How to create a CDI from scratch?

[Zombieatemyneighbor]

Hi, I am trying to create cdi from scratch. I am stuck with step 22 in this instruction.

https://pastebin.com/jfFs6jdM

Command prompt keeps saying like this

F:\Sonic_Adv>mkisofs -C 0,11702 -V Sonic_Adv -sort output.txt -l -o data.iso extracted
mkisofs: Warning: -C specified without -M: old session data will not be merged.
mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - Sonic-Adv

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I got a different error when I tried Sonic instead of Sonic_Adv.

mkisofs: Missing pathspec.
Usage: mkisofs [options] file...

[Jenkins]

Some standard questions which may help: are you in the correct/same folder? Is the filename correct?

[Zombieatemyneighbor]

Some standard questions which may help: are you in the correct/same folder? Is the filename correct?

Thank you for replying. I am going to show you pictures. One of pictures is output. I hope I added the right line at the bottom in output. I placed mkisofs in sonic folder. It should work fine.

[Zombieatemyneighbor]

I want to update details here. I keep getting a message like this

mkisofs: Warning: -C specified without -M: old session data will not be merged.

Is that normal to you like that?

I typed the command like this now.

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mkisofs -C 0,11702 -V sonic -sort sorttxt.txt -l -o data.iso data

Note: I changed folder names. I changed from Sonic to sonic and extracted to data.

[mrneo240]

Message is fine.

[Zombieatemyneighbor]

Really? After I did that and used bin2boot.exe, I tried to test cdi file while using an emulator. It shows me that it doesn't recognize cdi file. It went back to Play, memory card, and etc.

[DR TEAMCAST]

the best thing you should do is try getting a simple homebrew program to boot on a CDI from scratch before a game. its most likely you don't have the correct LBA hacks or some kind of copy protection

you can just rip a working binary from a 11702 CDI if you can find one (CDIrip tells you if its a 11702 CDI by its console output) and place it in your working directory. just make sure you get the proper region\version CDI for what you're trying to play, and you use the same bootfile.bin

[Zombieatemyneighbor]

the best thing you should do is try getting a simple homebrew program to boot on a CDI from scratch before a game. its most likely you don't have the correct LBA hacks or some kind of copy protection

you can just rip a working binary from a 11702 CDI if you can find one (CDIrip tells you if its a 11702 CDI by its console output) and place it in your working directory. just make sure you get the proper region\version CDI for what you're trying to play, and you use the same bootfile.bin

I should show you the picture of cdirip. It shows me that it's 0 LBA. It should be 11702.

And the other one from the link says

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If it asks about patching for winCE, press N (at least in the vast majority of cases) and let it do it's thing.

When I saw this message from bin2boot, it asked me the question. I clicked n hotkey.

And I checked mark on all regions on ip.ban while I used ipbin4win.

I placed IP.bin (bootfile.bin) into data (extracted) folder.

Please correct me if I am doing wrong. Thank you.

[Zombieatemyneighbor]

I need to update new details here. I find it interesting after I typed a command in command prompt like this

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cdirip image.cdi -cdrecord

It says

Found 2 session(s)

Session 1 has 1 track(s)
Saving Track: 1 Type: Mode2/2336 Size: 511178 LBA: 0 [cut: 2] [ISO]

Session 2 has 1 track9s)
Saving Track: 2 Type: Mode2/2336 Size: 302 LBA: 522578 [cut: 2] [ISO]

Does that mean I have to type the command like this?

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mkisofs -C 0,522578 -V sonic -sort sorttxt.txt -l -o data.iso data

Please tell me what do you think of this sorttxt.txt. I changed from \ to /

Thank you again.

[Zombieatemyneighbor]

*bump* It's been a while. I finally got back on track. I managed to create cdi and get it work. A problem is that the game is in Japanese language instead of English. It should be in English language.