Tutorial: How to create and/or burn a Dreamcast disc in 5 minutes

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April 1st, 2006, 04:44
Christuserloeser

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Tutorial: How to create and/or burn a Dreamcast disc in 5 minutes

This tutorial has three sections:
1 - General Info you should know.
2 - Burning a .CDI with BootDreams
3 - How to create and burn your own DC image with BootDreams

1General Info:

Media:
You'll need CDRs. Best are 80min/700Mbyte. CDRWs and other media are -NOT- supported.

You do -NOT- need a modded DC. About any Dreamcast will work with CDRs. Very, very few won't.

Format:
Standard in Dreamcast software is the DiscJuggler .CDI format. Nero's .NRG format would not work on MAC and LINUX, also any Nero version newer than 5.5 had its problems with the DC format.

Most downloads for Dreamcast come as .ZIP or .RAR files. WinRAR should help you with unzipping/unraring:
http://www.winrar-rog.com/eindex.html

2 Burning a .CDI file with BootDreams:

To burn a *.CDI file, it's recommend to use BootDreams' CDI-burner. BootDreams is VERY easy to use and it's for free:

Download it from here: http://dchelp.dcemulation.org

1. Download BootDreams and install it to e.g. C:/BootDreams/

2. Download the image you'd like to burn and unzip/unrar it somewhere, e.g. to C:/

3. Start BootDreams and choose "CDI Burner". Now click on "Browse" and point BootDreams to the CDI you would like to burn.

4. Click on "Burn CDI Image". That's it.

Other:
Nero Burning ROM isn't recommend for Dreamcast software but Alcohol120% (in TAO mode) works good too. Download the free trial version here:
http://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/download_120.php

3 How to create and burn your own DC image with BootDreams:

1. Download BootDreams and install it to e.g. C:/BootDreams/

2. Download the emulator/game/app you would like to burn and put it in a dedicated folder, e.g. C:/BootDreams/SNES4ALL/

3. Now unzip/unrar your emulator/game/app into that same folder. The 1ST_READ.BIN contains the actual DC programme.

4. Start BootDreams and point it to C:/BootDreams/SNES4ALL/. It will then guide you trough the process. I recommend the 'CDRecord' method.
April 1st, 2006, 04:50
Christuserloeser

Tutorial: How to create and/or burn a Dreamcast disc in 5 minutes

This tutorial has three sections:
1 - General Info you should know.
2 - Burning a .CDI with BootDreams
3 - How to create and burn your own DC image with BootDreams

1General Info:

Media:
You'll need CDRs. Best are 80min/700Mbyte. CDRWs and other media are -NOT- supported.

You do -NOT- need a modded DC. About any Dreamcast will work with CDRs. Very, very few won't.

Format:
Standard in Dreamcast software is the DiscJuggler .CDI format. Nero's .NRG format would not work on MAC and LINUX, also any Nero version newer than 5.5 had its problems with the DC format.

Most downloads for Dreamcast come as .ZIP or .RAR files. WinRAR should help you with unzipping/unraring:
http://www.winrar-rog.com/eindex.html

2 Burning a .CDI file with BootDreams:

To burn a *.CDI file, it's recommend to use BootDreams' CDI-burner. BootDreams is VERY easy to use and it's for free:

Download here: http://dchelp.dcemulation.com/

1. Download BootDreams and install it to e.g. C:/BootDreams/

2. Download the image you'd like to burn and unzip/unrar it somewhere, e.g. to C:/

3. Start BootDreams and choose "CDI Burner". Now click on "Browse" and point BootDreams to the CDI you would like to burn.

