System2 disc boot GD-Rs?

hey all,

just got a rather tasty KATANA GD-R, the cool blue kind with an early build of Blue Stinger on it and wondered if i can boot it on a retail DC (Divers Series 2000) with a System 2 disc...

Hope so, as my Set5.24 kit is in storeage.

let me know!

 

System disc 2 doesn't have any purpose other then booting GD-R's, so i'd have to say yes, it should work.

 

Arh cool, i had it in my head it was mainly used to get around region protection or something...

Also was a bit worried that perhaps the old blue kind dont boot on retail boxes... as the bottoms of the GD-R's look slightly diffrent.

Infact, around the inside of the Katana disc, it says GB-R, not GD-R... even though it says GD-R on the front.

 

I've heard of the System 2 Disc. Is it an authentic that was made from Sega, or a homebrew CD?

 

It's official, and expensive!

A run of 200 printed aparently, but im sure there must be more (ASSEMbler proberly has that many alone!)

Not the most rare internal discs, but still very cool!

 

I'm guessing there must have also been a System 1 Disc. How many rare internal disc were there anyway?

 

System Disk 1 was used to boot burned saturn games, just as system disk 2 is to boot dreamcast ones. Its a disk to make it easier to test the game quickly and easily on a retail system.

The first system disk (for Saturn), came in two variations. The first allowed for 1st party games to boot, and the other for 3rd party games.

Both the System disk 2 and one of the original system disks have been ripped and are available on the net.

 

the ripped systemdisc2 doesnt work.. the official one does

 

There're many different files of the System Disc on the net. There're some at 5 MB, others at 50 MB. Most are fakes...

 

Look for the one ripped by Belokk and you should find the working copy.

 

Belokks didnt work either

But anyhow, the system 2 disc only circumvents the GD-R lock not region protection, so you will have to use Japanese encoded GD-R on your machine as I'm sure the Divers has Japan region lock. If the disc doesn't boot it could be that it's NTSC-U or PAL encoded, there shouldn't really be any blame on the disc or the divers fault

 

Do the disc swap trip that Wombat made a video of. I play my PAL (so it says on the disc) Crazy Taxi beta on my Japanese DC by doing the swap trick. Works every time.

Yakumo

 

No guarantee it will work, I have PAL GDR's that won't boot on my PAL DC, and JPN and US disks that do.

 

looks like ill have to get the dev kit out then!

 

Well you can boot the belokk disc indeed, but once you've changed the disc and closed the lid.. it won't boot your disc it will simply reboot your Dreamcast. So it is still pretty useless..

 

worked first time on the divers.. good thing too, would have seemed like a bit of a waste of time to get the dev kit out of storage just to play blue stinger... that was one of those launch titles i missed and always wondered about... now i can safely say its shite!

still cool to have a ealry build on katana gd-r though.. i might pick up a copy and see if there are any diffrences. it cant be much money these days.

 

Does shit like CDX and Gameshark boots GD-R?

 

No. You either use a System Disc 2 or use a swap trick involving the CD player (just like on the original PSX and CD-R).

-hl718

 

Yeah i wouldnt expect too much difference seeing as its a USA version and the game was a Jap launch title....

 

I see. Do you know why not? I mean, what is the difference between a ordinary GD and a GD-R? Maybe something on the ip.bin that avoid it to boot?