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[polobunny]

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00000010 10 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 44 AC 00 00 10 B1 02 00 ........D�...�..
00000020 04 00 10 00 64 61 74 61 20 3F 35 02 00 00 00 00 ....data ?5.....

Yet those lines are interesting.
But I guess it's not a necessary file since the end is all made of 0's.

[Paladin_Hammer]

Can't make a thread, this sucks

[Richardstone]

Tell me about it...

I was just trying to make an .img of a PSX game in Alcohol120%. It did'nt fail rather it just stopped at 33% with the clock still ticking. So I tested the game in ePSXe and upstairs on my PSX with no problems, there were no problems when I initialy burnt the game either. Any ideas what might cause this and why?

Thanks in Advance

Rs

[vnbharath]

i've explained everythin in my earler thread, what actually i'm tryin to do ..
can anybody tell me how to compile or create my own playstation1 cd? i have cdgenps2 but i just dint understand how to create the cd... which atleast should work in an emulator....
is there any prog other than cdgenps2 to create/compile ps1 cds?
please help me in this project...
thanks in advance..
-bharath

[Dark Sabator]

Is it true Euro Dreamcasts can play copied games without needing a modchip?

[Zorlon]

Yes all versions in europe play selfboots

There are a few games that require patching to boot on a euro DC and if you use a RBG scart lead you will need to display patch a few games (Not that many need it though)

Most selfboot games will just boot and display corectly though, there are very few that need patches.

Yeah I own a euro DC and have well over 200 selfboots so far

The Display/boot patcher can be found at http://members.lycos.co.uk/megalexxx/

If you want to find out if a game is self boot, just see how many sessions it has
In general if it has 2 sessions then it's self boot

If a game is not self boot and you don't like using Utopia you can make the
noneboots into selfboots, you can find a quick and easy guide for that in the
Emulator and Hardware Guides thread

[Stark]

I didn't know that and you can pick them up for next to nothing

oh and sabator, badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger Mushroom Mushroom.

To richardstone did you finish the image making? If so the reason it stop becuase it tries to make a perfect image of it if you know what i mean, any scratches in the disc stops this so alcohol keeps running over that part till it gets a perfect copy, I'm not sure if this is the same with all iso making programs, but thats the easiest i can explain it

[Dark Sabator]

Yes all versions in europe play selfboots

There are a few games that require patching to boot on a euro DC and if you use a RBG scart lead you will need to display patch a few games (Not that many need it though)

Most selfboot games will just boot and display corectly though, there are very few that need patches.

Yeah I own a euro DC and have well over 200 selfboots so far

The Display/boot patcher can be found at http://members.lycos.co.uk/megalexxx/

If you want to find out if a game is self boot, just see how many sessions it has
In general if it has 2 sessions then it's self boot

If a game is not self boot and you don't like using Utopia you can make the
noneboots into selfboots, you can find a quick and easy guide for that in the
Emulator and Hardware Guides thread

Wow, SEGA sure screwed up there. One question, how to you get 1GB DC games onto 700MB CDs? I would have to drop some video files, right?

[Stark]

Wow, SEGA sure screwed up there. One question, how to you get 1GB DC games onto 700MB CDs? I would have to drop some video files, right?

You can, from what I heard squeeze files larger than 700mb onto a cd like 730mb but don't hold me to that, also I think that you can find 800Mb disks being sold now.

[Zorlon]

Alot of the games never did fully use the space of the GD-Roms's and yeah there are alot with downsampled movie/sound files and a few that are spanned over more than one CD, there are also your standard CD music rips, personly I replace the music tracks or maybe just shorten a few of em.

Yeah I used 800Mb/70 mins CD's for all my Dreamcast stuff, games, emulators, ports and tons of other stuff.

I only got my Dreamcast a couple of months back, but I guess I picked up a few tricks rather quick.

If you are planning on doing your own rips you would need either a Coder Cable or a Broad Band Adaptor to do that though, as a PC CD or DVD drive can't actully read GD-Roms so you need to sort of stream the data from your DC to your PC
lucky though that the dreamcast can read none boot and self boot CDR's even though they are not in GD-Rom format

[Sprung]

I am so sick of this shit. Someone fix the damn boards.

--Cut--

I need opinions on a new vid card. I play Doom3, UT(k3,k4...) and I would like to play Half Life 2. Doom 3 sucks on my current card...

BFG
GeForce FX 5700 OC 256 MB AGP Graphics Card
was $175.95
now $158.36
BFGR57256OC

or

DIAMOND MULTIMEDIA
Diamond Viper 9600XT 256 MB AGP Graphics Card
was $179.95
now $161.96
V9600XT256

Manufacturer's part numbers included so you can search the specs

[Stark]

I am so sick of this shit. Someone fix the damn boards.

--Cut--

I need opinions on a new vid card. I play Doom3, UT(k3,k4...) and I would like to play Half Life 2. Doom 3 sucks on my current card...

BFG
GeForce FX 5700 OC 256 MB AGP Graphics Card
was $175.95
now $158.36
BFGR57256OC

or

DIAMOND MULTIMEDIA
Diamond Viper 9600XT 256 MB AGP Graphics Card
was $179.95
now $161.96
V9600XT256

Manufacturer's part numbers included so you can search the specs

No offense but i think you can still get a decent game of doom3 and the like on lower end cards. But personally the BFG cos it has a geforce fx on it i think the 9600XT has some problems(I'm not too sure if thats a radeon card, but if its not forget this) something about the new radeon cards having some problems with the processor,(its been so long since i heard this so it might be better to ignore the ramble about the radeon cards

[polobunny]

BFG GeForce FX 5700 OC 256 MB AGP Graphics Card
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I would go with Diamond Viper 9600XT, even though i'm a big fan of Nvidia.

[Dark Sabator]

If you are planning on doing your own rips you would need either a Coder Cable or a Broad Band Adaptor to do that though, as a PC CD or DVD drive can't actully read GD-Roms so you need to sort of stream the data from your DC to your PC

But if I'm just downloading them, I'd be fine, right? If I had DC games, what would be the point in ripping them if I could play the normal discs.

This has been really getting on my nerves lately, I can't stop thinking about it. How the Hell did SEGA not put any copyright protection in the DC?

[Zorlon]

The same way Nintendo didn't with there new GameCube LOL

Simple you can't just pop the disc in a PC drive and copy, that was the protection, aswell as direct to CD coppies do not work anyway, as they have to be dual sessions A.K.A selfboots, this was prolly something Sega just did not know about, someone may even figure a way of doing something like that for the GameCube from mini DVD-R's