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Forum: DC Games 19-09-2007, 15:23

Replies: 35 Guide to selfbooting 45000 LBA DATA/DATA images Views: 25,937 Posted By Xzyx987X The method for selfbooting has little to do with... The method for selfbooting has little to do with the quality of the finished rip, other than determining how easy it is to burn and which Dreamcast versions it's compatible with.

Forum: DC Games 13-09-2007, 05:17

Replies: 35 Guide to selfbooting 45000 LBA DATA/DATA images Views: 25,937 Posted By Xzyx987X Well, the reason I think this method is superior... Well, the reason I think this method is superior is because you can actually understand the entire process from beginning to end. That way people can write their own tools to automate the process...

Forum: DC Games 04-09-2007, 23:10

Replies: 35 Guide to selfbooting 45000 LBA DATA/DATA images Views: 25,937 Posted By Xzyx987X You'd have to hack the 1ST_READ.BIN and hook the... You'd have to hack the 1ST_READ.BIN and hook the Katana GD-ROM reading libraries with ones that have decompression support in order to do that. This would be less than trivial. In other words, if you...

Forum: DC Games 25-08-2007, 19:16

Replies: 35 Guide to selfbooting 45000 LBA DATA/DATA images Views: 25,937 Posted By Xzyx987X Guide to selfbooting 45000 LBA DATA/DATA images Ok, I'm creating this guide in response to the fact there don't seem to be any guides on making 45000 LBA DATA/DATA images that don't involve burning the game tracks to a disc as an intermediate...

Forum: DC Games 01-07-2007, 05:21

Replies: 10 Burning Utopia Boot Disc Compatible Games Views: 12,301 Posted By Xzyx987X Hmm... I ran into a rip by a guy called Hykan... Hmm... I ran into a rip by a guy called Hykan with a novel approach to defeating the protection. It seems he used the Data/Data boot method, and filled the first session with game files until he got...

Forum: DC Games 03-06-2007, 14:20

Replies: 10 Burning Utopia Boot Disc Compatible Games Views: 12,301 Posted By Xzyx987X Ungh, this is really getting frustrating.... Ungh, this is really getting frustrating. Elemental Gimmick gear is working using this method, but that game fits on a standard 80 minute CD anyway. Space Channel 5 however, gives me similar results...

Forum: DC Games 01-06-2007, 12:59

Replies: 4 Utopia wont work Views: 3,654 Posted By Xzyx987X Using anything but DiscJuggler to burn the Utopia... Using anything but DiscJuggler to burn the Utopia boot disc has always failed in my experience. Thankfully, DiscJuggler is still being produced, and you can find a demo version here...

Forum: DC Games 31-05-2007, 17:52

Replies: 10 Burning Utopia Boot Disc Compatible Games Views: 12,301 Posted By Xzyx987X Ok, I've been trying to get this to work with... Ok, I've been trying to get this to work with Skies of Arcadia, but I'm not having any luck. The games logo shows up in the Utopia boot screen's spinning disc, so I know it's not completely failing...

Forum: DC Games 27-05-2007, 04:19

Replies: 10 Burning Utopia Boot Disc Compatible Games Views: 12,301 Posted By Xzyx987X I just ordered some from here:... I just ordered some from here: http://www.shoptronics.com/new8799min40.html They're more expensive, but hopefully they'll work with my drive. With these, even using GigaRec at 1.2x I'd be able to the...

Forum: DC Games 27-05-2007, 01:28

Replies: 10 Burning Utopia Boot Disc Compatible Games Views: 12,301 Posted By Xzyx987X Ok, good news bad news time. First, the bad news,... Ok, good news bad news time. First, the bad news, GigaRec 1.3x doesn't work. The Dreamcast makes squaking noises when trying to read disks burned at 1.3x, and then freezes. Even worse, the only 90...

Forum: DC Games 23-05-2007, 15:39

Replies: 10 Burning Utopia Boot Disc Compatible Games Views: 12,301 Posted By Xzyx987X Yay, so far so good. Ok, before I can test this... Yay, so far so good. Ok, before I can test this properly I'm going to need to buy some 90 minute CD-R's. My drive doesn't support GigaRec 1.4x, so to reach the maximum potential size of 1040MB, which...

Forum: DC Games 22-05-2007, 14:51

Replies: 10 Burning Utopia Boot Disc Compatible Games Views: 12,301 Posted By Xzyx987X Burning Utopia Boot Disc Compatible Games Ok, I'm trying to figure out how to burn backups that are compatible with the Utopia boot disc, so I can burn games with GigaRec which doesn't allow for multitrack self-booting discs. So what I've...

Forum: DC Games 19-07-2004, 04:55

Replies: 3 Creating Oversized Selfboot Images for Chankast Views: 2,881 Posted By Xzyx987X Well, I can't get chankast to boot the image... Well, I can't get chankast to boot the image created with that method, so I guess it won't work for my purposes. Maybe the CD Image could be played on an actual dc, but of course there's no way to...

Forum: DC Games 18-07-2004, 13:16

Replies: 3 Creating Oversized Selfboot Images for Chankast Views: 2,881 Posted By Xzyx987X Creating Oversized Selfboot Images for Chankast I've ripped a copy of the first disc skies of arcadia with my serial cable and I've been trying to selfboot it to get it to run with chankast (it's a new dreamcast emu in case you hadn't heard :P),...

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