sorry to noob it up in this thread but since there are already 8 pages of it, i figured i'd jump in. So I've followed your guide and most of my backups are in .cdi so I burn them in bootdreams with the cdi record. I thought they were self-booting but when I put them in the dreamcast (i have it set to not autorun gdroms) and click play at the dashboard, it isn't recognizing any of my games. says please put a cd in the drive. so i burned the utopia cd loader 1.1. the dreamcast played it. i have a screen with a reindeer turning around and around. so i suppose my burning is fine. but i put one of these burnt games in, and the reindeer gets choppy as the dc tries to run the disc, but the games never loads. eventually the drive spins down and the reindeer goes back to normal, as if the operation timed out. its the same with the bootloader 1.2 disc. i tried running one of the boot discs form a boot disc, thinking well since they runn it should boot to them, and it doesn't. then i tried booting a retail shenmue disc 1 from the boot discs and it makes the reindeer choppy forever; never times out.
i figured someone with experience in dc modding would be able to tell me whats going on and some idea of what to do. my dreamcast is from launch day 9/9/99. it seems to run retail games perfectly, although if they are the least bit dirty it can freeze up or not recognize the disc to begin with.
