Dreamcast Guides : Family Guy's Dual sorttxt BAT File

"Do not save this in quotation marks, the rest download and save as a .BATXT to be used with Family Guy's Selfboot DATA/DATA pack v1.4 32-bit Edition 2012. Press CTRL+F to fine "GAMENAME" and replace with your desired games name. Say it is "Silver" just simply find all "GAMENAME" text and replace with "Silver" without quotation marks on any of the above. Save first sorttxt file for inner data portion up to LBA 45000 [65mb] if needed to make room on the disc for more game data. This method gives you a little more room using DATA/DATA format over the normal AUDIO/DATA [11700/11702 LBA] booting methods. Try and avoid using audio and video files in this area to ensure that the Dreamcast does not stutter as the inner side of the disc can't be accessed as fast the out portion, this includes but not limited to AFS,ADX,M1V,SFD,SFA,WMV,WMA,WAV,p04,p08, and p16 file formats. Once you have both of your sorttxt files and the correct files in the right folder use Dark Falaz sorttxt Indexer to fix the files LBA's to properly sort the files on disc in original or custom sorttxt (if needed), this helps cut down laser seek time and constant movement while giving a speed increase and taking it easy on your Dreamcast precious optical drive.

And please thank Family Guy for this as my "help of you want to call it took all of 3 minutes to add. I did however add the links to both Dreamcast rip databases I know of to help crack any extra protections as well as supporting dual sorttxt files. Now from here below should be saved as GAMENAME.bat not GAMENAME.txt and placed in the root of Family Guy's Selfboot pack v1.14 that cann be found hosted at this site.

http://shenmuesubs.sourceforge.net/download/addons/Selfboot_DATA_Pack_v1.3_by_FamilyGuy.rar

 Also this tool also supports insertingr your own custom logo's into you newly made game by creating your own logo.mr using Logotools. Tools can be found using google, also a nice guide how to make your own can be found here as well.

http://www.dreamwell.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/dcselfboot/database/obs/fix/ip/adx2/logo.htm

Till then have fun learning to hack Dreamcast games on your own with this awesome tool made for us the public by the Dreamcast legend Family Guy, BTW in case you are wondering WTF this is I will explain that as well. It retains the sort order of your choosing by using a second txt file. Takes a little work but tools make it a breeze and gives you an extra 65mb of space on a disc if needed. Anyhow on to making your own games.

~legends Never Die [Dreamcast Scene 2012+]"

@ echo off
title=FamilyGuy's SelfBootDATA Pack! - SELFBOOT v1.4 - All-32bit edition
ECHO
ECHO   BAT script modifed for dual sortxt files by ~atreyu187
ECHO.
ECHO   FG's SB DATA Pack! - SELFBOOT v1.4 - All-32bit edition
echo.
ECHO     This .bat Will create a 45000LBA data/data
ECHO     backup from extracted files with no need
ECHO     to apply LBA hacks to the bins. However
ECHO     some non-LBA based copy protection might need
ECHO     to be cracked in order for the backup to works.
ECHO     GO to the DCRipping Database for a list of
ECHO     copy protections.
ECHO     http://www.bucanero.com.ar/dreamcast/ripdb/?
ECHO.
ECHO     Put around 65 megs in the data1 folder and
ECHO     ALL the files in the data folder Duplicated
ECHO     files will be burnt only once.
ECHO.
ECHO     You can add a 0.0 dummy file in data to accelarate
ECHO     loadings, it won't apear in the filesystem.
ECHO.
ECHO     The ip.bin must be in the root folder.
ECHO.
ECHO     FamilyGuy 2008 - 2012
ECHO.
ECHO Press any key to start ...
Pause >nul

@IF not exist ip.bin goto ERROR
@goto GO


:ERROR
@ echo.
@ ECHO     No ip.bin in the folder
@ ECHO     You should put the ip.bin in this folder.
@ ECHO.
@ pause >nul
REM @ exit

:GO


:ip.binhack
ECHO.
ECHO     Running IP.BINHACK on the ip.bin ...
ECHO.
copy "Utilities\AUTO.BINHACK\bincon.exe" bincon.exe >nul
copy "Utilities\AUTO.BINHACK\BINHACK.EXE" BINHACK.EXE >nul
copy "Utilities\AUTO.BINHACK\cdda.exe" cdda.exe >nul
copy "Utilities\AUTO.BINHACK\dahack.exe" dahack.exe >nul
copy "Utilities\AUTO.BINHACK\SPLIT.EXE" SPLIT.EXE >nul
copy "Utilities\AUTO.BINHACK\AUTO.BINHACK.bat" AUTO.BINHACK.bat >nul
call AUTO.BINHACK.bat
del bincon.exe >nul
del BINHACK.EXE >nul
del cdda.exe >nul
del dahack.exe >nul
del SPLIT.EXE >nul
del AUTO.BINHACK.bat >nul
ECHO.
ECHO     IP.HAK created !

