{"id":53,"date":"2014-07-16T08:04:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dcroms.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2014-07-16T08:14:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:14:42","slug":"selfbooting-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Selfbooting games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dcroms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bin2boot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55\" src=\"http:\/\/dcroms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bin2boot.jpg\" alt=\"bin2boot\" width=\"260\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the early days of the Dreamcast scene every game was released in bin\/cue format.<br \/>\nYou had to use Nero or CDRWIN to burn it. Then you needed the Utopia Bootdisc to launch it.<\/p>\n<p>After a while the selfboot releases came out, this was a .cdi file and you needed Discjuggler to burn it (now use ImgBurn).<\/p>\n<p>So you have one of these old releases (most probably by Kalisto) and you want to convert it into a .cdi file? The solution is to find a program called Bin2Boot CDDA, this will ask for the .cue file, and then automatically build a .cdi file for you that is selfbootable.<\/p>\n<p>Bin2boot will only work on 32-bit systems, i&#8217;m still looking for a solution for 64-bit systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early days of the Dreamcast scene every game was released in bin\/cue format. You had to use Nero or CDRWIN to burn it. Then you needed the Utopia Bootdisc to launch it. After a while the selfboot releases came out, this was a .cdi file and you needed Discjuggler to burn it (now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcroms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}