utopia boot disk compatability

watermelon · Post by **watermelon** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:23 pm

somewhere i found info on what dreamcast versions allowed the utopia boot disk to work, but for some reason i cannot find it anymore.

does anyone know the info or where i could find it?

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:26 pm

Do you know when you bought it, because if I remember correctly its all DCs before October 2000.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:32 pm

when gamer2 was helpin me with this he said if it can play any burnt disc it can play games so just pop in a burnt CD to check

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:37 pm

Look at the label on the bottom of the DC. If there is a circled "1", then it can play burnt CDs. If there is a circled "2", then it cannot.

watermelon · Post by **watermelon** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:11 pm

luckily mine has a circled 1.

thanks for your help

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:26 pm

you can just make the disc self boot but it is hard work

Post by **Sparkfist** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:36 pm

See this is why I downloaded the utopia2nero program. It coverted the utopia cd image in to one nero can read and I have yet to have a problem. I have only burned 3 games, but that is still a good sign.

Also look on google for a way to make/add dummy files to the iso. Reason being if you have this dummy file at the start of the disc it saves the GD-rom from going bad. And if you dont know dummy files are files that have nothing but 0s in them.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:47 pm

nero is not a good progam to make DC game discs with

Alcohol 120% or Discjuggler are best

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:19 am

That's why he used Utopia2Nero first.

ninjai · Post by **ninjai** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:05 am

soundwave wrote:Look at the label on the bottom of the DC. If there is a circled "1", then it can play burnt CDs. If there is a circled "2", then it cannot.

Thats not true soundwave.

I have a Dreamcast with a circled 2 and it plays burnt disc's un moddified.
I run DC Linux on it.
Its a OCT 2000 Model.
Possibly the very early ones could do it, that or its just the case?

well it works none the less

EDIT:
Discjuggler is all I use, never had a problem

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:59 am

I thought the burnt disc problem was fixed December?

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:29 am

just burn all your dreamcast roms with a boot inducer.. (no swap and you can get some with editebe UI)

ninjai · Post by **ninjai** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:33 pm

vb_master wrote:I thought the burnt disc problem was fixed December?

Haha, I thought it was November

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:20 pm

I've been served. Oh well.

Post by **Triton** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:01 pm

for burning DC roms and stuff, including Disc juggler images and selfbooting images use alchahol120% because if i remember right DJ can only burn at 1x