Burning DreamShell question

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(05.09.2010 18:56)darthcloud писал(а):  Thanks neon for the DC Hacker suggestion after some trial I got it to work.

Simply putting the DS disc doesn't worked since my DC can't read (I guess) the TOC of the first track.

To bypass this I started a multi-session disk and put an useless 512Kb file on it and burned it with nero.

After that I extracted all the file from the DS cdi and continued my multi-session diss with that.

Now DreamLoader can read that CD and I'm finaly able to start DreamShell

I seam to work fine that way. File browser crash when I exit it, but the same thing happen in nullDC so I guess it's fine.

Thanks to everyone who helped me on this

Bingo. I have 4 dreamcasts, 3 of them load discs smoothly (including SEGA GD-ROM, commercial pirated CD-ROM and my CDRs burned by nero+daemon / Alcohol+cdi), but failed to load DreamShell disc burned with same methods; the 4th one has different feature, for loading DreamShell smoothly (burned by nero+daemon / Alcohol+cdi), by has problem loading my existing CDRs and commercial pirated CD-ROMs.

Then I re-created DreamShell using some tools, inserting 50MB dummy file named 0.0 occupied inner part of the disc, pushing useful files to out part, and all my Dreamcasts can load it well.

SWAT, maybe you can provide image containing such a dummy file in following DreamShell releases to improve the compatibility, since dummy file of pure zero can be compressed into few bytes: I compressed the cdi file of DreamShell into 300kB or so, which contains a 50MB dummy file.