{"id":43,"date":"2016-06-20T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/2016\/06\/20\/release-custom-bootrom-v1-032\/"},"modified":"2020-04-18T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T12:16:47","slug":"release-custom-bootrom-v1-032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/2016\/06\/20\/release-custom-bootrom-v1-032\/","title":{"rendered":"Release: Custom BootROM v1.032"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of months ago, I thought I was ready to release my new bios. Unfortunately for me, at that time, I was really busy and my bios mod started to show weaknesses. As I don&#8217;t have the right soldering equipment, I had to work with my Dreamcast and all its little faulty contacts. I worked hard to get the reset exception working correctly&#8230; actually way more than I should have! The reason? On my Dreamcast, the faulty contacts I mentioned were crashing the Dreamcast upon reset! I took me quite some time to figure this out :\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was quite unfortunate for me but at least it gave me the opportunity to have a glance at other things. I explored a bit how the region protections games like San Franciso RUSH 2049 have and came up with a solution that fake the system region. Later I decided to force the video signal to output a 60hz refresh rate (more details in the readme file) and so on and so forth. So now the bios I&#8217;m releasing today is way more advance than I planned initially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the holidays coming, I don&#8217;t want to hold it any longer. However I prefer to warn you beforehand: even if I tested most of the features, I can not guarantee that everything is 100% working (and constructive feedback is welcome). I am sorry for this but no worries, the bios does not contain some kind of bad-ass code that could destroy your Dreamcast \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried my best to add new features, improve compatibility with some naughty retail games. But it comes with some drawbacks: no cheat disc until I release one compatible with my bios, some independent games like Pier Solar do not work anymore (again, more details in the readme file). I will address those problems later. For those using GD-Emu, you are probably also using the GD-Menu app Neuroacid created. Well here again it doesn&#8217;t work anymore, but soon a compatible will come to light! By the way, kudos to neuroacid who saved me time and helped me a lot for the testing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, that&#8217;s enough talking for now, let&#8217;s check the features out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>bootROM v1.032 Retail &amp; DevKit Changelog:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In BIOS menu to update the following bootROM settings (Boot animation color, SEGA license screen skip, MIL-CD\/backup direct-boot, Dreamcast main menu scenery perspective and color)<\/li><li>Skip the &#8220;set date\/time&#8221; screen<\/li><li>BIOS video mode forced to 60hz<\/li><li>Auto region patching for GD-ROMs<\/li><li>Internal changes for future updates<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please read the readme file to see the complete list of features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5457.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5457.png?resize=580%2C435&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"176\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5457.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/img_5457-png\/\" class=\"wp-image-176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5457.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5457.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5458.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5458.png?resize=580%2C435&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"177\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5458.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/img_5458-png\/\" class=\"wp-image-177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5458.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5458.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5459.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5459.png?resize=580%2C435&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"179\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5459.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/img_5459-png\/\" class=\"wp-image-179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5459.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5459.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5460.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5460.png?resize=580%2C435&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"178\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5460.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/img_5460-png\/\" class=\"wp-image-178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5460.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_5460.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Download link (contains retail &amp; devkit boot anim): <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/download\/71bvzm5e1bnzcb5\/jc-bootROM-v1.032.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jc-bootROM-v1.032.zip<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>jc-bootROM-retail-v1.032.bin SHA1: <b>ec42875983f33cefafe8616eb9152cf0172136ae<\/b><\/li><li>jc-bootROM-devkit-v1.032.bin SHA1: <b>b5b00b3a34d6556abb34450d0fb9d37a57d7dd05<\/b><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See you soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, A couple of months ago, I thought I was ready to release my new bios. Unfortunately for me, at that time, I was really busy and my bios mod started to show weaknesses. As I don&#8217;t have the right soldering equipment, I had to work with my Dreamcast and all its little faulty&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/2016\/06\/20\/release-custom-bootrom-v1-032\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Release: Custom BootROM v1.032<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,51],"tags":[44,32,31,43,5,41],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-bios-hacks","tag-beta-bootstrap","tag-bios","tag-bootrom","tag-custom-bios","tag-dreamcast","tag-v1-032"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}