how to play downloaded mods on dreamcast?

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how to play downloaded mods on dreamcast?

Post by Tsuperbrowns »

how do you get these mods to play on the dreamcast? I have crisis evil downloaded but it's a pak file and i dont know what to do with. I know how to burn things quite well. Every dc game ive downloaded from the net plays fine with alcohol 120 as my burner. Thx for your help guys and ppl thought the dc was dead lol!hey and if you are running nesterdc on your dc here is a update i did to tecmo super bowl! its got 2007 rosters! http://www.knobbe.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7502#61412[/img][/url]
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Post by OldSkoolGamer »

Well... if you want to play Crisis Evil, you can get both on one CD image by going here.


As far as making an image from a .pak file, this is from http://senileteam.segaforums.com/:
Beats of Rage mod creation manual wrote: Making a Selfbooting Dreamcast disc
special thanks to CEDRIC

Step 1
Extract 'Selfboot', you can find it in consoles\selfboot.exe. It must be installed in C:\Selfboot.

Step 2
Place your bor pak in 'Consoles\Dreamcast\'. Rename it from mymod.pak to bor.pak
In this directory you should also find a Ip.bin and 1st_read.bin.

Step 3
Run Selfboot.exe and select the directory Consoles\Dreamcast\. If you use NERO click the NERO (DAO) or NERO (TAO) button to create a .nrg image (use DAO if your burner supports it). If you use DiscJuggler click the DiscJuggler button to create a .cdi image. If you want to burn with CDRecord select CDRecord, click burn to burn the audio track (make sure there is a blank CD in your CD writer), click Msinfo, click Make Iso to build the image, then click Burn to burn the second session.

Step 4
Burn the NERO or DiscJuggler image with the appropriate program.

One last link that might help: http://dchelp.net/index.php?id=bor
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Post by Vik Abominae X »

OldSkoolGamer wrote:Well... if you want to play Crisis Evil, you can get both on one CD image by going here.


As far as making an image from a .pak file, this is from http://senileteam.segaforums.com/:
Beats of Rage mod creation manual wrote: Making a Selfbooting Dreamcast disc
special thanks to CEDRIC

Step 1
Extract 'Selfboot', you can find it in consoles\selfboot.exe. It must be installed in C:\Selfboot.

Step 2
Place your bor pak in 'Consoles\Dreamcast\'. Rename it from mymod.pak to bor.pak
In this directory you should also find a Ip.bin and 1st_read.bin.

Step 3
Run Selfboot.exe and select the directory Consoles\Dreamcast\. If you use NERO click the NERO (DAO) or NERO (TAO) button to create a .nrg image (use DAO if your burner supports it). If you use DiscJuggler click the DiscJuggler button to create a .cdi image. If you want to burn with CDRecord select CDRecord, click burn to burn the audio track (make sure there is a blank CD in your CD writer), click Msinfo, click Make Iso to build the image, then click Burn to burn the second session.

Step 4
Burn the NERO or DiscJuggler image with the appropriate program.

One last link that might help: http://dchelp.net/index.php?id=bor
can you play ANY of the BoR mods that are made so far on a DreamCast?
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Post by emptythought »

Check out http://dcevolution.net/. They have two comps of BOR with a few different mods in each comp.
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Post by Christuserloeser »

Also, I wrote a tutorial on how to burn a BoR disc for Dreamcast here:
http://openbor.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=102
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Post by Vik Abominae X »

Christuserloeser wrote:Also, I wrote a tutorial on how to burn a BoR disc for Dreamcast here:
http://openbor.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=102
Can you put multiple BoR mods on the same disc with that BootDreams method? And if so, how?
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Post by Christuserloeser »

I answered the same question a short while back over at DCEmu UK:

Yes, you could modify the menus we used for our http://www.DCEvolution.net BoR releases but you'd have to edit the ini files and the PVRs and replace the .bins with the new version of OpenBoR that you should hexedit to check for Bo1.pak to Bo?.pak, where the ? stands for mod ?, the last mod on your Favorites list. Unscramble the .bins before hexediting.

Tools for modifying the PVRs are available on the net. A good hexeditor is frhed. The .ini files can be opened with notepad.

It's not easy and you probably would be better off to stick with single game CDRs for now.

However, I think I will prepare a simple mod loader that allows putting your favorite BoR mods on one CD with a lot less editing work soon. Don't know when I find the time, but I thought about doing this anyway.


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Since I made that post I've already started with some little work on this ;)
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Post by Christuserloeser »

Vik Abominae X wrote:can you play ANY of the BoR mods that are made so far on a DreamCast?
Basicly yes :)

There are four or five exceptions that won't work with the current version of OpenBoR (as they were made for DarkBoR, a slightly different version), but they'll soon work with OpenBoR too ;)

If you got a mod that crashes somewhere in a later stage, just reburn it with the memory saving version of OpenBoR. It has long loading times, but it works with pretty much anything :)
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Post by Vik Abominae X »

Christuserloeser wrote:
Vik Abominae X wrote:can you play ANY of the BoR mods that are made so far on a DreamCast?
Basicly yes :)

There are four or five exceptions that won't work with the current version of OpenBoR (as they were made for DarkBoR, a slightly different version), but they'll soon work with OpenBoR too ;)

If you got a mod that crashes somewhere in a later stage, just reburn it with the memory saving version of OpenBoR. It has long loading times, but it works with pretty much anything :)
Thanks a ton for your quick replies! I eagerly await the multi-BoR-burning tool...
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