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In honor of the tenth birthday of the Sega Dreamcast, we are extremely proud to unveil the all-new version of this Web site. The tutorials have all been recreated, including new images and captions and repaired links (where appropriate). The SBI repository has been completely redeveloped, including the actual descriptions and screen shots from the SBI packages and the real date on which the BIN file was created/modified. The new site also includes an almost complete archive of the classic Dreamcast Weekly Magazine.

On top of all of that, our new Web site is now based on the popular Wordpress blog system, allowing us to more easily organize our content and allowing you to post your thoughts and comments. We hope you will stick around and renew some of the love we all have for our favorite video game console, the Sega Dreamcast.

Happy 10th Birthday, Dreamcast!

A Tutorial By Matisfaction

To follow this tutorial, you will need the following items:

• MacDreamTool v1.2 or later
• SBI Files
• Toast

This tutorial was written by Matisfaction to explain how to use I.M.Weasel’s MacDreamTool utility. This guide was intended to explain how to use v1.2 of MDT, but should be rather helpful in using MDT v2, as well. Very little has changed, fundamentally, between v1.2 and v2. Read the rest of this entry »

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 Read the rest of this entry »

A Guide Created by JT Newman

JT Newman has put together a nice user’s manual for all Macintosh users. This guide goes through many different processes that a Macintosh user might need to understand in order to get things working on their Dreamcast.

Note: This tutorial was written by JTNewman around 2005, and has not been updated since then. Some of the more obvious broken links have been fixed, but there are still more than likely quite a few broken links included in the tutorial (for instance, the entire section about SBIffy!com). Please realize that we did not write this tutorial, and that we have no way of verifying the information contained within. Read the rest of this entry »

Creating Discs for Dreamcast that ‘Disc Swap’

To follow this tutorial, you will need the following items:

• Toast Titanium 5.x
• CDI RIP 0.6.2
• Stuffit Expander Read the rest of this entry »

To follow this tutorial, you will need the following items:

• MacPack 4.0-(Iso Fix 1.3)
• Mkisofs (1.1 or 1.1.3)-Pre-compiled for OSX
• Toast Titanium

This method requires OS X because of the unix Terminal program.

This method supports up to 31 character file / folder names. Read the rest of this entry »

This tutorial was written by Shinebi. The tutorial has not been tested or verified by the staff of DCHelp. The tutorial was converted from PDF format to HTML with special permission from Shinebi, but no other edits were made.

This mod is the one that’s most needed for the Dreamcast. Lots of commercial games have a soft-reset option, so that’s ok. But as nowadays more and more homebrew games are being released, they mostly lack this, and that’s why you’ll want to install this one: no more open/close or power up/power down, far easier is to push the little button!

This mod is VERY easy to perform, but I expect you to have at least little soldering skills. Also, I expect you know how to safely disassemble the DC. I cannot be held responsible for any damage you encounter while performing this mod. I must stress to be careful with soldering irons and hot glue guns, as THESE CAN BURN YOU! Read the rest of this entry »

Selfboot Inducer is a program developed by burnerO to make it easier to create a selfbooting compilation disc from many different applications, demos, emulators and games on the Dreamcast. Selfboot Inducer automatically creates a disc image using the DreamInducer loader.

One of the nice things about DreamInducer is the fact that it supports custom themes. Once you create a custom theme for DreamInducer, using the tutorial developed by Nyarlathotep, you can follow this tutorial to package it up as an SBT file, which are the archives that Selfboot Inducer uses to add the theme to your disc compilation. Read the rest of this entry »

To follow this tutorial, you will need the following items:

• dir2boot
• The plain files to a homebrew project

Dir2Boot is a very simple utility that you can use to create a selfbooting CD image (ISO) from the plain files of nearly any homebrew application, demo, emulator or game you download from various other Dreamcast-related sites. Dir2Boot most likely will not work with the various loaders used for illegal rips of commercial games, so it should only be used with homebrew software. Read the rest of this entry »