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MHasegawa

03-11-2007, 12:13 PM

Ive heard you can burn roms for nes/snes/genesis etc. to a cd-r for play on dreamcast, has anyone else done this or know where i can find info on how its done?  I have a lot of roms and emulators on my drive and want to get rid of them since its really annoying playing these games on a computer. any help would be appreciated

Tenbatsuzen

03-11-2007, 03:42 PM

crap, it's been a while since I did this. You need a specific program to do the burning to create the data blocks the DC reads.   Let me do some research and I'll get back to you.  You may, in the meanwhile, want to throw +dreamcast +emu +rom +genesis +homebrew into google and see what pops up.

boeman

03-11-2007, 04:30 PM

"How to burn a ROM disc using Nero v5.5" 1) Open Nero and the "New Compilation" windows should pop up. There are quite a few things you need to make sure are set up before going any further. 2) There are 7 tabs you can look under, and here's what needs to be set in each one:Info: - Nothing needs to be changed.Multisession: - If you are just starting a ROM disc, click "Start Multisession disk". If you are adding more ROMs to the disc, click "Continue Multisession disk".ISO: - If you want to be able to save, click "ISO Level 1". If you want full filename support (without being able to save), click "ISO Level 2". Click "Mode 2 / XA" for format, click "ISO 9660" for the character set, make sure "Joliet" is checked, and ONLY check the Relax ISO Restrictions if you are burning under ISO Level 2.Label: - Nothing needs to be changed.Dates: - Nothing needs to be changed.Misc: - Nothing needs to be changed.Burn: - Check "Determine Max Speed", "Simulation", and "Write". DO NOT check "Finalize CD" unless you NEVER want to add any other ROMs to the disc.3) With all that finished (you usually only have to set this up the first time... the program should save your settings for the future), click the "new" button at the top right of the "New Compilation" window. This should open 2 explorer windows (the one on the left should say "ISO1" and the one on the right should say "File Browser".4) In the "ISO1" window, right click below "New" and click "Create Folder". Name this folder GAMES (case sensitive). In the "File Browser" window, find all your ROMs and select them all. Drag them over to the "ISO1" window and into the GAMES directory.5) When all this is done, go up to the file menu, click "File", then "Write CD". A fimiliar window should pop up. Make sure you have a CD-R in the drive and then click "Write" (it's at the top right of the window, where the "New" button used to be.

furie

03-11-2007, 05:53 PM

for the second time today:
when did i arrive in 1994?

zentraed

03-12-2007, 07:48 PM

MHasegawa wrote: Ive heard you can burn roms for nes/snes/genesis etc. to a cd-r for play on dreamcast, has anyone else done this or know where i can find info on how its done? I have a lot of roms and emulators on my drive and want to get rid of them since its really annoying playing these games on a computer. any help would be appreciated  You'll need a few things. You need a dreamcast boot disk, an emulator to play the games for whatever systems you're interested in, and then you'll need the roms.without the quotes, google "dreamcast bootcd" and "dreamcast <console> emulator" (subsitute snes, genesis, etc. for <console>). this <a href="http://mc.pp.se/dc/dreamsnes/">website</a> should get you up and running for snes games.