New SD ISO Module for Dreamcast

http://www.dc-swat.net.ru/news/16/

DREAMSHELL ISO MODULE UPDATE:

It loads homebrew isos and now with this update it loads "backups", it still doesn't support cdda but the game will just run fine it has some minor lags when loading but nothing important.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=z2xwoW6Z8Cg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=21l8upQ5CLI

 

great news! we'll need something like this for saturn and psx too. Years are passing and it'll be impossible to play the discs in real hardware when lasers will die and cds rot...

 

If your DC laser dies, you can't boot games from SD... because atm you still need to boot the SD boot loader from CD. But maybe that one of those tallented Russian hackers will be able to make a special bios eventually.. who knows

However awesome developments!

 

The dreamcast scene is sure still alive and kicking
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Great stuff, just played 15minutes of ChuChuRocket on my sd-card!

Selfboot-CDI and GDI image support would be cool though, but it's amazing already!

FG

 

I wonder how they're going to tackle multi-disc games. D-2, Skies of Arcadia, Alone in the Dark, Shenmue, etc...

 

Perhaps some kind of daemon tools mounting program perhaps ?

 

That makes no sense. This isn't being run on a PC.

 

Pretty cool stuff

 

Just replacing the SD card with a SD card containing the next disc would work (as long as the ISO is the same name), wouldn't it?

 

Yeah or make a multi iso file switching program. That was what I mean by a daemon tools like program. Heck I still remember I could make a GDrom virtual drive back in the day with daemon tools.

 

wow the dreamcast scene never seems to stop amazing me with what they can do. Great work so far can't wait to see other versions down the road

 

Don't almost all Multi Disc games let you save at the end of a disc? I seem to remember almost everu multi disc game does so, on certain platforms it was a requirement.

 

That's so cool! Where can we get that link-to-sd cable?

 

Cool - would like to give this a try. Unfortunately, I totally f***ed up the traces in my DC's board serial output when I tried to rush a mod the other day. (Does anyone know if there are points other then on the connection itself that I could use for a mod?)

 

Yeah, I'd like to know more about this too.

The site is in Russian and I didn't even know this sort of thing was in development.

I'd love to load some DC games via SD!


*edit*
After some googling I came across this thread, which doesn't look too good for those without the adapter already :S
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=192408&page=16

 

http://f17.aaa.livedoor.jp/~takotako/index.php

All you need to know to build one.

I suggest reading the WHOLE PAGE and translation with google the jap parts.

FG

 

"retail" ISOs, or patched?

 

standard ISO 9660

 

It seems very simple with two whole caps in the revised version... although whacking it in internally seems to be the easiest way to make it. Although if someone could mod the bios so that it could selfboot from the SD card then it would get rid of the horrid GD-ROM drives.