"Let's make GD ROM emulation happen" Facebook group.

Most homebrew should work with a standard Katana ip.bin as long as they are unscrambled. See there: http://www.thekickback.com/dreamcast/zomghacks.txt

 

I've been using GDI builder for patching games and it works pretty well, I've only ever had issues with Skies of Arcadia disc 2 (not disc 1 for some reason) where it said it would output a bigger size than is acceptable and failed.

Another thing i have noticed is that it doesn't output the same tracks as the original GDI, for instance, Resident Evil Code Veronica Disc 1, originally the gdi tracks are:

But it outputs them as:

All of this might be a moot point because all the games i have used with it have worked fine in the end anyway.

 

You're building the GDI wrong. A three tracks game should have a single track after 45000LBA. Here you built it like a 5 tracks game.

track02.raw should never be included in the high density region of the GDI. Since Skies of Arcadia is a really tight fit, this added useless data on the HD region probably made it too big.

 

When i build it without track2.raw, it spits out:

3 45000 4 2352 track03.bin 0

Is that correct? Is track 1 and 2 not required?

 

Idk gdi builder itself, but that is the correct entry for track03.bin. You should add the original track01.bin and track02.raw if you got them.

The two first tracks are never used by dreamcast games.

 

Any word if SAG is going to be selling any of his DC boards?

 

FamilyGuy is correct.

GDIBuilder is for building the High Density area of the GD-ROM. You're supposed to provide an existing GDI with tracks 1 and 2 (the low density area) and it updates track 3 and above (the DC data). You should still have tracks 1 and 2 from an original disc in there, but tracks 1 and 2 don't matter and the tool doesn't look at them.

Tracks 1 and 2 are what you see when you put the disc in a PC. Tracks 3 and above are what the Dreamcast runs from.

 

Well, Thank you both for clarifying that, I do indeed have the original GDI tracks, so that's not an issue. I'll give SOFA D2 another shot.

 

Truisms are true.

Just kidding!

 

oh wow.... there goes the "more features if the community supports the device" statements... I don't like this. There goes my hopes to play Gunlord on this.

 

Any one tested the http://projects.sappharad.com/tools/gdibuilder.html ? with mnemo device?

 

http://www.amazon.com/PNY-Elite-Performance-256GB-Speed/dp/B00FF90EZM/

Make sure to format it to fat32 before putting any games on it.

 

I'm definitely glad i've choosen the GDEMU instead of USB-GDROM. Deunan is far more reactive and easily joinable. Furthermore, since it's proven it can handle 256Go card with 200+ games, what more could we ask for ?

 

I will give it a shot later today.

Cheaper Huge SD cards & a USB to SD adapter, so we can use HDDs.

 

Is there such a thing as SD to USB adapter? If so that would be awesome!

 

I heard someone saying "SD to USB adapter"?


By the way, I tested again a japanese game running in my US Dreamcast using the Utopia Disc to overcome the region issue, like I said before. For the first time, I used this trick using a VGA Box, and I'm sad to discover the Utopia Disc don't have VGA support... T_T Using AV cable, it runs perfectly... So, my question is: There's an Utopia Disc hacked with VGA support?

 

I've never seen such device (SD to USB).
About VGA, GDEMU SD card Maker has a VGA patch option. did you try it ?
But i could find games not working in VGA at all, like Resident Evil Veronica.

 

Yes, look for utopia 1.2 or 1.5 or patch it yourself. Google is your friend.

 

Yes there is but I could not get it to work properly so I used the DC-X instead.

 

just asked MNEMO, most likely language barrier lead to the misunderstanding