selfboot games

[ayejimlad]

hiya

i want to make my non selfbootable games self bootable.
the echelon tutorial looks like a lot of effort.

can anyone give a simple guide to make a .cdi game self bootable eg. ikaruga or soul reaver?

i hate non selfbooting games so,
any help would be much appreciated

thanks

[nupur]

Go to http://www.megagames.com/dc/dc_utils.shtml and download AutoSelfBoot 2.0 - this does everything the tutorial asks you to do automatically. Its almost like magic.

I was unable to use it - but that's because of an SCSI adapter issue on my system (CDRWIN or cdrecord cannot use my rewriter).

- nupur.

[twr7cx]

Hey there,

I'm trying to follow the Tutorial at http://www.megagames.com/dc/dc_selfboot_tutorial.shtml, to make my non-booting Sega Dreamcast games into Self-Booting ones. I'm up to the following step:

Download Win32 Binaries for CDRECORD & MKISOFS from:
ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha/win32/cdrtools-1.9a03-win32-bin.zip

If you try the link on that, you'll find the file is missing... Anyone know where I can get it. I've searched around a bit, but it always seems to lead to a different Tutorial with the exact same link...

But in the mean time, I will try this Auto-Boot. Hopefully it's easier than the Tutorial, as I don't really follow all the technical stuff at the moment.

Thank you.

[twr7cx]

Hey again,

I'm trying your Auto-Self-Booting program, but it requires Echelon Selfboot Toolkit. Know where I can find that? I can't seem to find it anywhere... Lots of Selfboot Toolkits, but not Echelon Selfboot Toolkit...

Thanks again.

[desertE]

to run auto-selfboot you will need the echelon selfboot tutorial (http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/2188/tool/e-selfbt.zip) and cdrtools (http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/2188/tool/cdrtools19a.zip). the selfboot kit consists of files included in the archive of the selboot tutorial.

if you got windows xp you will probably need 2 other files, i don't remember the exact filenames, you can find them by using this (http://www.alltheweb.com/?c=ftp) search engine. copy the files in the directory you installed auto-selfboot.

[twr7cx]

Thanks for the quick reply, but the two links you gave me don't work... Any alternatives?

Thanks again!

[desertE]

the links work for me. i dont know of download alternatives for the cdrtools, but you can get the echelon self-booting tutorial from megagames (http://www.megagames.com/dc/dc_utils.shtml). there you can also find programs similar to auto-selfboot - i cant recomment one, since i havent tried any of them.

[twr7cx]

I got them to work - I just had to remove the files names off the address and then click on them on the webpage. Anyways, any idea what the files I need to be looking for are called (the ones if you use Microsoft Windows XP Professional)?

Thanks again.