How & Why I Rip All Videogame Discs to a PC - Adam Koralik

[@CCH3900]

Backing up discs now will have a huge benefit later. That is we have a way of keeping those games that will be tied up in licensing purgatory, or delisted on digital storefronts. So if you can digitize your games and use ODEs, or Flash carts. You in theory could play your entire physical game collection for decades. Digital is another problem.

[@silversonic99]

yup, i like to tell people, it't not digital vs physical. its digital only vs physical + digital.

[@CCH3900]

@@silversonic99 Exactly, the only real issue people may have is storing all their games on local storage devices. I mean, it's not like you could upload them online... sigh.

[@CCH3900]

@@jasper9291 Many reasons. But the big ones are capacity, quality of parts given that it's a physical good. Then heaven help you if you need data recovery. But don't forget what's on that drive, assuming it's healthy can never be taken away from you. Cloud storage is not a guarantee. I suppose you can burn them to optical discs if the files are compressed and will fit on the disc. But then again still not as reliable as a HDD/SSD.

[@maurice482390]

facts my friend did that with his coolection and back it up to his google drive and PC. He gave me the link and I downloaded it and uploaded it to my google drive. I've been doing it for six years and switching PC builds or having a crappy HDD emulating and finding roms can be time consuming. I just download a full folder based on console and I don't have to worry about it.

[@Wubsy96]

It's inevitable that Adam will be responsible for ripping every variant of every Shenmue ever and making backups of those.

[@theshadowman1398]

Piracy is only when money is being made on selling Bootlegs. That time is long gone. No one is doing that anymore.

[@Wubsy96]

That time still exists in some countries. Take Pakistan for example. Game stores still sell pirated copies of games AND emulators!

[@user-nj6bt5gy4s]

Also look at those selling fake ds games on Amazon and eBay. They’re literally selling a cartridge that’s readable by the ds with a little micro sd card in it containing pirated roms. A decent 90% of people who pirate just wanna play they game and I’m all fine with that, but there are few who try to use it for profit which I’m against.

[@nickvarley8365]

Haven't been to this channel in a few years.. Man.. feels like night and day. Your personality and speech just feels so much more confident/powerful aha

[@AdamKoralik]

Welcome back.

[@MediocreTCG]

You've missed alot

[@CarbonKingZach]

Not the historian we deserve, but the one we need.

[@bruceg22000]

You have to give Adam credit for backing up his entire disc based collection as that must require a ton of effort. I bet the vast majority with extensive collections wouldn't even think about it, even though disc rot is eventually going to happen. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if more than 99% of those using optical drive emulators to play images simply download the Redump sets for convenience (myself included)

[@ThePreciseClimber]

I don't even understand why so many used games are so scratched. I have only ever scratched a game disc ONCE. And that one time was enough to scar me for life. :P Ever since that one time I've been insanely careful.

[@AdamKoralik]

Most people aren't as careful as us.

[@rikustorm13]

I remember I broke my copy of We Ski cause I was bored Yeah I was a dumb kid

[@greasemonkey5637]

I makes no sense to me either. The game is in the console or in its case, its not hard to look after your stuff.

[@SuperKokuJin916]

I used to work at a Game Crazy where we had a disc resurfacing buffer machine. I saw some scratched, crusty discs in my day 😂 but that thing really cleaned up light and medium scratches flawlessly. I was always careful with my games (cartridges & discs) and didn't have any problems. Even my childhood front loading NES worked on the first try as long as the cartridge was clean even 20 years later.

[@jessecannon7500]

kids they think game cube discs are frisbees or dog toys i have thousands of dollars worth of games i've bartered for that were scratched (plan to get a resurfascer)

[@VideoGameJNPoop]

For PS3, I recommend ripping the games on the console itself with custom firmware and a program called MultiMan, It can even rip PS1 and PS2 games (even on non-PS2 compatible PS3s).

