anyone know how MIL Cds work and if its possible to create your own, lastly know where I might be able to buy some. Particularly the Space Channel 5 Movie Released on it .
all I have been able to find is that people use an exploit in the bios to allow cds to boot because of the dreamcasts mil cd support which was later removed, probably common knowledge here by most bust still news to me : )
The Space Channel 5 MIL CD was ripped and released as an ISO. Other MIL CDs such as the music video ones are really hard to come by these days. In fact they were hard to come by when they were new :smt009 Yakumo
I found a few on yahoo auctions, and I noticed the sc5 one was packaged with famitsu weekly however, i cant find anyone that has backorders that far back. Id love to buy it but I sincerely doubt anyone that has it would like to part with it or i cant find them, so I guess Ill have to deal with a bootleg unless anyone knows a place that will sell backorders of weekly famitsu packaged with said cd. If all else fails I suppose ill scour winny. but would the ISO boot and be view able on a DC? Im very interested in the format itself but the content on that simple one disc is appealing to me. So if anyone can spot some cheap ones that will ship to the US could they post them here, maybe we can start making our own MIL CDs for our friends and family : )? Thank you for your help Yakumo, its much appreciated : ).
I would love to see a MIL-CD session structure. There's a way to make a image from like a ripped DC game?
It should boot. It worked on mine. The Space Channel 5 Mil CD isn't very exciting to tell the truth. All it is is some sort of silhouette muisc video that I'm sure I've seen on a standard GDROM demo disc. The video has buttons on it that look just like the ones used in the CD player on the Dreamcast's screen. Yakumo
alright guys, ive done a little picking apart at this. I did manage to get a copy of the sc5 mil cd so yay! Anyway, heres what ive got: all audio tracks come first (presumably why the MIL CD exploit needs at least 4 seconds of lead in) DC boots it via an IP.BIN { Example header from the IP.BIN file: Code: SEGA SEGAKATANA SEGA ENTERPRISESD101 MIL CD1/1 J 2799810 HDR-0030 V1.08019991115 1MILSFD.BIN SEGA ENTERPRISESCHANNEL 5 } standard boot up file is 1MILSFD.BIN contains 4 folders: CDPLUS - General disc information file and a seeming blank second file Passport - DC web browser, japanese of course Pictures - from what I see, it has some XA audio wav files, I cannot play them back and it has the MIL CD logo in JFIF format (they used photoshop 3 LOL) SFD - Contains the movie file(s) and some logos and artwork used inside the disc. Along with a .PLY file that seems to be some sort of playlist and information section to decode the video and sync it along with some addiitonal media. { Contents of the PLY file: Code: ;MIL CD SAMPLE DISC ;1999-10-18 [MilcdSofdecPlayer] milsfd.ply [TotalTrack] 1 [VideoTrack] ;Filename SizeXY Bitrate Time vidtrk01.sfd 352 240 5.4777 146010 [DiscTitle] discttl.pvr [TrackTitle] trkttl01.pvr [JacketPicture] jackpic.pvr [SofdecLogo] sfdlogo.pvr [RecordLogo] reclogo.pvr ;end of file } In addition to 1MILSFD.BIN the root also contains 2MILPASS.BIN. This disc is presumably modable to boot on a US and Euro DC system via the IP.BIN file. Currently runs on Chanka and my Japanese DC, though it skips a bit. Morolino and I have posted pictures here: http://www.space-insomnia.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=250 Any other questions, Id be happy to answer.
Have you tried encoding your own .sfd file and edited the ply file? Be interesting if you could make your own mil-cd music + video discs.
im pretty sure I could, the cd arrived on my doorstep like 3 hours ago so i havent had too much time to toy with it
well theres a post on a PSO server thread that cracked someone up... perhaps if you look hard enough, you might find a copy
Very nice found Purge. Everyone believes these MIL-CDs were the key for the crackers finding out how to boot CDR on DC. If it is a ordinary CD and it boots on DC, that's half way to boot games on ordinary CDs. Looking at the CD contents, it's easy to believe SEGA really made a mistake on supporting this CDs. Maybe SEGA thought no one would find a way to rip a GD rom?
