It'll also save much more space than the 'optimized GDIs' for game that have zero padding. That’s it Depending on the game, this tool will compress the file by up to 90. Under Format, choose RVZ, then click the Convert button. Right-click on the game and select Convert File. Load your games into the Dolphin emulator. It will shrink GDIs without ever extracting them, hopefully this will make it completely transparent to the dreamcast and the emulated drive, as long as it doesn't try to access 'empty' zones of sectors. This can be done on Windows or Mac versions of Dolphin. Like u/darksaviorx mentioned above, the GDI is the full rip of the game. That's why I'm working on that feature on gditools. CDI files are compressed versions of the game meant to be burned to a CD-R to be played on real hardware. Here you can download our collection of Dreamcast Games/ISOs/ROMs.

It's for you though, as you seem to aim for LBA0.įor Optical Drive Emulators, the best approach at saving space really is shrinking GDIs. The SEGA Dreamcast, first released on 1998 in Japan, is to this day the latest SEGA console and a beloved system by many gamers. Some games have never been hacked to work on another LBA than 45000, but since most selfboots (non-cdda mainly) are perfectly fine at that LBA (using the space of the first session as my selfboot pack does), it's not a problem. In the further part of this page, you will find detail information about all the BIN to CDI file format conversion. cdi, you must use a proper software program to support it. Try and read the echelon selfboot tutorial and learn to make proper selfboots, then go to and check your game to see if there are known copy protections. With the conversion of the BIN file format.BIN or.

Sorry but I'm very busy and it's a whole domain in itself, can't really teach (or learn) it in a few minutes.

Convert bin iso to cdi dreamcast