Dreamcast CDI Burner v1.0.7 - Burn Bootable Dreamcast CD-Rs On PPC AND Intel Macs!

[alex_free]

This is the first of my PowerPC Mac apps that I've ported to Intel. I have made a release that works on Snow Leopard to Mojave (Intel 32 bit). This app allows you to burn bootable Sega Dreamcast software in the proprietary Windows only CDI file format on a Mac.

Website
MacintoshGarden
GitHub

 

[velocityg4]

Pretty cool. Too bad I don't have a Dreamcast anymore to try this with. Would love to play some Soul Calibur and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing again.

 

[TheShortTimer]

@alex_free, allow me to be the first poster to express my thanks and confirm that your handiwork is faultless.

Following the instructions to the letter on my 2011 13" MBP under El Capitan, a CD-R was burned for me at 8x on the internal optical drive.

I placed the burned disc into the Dreamcast and it was time for the moment of the truth.

Hooray! It has reached the boot screen: so far, so good.

The emulator has loaded.

Let's pick a game and have some fun.

This emulator works perfectly! I no longer need to seek out a Sega Master System and the cartridges at inflated prices (due to retro greed) because I can play the titles on the DC for zilch and with the advantage of much greater flexibility and options. I'm now in a situation where the sky is the limit in terms of what I can explore on the homebrew scene and retail DC games because creating a bootable CD-R from a CDI file is an automated cakewalk.

Alex, thanks so much for your continued efforts on countless fronts that have brought us so many boons in the Mac world. Just a week ago I had no idea that I'd end up owning a Dreamcast and now look at what's available to me without having to mess around with one of my Win boxes.

Astounding!

 

[alex_free]

@alex_free, allow me to be the first poster to express my thanks and confirm that your handiwork is faultless.

Following the instructions to the letter on my 2011 13" MBP under El Capitan, a CD-R was burned for me at 8x on the internal optical drive.

I placed the burned disc into the Dreamcast and it was time for the moment of the truth.

Hooray! It has reached the boot screen: so far, so good.

The emulator has loaded.

Let's pick a game and have some fun.

This emulator works perfectly! I no longer need to seek out a Sega Master System and the cartridges at inflated prices (due to retro greed) because I can play the titles on the DC for zilch and with the advantage of much greater flexibility and options. I'm now in a situation where the sky is the limit in terms of what I can explore on the homebrew scene and retail DC games because creating a bootable CD-R from a CDI file is an automated cakewalk.

Alex, thanks so much for your continued efforts on countless fronts that have brought us so many boons in the Mac world. Just a week ago I had no idea that I'd end up owning a Dreamcast and now look at what's available to me without having to mess around with one of my Win boxes.

Astounding!

Thank you!

Seeing an unmodified Dreamcast boot a burned CD-R for the first time is something special, the Warez group that came up with the exploit are legendary. 100 CD-R spindles can be found for $30 or cheaper in retail stores nowadays

 

[TheShortTimer]

100 CD-R spindles can be found for $30 or cheaper in retail stores nowadays

So I've seen - but in UK prices. I've purchased a spindle and burned close to a dozen CD-R's so far.

There's been a 100% success rate and the Dreamcast has no issue with reading discs burned at 8x. This is great stuff.

 

[swamprock]

This is the first of my PowerPC Mac apps that I've ported to Intel. I have made a release that works on Snow Leopard to Mojave (Intel 32 bit). This app allows you to burn bootable Sega Dreamcast software in the proprietary Windows only CDI file format on a Mac.

Website
MacintoshGarden
GitHub

Wow. I could never get that thing to work under PowerPC at all, no matter how many times I tried. My Dreamcast development system wound up being a TiBook running W2k under VPC, and I used all of the Windows tools available at the time to burn the CDs (via USB. Internal didn't work through VPC). Janky, but I wrote a few games for the system, and ported quite a few more. Nowadays I have a GDEMU, so my Dreamcast doesn't even have a GDROM drive anymore...

EDIT: Added a photo from 2012 of my Dreamcast development "kit"...