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 and cdrtools. 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 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. 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.