I was wondering if the Utopia bootdisc runs .GDI games. and I was also wondering what other type of cd files would the Utopia disc run + what is its exact full purpose of the disc. Thanks for the responses and have a Happy Holidays :encouragement:
Its purpose was to boot early games before people figured out how to make every game self bootable. You don't need it.
ahh ok thanks for your timely, I appreciate it one more ? though If the disc is not self bootable would i need this disc to make it work?
If you want to play import games then you'll have to use a boot disc. There's many instances where you might want to do this as a CD-R file size is smaller than that of a GD-R which meant in order to fit some games on a disc they either had to have audio/video compressed, removed all together, or the game had to be split into multiple discs. Sometimes it's better just to play the original as you get to play a much higher quality product.
Most likely. I haven't needed to use anything like the utopia disc much (I've got an unknown modchip). As geluda was saying... What happened was Dreamcast is easier to play pirated imports than the real thing. While correctly burnt ones can self boot, you need a hardware region mod for legit foreign games without any swap trick or boot disc.
Oh, I see, so I should just stick to North American CDI's then for my Region console, Unless I want to play a PAL/ Japanese game then I would use the boot disc.
No. CD-R's don't have a region code. The reason self boot backups can be played without any boot disc, yet not originals.
As far as I'm aware the only modchips made were for region bypass. Use whatever as far as I'm aware they're region free rips. It's legit GD-ROMs you will want a boot disc or a region free BIOS for to bypass the region protections.
Thanks for the answers guys I appreciate all the knowledge I can obtain since I am new to the Dreamcast scene. So from what I gather I can just keep burning CDI's from any region onto my CD-R's and play them in an any region console. But if they are legit GD-R's then I would actually need a boot disc to run them if they are foreign to my console. I was also wondering if it was possible to change a .Bin/.Cue file to a .Cdi file on a 64 bit windows 7. (Without having to run a virtual machine)
