Source Code to SS ISO Country Converter

[Weston]

Anyone know where I could get the source code to that Sega Saturn Country Code Converter? I want to port it to MacOSX and Possibly MacOS9.

Thanks

 

[TakaIsSilly]

I am under the impression that tyranid does not read this forum... But anyway, if you try and convert an ISO and then run "fc -b oldiso.iso newiso.iso" in DOS, you'll find that the "conversion" only changes 1 byte of the file. It's normally 64 bytes into the start of the .ISO and its a letter (for example J changes to E ou U for european or american Saturn models)

The correct way to do it is to find the header, that begins with the "SEGASATURN" string. But I really don't have the documentation around here. Can anyone help?

 

[ExCyber]

It's not just that one byte; that's only one part of the change. The other part is changing the region signature, which is at offset 0xE00 of the disc image if I'm not mistaken. This area is a text string describing the region, examples (from memory, so these might not be 100% correct) include:

For JAPAN.

For UNITED STATES and CANADA.

For TAIWAN and PHILIPPINES.

For ASIA PAL area.

 

[MasterAkumaMatata]

Yeah, ExCyber is correct. I made that same mistake the first time as well.

Patching (the IP.BIN) for the DC is similar to this as well. IIRC, IP.BIN 4 WIN is what it's called; you can get it at boob.

 

[TakaIsSilly]

Hn, weird. I could swear the second check is optional, since i used my converter allways ever since I built it and never got a bad burn... even with the description code wrong. Funny, eh?

 

[TyRaNiD]

Yup your right i dont read this forum, and yeah its mainly a one byte change however it is a good idea to change the id string as well as you never know. I dont use it any more since i got a par anyway.

If you actually want the source code i dont mind releasing it. Should compile easily under almost any o/s you care to mention.

 

[TakaIsSilly]

Well, thanks for your response ^^. I'd love to see the source code, for example, to see if my converter ended up to be more advanced than yours

 

[Weston]

hey tyranid, could you send me an email with the source code attached? I emailed the address that you had on this board but it bounced back.

maybe takaissilly could send me his source code to. thanks...

 

[mal]

I believe you'll find it here.

 

[TyRaNiD]

Err point to note on that rls

Under dos i used conio for input, and under linux i just used the std fgets functions. however as the linux verison was only 1.1 and not 1.2 i modified the dos version to accomodate. however i forgot to remove the #include <conio.h> so you may want to kill that line before compiling

 

[TyRaNiD]

thats #include {conio.h}. forgot anything like a html tag would be stripped out

 

[lockecole2]

i got the code to compile under mac eariler, if you're interested.

it's a quick and dirty port, but it works.

thats mac os 9, btw - mac ppl can get it (if they dont want to compile themselves or login to my ftp) here

(Edited by lockecole2 at 10:21 pm on Jan. 12, 2002)

(Edited by lockecole2 at 11:59 pm on Jan. 12, 2002)

 

[TakaIsSilly]

You can try and port my code. But it's QuickBASIC. You'd have tons of fun making it into C, belive me.

 

[Bocmaxima]

Lockes port works like a dream, but where is the Aqua interface...lol, just kidding...it works grand under 8.6 as well

 

[lockecole2]

Quote: from Bocmaxima on 7:04 pm on Jan. 14, 2002

Lockes port works like a dream, but where is the Aqua interface...lol, just kidding...it works grand under 8.6 as well

i'd hope it would . . . it's a simple sioux prog.

aqua? you'd have to wait till i finish the book on the mac toolbox and it's own extentions and such.