Selfboot was one of the first projects developed by burnerO. Selfboot is a handy little application that automates the process of creating a selfbooting disc image for use on your Dreamcast. Selfboot uses the plain files packages that are available from many Dreamcast-related sites. Selfboot is not compatible with commercial products, and will only successfully create a selfbooting image of packages developed with the free, open-source KallistiOS (KOS) development kit. Read the rest of this entry »

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

• A text editor
• A program capable of creating ZIP archives
• fackue’s FileChecker or similar bin unscrambler
• The plain files to a homebrew project

This is an in-depth tutorial explaining how to create your own Selfboot Inducer (SBI) file from the plain files package of any homebrew application, demo, emulator or game you download from another Dreamcast-related site. Neither Selfboot Inducer (the PC utility used to create the disc) nor DreamInducer (the Dreamcast menu utility used to boot the Dreamcast applications) will work with commercial applications. These utilities will only work with applications created with the legal, open-source Kallisti-OS (KOS) Dreamcast development kit. Read the rest of this entry »