Dreamcast Bios Hacked To Run Emulators ?

[wraggster]

News via http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=310

The Russians have sceners group succeeded in changing the original bios of a dev-box so you can use emulators and real Dreamcast consoles. The following video shows the clear difference to boot the new bios.

http://www.youtube.com/v/QeykrLMO7Yg

[kojiro7]

cool but whats the gaining?

[MAXIMUSpowers]

Awesome! Will this commercially be available? If so how much for the chip?

[dcdood]

what do you mean by "hacked to run emulators"?

[Eviltaco64]

Well, it's awesome that they're running a dev bios on a retail DC.

I don't think we'll be seeing the Dreamcast run emulators for awhile, though. :P

[gumbyandpals]

what do you mean by "hacked to run emulators"?
That's actually a bad translation. What they're saying is that they have hacked the bios of a dreamcast devbox so that they can use it on real dreamcasts and emulators.

[F2bnp]

Nice but I think I've seen it released before.I'm a bit scared to try it,don't want to flash my dreamcast bios with something that might not work and in the end non usable.

[quzar]

This was done a long time ago by members at the assemblergames forums.

If the translation were accurate at 'to run emulators' it would mean they had actually added the milCD code to the dev box bios which would be great (the dev boxes do not read milCDs, but unlike retail units can also read GD-Rs).

[spinksy]

Awesome!!

[DCDayDreamer]

It's nice to see the devbox startup sequence for real on a retail DC, but (as quzar pointed out) it was done
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWFhMi-lDmw.

I cheated a few years ago and used Ginsu along with Playvid to boot an SFD of the devbox startup sequence prior to game launch, simple but effective.

[Indiket]

If you watch again the video, you will notice that he is playing with a piracy game (Alex confirmed it in our mini-chat). So, they managed to add millCD code as quzar pointed before.

[quzar]

Are you sure that's the case? The way to prove it would be to boot a GD-R as well. Otherwise it seems much more likely that the boot logo was added to a standard DC bios. Another good test would be to see if it runs any of the games incompatible with the devbox (Shenmue is one, I can't remember who it was that showed me a list at some point).

Also, I'd like to have a reverse of this, a devbox bios that I can flash onto my devbox and supports milCD.

[BlueCrab]

Also, I'd like to have a reverse of this, a devbox bios that I can flash onto my devbox and supports milCD.
I'd like to see that as well.

[quzar]

There we go, I knew I had seen this before: http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20622