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Chris - May 1, 2004

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  Chris May 1, 2004
Is it possible to make a boot disc where you would load it up, then swap for the import disc allowing it to be played on a sega cd such as a japanese game being played on a us system? Aka along the lines of how freeloader works.

 gameboy900 May 2, 2004
No. The SCD hard resets when the drive door is opened. And bypassing the switch wouldn't work because the new disc wouldn't have it's TOC read in.

 deadearth May 2, 2004
I thought Mask of Destiny was working on a boot disc? Was that before he discovered this?

 Arakon May 2, 2004
his bootdisk is a loader for small apps and files, I believe, which have to be on the same disk (or transferred via printerport? not sure).

 junker May 2, 2004
I have to say, if your in the game of wanting to play imports on your sega cd, then Arakon is the man to speak to. His multi region eeprom is absoloutly incredible, easy to fit and it beats a would be boot disc any day. I have recently recieved my eeprom from Arakon (complete with IC socket and 2 switches), and after studying his installation tutorial, I installed it into my Mega CD 1 (PAL), and before long I was playing burned imports. I'm not sure if anyone has had problems with the region converting software (conv scd, scdconv), but when I used to use it to change regions then burn a game, most of my backups wouldnt work on the real system (although they would on Gens). Therefore the only alternative was to install Arakons chip. To cut a long story short - Arakon kicks ass!

 M3d10n May 4, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by gameboy900@May 2, 2004 @ 05:02 AM



 No. The SCD hard resets when the drive door is opened. And bypassing the switch wouldn't work because the new disc wouldn't have it's TOC read in.


It resets? Are you sure? I used to fuck up with my SCD all the time, by removing the CD while playing, in Sonic CD, as example, and putting an audio CD instead. Then I could play the whole level while listeting to track 1 from the audio CD.

Of course I needed to switch back to the game disc before time-traveling or completing a level, or it would hang on teh load screen. I did that with Ecco 2 too, and the CDX I bought acts the same.

 deadearth May 4, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by M3d10n+May 4, 2004 @ 10:15 PM-->
QUOTE(M3d10n @ May 4, 2004 @ 10:15 PM)