[@SonicManEXE]

When I bought Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast, the game played perfectly until the end of the Hero Story. It would crash every single time. When I bought a second copy, it played fine. If you have the resources available to you, backing up your disc games is so important, even if it's just to validate them.

[@MrTachi]

I am one of those weird guys who has HD DVD drive since I have one of those blu-ray / HD DVD player combo drives :)

[@LacayoDe]

Do they exist WTF 😳

[@MrTachi]

@@LacayoDe LG GGW-H20L

[@jasonannas]

I got one for my 360 that came with king kong haha, never use it though

[@shae1547]

Great idea to rip HD-DVDs since many of them are suffering from disc rot

[@ChaosRenegade22]

@@shae1547 my group and I have been trying to preserve HD-DVDs sadly 90% of the ripped disc had disc rot. It's a hard format to preserve these days.

[@adamjones7891]

Adam you do such thorough walk through of retro gameplay topics in a format thats pretty casual yet well organized and easy to listen to. Been watching since I was 15 in 2015!

[@xexat]

Today I learned my Blu-ray drive can rip PS4 games I bought it specifically to rip PS3 games but never thought to try a PS4 game

[@villarreal5417]

What kind of program are you using to rip your PS4 games?

[@xexat]

@@villarreal5417 well I've only done it with PS3 games But I would just copy the files into a folder, you have to do some additional stuff to get them to work on an emulator but I haven't done it in a while

[@jimmycarpenter6612]

I recently started ripping my collections because i was going to play an old ps2 favorite called justice league heroes and it would no longer read. Even after being resurfaced. So I've been backing my entire collection over the last week or so.

[@alistairblaire6001]

I thought disc rot was a myth until I dug up some of my old PC games from the late 90's. A couple had black spots and one had deterioration around the outer edge. Luckily I've been migrating to ODEs for my consoles because dealing with worn disc drives is a huge pain. Optical discs were fine in their heyday but they haven't withstood the test of time.

[@jOeLwAlBy]

It really depends on how they were made. I'm gonna just put this out there. If they were Japanese made discs they probably gonna outlive you. If it was made somewhere with less care for quality then it might get the rot. The majority of badly mad discs wouldn't last a decade and would be dead by now and out of circulation. There's plenty of sega cd And maybe the Phillips CDI discs from early 90s working fine. I presume audio CDs made in the 80s are fine for the most part too.

[@jOeLwAlBy]

Btw I'm just saying Japanese as an example. Apparently GameCube games have a high incidence of disc rot. Some are more susceptible than others

[@dennislock3415]

Could you explain to this old guy what an ODE is.

[@MrMario2011]

Almost as if the hard Dreamcast process was trying to spite you even further with the video glitches at 20:22

[@AdamKoralik]

...wut

[@Protofall]

Looks normal to me?

[@devinwalker1231]

@@AdamKoralik hey man quick unrelated question I was wondering witch system you were planning on getting your multiplats for this generation

[@Wally17.]

I’m not seeing whatever you’re talking about.

[@mirage538]

MANDELA EFFECT lol. I dont see any glitches.

[@kjetilfrugard8395]

Great stuff! Creating backups is the smartest thing you do to your games. You should do an episode on how to backup and extract games from Virtual Console, Mini consoles, PSOne (PS3) games, etc, and how to play them on original hardware.

[@darrylwillhite7880]

Literally the most informative and entertaining video I’ve ever watched on this subject

[@AdamKoralik]

My pleasure.

[@hc130radio]

The Department of Defense needs to adopt the Dreamcasts way of preserving data

[@mecster91]

This was an excellent piece of content, thank you. Please consider adding time stamps as I find myself coming back to this video for reference and find it difficult to find the parts I’m searching for

[@theanalogkid2778]

I need to get a disc drive. I'm a primarily pc gamer and I love emulators so not only would I be preserving my games but I would also be able to play my games on emulators without waiting for the games iso to download from Rom sites.

[@kristianhristov3469]

Wow that's like one of your top videos you have ever made. Really interesting stuff. Thorough and helpful!

