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

[budu8383]

Yeah i gotcha...You're right man . My Bad. Thanks much tho!!!

[vizion1978]

@Christuserloeser
yeah, i got those to work, thanks for your help. i just keep trying different things and tutorials until i stumble upon the answer. right now i wish i could figure out how to use pcecast with sbi inducer and add my own iso to it. i am not sure where to put the different files and such. i can't find as much detailed info for pcecast as some of the others. any help that doesn't violate the forum rules would be great. thanks!!!!!

[UltimaDude]

Nice I got it working easily at 4x, Nice guide!

[dartdude6]

Ok, but how do I make a game with Bootdreams when my game file is a .nrg file?

[Darksaviour69]

.nrg is a cd image that's burned with nero

[bonang]

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: http://dchelp.dcemulation.com/index....dreams_061.exe
Website: http://dchelp.dcemulation.com/?BootDreams


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.


If BootDreams doesn't recognize your CD drive, download WNASPI32.ZIP and unzip it in your C:/BootDreams/Tools/ folder:
http://dchelp.dcemulation.com/index....d=wnaspi32.zip


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.


Once again: if BootDreams doesn't recognize your CD drive, download WNASPI32.ZIP and unzip it in your C:/BootDreams/Tools/ folder:
http://dchelp.dcemulation.com/index....d=wnaspi32.zip

I was wondering if you could tell me the progarms I need to make a emulators for the dc to play Ex: like how do i burn a Dreamssens emu to get it to work on the Dc. Also one other thing can you burn any roms from anywhere to play on any emulators that work on dc like " snes roms with Dremsnes and finally how do you burns roms to a disc. I'm new at the whole emu and roms sorry for all the question. Thanks JaSe !!!!

[Christuserloeser]

This is a pretty good tutorial.

Other than that, some general things:

1. All programs you need (e.g. BootDreams) can be ound by following the links.

2. You can burn ROMs with the emulator to one disc. The tutorial explains how to do that.

[duckypwns]

Sorry, I'm new to this and it's really confusing me. Here's how far I got. I've downloaded winrar and bootdreams. I've downloaded the game that I want. I've extracted it into the same folder. Now, how do I convert it to a .CDI file? Do I do it in the winrar or bootdreams program?

[Christuserloeser]

Not that hard actually:

- Install BootDreams to C:/BootDreams/

- Extract the game files in a dedicated folder, like C:/BootDreams/MyGame/

- Start BootDreams and point it to C:/BootDreams/MyGame/

[mcdougall57]

cheers for the guide my dreamcast sits in a shelf with 1 inch of dust, looks like its time to bring it out