This is a quick, crude tutorial on how to rip your own Dreamcast GDs. I will write a better one later.
First
You obviously need a Broadband Adapter and over 1gb of hard drive space available to do this. You can find a broadband adapter on eBay for $100-$150.
Download BBRip, DC-Load-IP, ip2post, and RapidCRC.
Extract BBRip to your desktop or wherever is convenient for you.
Extract dc-load-ip.cdi and burn with DiscJuggler or Alcohol 120%.
Second
Connect your Dreamcast's ethernet cable to the same network that your PC is on. Insert DC-Load-IP in your Dreamcast and boot it up.
You will be presented with a green screen showing your Dreamcast's MAC ID and status. Write down the MAC ID (the one with the colons separating it).
Start BBRip. Type in the Dreamcast IP address, check "Add to ARP Entry," and type in the MAC address of your Dreamcast (using hyphens (-) to separate each 2 numbers, not colons). Click on the download tab and select "Do not ignore dummy sectors." That is important! Check "save log automatically."
Select Tool > Connect. Your Dreamcast screen should turn black. BBRip is started. Select Tool > Track List. The tracks on your GD-ROM should appear in BBRip. Select one (and just one--BBRip can crash if you try more than one). Select Tool > Download. Choose where you want to download the track to.
Do this for every track. While the game is ripping, write down how many tracks there are and the numbers in the "LBA" field for each track.
Third
Open up notepad.
On the first line, write how many tracks there are in the game.
Then write a line for each game track. Write the track number, LBA value minus 150, track type (4 for iso, 0 for raw), block size (2048 for iso, 2352 for raw), track name (trackXX.XXX), then zero.
The following is an example. Make sure you get the math right. Track 1 should have a 0 LBA and track 3 should have a 45000 LBA. Other tracks vary from game to game.
Example:
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3
1 0 4 2048 track01.iso 0
2 450 0 2352 track02.raw 0
3 45000 4 2048 track03.iso 0
Install RapidCRC. Open RapidCRC and click "Options." At the top, check off "When not checking SFV/MD5 files calculate: MD5" and uncheck CRC. Click OK then close RapidCRC. In Explorer, highlight all of your ISO/RAW files, right click, and click "Open with RapidCRC." Wait for RapidCRC to calculate the MD5 of all of the files. Click "Create MD5 file: Go." Click "Create one .MD5 file for all files" and save the file.
Start a new thread here, in the proper forum for the region game you dumped. Post the contents of PostThis.txt, track.txt, the GDI file you made, and the MD5 you made.
Name the topic title in the following format:
Game Title (Region: J/U/E) [if more than one disc, #of#] [Product Number]
Name your GDI and MD5 the same thing (with .gdi abd .md5 extension). Use 7zip with ultra compression and compress the ISOs and RAWs. Name it the same as above (with a .7z extension). You now have followed the proper steps to package your release properly and submit the game's information to our database.
See This topic for an example.