11/02/25

DumpDVD - The Crystal Website

DumpDVD is a tool made in C++ to make decrypted (.ISO) backups of Commercial DVDs protected with the Content Scramble System
this was primarily created after trying to archive the "Tamagotchi TV" series that was sold with "Tamagotchi Familetchi"

after users on the "Tamagotchi Collectors" discord server, where we ran into an unforseen issue :
there was no DVD ripping software for MacOS

or more generally there was; but only one kind, software to turn a DVD-Movie into a MKV or MP4 file; usually they assumed you just wanted the movie on the disc and nothing else.

however for Tamagotchi TV, it is a DVD-Menu Game, so it we very much needed the menus intact for it to make any sense and well
i struggled to find anything that would just create an ISO on MacOS-  MakeMKV claimed it could do it, however when trying it,
the program just crashed.
 

And even without that issue, the only tool that i knew of at all that did this is DVD Decryptor, which is very old; created for Windows XP,
it's actually the predecessor to ImgBurn; attempting to run DVD Decryptor on modern versions of windows does work, but often would throw a few error messages at startup
not just that but it is Closed Source; there is also MakeMKV which does have an option to rip an ISO, AND has a MacOS version, but if you try it,
the program actually crashes when you click start, also its still closed source, and might become paid software later on!

For these rather unique reasons i ended up writing my own DVD Decryption utility, one that rips a straight ISO, and ported it to MacOS.
ripping to an ISO allows for preserving any menus and any other shenanigans within.

Perhaps someone else might find this useful as well.

This site was last updated 10/29/25

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