Sega Dreamcast GDEmu Upgrade plus more

I am making a record for upgrading my Dreamcast with a ODE GDEmu even though the disk laser still worked fine after so many years.

The ODE installation was easy, the mounting kit is decent but over all great

I will detail how to create the SD storage, tools I am using and a few other nice add ons followed by some photos.

I will update this post soon.

Small note:  

I have been searching online for hours on how or what would be the correct way to swap multi disk games.

I will find out myself and will update with clear details from button combos, which button, SD card storage file structure and whatever else I find out.

 

Sony PlayStation (PS1) MODE Mod Info

Recently bought a custom PS1 (from stoneagegamer.com) with many mods like a terraonion mode ode, shiny mini hdmi etc etc.
Just adding some notes and will occasionally add update.

In-Game Reset Kit for PlayStation – PyroESP
The button combination for the controllers is:
L2 + R2 + SELECT + START, for a short reset pulse ( Restart to Game)
L2 + R2 + SELECT + CROSS (X button), for a long reset pulse (Reset to MODE, Xstation Menu)
The lightgun combination is:
A + B + TRIGGER, for a long reset pulse

Small update:  I’m working on building a game collection on a hard drive to get that out the way so that I don’t have to keep opening up the console to install or change things around.

After that I will install a SD card mount kit and update from the card without opening up the console.

Will update soon.

Sega Saturn conversion file formats

This is just a quick note for myself for 2025 about converting bin/cue to a usable file format for Saturn Phoebe sd loading.

CDI doesn’t seem to convert easy from bin except with the outdated discjuggler.

Magiciso sucks.

UltraISO seems to work fine if you convert .cue to .CCD (with .img and .sub).
Files tested and works with Yaba sanshiro.
Will test with Saturn Phoebe and Rhea.
Go to Tools, Convert… choose .cue file and output directory:
CloneCD (IMG/CCD/SUB)

For multiple .bin files: Keep the .cue file under the same name as the first .bin file or primary game .bin file.

Update:
I can’t get UltraISO to accept or convert multiple .BIN files so I used binmerge with binmerge-gui to merge the .BIN files to one .BIN and new .CUE.
Convert in UltraISO to CCD and it works in beetleSaturn emu.
Will test in real Saturn soon.

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