New Dreamcast Bios hack!

[Dark Hayabusa]

Japanese-cake is a page on which your administrator presents its latest developments regarding the Bios hack Dreamcast.
Below are the changes in the Bios:
.- Region free: boot GD / CD from any regions. The J / U / E flags as well as the protection area lies That slots in the AIP (AKA IP.BIN) are now simply ignored.
.- No VGA flag check: no matter if the game Supports the VGA output, it lets the boot. There are games That Supports the VGA cable but for some reason the VGA flag in the AIP is not set. The use of a boot CD was just thus needed. Now, you will never get the annoying "This game does not support the AV Cable That is Currently connected to the main console" anymore.
Extent .- Bootfile check: allow a game to boot even if STI bootfile, more Commonly called 1ST_READ.BIN, is not located on the outer part of the disc. I do not know Whether it can be of any use for people using discs. However, for the lucky owners of ODDE for Dreamcast, you can re-build games' track 3 without any padding. For instance, with "DreamKey 3.0 v1.001 (2001) (Sega) (PAL) (M8) [!]", The track03.bin is ~ 1.10GB. Re-building the track (track03.iso) using the following command: mkisofs -C -G IP.BIN DREAMKEY3 0.45000 -V -l -o track03.iso made the data will track03.iso way smaller (only ~ 93MB) . Also homebrews can be rebuilt to GDI So THAT 0GDTEXT.PVR the texture shows up in the audio player
Display .- bootrom version: the current version of the bootrom Appears in the up-right corner of the screen.

Swat think this can help a lot to some compatibility issues...

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