How does one scramble a DC Bin file?

radish28 · Post by **radish28** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 3:04 pm

just wondering since it never seemed to be mentioned...

Sanchez · Post by **Sanchez** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 3:45 pm

There's a program available called scramble on Marcus' website that will scramble the files appropriately.

radish28 · Post by **radish28** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 5:50 pm

hmm, ok, last time i was there it was just a source

Oz · Post by Oz » Mon Feb 18, 2002 6:09 pm

http://www.hangar-eleven.de/en/devdc-selfboot.html <- excellent site for learning to cross-compile
http://dev.dcemulation.org/devtools-misc.htm

ps2insight · Post by **ps2insight** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 7:09 pm

I agree how in the crap do you do it.

Do you have to have a DC to PC Coders cable.

I don't see why you would need one. I am not to brilliant when it comes to programming.

This is what I get you take the .bin file convert it to .txt

Then what do I do.

I will pay for a good tutorial well maybe not I am poor. Anyway any help other than what was posted here would be greatly appreciated. If you need any CD Covers or hardware problems I can do that.

radish28 · Post by **radish28** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 8:45 pm

u know what? on marcus' site theres scramble.c and i know how to cross-complile. but what do i complile it with windos based or sh4 complier? no one ever mentions that.

ps2insight · Post by **ps2insight** » Mon Feb 18, 2002 9:31 pm

Hey radish28 go to the DCfactory website and download the mrtool you can can extract the ip.bin to a .mr then to a .bmp change it and just do the revers. Hopefully you understood what I said. Well good luck I have to get some more CD-R to try this out. All I been making are coasters

Sanchez · Post by **Sanchez** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 8:14 am

Guys....

Scramble is a utility that is compiled and run on the pc. Typically it's for linux, although I think it will work in Cygwin as well. After you've made your bin file, you run "scramble file.bin" and you now have a scrambled, bootable binary....

Oz · Post by Oz » Tue Feb 19, 2002 4:54 pm

I should have been more clear. The two links I posted above have precompiled versions of marcus's scramble available for download.

http://dev.dcemulation.org/files/devtoo ... cscram.zip Dos version (it does not need cygwin).
To scramble a file type "dcscram inputfilename outputfilename".
To unscramble a file type "dcscram -d inputfilename outputfilename".

http://www.hangar-eleven.de/bin/console ... cygwin.zip Linux version (it needs the cygwin dlls to run in windows).
To scramble a file type "scramble inputfilename outputfilename".
To unscramble a file type "scramble -d inputfilename outputfilename".

You do not need a cross-compiler to use these programs. Cross-compilers are only usefull if you are interested in developing your own dreamcast programs, and if you are http://www.hangar-eleven.de/en/devdc-index.html is a good place to start.

ps2insight · Post by **ps2insight** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 5:06 pm

Maybe I am lost or talking about something totally different. I am trying to figure out on how to do what Proveux does.

I will post what I am looking to do. I have downloaded everything from Marcuses site and I even used the one on DCFactorys web site which was a lot easier. Anyway if we are talking about the same thing I will give up. Like I said I suck at programming. Just better with graphics and hardware. Anyway LMK

radish28 · Post by **radish28** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 5:13 pm

heh, well thats all i wanted to know. thanks.