working chankast - i'm so confused

[rokaholic]

ok i have this game ooga booga, i mounted it with daemon tools, i made sure that the drive to be used was the daemon one (G then i hit start & it says 'can't read dc_bios.bin'. what is this. i've looked around in some other threads & i clicked on the link to where i could get the bios file, but what do i do with it? what files work with chankast? iso, bin, cdi, etc. i'm a complete noob to chankast, this emulation system is waay different than project64, or snes emulator, those are soo simple. so if you guys could help me & guide me through how to work this so i can play some dc games.

THANKS

[Starless_Eyes]

Once you have the dreamcast bios files you'll be able to play your games. You need dc_bios.bin, dc_flash.bin. Click their names for them. Set them in your chankast directory that's all. Once you mount you dc games in daemon or burn them you will be able to play, requiring that ther're bootable.

[Mikey_]

also i believe chankast runs .cdi files. mounted. not sure if they run .iso or .bin files cuz as far as i know, everyone thats in the DC emulation scene has always dealt with .cdi files.

[Josh]

Chankast can run any image format as long as it's mounted by Daemon's Tools and the image is self bootable. That is because chankast doesn't even look at the image. All it does is look at the CD data that Daemon's Tools gives it.

[Mikey_]

oooh. chankast can run any image formats, does DC? just wondering cuz i'd much rather make a .bin/.cue image then a .cdi image.

[Josh]

It doesn't matter what format the image you get is in. All that really matters is that the CD burning program can burn it correctly so the Dreamcast can read or that Daemon's Tools can read it correctly for Chankast to read it.

[Mikey_]

sooo....all this time i spent making sure all my DC images were .cdi were for nothing?

[rokaholic]

great, i downloaded the dc_bios & dc_flash files, i mounted dead or alive 2, & the dreamcast logo thing comes up with the gray screen, then it just freezes at the gray screen & i have to do "ctrl+alt+del" & end chankast. anybody know what's wrong, or is it just the dead or alive file?

thanks

[rokaholic]

ok i got marvel vs. capcom snk, but it runs REEEEAALLLLY slow, anybody know why?

[AKUMA™]

Dead or Alive 2 Limited Edition usually crashed the emulator on me too, perhaps that's the one you have, cuz DOA 2 the regular one runs fine. Any CAPCOM games that you try to run in Chankast must have the "Capcom Hack" option turned on, otherwise they'll be slow

[rokaholic]

oh, well that solves my doubts, now i just need to get sonic adventure

[KaosR]

I only deal in PSX so this is just a question, I do everything with Alcohol120% which comes comlete with its on virtual drive, I then mount my PSX iso into Alcohol and goto my emulator, usually CVGS or ePSXe, run it from there, does DC not work along the same lines?

[Zorlon]

sooo....all this time i spent making sure all my DC images were .cdi were for nothing?

Nope

Small point but bin/cue and iso format CD Images can not be selfbootable because neither can have dual sessions that selfbootable dreamcast games use but cdi and nrg can

If the game isn't self boot to start with then it realy does not mater what format the CD image is in but to boot those you would need to use something called Utopia, a boot CD that can be burned and used with a Dreamcast or used with Daemon tools with Chankast to boot up none selfbooting backups