Booting from CD Drive?

neoshredder · April 4th, 2007

Hello, I'm having a problem with booting my Shenmue disks from my CD/DVD Drive on the NullDC emulator. I select the SCSI (typo?) plugin from the plugins windows, and select the Drive with my Shenmue disk in.

On the 'Normal Boot', it treats the disk like an audio CD in the Dreamcast GUI- with the 'This is a Dreamcast disk' audio message.

So I tried the "Hle GDROM Boot" option. It seems to load something, and the 'dos' window showing the reading of various files....However, it cannot seem to find a certain '1st_Boot.bin' file, so tries another 'method'...

Anyway it gets to this point, then it seems to be frozen:

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/3569/untitledze1.png

Can anyone help?!

My system specs:

NVidia Geforce 7300 LE (512mb)
AMD 64 3200+
1Gb Memory

Any other relevant specs required?

Thanks!

PsyMan · April 4th, 2007

Seems like your discs are not bootable, or you're simply using original GD-ROM discs...

neoshredder · April 4th, 2007

I am using originals....Damn, lol.

Mark30001 · April 4th, 2007

ROFL, yeah, GD-ROMs are not readable on regular CD-ROM drives.

S.SubZero · April 4th, 2007

Maybe in the next release the author should consider making the readme.txt show up automatically on every run. In 72 point font. Bold. And the user should be required to re-type it word for word to verify they read it at all.

brandogg · April 5th, 2007

It's common knowledge. It's like trying to play a DVD in a CD player.

halomasta · April 5th, 2007

Find the game images online. Then burn them with alchohol 120%. Eazy as that.

OminaeYu · April 5th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by halomasta

Find the game images online. Then burn them with alchohol 120%. Eazy as that.

That's a bad halomasta

Everyone knows that each time you download warez god kills a kitten! So please think of the poor and defenseless kittens!

halomasta · April 5th, 2007

O_O? Aren't dreamcast games abandoned ware yet?

OminaeYu · April 5th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by halomasta

O_O? Aren't dreamcast games abandoned ware yet?

No

Its also against the rules to talk about downloading or hinting at downloading iso's of games as stated here and here

halomasta · April 5th, 2007

I said find lol

OminaeYu · April 5th, 2007

Semantics this Semantics that

April 4th, 2007	#1 (permalink)
neoshredder Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England Posts: 2	Booting from CD Drive? Hello, I'm having a problem with booting my Shenmue disks from my CD/DVD Drive on the NullDC emulator. I select the SCSI (typo?) plugin from the plugins windows, and select the Drive with my Shenmue disk in. On the 'Normal Boot', it treats the disk like an audio CD in the Dreamcast GUI- with the 'This is a Dreamcast disk' audio message. So I tried the "Hle GDROM Boot" option. It seems to load something, and the 'dos' window showing the reading of various files....However, it cannot seem to find a certain '1st_Boot.bin' file, so tries another 'method'... Anyway it gets to this point, then it seems to be frozen: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/3569/untitledze1.png Can anyone help?! My system specs: NVidia Geforce 7300 LE (512mb) AMD 64 3200+ 1Gb Memory Any other relevant specs required? Thanks!

April 4th, 2007	#2 (permalink)
PsyMan Just another wacko ;) Join Date: May 2004 Location: In a weird room :\ Posts: 427	Seems like your discs are not bootable, or you're simply using original GD-ROM discs... __________________ I'm not insane. YOU are insane... You are all insane!

April 4th, 2007	#4 (permalink)
Mark30001 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: N/A Posts: 6	ROFL, yeah, GD-ROMs are not readable on regular CD-ROM drives. __________________ SEGAKatana.com \| Dev Hardware \| Dev Software \| Site Projects \| Proto GD-ROMs \| Alphas-Betas \| Multimedia \| Forums

April 4th, 2007	#5 (permalink)
S.SubZero XP64 User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Bay Area, California Posts: 987	Maybe in the next release the author should consider making the readme.txt show up automatically on every run. In 72 point font. Bold. And the user should be required to re-type it word for word to verify they read it at all. __________________ -SSZ

April 5th, 2007	#12 (permalink)
OminaeYu Spriggan Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Currently stationed at ARCAM's Japanese Branch Posts: 289	Semantics this Semantics that __________________ \| Da Bin \| Da Rage \| Da Steam \| \| CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 (G0) @ 3GHz \| GPU: MSI 8800GT 512MB \| Memory: 4GB (2x 2GB) G-Skill DDR2 @ 1000MHz Dual Channel \| Monitor: Viewsonic Q20WB 20" LCD @ 1680x1050 \|

April 4th, 2007	#3 (permalink)
neoshredder Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England Posts: 2	I am using originals....Damn, lol.

April 5th, 2007	#6 (permalink)
brandogg Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: FL Posts: 5	It's common knowledge. It's like trying to play a DVD in a CD player.

April 5th, 2007	#7 (permalink)
halomasta Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK Posts: 66	Find the game images online. Then burn them with alchohol 120%. Eazy as that.

April 5th, 2007	#9 (permalink)
halomasta Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK Posts: 66	O_O? Aren't dreamcast games abandoned ware yet?

April 5th, 2007	#11 (permalink)
halomasta Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK Posts: 66	I said find lol

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