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Nokia N-Gage
Check the dumping hardware overview for a list of known preservation hardware.
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Introduction
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Tools
aaru
PC software
- 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 [the “(Retail)” ones here that don't have “(AARU)” folders].
General disk imaging tools (e.g. dd)
PC software
- Can make disk images
MMCDUMP
N-Gage homebrew: https://github.com/EKA2L1/Akudama
- Can dump the CID, including from the troublesome cards that aaru can't dump the CID from
Siemens S7 MMC eprom utils
PC software. Not sure what the official site is/was. One version is uploaded here: https://archive.org/details/S7_MMC.ZIP
- Can be used to make disk images of very early protos.
- Fiddly to use
- Not known how it works
Methods
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Identifying Game Versions
Indicate whether the game version/revision info can be determined through ring codes, label stamping, printed on chips, embedded in ROM etc
Gathering and Submitting Dump Info
Once you've dumped your games, it's time to generate and submit metadata to a preservation project for validating and cataloging. See the dump submission instructions for more information.