certain point in the game everything freezes up and it's because the disk is a little scratched i think. i want to make a backup copy of the game but i don't know how and i thought it would have been as simple as just popping in the cd in my drive and burning it as a .cdi using discjuggler or alcohol but it isn't. this is what i get when i open up the cd drive with code veronica's 1st cd in there.

any help?

 

[smcd]

You can't make dreamcast images in a PC CD/DVD ROM drive, it is a proprietary format. Search the forums

 

[M79]

what exactly should i type in the search? i tried copyrighted games and nothing came up

 

[Nightmare]

i bought resident evil code veronica for dreamcast and at a certain point in the game everything freezes up and it's because the disk is a little scratched i think. i want to make a backup copy of the game but i don't know how and i thought it would have been as simple as just popping in the cd in my drive and burning it as a .cdi using discjuggler or alcohol but it isn't.

you can't copy it, gdrom is specific dreamcast format, it can't be read on our pc cd/dvd drives, and even if you could make a copy, it will not work better than the original if it's scratched...
the best may is to download a backup from the net... but i can't help you here...
or return where you have bought it, and try to exchange with a working one...

 

[M79]

thanx for the help.

 

[smcd]

what exactly should i type in the search? i tried copyrighted games and nothing came up

search something like :
dreamcast rip (or backup) games
dreamcast gdrom ( or gd-rom)

Also, check the stickies

 

[M79]

ugh. i downloaded RECV. it came in compressed as a 7-Zip file. so i uncompressed and got a 580+MB file with no extension (2nd disc the same). now, aside from the compressed 2 files and the now uncompressed 2 files, there were 2 .sfv or something files and a huge load of other files that had no file extensions. i took the 2 newly uncompressed files and gave them a .zip extension, i was able to begin extracting the .cdi file (both of which were over 750MB's) and when it got to 99% completion, it gave me about 20 errors for both files. i think i'm just gonna give up on this game altogether.

 

[Nightmare]

i think i'm just gonna give up on this game altogether.

lol... try with rar, instead of zip...

 

[M79]

i DID lol after i saw the errors i deleted those then extracted and renamed again this time to .rar which gave me the same results. opened up in WinRar, you see a 780MB .cdi file. when i go to extract right at 99% it gives me the same errors.

 

[OzTm]

Maybe the archive file is incomplete? What version of WinRar did you use? (cause you may get that kind of error if you try to decompress a RAR3.0 file with WinRar 2.xx) Use the latest WinRar.