[@javifu3go]

Keep up the content! I’m a new collector looking for ways to preserve my collection. This video was very informational. Thank you for this!

[@Lollipop-mr6vn]

WiiU is the ultimate way to play GameCube, Wii, and WiiU games

[@haloharry97]

No, it is for Wii and wiiu but not GameCube.

[@Lollipop-mr6vn]

@@haloharry97 Wiiu is compatible with GameCube games, but you have to install HBC to load them. It also works with basically any controllers you can connect (including GameCube via the USB adapter)

[@haloharry97]

@Kevin Badger my comment was originally for a different comment. i think it was about asking if Nintendont works on the gamecube?

[@EthnicWeeb]

Thanks for the Blu-ray drive recommendation! I'm almost ready to build my first PC and this will save me a tonne of headaches. I imported Another Century's Episode R when I was a teenager and always dreamed of an English translation patch (and with RPCS3 that's not impossible).

[@batconker]

Dang, Adam is sitting on a MOTHERLOAD of clean game rips haha

[@IanNewYashaTheFinalAct]

I rip and back up all optical discs I have - even music CD's, movie DVD's, and blu-rays. The last two or three DVD's I bought, they each had defective sectors that I had to send back for a refund. And these otherwise mint condition DVD's aren't even that old! Maybe ten-twelve years, tops. Forget covid, *bit rot* is the real pandemic everyone should be worried about!

[@matilija]

I backup my whole library too, because I just don't trust this stuff to last as long as expect myself to remain interested in it.

[@JaviCastillo_89]

That CDRWIN screenshot, took me back, 12 yo me burning cdroms like a mad lad

[@rikustorm13]

“Lol here’s how u play burned games, don’t tell Nintendo” -every 12 year old kid Nintendo: WHAT U SAY?!

[@SamuraiTacos1]

best comment

[@WhiteJarrah]

6:57 Can it convert multi-disk games into a single ISO? While ImgBurn and PSX2PSP usually gets the job done with such games on the PS1, Driver 2 is an exception in that when prompted to change to disc 2 it doesn't detect that you've swapped the disc.

[@AdamKoralik]

Not that I'm aware of.

[@WhiteJarrah]

@@AdamKoralik Pity. I heard there's a patch, but only for the NTSC version. The Driver series as a whole desperately needs a Vita and PS4 port.

[@CraigSteelyard]

You can use DVD Decrypter for PS2 games. For ripping and burning.

[@Cyperstudio]

I’ve been wondering how you rip your games and then this comes out a day later, many thanks lol.

[@Alorso_]

Sweet! Good timing, after my ps3 super slim stopped reading discs, I started backing up all my discs for all my consoles. This was super helpful, thanks

[@Warbob11]

I've done this with all of my PS1 games, PC games, saturn, dreamcast. I plan on doing it with my Xbox/PS2/Gamecube since I want to do the SD loader on some of the consoles and have backups.

[@Minty_Meeo]

For GameCube, definitely use NKit to compress your ISO collection. It is the best lossless solution there is.

[@lordcanti]

Absolutely love this video. The dreamcast was super difficult. I laugh everytime sometime tells me that burning dreamcast games is easy. If only they knew the process release teams go through to convert gdroms into CDIs. Its a nightmare sometimes. Dave Mirra freestyle bmx being a prime example since it uses a nonstandard CDDA format

[@MEGAGAMERX1000]

With the impending closure of the PS3 Playstation Store im backing up my PS3 Blu-Ray Discs to a external hard drive with my CFW PS3 with Multiman that I installed back in 2019. It's not about piracy it's about preservation, people forget that even when the digital age started, a ton of games never got digital releases. Here are just a few examples of PS3 games without digital releases: Genji Days of the Blade, Heavenly Sword, Motorstorm, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, Katamari Forever, White Knight Chronicles 1 & 2, No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, and so many more.

