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I am very new to this forum site so sorry If I have put this in the wrong location.
I just got my Sega Dreamcast and I made a Utopia disk that worked the first time. However, I am trying to play D2 and I had downloaded an Image from this link http://www.emuparadise.me/Sega_Dreamcast_ISOs/D2/32
However, I tried to burn it and the disk would not even seem to read. Please could someone help me so I can get it to work? Thank you very much, your help is appricated!
Utopia is not something you need unless you have an old disc image of a game that was not made into a Mil-CD aka selfboot
What you downloaded is a 99min CD-R rip so you require 5 99min CD-R's for this game and you must burn via Nero Burning Rom (possibly only via an older version) to burn it correctly or you can use my cdi converted copy that can be burned with either DiscJuggler or ImgBurn, it's the same rip though so you still require 99min CD-R's to be able to burn and play it
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Originally Posted by Zorlon
Thank you for the reply! So if I use NERO ROM, what how can I get that cdi converter for D2? Many thanks!
Infact, would it be possible if I could have the .cdi version of D2? That would be great! Thank you very much for the help, If you can, could you guide me through what I must do? Sorry to be a bother, I would love to learn for myself in the future. :)
http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...HYKAN-(Nrg2Cdi)
if the links are dead let me know I can re-upload it easy enough :)
p.s. if you check out the master list in that section I uploaded a few other games including one other nrg to cdi convert of skies of arcadia another 99min cd game
Thank you very much for the links! However, they are not working, the websites are telling me the file was not found. :( Any other site I can get it from?
Like I said I have no issues re-uploading it and no I'm the on;ly one that converted them to be burnable via DiscJuggler or ImgBurn, though I recommend the latter, if you have never burned Dreamcast games with ImgBurn see http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?81186 for instructions so it burns correctly
If you don't know where to get 99min media from try the online store listed at http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?84694 if you know of others let me know I can add them to to good place to buy list as 99min CD's are not that easy to find, not quality ones anyway
Re-uploading it now, shouldn't take too long providing it uploads without error.
Also note that the main mirror may still be active if you use something like Jdownloader 2 to download with
As you can see from the screen grab all the main hosted files are still alive but every mirror is dead (all 22 listed mirrors) but all 5 files on multiupload.nl are alive and active, but I am re-uploading it anyway
I really appreciate what you are doing! Thank you so much! Would you be able to post the new links here? Thank you so much!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorlon
I just finished uploading they are in the thread you said the links are dead :P I just replaced the download links with the new ones
I have downloaded disk 1 of D! I managed to burn the image the disk. However, I used Uptopia since it would not boot up but it still won't start :( What do I need to change in DiskJuggler so it works with my Dreamcast?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorlon
Okay, to save you a lot of time, here is what I am doing but I know I am going wrong somewhere. Now, I know that D2 is an NTSC game, I am on a PAL Console now my television I believe can play NTSC games but what I have been through 4 disks alone trying to get the game to boot with uptopia but now I know I am really doing something wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Payrol
How can I make the Game run? I also noticed that disk 1 was 309MB but the Disk is only showing a total of 65.3MB.
What's going wrong here? :(
Thank for all the help! I appreciate it a lot! :)
Don't use Utopia it is not needed boot the disc up directly from your 99min CD-R that you burned the disc image onto
As it happens my Dreamcast is also PAL and no selfbooting games require Utopia the only time you need utopia is if you get some of the older rips provided as Bin+Cue images, in general all cdi images are self booting aka MIL-CD
I kinda already mentioned that :P also read the burning guide I linked up and make sure you have followed that
On a side note these disc images can not be burned onto standard CD-R's that are usually 80min CD-R's (700MB) you need to be using 99min CD-R's (870MB)
What I will do is get myself some CD-R with 870MB but at the end of the day, I might just buy D2. I'm not good with burning disks and it might be easier to just buy the game but it is still worth a try! Thank for your help, I will keep trying!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorlon
If you can get your hands on D2 though it will not be cheap it's a very sort after game and exclusive to the Dreamcast
The Dreamcast is region protected also and D2 was only released in the US and Japan both NTSC that a PAL Dreamcast can not boot on it's own, you might be able to boot the original up through Codebreaker for the Dreamcast, can be a burned copy.
Yeah these can not be burned onto standard 80min CD-R's even with overburn enabled (overburn is needed for 99min CD's anyway) it will not work from 80min CD-R's at all it will just not boot
The burning process is very very easy but it does help if you use quality media, this game is not a good one to start trying with though to be honest, you are better off starting with 80min rips, I have a few up of my own creation, most games are ripped for 80min CD-R, but some will have some of the files/CDDA either ripped or re sampled to make the game fit a standard CD
Update: I managed to get Tomb Raider Chronicles to work! Booted it's self up so I guess for D2, I need the 870MB. Now if I follow the instruction for burning, will it work? And will I need to use Overburn with the 870MB CD -R ? Thanks for the help! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorlon
Yeah you can set over burn for every burn if you wanted it will only over burn if the disc image contents is more than (720000 KB) 703.125 MB that is the exact amount an 80min CD can hold before over burning so for a 870MB disc it will start to over burn as soon as it hits 703.126 MB and over burn to get the rest of the data burned to fill up the 870MB disc
Utopia is junk to be honest now it was only created before the self booting method was used later releases all use the Mil-CD/Selfbooting methods
The Dreamcast itself has plenty of exclusive games though to keep you going until you can get hold of some 99min CD-R's
Blue Stinger fits 80min CD's [Not a bad game a nice little horror game]
Grandia II (I done my own 3 disc rip for 80 min CD's) [Nothing Ripped or down sampled] Not an exclusive game just a very good one, it was later ported to PC and PS2 with lower quality FMV
Illbleed fits 80min a very very cool Horror game though you will want a guide for it, best to play unguided then go to a guide to figure it out after you have a play to get the shocks you want
Shenmue and Shenmue II (Grab the PAL version as II was only released in Japan and Europe (USA missed out with that one :P)) Most rips of this are on 80 min CD's and is one of the few games that really shows off the Dreamcast (Shenmue II was later released on Xbox but not the first in the series)
Sonic Adventure & Sonic Adventure 2 both ported many times on later consoles, both can be found on 80min CD rips
Record of Lodoss War (A little like Diablo) very much exclusive and fits on a 80min CD [the game name Record of Lodoss War is used over lots of console but each version is usually very different even down to the type of game]
The Ring (A very cool Horror game, though I never got that far into it as I use VGA to play my Dreamcast and this one has no VGA support)
The Thing (Love this one but you may need a guide to play it) set after the films was later ported to xbox possibly ps2 also
There are other games worthy of playing the above is just a starter