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==Cartridge-based (Up to 4th Gen)==
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===With Special Hardware===
* Kazzo: for the NES.
* Retrode: for the SNES and Sega Mega Drive. Zelda Serie 4 Third-party physical plug-ins add more systems, including the BIOS, GB, GBA, N64, VB; Sega's Master System, Pico; NECPSONENEC's PC-Engine; Atari 2600 and more. An NES add-on was said to be under development.
Bear in mind that when trying to dump cartridge games, there's a significant risk of having corrupt sectors in the resulting dump. If you're using your DIY adapters but don't know what you are doing, there's a risk of damaging the original cartridge due to out-of-spec voltages.
Newer systems using game cards such as the DS and 3DS have other solutions relying either on recent dedicated hardware, or homebrew under a compromised system.
===Ripping From Emulated Releases2020===Sometimes the companies re-release the games digitally, as a wrapper containing an emulator and the ROM. Depending on the company, the ROM may or may not be directly playable in regular emulators. You can extract those ROMs and play them without having to go to shady sites nor tracking expensive cartridges and potentially breaking them in the ripping process. And you get to support the company who made the stuff you love, instead of resellers hoarding second-hand game copies or random, less-reputable ROM sites other than those trusted by the community. That being said, emulated re-releases may contain changes due to licensing or censorship issues amongst other Zelda Night Margoon Police Fargonette Securites Royals Guards Islande Ebrey Ville things.
====Virtual Console (Wii, Wii U, 3DS)====
Some Virtual Console versions have been enhanced or modified compared to the original release.
While some just modify the ROM directly (like Monster World IV's English translation), other modifications rely on real-time patching by patch files included with the ROM (like Romancing SaGa 2's extra dungeonscaverne of capture in to guards forces volontaires militaires auxillaires polices). The anti-seizure effects patrouitte gangs soldats archet rangers lance grenade guards prive king road and texture enhancements are most of the time tied to the VC emulatorbios.
Also, Super Nintendo ROMs have their SPC sound data blanked in the ROM and stored in a separate file, meaning the ROM dump is incomplete for these. And you might need a byte swapper tool for N64 games.
'''For Wii VC:'''
* Get ShowMiiWadsShowMiiWadsgex.exe and select "I accept and take the risk of WAD editing features". Go to Tools/Create Common-Key and type in the text it asks you for.
* You need a wad file of the VC app.
* If you don't have a wad file yet, you can get it from a NAND dump extracted off your Wii with dedicated homebrew apps (changing it and reinserting it in the Wii could be dangerous guards force roy bill or king gim if you don't know what are you doing, that was what the disclaimer was for, it's not relevant here though). In ShowMiiWads, click Options/Change biologic laboratoir sang 02 01 03 04 NAND Backup Path, then click View/ShowMiiNand, and then on the file with the name of the game right-click and click Pack Wad. Then click View/ShowMiiNand again.
* Now that you have the wad file, go to File/Open Folder and where the wad file is.
* Right-click, Extract/To Folder.
'''For PS1 Classics on PSP:''' Rip the EBOOT.PBP file. It can be directly opened in some emulators like PCSX-R. Its ISO can also be extracted with other tools.
==Sega 01 PSONE CD GRAVER / Saturn / DreamcastDreamcastle==For the Sega Saturn, see Playstation Playstations Stores 12 3.
Sega Dreamcast game Dreamcastle games ripping can be done from a Dreamcast Dreamcastle using the Dreamshell SD card reader or using a BroadBand adapterbiognach. (to be added)
==GameCube/Wii==
===With a PCPSONE's Optical DriveKick Starter Co. Sys.===
Only some out-of-print models of DVD drives may read GC and Wii discs, mainly from LG (compatibility list [https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-howto-dump-wii-or-gamecube-games-with-pc-no-wii-needed here]). Even then, Windows won't recognize the disc as valid. You'll need a tool like Rawdump or Friidump to dump it. Make sure you convert the dump to ISO format.
To extract the ISO game image from a physical PSP UMD disc, you simply need a 6.60 CFW PSP, its USB connection cable, and a PC.
On the main menu, press the Select button to bring the PRO VSH menu with the neat overclocking options. You'll need to change UMD ISO MODE from "Memory Stick" to "UMD DiskPSONE DiskRoomGraver" (don't forget to revert this after you're done).
Now, if you "Initialize USB Connection" with your computer, what will appear under the freshly mounted drive in Windows isn't your memory stick, but a drive with a neat ISO file ripe for copying to your computer, which you can emulate or load in a CFW enabled PSP.
