Dumping X6800 game disks onto my computer

[Pennywise]

Hello all,

I'm new here and I hope I'm posting in the right place.

I am involved in an ongoing translation of an X6800 game and things are going smoothly except for one little problem. A few of the disk images floating around seem to have been partially corrupted and we need images that aren't corrupted etc. I have been unable to find any alternate images on the web and now believe the only way to get correct versions is to buy the game myself and dump the disks onto my computer. From what I understand there might be an issue with the X6800 disks not being your stand 3 1/2 inches. So would anyone be willing to assist me with this?

Thank you.

[neko68k]

http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:writing_floppies
http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:writing_3.5_floppies

[neko68k]

this may also be useful http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:file_transfer_between_windows_pcs_and_x68000_machines_using_null_modem_cable

[Pennywise]

I'm not sure those help. I also don't own an X68K system.

Would it be as simple as obtaining an 5 1/2" floppy drive, inserting my X68K disk into it, viewing it through windows explorer and basically dragging and dropping the disk contents onto my desktop?

[eidis]

 Hi, Pennyise,

The most easiest way would be to dump the disk with Omniflop to xdf and then extract its contents with DiskExplorer:

Omniflop:
http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniFlop/OmniFlop.htm

DiskExplorer:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013937/editdisk/index_e.html

Keep the scene alive !
Eidis