[@lc2632]

Thank you for this video, your dedication to Video Game preservation is awesome. Truly appreciate your knowledge

[@yogibear2k220]

This is why I use emulation! All this hassle has been done for me. I just download the games and play them. So, they are not on original hardware, they are actually on far superior hardware! I love emulation! I have well over 10,000 games and productivity software (the productivity software is for my old computer emulators like the Amiga, the Atari St and BBC Micro etc.) 😁 Yes, I do buy games but only for the PC and nothing else. And consoles that I cannot emulate I couldn't care less for. Very interesting video. Thank Adam. I was wondering if the Dreamcast was really 1gb or it was just the disk fooling it that it was 1gb (you know like the fake 2tb $15 USB Thumb Drives you can get.)

[@Kunio]

I have a friend who got Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and it would keep crashing at a rather peculiar scene without fail, despite the rest of the game running smooth as butter. Definitely worth backing these games up as a condition check

[@EternalReplicant]

Just started watching, but thank you for making this!! Have been looking forward to this. Really appreciate it, gonna start the arduous process of backing up my collection now.

[@iliketurtles4869]

I like turtles

[@fozzyozzy106]

what kind of turtles?

[@iliketurtles4869]

@@fozzyozzy106 all kinds of course, but I like sea turtles, especially the leatherback sea turtle.

[@fozzyozzy106]

@@iliketurtles4869 ooohhh nice

[@ianeons9278]

Yes!

[@02337755]

You sir are my hero.

[@mikem3431]

I now know how to backup my turbo cd games. There is not a lot of current info on this. Thank you.

[@tarttooth6022]

My favorite part of ripping game discs is seeing how the games are titled internally in the text document. Super Mario Strikers was just called "Mario Soccer" on the disc.

[@relaxingreviews1184]

There should be a Mount Rushmore for the crypt keepers of gaming - there is the shining visage of Koralik, The Gaming Historian and... two further spots open ;)

[@c0wqu3u31at3r]

MVG deffo deserves a spot

[@mariowario5881]

Hey boss new to the channel as soon as you started talking i quickly realized this guy knows his shit. You remember the history and the systems that came before and it's technology. Your well rounded on your info keep up the great work pimpin.

[@Rick_Makes]

Old hardware for old games is the best advice for anyone wanting to rip games. I started backing up my PS1 collection on a Win7 pc with an external usb drive and was having constant errors but when I tried an old WinXP laptop with a much slower drive everything but the most scratched up discs worked fine.

[@HedgehogY2K]

It's strange. Kung Fu Panda on 360 is only on DVD and not available for download whatsoever. Dungeon Defenders and Castle Crashers are only downloadable. I personally find this very obscure. I recently finished buying/downloading all the games I want to have and putting them into my Game Drive which is a VisionTek Pocket SSD which dishes out 28MB/s on a USB 2.0 interface out of the Xbox 360's 35MB/s limit. What I am able to do is plug the Game Drive into the PC's USB and straight up copy the CONTENT folder which has the entirety of all my games, saves, Pro Logic 2 encoded MP3s, and even MPEG-4 Xvids+AC3 videos of my cat Lily.

[@mackdee911h3]

The LG drive is listed again. Ive had one for years, well before i was made aware that it worked for PS3/4 discs.

[@Tersock]

Great as always Adam

[@MysticMylesZ]

4:00 I would love a video like that if anyone knows. My Nintendo 64 broke years ago and I later got a PS2... when the PS4 was out, that broke very quickly. Needless to say, backups would be lovely... but I have no idea how I even start.

[@AdamKoralik]

It broke? Unlikely, N64s are built like tanks. Chances are a simple cleaning would have fixed it.

[@MysticMylesZ]

@AdamKoralik uuuuuuuuh cartridges no longer work on it and back in... 2013? Or 2014 I'm pretty sure my family got rid of it 🫠 Well, that's unfortunate, wish we ketp that instead of a Sharp TV

[@AdamKoralik]

@@MysticMylesZ Yeah, they were just dirty. I can almost guarantee it. Could have been fixed in less than five minutes.

