On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 15:44, Matt Matthews wrote: > I recently acquired a Sega Dreamcast. Among the things I'd like to try > are: > - DC NES emulator > - DC Linux distribution > I found instructions for burning a bootable Dreamcast CD online, such as > a text file that comes with NesterDC 7.1. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem > to work. > > Basically, it creates a multisession CD with a throwaway audio track (4 > seconds of silence, for example) first and then a data track. Then, > 32768 bytes of bootloader were inserted into the image header and then > the resulting file burned to disc with cdrecord. The commands work > without errors, but the result is a disc that sends the Dreamcast to the > audio CD player. In short, it does not boot. > [...] > > Has anyone done bootable CDs for a Dreamcast under Linux, and if so, how > did you do it? I have access to Windows which can do what I need, but > I'd prefer to do this under Linux, if only because I'm a stubborn jerk. >
I've never used or even seeen a Dreamcast (shows you how much of a gamer I'm not), but have you experimented with the "Disc at once" versus "track at once" modes? Also, I think there are options to set the amount of space between tracks. Those might be some things to play around with if you have a lot of blank CD-R's lying around. :-) --Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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