I have been playing with chanka for the last couple of days, and it's looks like it'll be an excellent emulator 
I have however come across a major problem (for me anyway).
My big problem is this: I only own original GDROMs for all of my games. Now I would have thought that this would have been a real bonus for emulation, but it isn't due to the inability to read the discs on pc's.
I currently have:
Dreamcast
Broadband Adaptor (tracked one down around 12 months ago)
Dreamcast games on GDROMs
I would like to rip these discs via the bba onto my pc. I would then like to make these ripped iso's bootable. I do not want to cut out any content, and therefore cannot burn the images at any stage.
So far I have achieved the following:
Extracted the PAL bios from my dreamcast. The instructions in the manual do not work and the resulting bios hangs at the end of boot. I successfully extracted working roms with the biosdumper run through dc-tool. (No I will not distribute them, so don't ask! )
I have ripped the data tracks from a couple of games so far using dcripper. These files are a little over 1000MB. (they are iso files)
This is where I am stuck, is it possible to make these games selfboot? I do not want to have to download pirate versions when I have the original game discs in front of me, there must be a way for this to work, can anyone help?
I have however come across a major problem (for me anyway).My big problem is this: I only own original GDROMs for all of my games. Now I would have thought that this would have been a real bonus for emulation, but it isn't due to the inability to read the discs on pc's.
I currently have:
Dreamcast
Broadband Adaptor (tracked one down around 12 months ago)
Dreamcast games on GDROMs
I would like to rip these discs via the bba onto my pc. I would then like to make these ripped iso's bootable. I do not want to cut out any content, and therefore cannot burn the images at any stage.
So far I have achieved the following:
Extracted the PAL bios from my dreamcast. The instructions in the manual do not work and the resulting bios hangs at the end of boot. I successfully extracted working roms with the biosdumper run through dc-tool. (No I will not distribute them, so don't ask!
)I have ripped the data tracks from a couple of games so far using dcripper. These files are a little over 1000MB. (they are iso files)
This is where I am stuck, is it possible to make these games selfboot? I do not want to have to download pirate versions when I have the original game discs in front of me, there must be a way for this to work, can anyone help?
