Utopia bootdisk

Utopia Bootdisk is a booting program, created by a Warez group Utopia, that allows the playing of burnt Sega Dreamcast games. It exploits the feature of using Mil-CDs that Sega left in for developers. The program allegedly used an early teapot demo to display the rotating reindeer.

Background

The Utopia Bootdisc was released on the June 22, 2000. When released, there were no ripped games available. However, within a few hours, Utopia released Dead or Alive 2. Shortly after that, other release groups began releasing game images. Some releases required dummy tracks to be added to push the game data into the outer regions of the disc. Games such as Crazy Taxi were plagued by graphical glitches because the Dreamcast uses a CAV player, that is, the disc spins at a constant angular velocity. Data at the extremity of the disc is read faster than the data in the center, fast enough to make data streamed. However, adding dummy files rectified this problem. Fact|date=February 2008

The Utopia Bootdisc, when loaded into an unmodified Dreamcast, will allow user to swap out the Utopia disc for a burned CD. The Utopia Bootdisc also bypasses region encoding and granted the ability to boot most legitimate GD-ROMs from other regions . Once loaded, the screen will display a spinning 3-D reindeer and a message to insert disc. The Dreamcast boots the disc instantly and displays the game on the screen.

Eventually, a Boot CD was not required to boot ripped games. Kalisto was the first group to release self-booting Dreamcast games, followed by group echelon.

ee also

Bleemcast