Hello folks! New to Segahub ....

[Mindflux]

Hiya!

I just bought my first DreamCast off eBay with 18 games, 3 controllers and 2 VMU and 1 Memory Unit.

I'm excited to get it and I'm hoping the unit is old enough that I can play selfboot images.   I see some games aren't selfboot and require Utopia Booter to work, can those be converted to Self-Boot? If so can someone give me a link on how I might do that?

Thanks a bunch!

[willplayer]

Most games are self boot but yeah you can convert pretty much any dc game to self boot. So I'll tell you that much

[call_me_sir]

welcome, I didn't say hi before because it's somewhat complicated sometimes to make games self boot. There's a few tools you can download here at segahub for doing just that, but I've not had much luck myself.
And as a general rule the games that aren't already self booting images aren't because they wouldn't fit onto a standard cd-r otherwise. (self booting games are slightly larger)

[Elite Evil]

Welcome.

Yeah making games SB wasn't worth the hastle for me and I never learnt how to do it, I just used Utopia.

[Mindflux]

Well I've tried ExoBoot, Selfboot and Bootdreams on GigaWing - Kalisto and none of them yield a viable selfboot.

I haven't tried Echelons tutorial yet because that requires authoring directly to a CD-R.

[Elite Evil]

Try downloading the PAL version, I suspect that is self booting, although I haven't checked so there is a possibility it won't be.

http://segahub.org/index.php?topic=1431.0

[Mindflux]

Sorry for my ignorance. Will the PAL version play on an NTSC console?

[Elite Evil]

I think so, but I don't have one so again I aren't sure.

Sorry.

[Rep_Plus_^-^]

Sorry for my ignorance. Will the PAL version play on an NTSC console?

I have PAL Dreamcast and all games (burned of course) are working, as selfboots and as non-selfboots for utopia boot cd. Games on dc and ps2 are optimized in program way, so no need to worry about 50 Hz / 60Hz- every game'll be running the same on PAL or NTSC consoles .
But sat and ps are another tale... when you'll try to run ntsc game on pal console, you'll get the black strips and slower running speed (30s will be 25 s- big slowdown...).
Hmmm i've wanted to translate from my national language many tests and describtions for it, but it's little too hard for my english abilities , but i'll try to do it anyway...for a some time.
And about ps3- you can buy any game everywhere and run it on any console , hehe, it's amazing!! But if you want to play on ps2 games on it-  you must buy pal or ntsc copy of the game suitable for your system...but who's playing now in ps2 games on ps3:), maybe only I .
p.s. Hdmi cable's doing its job !!