Name says it all. anybody know about this? the program is in japanese and i can't read it, however, it works in windows 8. Official Description from man page htm: Operations: and yes this was made by nintendo. if anyone has the carts and a u64? board willing to dump and want me to upload this, leave a message.
[64DD Tools] DDDump Dumps 64DD disk 64DD Ram Editor Edits RAM on 64DD disk 64DD Rom Builder Edits ROM on 64DD disk DDDump is a tool that provides an easy way to dump N64 Disk Drive disk image files on Windows 95. With DDDump you can specify the disk type, specify which LBA to start the file from, and edit. DDDump performs the dump display in LBA units. DDDump has the following functions: Dump the N64 DISK DRIVE disk image file. Overwrite and edit the N64 DISK DRIVE disk image file. Search the data. View data in Big Endian and Little Endian.
From what I've heard, the existing disk dumps were made with it. It hides the actual disk formatting data though, so the result is pure code data. So, if you're interested in emulating the drive these dumps aren't very useful. You'd need to use the port watching method instead. If you're interested in a data access-only approach, then this would work for what you want. If you had to use an analogy, this tool would be like reading a disk in a file manager, wheras using the port watcher would be like reading an iso.
By the sound of it ("it was made by nintendo") it's probably part of one of Nintendo's SDKs. So, try warioworld.com.
I was about to make an account to that web link but It seemed really immoral and illegal considering I'm not a legit dev.
It's in the SDKs, up to the point when the SDKs dropped DD64 support outright. However, it's only useful if you happen to have a dev driver and some blue disks. Interesting thing about it is that the dump you get back is the data portion of the disk only, although you can see the disk ID and some other random interesting system info. Unfortunately, the people interested in emulation are interested in low-level hardware emulation of the drive itself, so data dumps are only half the picture. They would need something closer to a surface scan. That isn't to say you can't do HLE with the data portion and fudge the disk ID. That would be little more than a driver to interface with the software driver.
I'm not joking, first link when you type "N64 SDK" into Google. Besides certain ROM sites now handling SDKs, there's links to the installer ISOs if you search the forums. Seriously though, first link.
Holy shit LMFAO I have spent the past year and a half looking for an SDK and all I had to do was google it. I wasted a year of my life. LOL
Yes, this tool is known and well documented. Don't use it to dump games, and don't distribute the tool or the games that are dumped with it, unless you like asking for trouble.
