HKT-0500 - Cross Products Dreamcast GD-ROM Duplicator GD-X

Well, when hooking it up through my PC and 5.24 I get errors reading "drive E". Strange. I can't get into the image on it even though I know there is a valid one there. Just thought I'd give you an update.

 

That's strange, have you tried removing the harddisk and connecting it straight into your PC (I have no idea if it's an IDE or SCSI HD).

I've just recently bought a 6ft SCSI 50 pin to 50 pin cable on eBay, so when that comes in I'll have a look at my harddisk's file format.

 

I haven't. I did backup one of my GDR's and it worked like a charm though. :dance:

Cool product, I wasn't even aware of it until recently. Speaking of 5.24's, I may have some for sale in the very near future. If anyone is interested, drop me a PM....

 

I've tested many GD-ROMs now and all I keep getting is a FAILED error message. I'm beginning to think the problem is with my GD-ROM drive.

 

It would seem. Bummer. You could always swap out the drive from a 5.24 just to test it. I don't see how it could be anything else but that, but I guess you never know.

 

It's the same drive as a stock DC so it's not going to be worth taking it from a 5.24 and risking damaging that too

Take it from someone who has exploded more than his fair share of dev kits

 

Good point! :nod:

How many dev kits would that be LeGit? :crying:

 

Of course I'll try cleaning the laser before anything else.

Wasn't a Set 4 among those? :crying:

 

Which option did you choose on the GD-X menu to backup the GD-R?

 

Read Image I believe....something along those lines...

 

Update

Well I've finally managed to fix the GD-ROM drive, but I still don't see anything under the HD.

Has anyone been able to "dump" GD-ROM data onto the harddisk and been able to view the contents?

 

I haven't been able to get it to mount, but I haven't yanked it and tried to read it directly though. Might need to try a Linux box to read it?

 

MAJOR UPDATE!

Today I decided to remove the SCSI harddisk inside of the GD-X Duplicator and tried to connect it directly to the internal SCSI card of my PC. To my success, I was able to view dumped data off of the harddisk!ray:

In approximately 13 minutes, I was able to successfully dump data from a Dreamcast SYSTEM-DISC 2 (nearly 1 GB of data)!

The contents in the HD read:

FILE0001.DUP - 1.39 MB
FILE0002.DUP - 1.65 MB
FILE0003.DUP - 984 MB
IMAGE - 207 Bytes


Now all I need is an application to open these file types.

 

Nice! Now work on a method for us non Katana owners XD

 

The data files that were dumped from the GD-X unit were in the same format as if they were dumped via a serial cable or BroadBand Adapter. EXTRACT.EXE works just fine for extracting the .DUP files.

BTW, the actual track 3 of the System Disc 2 is around 5 MB. The rest was dummy data...

 

Is there any software out there, or mentioned in the manual of the HKT-05, that correctly extracts game data from the .DUP files dumped with this unit (besides using the EXTRACT.EXE utility)?