Fiddling around: Repack

[thE rZA]

You don't have to solder urself an adapter. U can order one fully funktional for 20 bucks or so.

I wanted to build one myself. But: There's no DC standalone serial port connector on the market. And I couldn't find a cheap NeoGeo cable on Egay. $50 up.

[mrneo240]

That's why we are just buying them and then hacking them up.

[thE rZA]

Hey yall!

Can you have a look at this pic, please:

https://imgur.com/a/npPGe

Did a isofix on track03.iso. It is from Toy Racer that has track03, cdda, cdda, .... track14. LBA of track03 is 45000. So I did isofix track03.iso 45000. But IsoBuster show this red x's. Every output file is named, but 0 byte.

What is the problem there?

[mrneo240]

Use a better tool. GD ROM explorer.

The format specifies that track3 just contains TOC and pvd but all data is in final data track of session 2.

[thE rZA]

Ur god! Thanks again.

[mrneo240]

Nope, just a guy with another guy and a third guy who know some stuff.

Hope it all works out!

[thE rZA]

Hello.

I'm geeting mad with this repack stuff. I'm trying to repack my Dreamkey browser. GDI works fine on NullDC. But if I do a

mkisofs -C 0,45000 -V DK15_THE_RZA -sort sortfile.str -l -o new3.iso data

Dreamshell produces a exception with new3.iso! Original GDI works in Dreamshell.

NullDC cannot load my new3.iso. "Selected image failed to load". NullDC works with GDI.
---
I found out if I do a

mkisofs -C 0,45000 -V DK15_THE_RZA -sort sortfile.str -l -o new3.iso data

and sortfile.srt is

data/1ST_READ.BIN 0
data/VOICE.AFS 1
data/VMS.DPS 2
data/START.ADX 3
....
data/DPWWW/GFX/FR/RECONFAIL.GIF 848
data/DPWWW/GFX/FR/LOGONFAIL.GIF 849
data/IP.BIN 850
data/DUMMY.DAT 851

and I do a isofix new3.iso 45000 after this repack, and do a IsoBuster >>> File.txt >>> sort >>> output.txt the output.txt has another sorting!!! Why is mkisofs resorting the files randomly???

And: What Emulator can load .iso instead of .gdi???

Slowly but surely getting maaad.

EDIT: This could be the reason why bin2boot does not work:

Name of bin file: new3.iso
Mode 2 track
bin file size: 709230592
total sectors: 303608
big path table sector: 0
Finding the ip.bin...
A record for ip.bin could not be found.

EDIT²: After isofix new3.iso 45000 and exporting Filelist.txt and sorting with .au the sortfile looks like this:

>:\DPREGIST\IE\UKMAN\HELP_MANUAL6.HTM 30000
>:\1ST_READ.BIN 29990
>:\DP2.DPS 29980
>:\DP2.INI 29970
>:\DP2SOUND.MLT 29960
>:\DUMMY.DAT 29950
>:\IP.BIN 29940
>:\MANATEE.DRV 29930

No Dummy and IP.BIN on line 1 and 2.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............

[thE rZA]

Ok. I down again.

If I use repack_gdi.bat by Family Guy this seems to work. Difference? LBA set to 0 instead of 45000... Maybe some other differencies. I dunno...

Toy Racer works /wout muzak. Dreamkey works --- I guess.

[mrneo240]

So wait, you repacked a gdi? We may need to do that very soon with our research tool, link to where you found the family Guy tool?

[thE rZA]

Ah no no. The script named repack_gdi.bat. Extracts Files from GDI Fileset (blah.gdi, track01.iso ... trackn.iso) into data.

After that it calls binhack (ip/1stread LBA 0).

Then it does mkisofs ... into an iso file.

For me it's ok to create a few isos for my sd card. Better results as doing it by hand.

Sorry.

U know I am a bloody noob.

EEDDIITT: Is there any Emu out there, that can start iso instead of cdi or gdi? I'm hacking some HTML stuff in my Dreamkey 1.5. So I don't need to copy Iso to sdcard all the time....