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StateS

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Wow, it's been a while since anyones posted anything on this thread, well anyway I found some information which may interest the whole dreamcast community (or not...). I found some information the other day while doing some searches, guess what I found... A document on how to hack the 1st_read.bin and how to boot WindowsCE games as well... I know it's not that exciting but it may help us out with the selfbooting problems, right?

The ripguide I included is the broadband method, but it has some other interesting information that I'm thinking about including in my document as well, anyway just check them outand tell me what you think... I'll keep searching for more information pertaining to the gd-cd method, I'm still going through the itallian version of the method which I found. The toolkit which I'm compiling is almost done.
 
STC-Fan

STC-Fan

Dollop.
Yes, there isn't much happening really... recently I tested a Teac CD-532EB and it can rip about 3/4 of a single data track game, which is pretty good, seeing as the only CD drive we know to rip whole games is that one Onky tested (which is an NEC CD-1901A, as it happens the Teac I tested is prolly quite similar to this, since the chipsets in Teac drives are built by NEC anyway).

The only things I have planned are to upgrade the firmware on the Teac to a newer revision (in the hope of being able to rip more data... one way trip though, so it could all be in vain :() and to try re-ripping the single data track games which my LITE-ON DVD drive is ripping with corrupted files (Fur Fighters, MSR and FV2). Also it would probably be a good idea to add a bit to my guide about which parts of it people should read / follow if they're reading your guide and / or the Yursoft one, but I don't know when I'll do that.
 
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Hey STC-Fan about ripping the audio from the gdroms, I might talk to yursoft to see if he can tell me how to use his program (GDLister) to rip the audio from the .bin file... what do you think?

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What's your e-mail address?
 
STC-Fan

STC-Fan

Dollop.
StateS said:
Hey STC-Fan about ripping the audio from the gdroms, I might talk to yursoft to see if he can tell me how to use his program (GDLister) to rip the audio from the .bin file... what do you think?

P.S.
What's your e-mail address?
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Yes, I think that would be very helpful. There is no way of ripping the tracks out of the BIN with other applications (since CDRWIN does not create CUE sheets for BIN files for some weird reason) so if we could get the tracks out of them then we could move onto the next task of trying to actually insert them into a self-boot CDI image. CDmage could be used for that, but I really haven't used it enough to figure that out just yet.

My e-mail is: [email protected]
 
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Hello
I have a problem(I'm using chankast alpha 0.25): I get the cdplayer screen only after I set the date and if i choose play the dreamcast logo shows up again. I'm trying with a self bootable soul calibur cdi, it has the audiotrack(checked with isobuster) so it must be good. But the newest Ultraiso can't open it(unknown image format) I'm using daemon 3.29. I even tried utopia boot disc, but it does the same(tries to play audio). If I choose play the dreamcast logo shows up again.
Please help me, cause I've spent a lot of time trying to make it work and I'm getting really pissed.
thx
 
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StateS

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well to me that sounds like a skrewed up cdi file... burn that cdi file to a cd and try it in an original dreamcast... or it could be that the ip.bin was hacked wrong, or it could be that the 1st_read.bin was hacked the wrong way etc... My advice get another version of Soul Calibur...
 
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Me too I'm starting to doubt that it is a well hacked stuff, but the utopia boot disc does the same and that is why I dont know what to do. The boot disc should work at least
 
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StateS said:
I thought that the boot disk didn't work in chankast...
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I don't see why you would think it wouldn't. It has been mentioned many times that using the boot disk is a way around using non self-boot games.
 
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StateS

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i've tried using it with chankast before but have never been able to boot a game with it (I have a dreamcast and it works fine with it)
 
STC-Fan

STC-Fan

Dollop.
Sri Narayan: I tried using WavInject in that ZIP you uploaded, so I cut the Ready 2 Rumble tracks into seperate WAV files as accurately as I could with Audacity (using info from the TOC file), renamed them to CDDA_[3-digit track number here, e.g. 001].wav then put them in the same folder as the WavInject app and the Ready 2 Rumble CDI image, then ran it, only to find that it didn't do anything to the image file, and the "time remaning" bar remained blank.

I then re-read the NFO file in the ZIP, and I noticed that it says that WavInject is only designed to overwrite tracks *already* present in the image. So if there are none there, then it won't work. Ah well, thanks for upping it anyway, it was worth a try if anything else :)
 
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Sri Narayan

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I didn#t tried this tool before posting. I found out that cdda tool doesn't work for me also.
Perhabs something is broken?

Does anybody have success with any cdda game? Like games with the warnings like "this is a dreamcast disc..." because i don't need this track. I tried all hex codes. Are there othe hex val to trie. I attached another cdda tool stuff, but for me it doesn't work. Perhabs you have more luck.

And finally a question does anybody have Timestalker get booting on chancast, because on the real dc it works?

see you
 
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chane2k1

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Somewhat good news for anyone with a "SAMSUNG CD-ReWritable MODEL SW-224". I got this burner for free with a printer purchase back in 2001 i think? Anyway the good news is that this drive though an ass to take the spindle magnet out of, can read up to 756mb of a GD-ROM disc including the toc. Ive tested it with Sonic Adventure 2, Biohazard 3: Last Escape, and Biohazard Code: Veronica Disc 1 and 2. The last sector this drive can read up to safely is 440850.
 
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When burning the Drinkteam Trap Disc im prompted with this question (Burn all the way to end of disc or Overburn) which do i choose to create the disc properly?
 
STC-Fan

STC-Fan

Dollop.
chane2k1 said:
When burning the Drinkteam Trap Disc im prompted with this question (Burn all the way to end of disc or Overburn) which do i choose to create the disc properly?
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Choose "burn all the way to end of disc".

BTW, I should've mentioned this before, but after doing a number of tests, I haven't been able to extract any CDDA tracks with the DrinkTeam disc, be it extraction of all tracks to a BIN file or to seperate WAV files. I'll try and update my guide sometime with this info.

Also, nice work with that Samsung burner, I used to have an SW-232 burner as it happens, but it broke down after 18 months (before I even came across a translated copy of the inetd guide even). And, did you manage to get the magnetic fastener back in? I was messing with an old SM-304 combo drive a while back and getting the fastener back in was amazingly difficult, made even more annoying by the fact it couldn't rip anything from GD-ROMs. Ah well.
 
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