Creating A VCD For Your DC On A Mac
January 19th, 2009
To follow this tutorial, you will need the following items:
- OSX (duh;)
- Toast 5 or 6 (It shouldn’t matter)
- cdirip 6.c, VCD Copy X
Emu:
- D/l the discjuggler version of emu and unstuff
- Open Terminal (found under: Applications -> Utilities)
- Drag “cdirip” on to Terminal window
- Drag *.cdi (emu file) on to Terminal window
- Drag a file you want the rip to go to on to the Terminal window or press “/” in the Terminal window
- Press “return”
- Open file where rip went (file you selected or on your HD)
- Open Toast
- If you got taudio01.aiff, burn as audio w/ “prefered disc-at-once” in preferences checked (for Toast 6 this option is in the burn options when you go to burn) and click write session as burn type (dont close disc in Toast 6). If you got tdata01.iso click and hold on “Other” button (this is somewhere else in Toast 6, I’ll look it up shortly) and select Multitrack CD-ROM XA, then drag tdata01.iso on to the window and then burn as write session.
- Close Toast then re-open Toast (don’t think this is nessesary in Toast 6)
- Select Multitrack CD-ROM XA, then drag tdata02.iso, burn as write disc (close disc in Toast 6).
All done!
Utopia Boot Disc
- I’ll upload it eventually, but I can’t be the only one with a working version.
- In Toast burn taudio01.aiff as an audio cd with “Prefered disc-at-once” on and as write session (read above for where this stuff is in Toast 6).
- Chose Multitrack CD-ROM XA, and drag tdata02.iso into the window and burn as write disc.
All done!
Rom disc or Plain files (plain files will require boot disc):
- Open Toast
- Click and hold “Other” and select “ISO 9660″
- Drag all wanted Roms or all plain files into the window that comes up when you select “Select…”
- The settings:
- Format:CD-Rom XA
Naming: ISO 9660 Level 1
Append version numbers (;1) : checked
Use Apple Extensions: unchecked
- Format:CD-Rom XA
- Burn as write disc
All done!
GypPlay:
- D/l gypplay
- Place all normal mpg or dat files in the same folder (see VCD rip guide below if ripping from a VCD)
- Open toast
- Select ISO 9660 and press “Select…”
- Place all the files from the GypPlay folder into the window
- The settings:
- CD-ROM
“Joliet (MS-DOS + Windows)”
“Append Version Numbers (;1)” checked
“Use Apple Extensions” not checked
- CD-ROM
- Burn as write disc and boot with the Utopia Boot Disc
All done!
VCD ripping guide
- Get in touch with I.M. Weasel to get VCD Copy X
- Insert the VCD and open VCD Copy X
- Choose the file the VCD rip should go to
- Let it copy all of the info on disk
- After it finishes find the largest dat file and move it to the GypPlay folder
All done!
The original version of this tutorial was available from Dreamcast @ MacEmu. The staff at DCHelp did not write this tutorial, and take no credit for doing so. Unfortunately, Dreamcast @ MacEmu no longer exists. However, I.M. Weasel, the developer behind Dreamcast @ MacEmu, has a new Web site on DCEmulation.