[@ichrismoku]

Gonna recline n chill while listening. Good idea for a vid!

[@HillclimbAidan]

Just a note on the xbox 360, you can just "install" your game onto a formatted USB plugfed into an unhacked 360, and just turn off the xbox when done, plug it into your PC, show hidden files, and then save them to your PC and emulate them super easy. Things may have been different 4 years ago, however.

[@HedgehogY2K]

edge emulation has a bunch of ROMs for consoles that don't use too much space. The ROMs in that site are not much more than 1GB because it only goes up to CD/cartridge games, no GD/DVD. I got a few 32x games from there and play them on my Kega Fusion emulator so they're great, even DS games for those who have dsemume.

[@robthemodYT]

The ASUS BW-16D1HT also works for ripping PS3 games. Maybe all 'M-Disc' drives can?

[@TomuCow]

this was the most craziest insane nerd video i've ever seen!

[@AdamKoralik]

Hopefully that's good.

[@TomuCow]

@@AdamKoralik yes lol. although i was spinning out.

[@ianeons9278]

Can't wait for the PS6 recap/retrospective on December 8,2033!

[@AdamKoralik]

My birthday, awesome.

[@anielrivera7977]

i backed up all my ps2 games to play on my gaming pc emulator (also still own my ps2)playing at 4k wow what a difference

[@Livingstonshoedios]

seriously? all blu-ray drives wont read ps3 - ps4 games? when i built my pc in 2014 i got the lg WH14NS40 drive. lucky me I guess. recently backed my games up. went so easy.

[@circa2008]

its called Data hoarding.

[@chadbrick67]

Big papa style preservation. I've got all gamecube and dreamcast and my favourite ps2 games backed up. Plus alot of ps3

[@Hong_Kong_Ghosts]

Same. I'm not sure what for, but I have them ha.

[@chadbrick67]

@@Hong_Kong_Ghosts well if you don't know what for i feel for you. Preservation is key

[@_nightowl263]

Are Gamecube games done the same way? Do You just pop the disc in your computer and use CDRWIN or ImageBurn??

[@chadbrick67]

@@_nightowl263 no you need a modded gamecube to run copies. I suggest a sd drive replacement. No need for disks then run all your back ups from a sd card.

[@apanapane]

Thank you for making this video. I find myself returning to it rather often. I have a question regarding backing up Playstation 1 games, more specifically those PS1 games that are multi-track (i.e. where there are separate tracks on the disc from the data). When I rip the disks and check the hashes afterwards, I find that the first track, containing the data, is dumped correctly, but all the audio tracks get incorrect hashes. Is this something you have encountered, and if so do you know what the solution is? I am guessing it has something to do with "pregaps", whatever that is, but I don't know.

[@tchitchouan]

LG has a weird history of making optical media drives that "accidentally" read consoel disc media

[@JMLRetroRoom]

Tchitchouan Inouane I have a Blueray drive from 2016 that also works for this. If you’re familiar with uLoader, a Wii app, you need these specific LG drives to play burned Wii games from an external dvd drive. Most people wouldn’t do it but it’s possible. I believe there’s a couple of Panasonic drives that work with Raw Dump as well which Adam, I have used 😂

[@PeterBellefleur]

They are the OEM for a lot of these consoles to begin with, so its not surprising.

