Dumping NR discs?

Hey,

I've bought an NR disc recently, but unfortunately, I do not have an NR reader. Could anyone with an NR reader here dump the contents for me? I will pay for the return shipping etc.

Thanks in advance

 

dot50cal was/is offering this 'service' according to his sig.

 

GC, PSO NR, Cross-over cable, some special data on the mem-card and you're set.

The hardest bit is to find PSO-NR disks of course.

 

...You forgot the BBA :banghead:

 

oh crap, you're right :icon_bigg I ve got one of those in every GC and 1 of my GDEVs, so I forgot :lol:

 

Don't you need at least a NR drive to read NR discs?

 

the NR-drive is provided by the NR-cube, if that's what you mean

 

Yeah but he doesn't have a NR cube.

Besides, wouldn't it just be easier to just get a NR reader + modchip with backup software in flash rather than PSO, a NR writer, NR discs, memory card etc ?

 

I'm actually curious about another method.

Does require an NR Reader, but does not require PSO on an NR disc or modding a system.

The only difference between an actual GC and an NR reader is the way the disc is decrpyted. Take an NR optical drive and plug it into a regular cube, it works. Ok.

Boot into some softmod OS on a regular cube, then hot-swap to an NR optical drive to read the disc. Two problems with this scenario:

1) The GC might not like you transplanting the optical drive when its running and might cause the unit to lock up or possibly cause hardware damage. I *might* be willing to test this myself.

2) The softmod OS usually detects the drive model on bootup, and swapping the drive might work, but if its trying to control the optical drive as something else, you might also hit your roadblock here. I highly doubt any GCOS coder intended for you to do anything remotely like this, so don't bet on it working.

Worth thinking about.

Oh, and dot50cal is extremely helpful in this area. Good idea to give him a PM as he has PSO on an NR disc

 

You need a PSO NR Disc? PM me and we can talk. Nintendo

 

I read somewhere that you can swap the retail optical drive with the NR optical drive. You don't have to hotswap. However the unit must be chipped so you can use the OS for ripping the disc

 

I have always wondered if a similar modification would work on a RVT-R Reader to dump a RVT-R disc.

 

Probally yes; if you have the twilight princess on RVT-R

 

chip is not neccessary, softmod is enough for this

 

Very true but are retail Wii saves compatible with a RVT-R Reader?

 

I don't know, but I'll check!

 

I believe the NR saves are compatible with retail (so long as its basically the same build), so Id imagine its the same for the Wii?

 

I *think* you don't need any GC/NR reader to dump these. Just an LG8163B (was that the correct type?) PC DVD drive, rawdump util , and the unscrambler04 (to bruteforce the seeds and get a clean decrypted image). I might be wrong though, but afair NR discs are physically structured the same as GOD/WOD.

 

I just tried with with an 8164B and it didn't work.

"Error! You may have a faulty drive!!!"

I tried with with a normal gamecube game, and it started the dump as normal with no error. Any other ideas?

 

a mate managed to dump a RVT-R Disc with a LG drive, you 'just' have to hotswap it with an original WiiDisc