Questions from a complete noob about ripping ...

OK, for years I was doing ripping the absolute ghetto way where I would tape music manually for my cassette player in the car. Now that I've become technologically aware and able to record better, I want to rip things from games with my PC.

I have no idea where to even start. All that I know is that once I get the file format into .spc I can get into Winamp and convert. I already have a .wav to mp3 converting method that works well so I'm OK there.

Specifically, I would like to rip N64 games and Dreamcast (for which I have a DC to PC connector that is useless without something commuicating to both). I've seen the threads for PS2 ripping and I even saw the NES thread that mentioned getting from .spc to mp3 format, but the writer assumed that no one needed the help in getting the base format, which is what I need.

HELP!

Thanks in advance,

Rubes

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Thanks for the info. However, I'm literally stuck ... as in I have no idea how to even hook up my N64 or PS/PS2 to my PC to start ripping. I don't have anything that has LAME other than Winamp but I use Samsung Music Studio to convert to from .wav to MP3.

I know there's a way to hook up using AV cables but I'm not quite sure how to do that. Also, which program should I use to record sound?

As you can see I'm a little more than lost and I know these are very basic questions but I've got to start somewhere.

There's nowhere I can't reach.