Thought i'd post a little miniguide on gow to use Friidump for the dos-illiterate.
Step One: Download the windows installer, or zip file here:
Windows Installer
Windows Zip
Step 2: Opening up the program.
-Click on the start menu, and hit run
-in the prompt, type "cmd" to bring up the command prompt.
(Note: In vista, the prompt is located above the windows orb when clicked.)
Step 3: Locating in MS DOS.
-Once you are in the command prompt, type "cd.." repeatedly until you are at the C:\
-Then, use the "cd" (Change Directory) command until the folder where friidump is located is selected (As shown below)
Step 3: Running the program with the desired parameters
-Because this program is line based, you need to execute the program and all its parameters in the one line.
-You will see the list of parameters when you run the program (As shown below)
Now, what we want to do is have the CD in the drive ready to go. From here its just a matter of typing in the line depending on what we do.
Here is a command to automatically dump the image in your drive (Mine is set to G:\), automatically name it and store it within the friidump folder.
friidump -d g: -a does this command, and you should see something like what is shown below. Only, when you do this, eventually you will see the disc information pop up, as well as the status of the rip and the ETA.
Once you get familiar with how the commands are executed, you can do the other stuff it offers such as being able to name it to whatever you wish. The reality of it, is that its much easier to do just what i did and rename it in windows afterwards.
Now, the important stuff: All Wii games must have the appropriate byte size which is constant for all games. This is 4.37gb. As stated in the rawdump thread, any rips that are off this target are bad.
Finally, you can create a batch file which can save you a lot of time. To do this, open up the cmd prompt and type in edit: <NAMEITSOMETHING>.bat. This will create a batchfile in the C:\ and bring you to a screen where you can retype everything i've done above and save it. That way, you only need to execute that batch file instead of having to retype it over again every time.
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