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The .cdi files will need to be converted to .iso before chding. Can't find windows binaries for cdi2iso anymore..

After a dozen dead ends, and nearly using up all my o3 queries I've decided to cut bait, and just leave the .cdi files uncompressed. Crusty old CD burner formats are still painful!

Funny thing is I *know* I used cdi2iso back when I owned a #Dreamcast to burn boot disks on my iMac.

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The upside of all this reconversion work is that I discovered that my 1G1R redump collection actually contained a lot of games in .gdi or .cdi format which I hadn't correctly converted to .chd! Mostly prototypes "Ecco II Sentinels of the Universe" but also some Japanese #games like "Napple Tale"!!

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I'm lucky to have #ChatGPT for this; it found the issue with redumped CHDs, then found a node script that can convert my bin+cues to .gdi, then it wrote me a .bat that can loop through all my #Dreamcast ROMs and convert each one to a .gdi file with a unique name. If I had ever figured that out on my own it would have taken days of work!

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I bought the RP5 because my Anbernic RG Arc isn't powerful enough for #Dreamcast, #GameCube and #PSP, but I can't really fit all the games I want for those systems on my 512GB sdCard so I bought a 1tb one. That ought to be big enough to fit all the #PS1 and #N64 games too! I might throw my #SegaSaturn games on there too just to be a completionist.

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@ohno_itsnate +1

I'm confident @GrapheneOS will do so as soon as they can. It's just that spilling the beans isn't liked in business (See #SEGA literally ditching #3dfx when they were leaking details re: the #Dreamcast), so confidentiality until a predetermined joint announcement is the norm in #B2B...

  • A bit like embargoes for #TechReviewers, where violators just get on everyone's shitlist and not given prerelease/testing.devices before retail launch.

Sega fans! Here is a playlist of PeerTube videos covering classic Sega games and consoles:

:sonic: fedi.video/w/p/bscGc7iSmbd8qky

- Watching on a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist

- Watching on a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen

- Watching embedded: Click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in playlist

cc @retrogaming

Been drawing icons for my #dreamcast #tutorial the last few days. These were all #drawn from blank canvas in #Gimp, using the line tool and gradient fill buckets and the selection tool, along with the occasional rotate and transform tool. Liberal use of hue-chroma adjusting. Use the render grid function to create a solid color to be able to select to cut things into pixelated tris.

They are, in order: SH4, Holly, Tile Accelerator, RAM, FPU, Maple, ACIA, PVR Core, VRAM, and Store Queue icons.

Any #dreamcast experts? Have a VA1 Dreamcast that is artifacting like hell on crazy taxi and straight up crashes on mars matrix. Works fine with THPS2, soul calibur, and house of the dead 2 though. Still has the problem with an ODE.. Dead/dying VRAM/GPU?