Sega fishlife patched version that runs on any retail Dreamcast

3 months already? Oups! I got my computer back few weeks ago but then go caught up by work :-/

Me too lol! The bleemcast remaining parts are one patch and the packaging. But the problem is that I have to deal with a couple of shitty tools of my own so everytime I want to work back on it I need more than an hour just to remember where I left my work... I also want that monstrous protection gone, believe me!

I appreciate your comments and I did not take it wrong. I just realize that a couple of years ago I had way more time which made things easier. We had the release in the pipe for a very long time and if the testing has been incomplete that is my fault. I am however surprised about your results. Do you a way to test on pal dreamcast? I've tested today on nulldc and on my dreamcast and it seems to boot up w/o issues.

 

Well it is good to get any kind of conformation on that. Was eagerly awaiting news for the longest.

Merci beaucoup.

 

Excellent work everyone in this thread. Inspiring things being done here

 

I think you are right, likely to be due to a miscommunication.

Anyway, @darcagn even if you had your testing done on your side I would not have had the information yet as I still have a big stack of unread emails

 

The GDI with the patched track03.bin works well on my NSTC-U Dremcast using GDEMU. That's the one currently posted on @japanese_cake's twitter. It's the one JC made over a year ago.

GDEmu firmware: 5.13.0
Dreamcast Bios: Japanase-Cake's modified DevKit bios 1.032 modified for black swirl.
Video-Out: VGA
MD5 of track03.bin pre patch: b613eb9ec68c0a5e69613bfc1e49d919
MD5 of track03.bin post patch: 3c10ef1d10a2813030370d5333428790

Seems like something is fishy with your patching @darcagn ...
I did patch using the GUI ppf-o-matic3.exe on Linux via wine-3.0.
Or maybe it's me and JC using non-retail bioses?

 

Link seems to be taken down already. Is there another place I can grab it already pre patched?
Thanks for the info.

 

Yeah, I don't know what the hell is going on now. There's something screwy.

At this point, it's working on my va1 U.S. GDEMU/DCHDMI Dreamcast. I even went back and dug up the other disc images I had in various folders that certainly didn't work before, and now they all work (except for the one tweeted this morning, that one really was the wrong disc image).

So then I tried the SiZiOUS CDI image on va1 U.S. GDEMU/DCHDMI Dreamcast. It works now. It definitely didn't work before. I literally cannot get it to not work on this Dreamcast.

So I burned it to CD-R. Put it in my va0 Japanese DC (stock BIOS, stock JP flash). Doesn't work (gives "ufInitSystem miss" error message). Put it in my va1 U.S. Dreamcast with GD-ROM drive and region free BIOS. Doesn't work (gives "ufInitSystem miss" error message).

I double-check and transfer that CDI file to the GDEMU Dreamcast again, making sure it is the same CDI file I just burned, it works.

I went back and fished out the CD-R version I made myself a few days ago out of the garbage can in my office. I put it in the va0 Japanese DC (stock BIOS, stock JP flash) and it doesn't work (gives "ufInitSystem miss" error message). I put it in the va1 U.S. Dreamcast with GD-ROM drive and region free BIOS. Doesn't work (gives "ufInitSystem miss" error message).

I put it in my PC, rip a CDI file with DiscJuggler, put that CDI file in my GDEMU/DCHDMI Dreamcast... guess what, it works.

So now my GDEMU/DCHDMI Dreamcast has suddenly become compatible with these images, whereas my other Dreamcasts are not compatibile.


EDIT: And just to make sure, I swapped the GDEMU out, and put the GD-ROM drive back into the GDEMU/DCHDMI Dreamcast just to load that same CD-R. Yeah, it works on that Dreamcast now. It doesn't work on the others.

 

Where did SiZiOUS have a .cdi posted of it? Quite a few people have asked me for a working .cdi image of it.

 

Nowhere, it's unreleased at the moment. Given that it's clearly not 100% working, it'd probably be a good idea to limit distribution until we can figure out why it's sometimes working and sometimes not.

 

Alright, more testing here...

GDEMU is back in, I used the flash eraser and erased the flashROM, Fish Life still works in this DC.
So I thought maybe there was a presence of something in the flashROM that could prevent it from booting, but erasing the flashROM in the va0 JP DC did not make it work. It's still broken.

This makes no sense to me. Maybe this flashROM eraser really doesn't erase the whole flashROM.

 

So this is also the reason why the mega link is no longer working ?

 

jc took that one down because it definitely didn't work right. This newer one he is hosting on mediafire and its still up, but appears to me to have some issues still.