Yes yes, i know this may be a stupid question.

[Posty]

Ok, well. I know that a lot of the games are not self-booting. So i was just wondering, is there a way to make it self-booting? I dont know of any apps or stuff, so could some1 point me in the direction of a good app and a tutorial on how to make it self-boot?

[Cid Highwind]

There's always the Utopia boot disc.

Hint: Try to specify your thread by not naming it: Yes yes, i know this may be a stupid question.
Instead name it: How to make a game self-bootable??
This might prevent you from getting stupid answers in return.

Greetz,
Cid H.

[Posty]

Well, with Chanka. I have .cdi and stuff, and i cant burn them (no cd-rs atm). So i cant use the boot disc. And ill change the topic :P

[Cid Highwind]

I never tried this:

1. Use a virtual CD rom Drive
2. Run Chankast with an Utopia boot disc image mounted in it.
3. Boot Utopia in Chankast
4. When it asks for the game: Dismount Utopia, and mount the game disc
5. Hit a button.

Remember, I haven't tried this, it's only a theorie thought up at 3.16am ;)

[tookers]

Yep, just be sure you select the virtual drive letter in the configuredrive screen (in chankast)

[Exoskeletor_]

nope cid...utopia stuck after loading the game...

[TerrorShocked]

You have to burn them if I remember correctly. I tried to run SmashDC using alcohol 120% and it did now work (It gave me an IO error). After I burned it it loaded up and hanged at a black screen. We only support how to selfboot homebrew games, which you can find a tool at http://www.ngemu.com/dc/dcgenerator.php?action=tools .... otherwise don't ask.

[Posty]

Ok, thankyou. I needed to test some homebrew games/apps to see if they worked :D But is there a way to enable to VGA on some games? Because after i ripped Soul Calibur, in Chanka it said it didnt have the VGA, yet ive seen ppl run it. Is there soemway to enable it?

[TerrorShocked]

No, I am afraid that if it says that then it is not supported. I tried to run King Of Fighters 99 and 98 and it had the same error..... go figure.

[Posty]

Hmmmm, then how the hell do people have soul calibur running on Chanka? id really like to know why some people can run it while other people cant.

[[vEX]]

The people who can run it (me included) have the VGA flag set while the others haven't.

[Exoskeletor_]

what is the vga flag set and how i can have it?

[[vEX]]

Well, they say you can just hex edit your ISO (if you're running from a CD you have to create it first) and search for JUE. You will see a bunch of hexadecimal characters after it, something like this: 799B10. I copied that from my working Soul Calibur ISO so I guess you should get it working of you make it the same.

[Exoskeletor_]

i have done bin2boot in one of my homebrew game and from 670 the size goes to 750 and i can burn it on a cd :)
what i have to do guys?

vex when i found that 799B10 number what i have to do with it?

[Samor]

I tested some, and figured out that games that do not support a DC VGAbox won't work on chankast either;
in other words: chanka is running as if a VGA box is being used. You won't see any 50/60hz options in games either.

[Rayden-X]

Any games that give you the AV cable error you need to simply edit the bootstrap of your iso to enable VGA box support. It's not hard. Just do a search with google and you'll figure it out.

Same for making things self booting, just do a search or read a homebrew site like dcemulation.com on how to make a emulator self booting, but instead do it with your backup or whatever the hell it is.