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AmyGrrl - Mar 1, 2004

		AmyGrrl		Mar 1, 2004
			How to I copy the boot sector off one of my orginal saturn discs and patch to an saturn ISO to make it boot correctly. I remembered I used CRWIN to copy the 32 bytes off the disc but ferget excatly how to do it.. then patch the ISO file I have with it... thanks for any info...

		Taelon		Mar 1, 2004
			It's 32,768 bytes, or 16 sectors... I do this with ISObuster but the process will be the same in CDRWin: Extract sectors 0 to 15 of the CD's data track to a file as cooked data, i.e. at 2048 bytes/sector (not 2352). As for "pasting" that file back into the boot sectors of a new .iso file, I can only think of a little DOS tool called ipins.exe which is actually part of Echelon's selfboot kit for Dreamcast games. Otherwise, cutting the first 32,768 bytes off the .iso file, then joining your boot sector file and the truncated .iso into a new .iso should do it...

		antime		Mar 1, 2004
			CDMage can import sectors. I don't really understand what you're trying to do, though. Since the IP can (and usually does) contain game-specific code you can't blindly transplant it from one game to another. If you want to change the region code there are easier ways.

		AmyGrrl		Mar 1, 2004
			You rock.. thanks... game boots fine now... =^_^=

		IBarracudaI		Mar 1, 2004
			Maybe the burned cd had a corrupted 1st sector... <_<