Dumping Guides

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System Specific Dumping Guides

• IBM PC Compatible
  • Steam

• Nintendo Cartridges
  • Famicom Disk System
  • Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Game Boy (Color)
  • Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Nintendo 64
  • Game Boy Advance
  • DS(i)
  • (New) Nintendo 3DS
  • Nintendo Switch

• Nintendo Digital Software
  • Wii
  • Nintendo DSi
  • (New) Nintendo 3DS
  • Wii U
  • Nintendo Switch

• Sony Playstation Physical Software
  • PSP
  • PlayStation Vita

• Sony PlayStation Network Digital Software
  • General PSN
  • PlayStation 3, PSP
  • PlayStation Vita

• Game.COM Cartridges
  • Game.com Cartridge Dumping Guide

Useful Software

• GameHeader - GUI tool for viewing ROM header and generating checksums of NES, FDS, GB, SNES, N64, GBC, GBA and NDS ROMs
• Crappy Tiny Reader (CTR) - GUI tool for viewing ROM header of DS(i) and 3DS ROMs

Useful Info

• Understanding Serials
• DAT-o-MATIC Guide

Would Be Useful

• More ROM dumper homebrew
  • GB/GBC dumper for GameCube via Game Boy Player or Game Boy Link Cable. There are GBA methods, but do they work for GB/GBC?
  • TapeDump-like homebrew for SNES/GBA (for the SNES, maybe GB/C dumping could also be done, via the Super Game Boy).
• Look into clone consoles that have external storage + cart slot, if they exist