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DreamShell 4.0 RC 4
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  opened by paleface at 22:00:26 06/16/23  
  last modified by paleface at 12:23:17 03/05/24  
  paleface [sys=DC; cat=Utility; reg=EUR]
           
Russian-made utility for Dreamcast; I used it to dump GD-ROM games and VMU saves from my Japanese DC to play using Flycast in Windows 11; full notes under Flycast: see entry 1615.
 
  paleface 22:05:55 06/16/23
           
There are two main components: the DreamShell Boot Loader, which, when burned to CDR, enables that CDR to boot in the DC (rejoin free, it seems; worked in my Japanese DC) and look for the DreamShell program either in RAM, on CD, or on an SD card; if it finds it, DreamShell boots.
 
DreamShell itself is a Windows-looking GUI with modules for doing handy things, like the aforementioned GD-ROM dumping, and VMU file dumping, as well as general file handling, load ISOs (didn't try), flashing the DC BIOS to other rejoins (didn't try) and other things.
 
  paleface 20:51:03 06/17/23
           

 
(I kept calling the DC SD Adapter V2 "Card Reader" instead of "Adapter." : P)
 
  paleface 20:35:49 06/23/23
           

 
Dumping my Japanese Dreamcast's BIOS with DreamShell 4.0's "BIOS Flasher" module and a DC SD Adapter V2, importing it into Windows, and finding this fixed the problem with music not playing during Guilty Gear X battles in Flycast.
 
  paleface 17:17:11 02/06/24
           
Ripped DC ISOs can be compressed by CHDMAN (see entry 1742)--and Flycast can load the CHDs, whereas it can't load zipped ROMs.
    
 
references:
· CHDMAN (PC)
· DC SD Adapter V2 (DC)
· Flycast (PC)
· VMU Explorer (PC)

 
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