4. Click on "Burn CDI Image". That's it.

Other:
Nero Burning ROM isn't recommend for Dreamcast software but Alcohol120% (in TAO mode) works good too. Download the free trial version here:
http://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/download_120.php

3 How to create and burn your own DC image with BootDreams:

1. Download BootDreams and install it to e.g. C:/BootDreams/

2. Download the emulator/game/app you would like to burn and put it in a dedicated folder, e.g. C:/BootDreams/SNES4ALL/

3. Now unzip/unrar your emulator/game/app into that same folder. The 1ST_READ.BIN contains the actual DC programme.

4. Start BootDreams and point it to C:/BootDreams/SNES4ALL/. It will then guide you trough the process. I recommend the 'CDRecord' method.
April 1st, 2006, 15:22
moi

great tutorial: thumbs up!
should definitelly be added to a FAQ-section!
April 5th, 2006, 11:40
Cid Highwind

Here's a small tutorial on an alternative way to create an emulator disc:

1. Get DCHakker and burn it onto a CDr, this will be your emulator/homebrew bootdisc from now on. Personally I suggest getting the discjuggler image over the Nero one.

2. Grab the 'plain files' versions (binaries) of your homebrew games and emulators you want to have on the disc. If zipped, unzip them and rename the 1st_read.bin file to a recognizable 5 letter word, include version number of the emulator as well. Example: S4allv3

3.Make sure you have your roms at hand, putting them on the same disc as the emulator will save you the hassle of switching to a third disc.

4.Open a CD burning app that will allow you to make your own compilations (Nero will do)

5. Important: Make sure you create a multisession disc. If a new version of an emulator will be released, you can add it to this very same disc, so also keep in mind that you will not finalize the disc.

6. Create subfolders for emulators that only take one file, it will keep it more organised. Certain homebrew games have a folder structure of their own so I suggest putting their binaries and folders in the root of the disc.

FYI: Dreamses likes to have its roms in the /roms folder, Nester uses the /games folder by default. Be sure to read readme files of other emulators to find out if they require a certain rom folder.

7. Make sure the 'finalize disc' option is unchecked, then burn your disc.

Now you can pop in your DCHakker disc, wait till it's done loading (you'll know it's done when you see the files of the DCHakker disc in the onscreen browser). Then take out the DCHakker disc and put in your homebrew disc. Point at Rescan, hit A, and you can select the program you want to run.

http://www.consolevision.com/members...dchakker1s.jpg

PS. I do not know if homebrew games with their own folder structure will work if the whole program is put in a subfolder as shown in the image above, maybe someone can confirm it works?

Fixed your picture. - fackue
April 6th, 2006, 16:07
72da9

Yet another error free easy way to create emulation disc's...

1. Create a folder on your hard drive for your emulation disc. I.E. "NES".

2. Place the plain files 1st_READ.BIN & IP.BIN in this folder. If there is no IP.BIN, you can create one by taking an existing ip.bin file and using dx-ip4win08b to edit the ip.bin file to locate the 1st_read.bin file. This creates the selfboot portion of the disc.

3. Make a roms sub directory for the roms. Typical rule is to max out at 128 roms per directory.

4. I use a program called Selfboot. Once this program is opened up, locate your directory. I.E. "NES". Then in the window option I click on the choice to make a *.cdi image for discjuggler. Then click on the *.cdi button to create your *.cdi image with this program. It takes a bit to make the image. When done the image will be located in the Selfboot directory. Usually called "image.cdi" or your directory's name. I.E. "NES.CDI"

5. I use discjuggler v3.5 to burn the created image to disc. That's it, error free and easy to do.
June 7th, 2006, 17:47
Christuserloeser

Udated the links.
June 17th, 2006, 17:58
milksheik

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Burn CDI images on Linux

In case anyone is interested, I have written a script that can burn most CDI images on Linux. It is based on cdirip 0.6.3 and cdrecord (I use version Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a04).

To use the script, just type "burndc-cdi {name-of-CDI-image}" in a shell. You may have to adjust the device specification for the burner in the script. To find the ID of your burner, try

Code:

cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus

or

Code:

cdrecord -scanbus

The script is attached. Save it to a file, remove the ".txt" and make it executable.