[@BasicConcepts93]

When I was younger(2005) I thought there was a device/cd burner that could rip PS2 games. In my head I wanted to rent as many games possible then copy them! Lets say a older smarter me achieved that greatness and more :D

[@colefreddy1]

I've always backed-up all of my games, started all the way back when the Nintendo Wii was stil relevant

[@zerophyte]

Great video as always Adam! Gosh, this brings back memories for sure. I also am one of the OG's from back then that backed up all their games.. CDRWin, CloneCD, Disc Juggler and Nero Burning ROM were some of my tools of the trade. I spent countless hours researching how to do this and that.. modded nearly all my consoles for the purpose of playing backups.. except for the PS4 (I know there is a firmware exploit for that one, but haven't gotten around to it) and well the Xbox One is still as of yet unexploitable. On a side note, for PlayStation 1 era games, I actually found a hardware based professional CD duplicator made by TASCAM that ripped PS1 games 1:1 to blank CD-R's. It worked near flawlessly (granted the original source disc was not too scratched up), and hence no computer was needed for those games. When I get home I may leave the model number of this TASCAM duplicator for reference. Just another option if anyone had acquired something like that. On the topic of scratched discs.. I remember how GameStop (EB Games in Canada) constantly tried to sell me their warranty on games.. Well guess what? I said no to that extra charge every time. To this day, all my games disc/cartridge still work, and are in immaculate condition. But yeah, I never understood how used games were always so bad.. I found discs from previous owners that were scratched up the wazoo and even spilled with pop drinks and gum... Seeing that kind of abuse to these discs just breaks my heart.

[@ronbowman4437]

Did you copy any PS2 games/discs with the one you mentioned in your reply? I want to backup my games so I don't have to repurchase them if they get worn out..

[@zerophyte]

@@ronbowman4437 unfortunately no. The TASCAM duplicator was a unit designed to strictly copy CD’s on a 1:1 basis, not DVD’s… You can backup your PS2 games by using a computer along with IMGBurn. There are tutorials in KZbin if you search for it.

[@ronbowman4437]

@@zerophyte Thanks a million!

[@ZeusWeus]

Would you ever do a video on the importance of physical media, and what are the best tips to best protect and look after your physical games?

[@AdamKoralik]

Like, how to take care of your stuff?

[@ZeusWeus]

@@AdamKoralik I guess, like a part explaining in your own words why physical media is important and an all digital future is bad, then maybe the second half explaining the best way to protect and maintain your stuff

[@bonfingertip]

I always back up all my game disks for all platforms first thing after buying and checking if they boot and play. For that very reason: to preserve them. The only exception is "PC Steam disks", just doesn't make much sence. Kudos for promiting the idea, and giving the insight to the less tech-savvy gamers!

[@TheodoroDML]

I recently finished backing up my GameCube collection, thanks for all the knowledge from this video and in your channel, Adam. Video game stores and re-sellers should verify their products data like this and put it on their adds, I'd be willing to buy a game for a higher price if the seller can guarantee to me that the disc data is intact.

[@TheodoroDML]

Also, it feels pretty special to play Super Smash Bros Melee online on Dolphin with an ISO that I ripped myself.

[@jeff97ish]

Very interesting video Adam!

[@fozzyozzy106]

I remember buying a copy resident evil the disc had some scratches on it not too bad got half way through the game and it froze :(

[@fivejedis]

Are there work around for those few games that have some anti privacy code or something? For example I cannot rip the files for Mortal Kombat Trilogy or Wu Tang Shaolin Style for example. There's plenty of other titles I'm sure but those are 2 I personally encountered that I cannot rip using conventional means. Is there a workaround? I really want to preserve my physical collection on a harddrive.

[@AdamKoralik]

I'm unfamiliar with what you're referring to.

[@fivejedis]

@@AdamKoralik I'm probably wording it wrong, but the issue I'm having is that certain games like MK Trilogy for example won't rip. It'll just stay stuck on reading like it'll say track 1 of 24 or something like that and never load. So idk if I'm doing something wrong and if I am I'd love some clarity to finally get those games backed up.

[@halo3odst]

As an example of what adam is talking about. I had a copy of jet grind radio that i wanted to quickly playtest before gifting to a friend. This was a good idea because the game worked about 80% of the way through before i encountered a series of impossible to pass read errors. I got the disc resurfaced for a few dollars and had no problems after that put the point is still valid, DO NOT TRUST DISCS EVEN IF THEY LAUNCH.

