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

[havoc200322]

how do you make a neocd romdisk??? I got the emu to boot and it wouldnt let me just add a roms file to it to read...so what do I have to do to get it to read my roms???...please help

[Christuserloeser]

You should find help here:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=27860

[Atari]

I've been looking around for a way to inject actual audio files into the first track of a DC image, AND make it selfbootable. This way I can test some fenix cd audio playing code that I've written. So far, any info describing this method has escaped me. Anyone have a link to such information?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Smurph]

I've been looking around for a way to inject actual audio files into the first track of a DC image, AND make it selfbootable. This way I can test some fenix cd audio playing code that I've written. So far, any info describing this method has escaped me. Anyone have a link to such information?

Any help would be appreciated.

You can have CDDA tracks before the data track.

[mesosade]

ummmm it says pick a boot filename dunno wat dat is and plus there's no 1'st read bin file in my iso...

[Smurph]

Umm, it says to pick a boot filename. I don't know what that is, and there isn't a 1st_read.bin file in the ISO...

Then it can't be booted.

[lo]

Check the IP.bin via editor.
The file shown there is the first one that got bootet.

Ip.bin
**********
SEGA SEGAKATANA SEGA ENTERPRISES236C CD-ROM1/1 JUE E000F10 T0000 V1.00020061018 1ST_READ.BIN BootDreams REPLACEMENT IP.BIN
....
***********

But there can be more files, that 'need to know' the offset number...

Greetz
lo_

[fackue]

I've been looking around for a way to inject actual audio files into the first track of a DC image, AND make it selfbootable. This way I can test some fenix cd audio playing code that I've written. So far, any info describing this method has escaped me. Anyone have a link to such information?

Any help would be appreciated.

There's currently not really an automated process for this. You'll need to do it manually with CDRecord. I don't know the commands off hand so you'll need to take a look around.

I believe you can use the following to burn the audio first:

cdrecord -speed 4 -multi -audio track1.wav track2.wav track3.wav

Then use the following to burn the data:

cdrecord -speed 4 -xa data.iso

Remember to get the multisession info after you burn the audio and set it to data.iso before burning it.

ummmm it says pick a boot filename dunno wat dat is and plus there's no 1'st read bin file in my iso...

The boot filename is the 1ST_READ.BIN. I'm not sure why you're using an ISO... I don't understand what you're saying honestly.

[Mourningstar]

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

Ive done this with nxDoom, but its still not working....

Ive wasted countless numbers of CD-Rs trying to burn nxDoom and none of them work. I make a folder named "Doom" and place the nxDoom 1st_read and IP files along with my WADs into the folder, make a CDI of it with BootDreams and burn it with Alch 120%. And all they do is show the DC bootup, the Sega logo, and then nothing but a black screen....

Ive had no problem burning other HB like QUake, NES, etc. but this nxDoom is ****ing killing me....

Please help...

[Atari]

There's currently not really an automated process for this. You'll need to do it manually with CDRecord. I don't know the commands off hand so you'll need to take a look around.

I believe you can use the following to burn the audio first:


Then use the following to burn the data:


Remember to get the multisession info after you burn the audio and set it to data.iso before burning it.

I found the old Echelon selfboot tutorial which describes the method you just explained. I've burned two discs so far, but the DC sees them as audio discs unless I use DC Hakker to boot 1st_read.bin, and even then, it won't read the audio information off the disc (which could be a fenix bug for all I know). I must have done something wrong, so I'll try again.

Thanks for the info.