Sega Dreamcast Region Free Bios Download

So I figured this should be posted as it is an amazing BIOS MOD for an amazing system. Comes with or without devkit intro. It is really useful for Dreamcast ODE users as it allows images to have any LBA of the 1ST_READ.BIN (aka the Dreamcast EXE) to make games much smaller, see README below. Also disabled the VGA check so no more need to force VGA for games that work normally but only with the 'VGA trick' and has all the normal mods like region free. A newer BIOS is also on the way.

Till then I hope you enjoy as much as I did flashing ym Dreamcast this evening. Note you will need a BIOS replacement as the stock has read-only access. ____________________________________________________ Dreamcast Custom bootROM v1.030 DevKit by japanese_cake ____________________________________________________ [+] What is that?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is a modified BIOS for the SEGA Dreamcast. It is based on the retail BIOS v1.01d and has the devkit intro. Kudos to Link83 for providing the 1st retail BIOS using the devkit intro (AFAIK).

Sega Dreamcast bios set specially for use with Chankast, the Sega Dreamcast Emulator for Windows Operating Systems This includes:- dc_bios.bin - Start up GUI dc_flash.bin - Stores Date, Time & Language settings (once your details are set make that file read only) All 3 regions are included; use the one that matches with the region of your game. Cambridge silicon radio bluetooth driver windows 7 x64 service.

I just reused some parts of his BIOS to inject the devkit intro into mine. [+] What does it do? Wideview serial keygen torrent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This version has the following features: - Region free: boot GD/CD from any regions. The J/U/E flags as well as the area protection slots that reside in the AIP (A.K.A. IP.BIN) are now simply ignored. - No VGA flag check: no matter if the game supports the VGA output, it boots. There are games that supports the VGA cable but for some reason the VGA flag in the AIP is not set.

The use of a boot CD thus was needed. Now, you will never get the annoying 'This game doesn't support the AV cable that is currently connected to the main console' anymore. - Bootfile LBA check: allow a game to boot even if its bootfile, more commonly called 1ST_READ.BIN, is not located on the outer part of the disc. I don't know whether it can be of any use for people using discs. However, for the lucky owners of ODDE for Dreamcast, you can re-build games' track 3 without any padding.

For instance, with 'Dreamkey 3.0 v1.001 (2001)(Sega)(PAL)(M8)[!]', the track03.bin is ~1.10GB. Re-building the track (track03.iso) using the following command: mkisofs -C 0,45000 -V DREAMKEY3 -G IP.BIN -l -o track03.iso data will made the track03.iso way smaller (only ~93MB). Homebrews can also be rebuilt to GDI so that the 0GDTEXT.PVR texture shows up in the audio player - Display bootROM version: the current version of the bootROM appears in the up-right corner of the screen. [+] Does it work on the real hardware?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes, sure, as long as the Dreamcast has a BIOS mod and Dreamshell to flash the alternate BIOS chip. [+] Why using '1.030' as the version number? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The v1.004, v1.01d and v1.022 are the only version numbers known for the official SEGA bootROM (BIOS). Thus I decided that my custom versions will use version numbers starting from v1.30.

I recently ordered a Japanese Sega Dreamcast (I wasn't really looking to buy one, but I found a boxed one on eBay for cheap in really good condition, so I thought why not?), and naturally, since it's a Japanese model, I'm going to need to replace the BIOS with a region free one so I can play American games on it. I was reading on mmmonkey's site that there's a region free BIOS which you can either piggy-back on the original BIOS, or replace entirely if I'm reading this correctly. I'd probably do the latter, since I don't see any reason why I would want to go back to the region-locked BIOS, and the 'replace' mod is simpler and neater.