Having trouble making *anything* boot

[Ghaleon]

Well, I just replaced my dreamcast that was stolen from me. I bought a used one from somebody with a May 2000 manufacture date. It won't boot any of my old burnt discs, so I'm assuming that they sent it in for repair at some point and they updated the BIOS on the DC to the non-mil CD format. I have been hearing that there is a workaround for this, but I'm having trouble finding either a comprehensive guide to this, or one that doesn't use tools that I can't find (such as ISOFix).

I also have some games I had backed up previously(for fear one of my roomates might steal from me), and those won't work either. If it's illegal to request finding help for these here, no problem, but I still would like help finding a way to run all my DCEmu apps. Several of them are the non-selfboot editions, so if I could get a working boot disc, I could easly run my nesterdc, as well as dreamsnes and others. Thank you in advance for any help anyone can offer (other than find a new DC :P)

[OneThirty8]

If it's got the newer BIOS that disabled Mil-CD capability, I'm afraid you're SOL.

And, asking for help with backups isn't something we allow here. (so now you know.)

[Ghaleon]

So there's no truth to a work-around method?

[OneThirty8]

No, unfortunately.

[Ghaleon]

Well, using Disc Juggler, the best I've been able to accomplish so far is getting it to freeze on the Dreamcast screen(well, just keep trying to load, without loading anything).... Don't know to take this as a sign for hope, or just try to get a new one...