My very first post.

[Turbokat]

Hello to all, I am a fellow Dreamcast alumni and I am enthused to speak to such a diverse group. Been playing Dreamcast since launch, I own around 15 retro consoles mostly late 80's to now. I play anything, usually beat-'em-ups and fighters are my cup of tea.

I purchased a modded Dreamcast IDE off of someone which came with Dreamshell 4.00 RC4 CDR. Let's say there were many successes and a couple of inquiries. I am eternally grateful to SWAT and others who made this OS a reality. It's because of them I can now run back-ups! I own about 100 Dreamcast games.

With that being said I have two goals in mind. One is to play 100% of my library using Dreamshell. The 2nd is sharing that info with the broader internet so others won't have to do as much trial and error as I have fingering out how these ISO's respond to the OS(I'm certain you guys have been sweating bullets on this stuff too).

My more immediate dilemma is playing and editing CDDA titles. Currently Dreamshell runs KOF DM, Vigilante 8 2nd Offense, Guilty Gear X, and Plasma Sword however the music as you all know, does not work (Emulate CDDA doesn't work either). But I feel like I discovered a solution, credit to SWAT. I recall seeing a video of SWAT running Vigilante 8 2nd Offense on Dreamshell, he converted the raw CDDA's to ADPCM WAVs. Now I use a combination of both GDEMU Explorer from Livejournal and Audacity converter.

I used the Explorer to convert RAW CDDA files to WAV, then opened up Audacity and morphed those WAV files into ADPCM Microsoft WAV which did shrink the files. The issue is when injecting them back into the Vigilante 8 GDI folder I get an error message saying the files needed to be RAW. So I renamed the converted ADPCM WAVs back to RAW, but this time I get a new error claiming the files must be 3000 bytes and the size must be multiples of 5253. I am legitimately stumped, math was never my strong suit.

I'm hopeful you guys can assist? I feel like I'm close to figuring it out, some guidance would get me the rest of the way I'm sure.