My first forum post

[aykiri1]

(30.03.2017 16:58)tossEAC писал(а):  High everyone, this is my first post here.

I recently got into dreamshell, about a week ago I got an SD Adapter.

I have sussed out the basics, and it is time to share some tips and tricks I have found out so far.

If no one already knows of tossEAC, I am a regular at redump.org and have dumped over 2700 discs from originals, for various systems including Dreamcast, I own a few hundred Dreamcast original games, which could be handy to do some front cover scans at 256x256 smaller than what I usually scan at

Anyway the first thing I would like to share is a method to compress multi track dreamcast games, to shrink the size.

So you have a game with a Track03 then some Audio and a final Data Track. Often Track03 is pretty big. Well here is a way to shrink your multi track games.

First optimize your gdi dump, this converts 2352 to 2048, and reduces size a bit.

So here is the trick, Trac03.iso if you look at it is 99% blank basically a dummy file. So just truncate it, I just chop mine down to 1 megabyte, which is actually longer than it needs to be but I don't really care as long as its 1 megabyte and not 700 happy days

Then just run the multi track gdi game with your truncated Track03.iso.

Its not actually compression but its the next best thing.

Next up is my SD compatibility list, I have got quite a few games booting fine, and some that I tried are not on any of the lists already here.

have you any suggestion for multi-disk games ?
example: merging disks tracks and/or similar like this etc...