Set4 Hard Drive Dump

Discussion in 'Sega Dreamcast Development and Research' started by peekb, Nov 3, 2010.

  1. peekb

    peekb Spirited Member

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    I dug my Set4 out of the closet last week in preparation to sell it, and decided to dump the drive tonight before I put it up for sale. Look for a thread for that in the next week or so.

    Anyway, I zipped up the drive contents and threw them up on MegaUpload. There's absolutely nothing exciting in the archive, but it's saved nonetheless. Looks like there are assets for a few scratch samples/demos involving the comic character Rat Fink. As with every Dreamcast kit I've ever seen, no 1st_read.bin's or executables in any format, as they were usually just dumped to memory from the host PC and run. The drive just had the GDWorkshop projects and related assets.

    Enjoy!

    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IF6MTLH1


    http://segaretro.org/PVR_Viewer - Quick and dirty PVR viewer
     
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    Alchy Illustrious Member

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    T_chan Gutsy Member

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    Always interesting to dig into the files of a devkit hdd, thanks for that !

    Concerning the selling of your set4: seeing the interest for Katana devkits the last weeks/months (cfr the WTB forum), you might be better off by putting it on ebay...

    Edit: read your post too quickly/without thinking... you're talking about a set4, not a set5... :)
    I'm really interested then :)
     
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  4. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    Will this run on katana?
     
  5. T_chan

    T_chan Gutsy Member

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    No chance... there are no real executable files...
    (there are two *.bin files, but they are only 640 bytes big, so nothing interesting)

    Besides, I wonder if an executable made for a set4 could be run at all on a set5...
     
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    There's nothing to run. It's just the game's assets (just image files).
     
  7. ASSEMbler

    ASSEMbler Administrator Staff Member

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    Try running data recover on the drive before you sell it.
     
  8. peekb

    peekb Spirited Member

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    I tried last night and came up with nothing. Do you have a recommended recovery application I can try to see if it does a better job?
     
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    If nothing came up then I doubt there is anything to find. You should have seen something at the least.
     
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    Winhex, give that a go.
     
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