TolTic
May 28th, 2009, 15:57
Greetings,
After playing SNES all weekend at my friend's house, I've gotten very interested in homebrew apps for my older systems. I had a dreamcast lying around and decided to give the old bugger a go. Upon startup, I found that the controller ports weren't working and I have to get a replacement, but this isn't why I am posting. I'm posting because I'm quite confused as to how I am going to burn an image CD for it.
I pretty much get everything except for binaries.
In this tutorial (http://www.racketboy.com/guides/burn-dreamcast-discjuggler-images.htm) it seems pretty simple and easy. Just burn the CDI image, but when using other programs (such as BootDreams, as stated in this thread (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21631)) it asks for a .bin file.
A binary file? I searched and found that these files are the files that the dreamcast basically uses as its BIOS before handing over control to the disc.
I have several questions, does each program/utility need its own binary file or is there just one binary file that you need for all of your games?
Also, where do you get these files?
Can I not play on my Dreamcast without these files burned onto the image CD? Sources point to "no" when trying to burn things like DCHakker and such... but what about stand-alone non-commercial Dreamcast games?
EDIT: Ehhhhh, this is in the wrong forum, just noticed that. Apologies; move me, please?
After playing SNES all weekend at my friend's house, I've gotten very interested in homebrew apps for my older systems. I had a dreamcast lying around and decided to give the old bugger a go. Upon startup, I found that the controller ports weren't working and I have to get a replacement, but this isn't why I am posting. I'm posting because I'm quite confused as to how I am going to burn an image CD for it.
I pretty much get everything except for binaries.
In this tutorial (http://www.racketboy.com/guides/burn-dreamcast-discjuggler-images.htm) it seems pretty simple and easy. Just burn the CDI image, but when using other programs (such as BootDreams, as stated in this thread (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21631)) it asks for a .bin file.
A binary file? I searched and found that these files are the files that the dreamcast basically uses as its BIOS before handing over control to the disc.
I have several questions, does each program/utility need its own binary file or is there just one binary file that you need for all of your games?
Also, where do you get these files?
Can I not play on my Dreamcast without these files burned onto the image CD? Sources point to "no" when trying to burn things like DCHakker and such... but what about stand-alone non-commercial Dreamcast games?
EDIT: Ehhhhh, this is in the wrong forum, just noticed that. Apologies; move me, please?