if exist logo.png goto LOGO
goto Data0

:LOGO
ECHO.
ECHO     LOGO.PNG detected...
copy "-=Isos=-\logoinsert.exe" logoinsert.exe >nul
copy "-=Isos=-\pngtomr.exe" pngtomr.exe >nul
copy "-=Isos=-\libpng.dll" libpng.dll >nul
pngtomr logo.png logo.mr >nul
ECHO     LOGO.PNG converted into LOGO.MR
logoinsert.exe logo.mr ip.hak >nul
del logoinsert.exe
del pngtomr.exe
del libpng.dll
del logo.mr
ECHO     LOGO.MR inserted in IP.HAK !

:Data0
IF EXIST "sorttxt1.txt" goto SORT1
goto Data1

:Data1
Echo.
Echo     Building 1st session ...
Echo ON
@ ECHO.
@ mkisofs -V GAMENAME -duplicates-once -hide 0.0 -l -o data1.iso data1
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO data1.iso | Fill.exe
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO   Done!
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO OFF
GOTO KEEPON

:SORT1
Echo.
Echo     Building 1st session ...
ECHO.
ECHO     Sorttxt.txt detected ...
ECHO ON
@ ECHO.
@ mkisofs -V GAMENAME -duplicates-once -hide 0.0 -l -sort sorttxt1.txt -o data1.iso data1
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO data1.iso | Fill.exe
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO   Done!
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO OFF

:KEEPON
IF EXIST "sorttxt.txt" goto SORT2
GOTO DATA2

:SORT2
Echo.
Echo     Building 2de session ...
ECHO.
ECHO     Sorttxt.txt detected ...
ECHO ON
@ ECHO.
@ mkisofs -C 0,45000 -V GAMENAME -G ip.hak -M data1.iso -duplicates-once -l -sort sorttxt.txt -hide 0.0 -o data2.iso data
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO   Done!
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO OFF
GOTO MERGE

:DATA2
Echo.
Echo     Building 2de session ...
ECHO ON
@ ECHO.
@ mkisofs -C 0,45000 -V GAMENAME -G ip.hak -M data1.iso -duplicates-once -l -hide 0.0 -o data2.iso data
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO   Done!
@ ECHO.
@ ECHO OFF

:Merge
ECHO.
ECHO     Merging the isos ...
ECHO.
copy "-=Isos=-\NRG\leadin" leadin >nul
copy "-=Isos=-\NRG\nrgheader" nrgheader >nul
copy "-=Isos=-\NRG\nrgheader.exe" nrgheader.exe >nul
copy /b leadin+data1.iso+data2.iso+nrgheader GAMENAME.nrg
ECHO     Hacking the nrgheader ...
ECHO.
ECHO GAMENAME.nrg | NRGHEADER

:clean
ECHO     Cleaning Files ...
del nrgheader.exe >nul
del del leadin >nul
del nrgheader >nul
del data1.iso >nul
del data2.iso >nul
del ip.hak
ECHO.
ECHO     DONE !

ECHO.
ECHO     The backup is now done! Run it in NullDC (using DEAMON tools)
ECHO     or burn it to a disc to test it out! If it doesn't work,
ECHO     go to the Dreamcast Ripping DataBase to find if your
ECHO     game as a non-lba based copy protection.
ECHO
ECHO     http://www.bucanero.com.ar/dreamcast/ripdb/
ECHO
ECHO     http://bbs.chinaemu.org/read-htm-tid-73249-fpage-23-page-1.html (yzb's Chinese database)
ECHO.
ECHO     Thanks to Xzyx987X for the nrgheader technique,
ECHO     ECHELON for the BINHACK program, M$ for bat files,
ECHO     Neoblast and Indiket for the Fill.exe program
ECHO     and Indiket for the NRGHEADER program !
Echo.
ECHO     FamilyGuy 2012
ECHO
ECHO     Edited for dual sortxt by atreyu187
ECHO.
ECHO     Press any KEY to quit ...
PAUSE >nul
REM EXIT