Use at your own risk ;)
June 17th, 2006, 20:26
fackue

Does it work? It seems like you're burning the second session as multiseesion. I'd like to see some possible input on there, like for example displaying the drive IDs then asking for their's, CD label and burn speed.
June 17th, 2006, 21:52
milksheik

It worked for me for about 5 out of 6 cdis I tried. I'm too lazy to add more comfort, but I would definitely like to hear any ideas about how to increase the success ratio :)
June 18th, 2006, 01:05
fackue

I would (and this is how BootDreams works) check if a audio file exists after ripping the image, if it does you burn the audio with multisession on, then burn the data session with it off. If it doesn't, burn the first data session with multisession on, then burn the second data session with multisession off.

The image mostly likely that didn't work for you was audio/data.
June 18th, 2006, 02:52
milksheik

So basically you say, burn the last session with mulitsession off, correct? Would it have the same effect when I just put "cdrecord -fix" at the end of everything?

I'll play with these options next time I encounter an image that doesn't work.
June 20th, 2006, 04:02
fackue

CDRecord -fix wouldn't do anything.

The image you burned before was probably a audio\data CD. This CD image is audio\data.
July 1st, 2006, 12:56
milksheik

I just tried Scenedicate #1 and it burned fine. It seems to be an audio/data image:

Quote:

Session 1 has 1 track(s)
Creating cuesheet...
Saving Track: 1 Type: Audio/2352 Size: 375 LBA: 0 [cut: 2]

Session 2 has 1 track(s)
Saving Track: 2 Type: Mode2/2336 Size: 44212 LBA: 11775 [cut: 2] [ISO]

Session 3 has 0 track(s)
Open session

All done!
July 1st, 2006, 17:54
fackue

Great! I'll post this on my website!

Quick question - what is the extension supposed to be, sh? I'm not too savy with Linux.
July 1st, 2006, 22:48
milksheik

It will work with any suffix you want, even *.jpg :p

But when you have an executable shell script you normally name it *.sh or with no extension at all. More important is to make it executable (chmod a+x {filename}).
July 13th, 2006, 19:51
Christuserloeser

Fixed the links for downloading BootDreams (URL has changed).
July 13th, 2006, 19:52
Christuserloeser

Fixed the links for downloading BootDreams (URL has changed).
July 14th, 2006, 18:04
kingbuzzo

Quote:

Originally Posted by milksheik

In case anyone is interested, I have written a script that can burn most CDI images on Linux. It is based on cdirip 0.6.3 and cdrecord (I use version Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a04).

To use the script, just type "burndc-cdi {name-of-CDI-image}" in a shell. You may have to adjust the device specification for the burner in the script. To find the ID of your burner, try

Code:

cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus

or

Code:

cdrecord -scanbus

The script is attached. Save it to a file, remove the ".txt" and make it executable.

Use at your own risk ;)

I've tried this method in suse 10.1 and got the following output

Code:

linux-kb7l:/home/jason/Desktop # ./burndc-cdi bor.cdi ./burndc-cdi: line 6: cdirip: command not found

what am I missing?

thanks,

King.
July 14th, 2006, 19:14
fackue

Looks like you're missing cdirip. You can grab I from http://cdirip.cjb.net I believe (the linux version).
July 15th, 2006, 00:25
milksheik

Quote:

Originally Posted by fackue

Looks like you're missing cdirip. You can grab I from http://cdirip.cjb.net I believe (the linux version).

Yes. The latest version 0.6.3 however is only available at SourceForge. It is very easy to compile.
July 15th, 2006, 02:14
fackue

Thanks!
July 24th, 2006, 01:07
RockmanHalo

Works but

Can someone help me one-on-one?

IM: Mechdude77
August 29th, 2006, 02:35
crackkills

cool thnx
September 20th, 2006, 23:13
malushi88

I attempted to burn a homebrew disc but I could not find 1st_Read.BIN. I downloaded something and tried several combinations but i could never get it to work. could someone help me out? Am i missing files or something?