[@ianeons9278]

Is ripping a Pioneer LaserActive disc the same as ripping an Atari Jaguar CD disc.

[@AdamKoralik]

Not even close, I don't think it's even possible to rip a Laseractive disc.

[@ianeons9278]

The PS4 is the only 8th gen console that let's you rip discs to a PC.

[@emmettturner9452]

11:15 - "You still cannot put those in a disc drive and have it rip them." As I recall, some insiders back in the day were using Yamaha or Benq drives with custom firmware for ripping Dreamcast games directly back in the day. Not sure if they ever released it publicly.

[@PokemonMp3]

You can use custom firmware on some old ide dvd rom drives to rip original xbox aswell modern vintage gamer did i video about it

[@nathan-tz9ow]

Its also worth noting constant usage can burnout your console disc drives, my ps1 cd drive went bad recently, so if you can move to an ode format its beneficial for both your console and games. Secondly, slightly dipping into piracy, its very popular to condense game images in the "scene" this has caused a huge problem with dreamcast pirated games being broken or missing content. If youre using gdemu or redream youre better off ripping your original discs.

[@percyhutchins5421]

I still have like 30 gigs I keep backing up on a bunch of hard drives of one of the original dreamcast archivers Mother Hen. It's crazy the progress made. I've still got a binder filled with sharpie marker CDRS n utopia boot discs from 2000. Oh my youth.

[@ProfessorMHades]

Hell yeah Broadband club. Thank you so much dude for making this video the computer drives you listed are all I need now. Well that and the software. Cheers dude.

[@singletona082]

The how will be interesting. The why is simple: disc based media has a bad habit of failing far more often than cartridge based media, or outright breaking. Preserve that which you have legally obtained.

[@MisterYeko]

Not only modded console can be useful, which is a really good recommendation to digitalize any physical game that you got and put it on the SD card or Flash Drive. but i think they're might some people that they like to use on Emulator if people don't want necessarly needing a console, and just to buy the game legally and rip it to the computer to play it (depending on the disc they're supported for the systems). That could be also useful to digitalize some games that they don't really need a console but Games. could be maybe also useful. it's not the same feel to play it but atleast adapters exists for an original feel.

[@supermahmoud]

Love me some technical stuff! Nice video I love it! I think you skipped Saturn games, that one was tricky too (with TOCs etc...), but I think you covered Saturn enough in your previous videos!

[@AdamKoralik]

I didn't skip it, like I said in the video, use CDRWIN.

[@llfallen0nell884]

Will you do a 8th gen retroactively because I have Been watching a lot of those videos from you recently

[@AdamKoralik]

Maybe.

[@JolliAllGenGamer]

With a CFW PS3 you can just rip a disc and validate it with multiman. Now it will be a pain in the future with trying to preserve games that are over 100gb. How many tb? Xbox one it stinks cause too much security

[@strykah92]

Just gotta be patient on waiting for personal storage options to (affordably) catch up. I used to think Metal Gear Solid 4 being over 25GB was utterly intangible. Now it can fit on a $10 flash drive...

[@xninja83x67]

Been waiting for this...I want to rip my dreamcast games still. I got my original xbox, wii, and gc so far.

[@Wally17.]

Lol the Dreamcast ain’t messing around. I didn’t expect such a long convoluted process. Never had one but it’s interesting to hear about.

[@Soulcommander]

Hey Adam what version of Firmware are you running on that drrive? (LG WH16NS40 Super Multi Blue Internal SATA 16x Blu-ray Disc Rewriter) I was reading some peeps were not able to rip 4K HDR movies.because the drive ships with the updated 1.03 firmware. Was also wondering if this would affect ripping ps4 games and such? Great vid...your memory is awesome remembering how do do all this ripping.

[@AdamKoralik]

I heard that too, I haven't tried a 4K disc so I'm not sure off hand to be honest.

[@Zombiebrains24]

Could you burn a game cd data to another cd like with music? Incase original disc gets damaged you have a backup disk with that game on it?

