4/19/2021 0 Comments Dreamcast Bootstrap Ip.Bin
Not to mention that the game has been released in 5 versions just for the EURO region, the structure of the code gave me a hard time.Hi there, Here is just one of the many small things I want to share.I have many 90 done projects and it has become quite difficult to find time to finish them.
So here is my first attempt since a long time to release something new Some months ago I was digging in that game binary, almost out of curiosity. I remember reading somewhere online that the PSX and PC versions had debug menus. With no surprises, I found out that the debug strings where also present in the Dreamcast retail version, meaning there is a change to re-activate the debug features. Many features are like cheats but some others make the game funny to play with: you can start a new game and right away equip Raziel with the Soul Reaver sword or enable Raziel capabilities like passing through barriers, etc.:-) Note that this patch is for the PAL-UK version of Soul Reaver on Dreamcast. If you want a patch for the other versions (like PAL-FR, PAL-ES, or even NTSC), send me a link to a gdi dump. Following this unfortunate decision, many game studios decided to cancel their projects on that platform. I suppose they made the choice of stopping the bleeding rather than taking any more risks and releasing their Dreamcast games. I remember I was really disappointed to see all those promising games being canned. ![]() More than 15 years after this tragic end of Sega as hardware and console maker, the Dreamcast community remains strong, fans keep faith and share theirs gems: Propeller Arena, Half-life and Geist Force to name but a few. Last week, I received a message from Kuririn84 who is an enthousiastic owner of a Katana devkit. On the hard drive, he found files of an unreleased game, Millenium Racer: Y2K Fighters. I think only few people knew about this game and even fewer knew about its portage to the Dreamcast. I took those files and worked on giving this game a second chance. After digging a bit in code to see why it was failing to boot and doing few file manipulations, the game started to show its guts and to be honest, it rocks It is not a demo or an alpha version that would be just frustrating, it is a complete version Cool, right Another brand new game The WiiU is far from being that good:p To distribute the game, I built a GDI image, region-free with VGA support (was already there) and forced PAL-60hz mode for PAL console. For the sake of digital preservation, I kept original files datetime, ISO9660 volume name, date, etc. Dreamcast Bootstrap Ip.Bin Zip And SorryI hope you will like it and again thank you Kuririn84 for sharing your findings;) Download: Millenium Racer - Y2K Fighters v1.000 (2001)(Creat Studio)(Region Free)(devkit).zip And sorry if I havent replied yet to some of you. ![]() To summarize my work, I decided to create this time some gif-like images, I find it more entertaining. I hope it will help understanding the different steps I have been through. I only kept the most relevant ones, mostly because I do not remember all the stages. Whereas in some games modifying few bytes is enough to enable VGA output, here it was a different story.
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