IM:burdman145
September 21st, 2006, 11:46
Darksaviour69

what where you trying to burn, where there any .bin files?
October 19th, 2006, 12:26
Mr. Shizzy

I'm from the PSP section of this site. But I do own a dreamcast, so I'll give this a shot. Thanks for the info. :)
November 14th, 2006, 19:57
milksheik

Someone contacted me via ICQ Page about the Linux burn script. I missed your name, please PM me with your ICQ number and I'll see if I can help.
November 24th, 2006, 21:12
chrono75

Hey man, I have a bunch of BLACK 700MB CDRs, will they work when it comes to burnig DreamSNES on a disc and getting the Dreamcast to read it?
November 24th, 2006, 21:22
Darksaviour69

only one way to find out ;)
November 24th, 2006, 21:32
chrono75

I did everything you wrote to the T and still, my Dreamcast didn't boot DreamSNES. Man, I have been trying to do this for at least two years now and I'm still not having any damn luck. Do you know what I might be doing wrong or maybe I HAVE to use 800MB CDs? If so, and if it's gonna work then I'm just gonna have to go out and get some 800MB CDRs. Could there be any other problems?
November 24th, 2006, 22:01
Darksaviour69

try burning a image from http://www.dcevolution.net/
November 24th, 2006, 22:18
chrono75

There goes 4 perfectly good CDRs...
This is just not workin for me. I can't get my Dreamcast to read any type of homebrew discs. I'm not sure what's wrong and it's pissing me off :(
Can someone point me in the direction of another good, DETAILED guide?
You see, what I'm trying to accomplish is an emulated SNES in my car. You see, I have a new 7inch TFT LCD visor TV and I have already played a gamecube in my car with blasting sound, now, I think it would be sweet to have a bunch of SNES games playable.
November 24th, 2006, 23:14
fackue

http://www.dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=68460
November 24th, 2006, 23:21
Darksaviour69

hmm if you can't get a image from dcevo working maybe your dc can't run homebrew

check this guide
http://consolevision.com/?Dreamcast:...uying_a_system
November 26th, 2006, 03:32
chrono75

I thought about that and pray that it's not one of those few DCs that can't. But, I did get mine a little later in the DC years... I'll check you guys' posts and look of the info and downloads. Thanks a bunch!
April 24th, 2007, 00:24
Christuserloeser

Links updated.
June 15th, 2007, 00:54
The_It

I tried using dcstella. it loaded a picture with atari 2600 onto the screen, and the atari logo onto the memory card, but nothing else. does that mean my dreamcast is capable of homebrew and Im just not doing it right? I got it at the GoodWill so i don't know when it was made.
June 15th, 2007, 17:10
Christuserloeser

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_It

does that mean my dreamcast is capable of homebrew and Im just not doing it right?

Yes.

Quote:

I got it at the GoodWill so i don't know when it was made.

Doing your own emu discs is fun I heard... ;)
July 9th, 2007, 00:59
Christuserloeser

Updated the links.
December 4th, 2007, 09:14
blackpuma

Issues I came across trying to burn a Data/Data cdi image from DCEvo on a Debian (Ubuntu 7.10):

- cdirip source found at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdimagetools/

- cdrecord should be ran as root process

- cdrecord was interrupted by nautilus-cd-burner deamon or/and other automount auto[action] utilities.
(so I had to finaly remove this software).

- cdrecord versions significantly vary in flags so one must search the man pages to make sure "mode 2 form 1 with data size *2048" is selected.
man cdrecord and go to section TRACK OPTIONS

a more right sequence of command for data/data images should be:

cdirip <cdi-image> -cdrecord
[generates "tdata01.iso" (data) and "tdata02.iso" (bootstrap)]

sudo cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=4 driveropts=burnfree -tao -multi tdata01.iso
sudo cdrecord dev=1,0,0 speed=4 driveropts=burnfree -tao -xa tdata02.iso

(-multi and -xa define the correct mode in Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a33.
Also, -xa alone fixates the disc.)

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