[@AdamKoralik]

I mean, yes, but actually having it function on your console is another matter.

[@roguetomatofilms]

What kind of adapter do you use with that dvd drive for gamecube ripping?

[@AdamKoralik]

IDE to USB.

[@Coffeemessaging]

The readme file on rawdump shows four models of disc drives that work with wii & GC games. "Use a LG-8164b or LG-8163b or LG-8162b or LG-8161b dvd drive." I found the "LG-8161b" model for $30 AUD on ebay.

[@gentarofourze]

I don't rip pc games, or at least modern ones that are available on storefronts but I rip pre PS3 console games for achival purposes, in part not just because its more legal than downloading but then I have my own rips that I know are not tampered with, but also I have some games so rare that I bought new and still are in brand new condition so I don't want to have even the smallest mark on them. and I don't want fingerprints on the manual and box when opening.

[@ianeons9278]

Can't wait for PS5 unboxing!

[@fastcarippolito68]

I need your advice I have a ps4 console and ps5 console I want to rip my ps4 dvds to a portable drive so I can play the roms from the drive to my ps5 digital so I don't have to re buy them again. Is there a way to do this. Thanks William

[@corymillen9824]

Do you know where I can get the crew in 4.0e ?software I have some Saturn games I want to verify works all the way thru.

[@balboa7071]

I am wondering where to find mini 1,4 gb dvd -r to burn gamecube games on.. i cant seem to find those.. i am looking for 50 or 100 pck.. do you know where i can get it? Cause i’ve been looking for a while…. thanks

[@AdamKoralik]

These days, no idea. I haven't looked into that in years to be honest.

[@77MyEsha]

I found your video very informative. I am interested in ripping my original xbox, ps3 and ps4 games to my PC. My question is, I also have a PS Vita, so if these files are ripped to an iso format, does this mean I would I thene be able to transfer these files to my Vita and play them on there? I know with Xbox One, PS3 and PS4 it's possibe to wirelessly play games on the PS Vita, but I would love to be able to play my games when I am away from the internet. Is this possible do you know?

[@AdamKoralik]

I don't know enough about the Vita ripping or hacking process to be honest.

[@user-wj9xq7ig2v]

If you wanna check a game you must rip it. Rip it good! Thanks especially for the ps4 info. Amazing tip about that bluray drive. I'm using a phat 360 drive with the power adapter. I've noticed it works well if you detect the drive in jungle flasher before ripping. This doesn't need to be done again until the computer is restarted.

[@Vandal092]

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need. 👍

[@12midnight92]

I know this video is from a year ago, but wanted some clarity about using imgburn to check disc health. Will that work even for the Dreamcast to just read into an iso file successfully to verify the disc is not missing files/corrupted. Not currently concerned about backing up, more so checking disc health.

[@AdamKoralik]

The Dreamcast is by far the hardest. You can't do that with IMGBurn. You have to use an actual Dreamcast and network ripping.

[@12midnight92]

Thank you for replying, I appreciate you clarifying 🙏

[@theunknown1426]

I have some "forensic copying software" which I used to copy xbox one x official internal hdd to ssd, (it worked for that so would it work work these consoles)

[@bradleycoates6297]

I found everything I need online, I just need to verify if I've understood everything correctly. I don't have a Wii, so I can't use one to rip my Gamecube discs. Do I use an LG 8164B with an IDE to USB converter, on my Windows 10 PC, but using XP virtual machine and RawDump, to get my ISO's. Use GCLoader to run those ISO's, and GCHD MKII for HD?

[@AdamKoralik]

Windows 10 is the X factor there. I've only used it on XP and 7. Hypothetically it should work. Though I suggest adding an mClassic to that setup. I did a video about all this.

[@bradleycoates6297]

@@AdamKoralik So mClassic through the GCHD MKII? Dope. I had issues with my Gamecube's laser, which sent me down this rabbit hole. I think this is the route to go. Cheers.