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Anybody heard of Dreamcast BIOS v1.01c?
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2023 1:36 pm
by MoeFoh
Re: Anybody heard of Dreamcast BIOS v1.01c?
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:17 am
by megavolt85
I need a dump of this bios
Re: Anybody heard of Dreamcast BIOS v1.01c?
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:37 am
by Wombat
Re: Anybody heard of Dreamcast BIOS v1.01c?
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 11:45 am
by MoeFoh
Great. Thanks.
Here's just the v1.01c BIOS.
Re: Anybody heard of Dreamcast BIOS v1.01c?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2023 3:21 pm
by megavolt85
ok, the difference between the bios is insignificant, I just need to change one check in openmenu and rewrite one function in gdmenu_loader.
I hope the owner of a console with this rare BIOS is ready to test the update.
Re: Anybody heard of Dreamcast BIOS v1.01c?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2023 4:06 pm
by MoeFoh
megavolt85 wrote:ok, the difference between the bios is insignificant, I just need to change one check in openmenu and rewrite one function in gdmenu_loader.
I hope the owner of a console with this rare BIOS is ready to test the update.
Once it's done, I'll get hold of him through reddit.
Re: Anybody heard of Dreamcast BIOS v1.01c?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2023 4:29 pm
by megavolt85
Re: Anybody heard of Dreamcast BIOS v1.01c?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2023 10:11 am
by my2k2zx2
I'm in that reddit thread and have a resistor modded VA0 with bios 1.01c.
Using the update, no change on my VA0 1.01C, GDMenu still goes back to the system menu instead of booting the game. Games boot with OpenMenu. This is not region free, it only boots NTSC-U discs.
I now have a VA1 1.01D and both GDMenu and OpenMenu boot games properly on that one.
GDEMU is a 5.15b
Re: Anybody heard of Dreamcast BIOS v1.01c?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2023 3:34 pm
by megavolt85
my2k2zx2 wrote:This is not region free, it only boots NTSC-U discs.
Are NTSC-U region games loaded via openmenu?
Re: Anybody heard of Dreamcast BIOS v1.01c?
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 12:51 am
by MoeFoh
megavolt85 wrote:my2k2zx2 wrote:This is not region free, it only boots NTSC-U discs.
Are NTSC-U region games loaded via openmenu?
If I understand correctly what was written in the reddit post, it's working.
Curious if the BIOS is region free, he put the GDROM back in and it didn't run a JP title.
Now after trying to install the hardware GDEMU in both his consoles, the GDEMU no longer works

(just a black screen).
He has two consoles - one with BIOS v1.01c VA0 NA (with resistor mod) & one with BIOS v1.01d VA1 NA.
He's says he will order another GDEMU.