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This is an up to date tutorial that will show you the best way to backup your GameCube games to your computer using your GameCube, Broadband Adapter, Phantasy Star Online and the web browser of your choice.
I found this way to be the quickest way of backing up a GameCube game and the only way of successfully doing so on Windows 7.
This tutorial will assume you have a basic network setup at home, this been a router with your PC and GameCube connected to it.
To start with power the GameCube on and load Phantasy Star to the main menu and select options.
From the options screen select "Network Option" followed by "Provider Option" then select "Yes" to go to the network setup screen.
On the network setup screen select edit on one of the network options, it doesn't matter which. I used to have a connection for Playing PSO online and one for loading Homebrew.
Click next when asked for the ISP's name.
On the Ethernet settings select the options to "Manually set an IP address" and "Automatically disconnect"
On the next screen assign the GameCube an IP address, this must be in the same subnet as your computer. In the screenshot below my GameCube has been given the IP address 192.168.1.10, for any IP in the 192.168.1.x range the subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0.
The "Default router" and "Primary DNS" has to be the IP address of your computer, to find out your computers IP address press the Windows Key + R and type CMD in to the run box and press ok. You should now see the command prompt.
Here type ipconfig /all to find out the IP address of your computer
As you can see my computers IP address is 192.168.1.10 so that is what must be entered for the "Default router" and "Primary DNS" on the GameCubes network options.
Next just leave the Proxy server settings blank.
Finally save the settings, then return to the game.
Now you are back on the main menu, select online game and select a character and confirm the selection. If you dont have any characters you will need to create one.
Now leave the GameCube on the next screen.
Download the Ripper Package and unzip it, if you plan to use PSO a lot to run applications such as NGCDEV Ripper on the GameCube it might be an idea to save your settings, if so just load "Save Username.bat" and select accept on the GameCube, it should then save your network access settings to the character so you dont need to go through that all again.
If you have already done that open "ngcdevr02.ini"
In here change GCIP to the IP address of your GameCube and the Gateway to the IP of your computer and save the settings.
Next load ngcdev-conf.exe, a command prompt window should flash up for a second then close, dont worry thats updated the ip address settings of the GameCube ripper application.
Now simply load "Load GameCube Ripper.bat"
Your PC should now be waiting for a connection from the GameCube
Select agree on PSO, the game will then load and the PC will send over the ripper application which will be loaded on the GameCube.
When asked to "Press A to stop disc" do so and you will be asked to insert an original disc, this is the disc you want to rip to your computer, do so and press A again.
You will now be given a link to download an ISO of the game from your GameCube
Type that in to your web browser of choice
Enter the name of the game and select save
An ISO image of the game in your GameCube will be downloaded to your computer.
It should take around 10 minutes for the game to download to your computer
During that time a message saying streaming should be displayed on your TV
When the backup is complete you will be told so
That it you should now have a backup of your GameCube game that you can use with the Dolphin Emulator or simply burn and keep safe.
You can then go on to backup more games if you wish, when you are done simply switch the GameCube off.
Next time you want to backup a game simply load the GameCube ripper application on your computer and select Online Game on the main menu as Phantasy Star and go through the process of connecting to the internet.
I found this way to be the quickest way of backing up a GameCube game and the only way of successfully doing so on Windows 7.
This tutorial will assume you have a basic network setup at home, this been a router with your PC and GameCube connected to it.
To start with power the GameCube on and load Phantasy Star to the main menu and select options.
From the options screen select "Network Option" followed by "Provider Option" then select "Yes" to go to the network setup screen.
On the network setup screen select edit on one of the network options, it doesn't matter which. I used to have a connection for Playing PSO online and one for loading Homebrew.
Click next when asked for the ISP's name.
On the Ethernet settings select the options to "Manually set an IP address" and "Automatically disconnect"
On the next screen assign the GameCube an IP address, this must be in the same subnet as your computer. In the screenshot below my GameCube has been given the IP address 192.168.1.10, for any IP in the 192.168.1.x range the subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0.
The "Default router" and "Primary DNS" has to be the IP address of your computer, to find out your computers IP address press the Windows Key + R and type CMD in to the run box and press ok. You should now see the command prompt.
Here type ipconfig /all to find out the IP address of your computer
As you can see my computers IP address is 192.168.1.10 so that is what must be entered for the "Default router" and "Primary DNS" on the GameCubes network options.
Next just leave the Proxy server settings blank.
Finally save the settings, then return to the game.
Now you are back on the main menu, select online game and select a character and confirm the selection. If you dont have any characters you will need to create one.
Now leave the GameCube on the next screen.
Download the Ripper Package and unzip it, if you plan to use PSO a lot to run applications such as NGCDEV Ripper on the GameCube it might be an idea to save your settings, if so just load "Save Username.bat" and select accept on the GameCube, it should then save your network access settings to the character so you dont need to go through that all again.
If you have already done that open "ngcdevr02.ini"
In here change GCIP to the IP address of your GameCube and the Gateway to the IP of your computer and save the settings.
Next load ngcdev-conf.exe, a command prompt window should flash up for a second then close, dont worry thats updated the ip address settings of the GameCube ripper application.
Now simply load "Load GameCube Ripper.bat"
Your PC should now be waiting for a connection from the GameCube
Select agree on PSO, the game will then load and the PC will send over the ripper application which will be loaded on the GameCube.
When asked to "Press A to stop disc" do so and you will be asked to insert an original disc, this is the disc you want to rip to your computer, do so and press A again.
You will now be given a link to download an ISO of the game from your GameCube
Type that in to your web browser of choice
Enter the name of the game and select save
An ISO image of the game in your GameCube will be downloaded to your computer.
It should take around 10 minutes for the game to download to your computer
During that time a message saying streaming should be displayed on your TV
When the backup is complete you will be told so
That it you should now have a backup of your GameCube game that you can use with the Dolphin Emulator or simply burn and keep safe.
You can then go on to backup more games if you wish, when you are done simply switch the GameCube off.
Next time you want to backup a game simply load the GameCube ripper application on your computer and select Online Game on the main menu as Phantasy Star and go through the process of connecting to the internet.
