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--- todo:carts:nokia:n-gage [2023/07/16 01:01] – hiccup
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 ===== Introduction =====
-This section should have a short description or overview, such as:
+xxxx
-Dumping System X carts is fairly easy, and if you already have Hardware X, only a few modifications are required.
+===== Tools =====
+==== aaru ====
+PC software
-or
+  * Can make disk images
+  * Can dump the CID, CSD and OCR data of the card, with a compatible card reader (e.g. built-in ones like on raspberry pis) [elaborate], except for some cards [which?].
-Dumping System Y discs is quite involved, and requires specialized hardware and software.
+==== General disk imaging tools (e.g. dd) ====
+PC software
-===== Methods =====
+  * Can make disk images
-[todo:
-  - does dd work?
-  - supposedly this is good for some cards https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/
-]
-Numbered list of methods, with the top one being the most preferred/used method
+==== MMCDUMP===
+N-Gage homebrew: https://github.com/EKA2L1/Akudama
-  - Compatible SD reader and aaru PC software
+  * Can dump the CID, including from the troublesome cards that aaru can't dump the CID from
-  - Compatible SD reader and unknown Siemens tool
-  - Dumping loose files
-==== Compatible SD reader and aaru PC software ====
+==== Unknown Siemens tool ====
-his can make an aaruf file, which you can extract metadata from, plus the disk image and CID, CSD and OCR data (some of the last three are needed to emulate/bypass DRM?). Doesn't work on some cards [which?]. usually its built-in sd readers that are compatible, not usb ones (e.g. the one built into the raspberry pi [which model?])
+  * Can be used to make disk images of very early protos.
-====Compatible SD reader and unknown Siemens tool====
+  * Fiddly to use
-Unknown if the same SD readers are required as aaru or if more/less are compatible. Supposed to work with cards that can't be dumped using aaru. Maybe doesn't allow for retrieving the special data nor metadata like aaru can? But there is a homebrew tool that can be used to dump the CID data?
+  * Not known how it works
-If you use it without a compatible reader, you can still dump the disk image, but not the CID, CSD and OCR data.
+===== Methods =====
+xxxx
-==== Dumping loose files ====
-Using homebrew on an N-Gage? Files should match those extracted from a proper disk image made using aaru.
 ===== Identifying Game Versions =====