DPkoosh25: hey jeff whats up
thevalorousone: not much
thevalorousone: just finish working on a few statistics problems
DPkoosh25: ah, sounds like fun. hey what do your screen name mean
thevalorousone: the different formulas are easy to mix up lol
thevalorousone: the brave one
thevalorousone: valorous is a synonym of brave
DPkoosh25: Oh i see.
DPkoosh25: did you make all A'
DPkoosh25: s in high school
thevalorousone: I tried thebraveone but it was taken (this was a long time ago lol)
thevalorousone: far from it lol
thevalorousone: mostly B's lol
DPkoosh25: still, B's are good
thevalorousone: yeah I used to get some card in junior high
thevalorousone: honor roll
thevalorousone: for B's
thevalorousone: just some extra privelages like being able to go to lunch earlier than everyone else and getting to leave early
thevalorousone: about the nesterdc
thevalorousone: there's two ways of going about burning it
thevalorousone: an easy way and a hard way
thevalorousone: lol
DPkoosh25: tell me both
thevalorousone: the hard way is a pain but it's very interesting and you learn a lot
thevalorousone: ok
thevalorousone: the easy way would be to download dcfactory
thevalorousone: and load it
thevalorousone: http://www.dcemulation.com/neededtools.htm
DPkoosh25: right.
thevalorousone: and pick nesterdc
thevalorousone: under tasks
thevalorousone: then just click perform task
thevalorousone: and it'll walk you through the process
thevalorousone: with it you'll need the plain files
thevalorousone: it'll ask for the location of nesterdc
DPkoosh25: and So , i download the Plain files right..unscrambled??
thevalorousone: it's pretty straight forward
thevalorousone: in dreamcast factory
thevalorousone: once you highlight nester
thevalorousone: click download
thevalorousone: then it'll take you to http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/dcfactory/nester/
thevalorousone: and you click which ever one you want to burn
DPkoosh25: right.
thevalorousone: I'd recommend 7.1+B
thevalorousone: after you download it
DPkoosh25: but when I burn this, do i need to burn through alchol 120
DPkoosh25: in mode 2?
thevalorousone: data track mode 1
thevalorousone: should work
DPkoosh25: alright, and this is the easy way right
thevalorousone: yeah lol
DPkoosh25: the hard way would be to self boot it yourself.
thevalorousone: yeah
thevalorousone: you have to go in and edit the files and everything yourself
DPkoosh25: edit which files
DPkoosh25: did you do that?
thevalorousone: I've done it both ways
thevalorousone: with dc factory you're less likely to make a mistake
DPkoosh25: haha im likely to make a mistake doing anything I do.
thevalorousone: lol
DPkoosh25: but I will try that
DPkoosh25: is there also a tutorial on how to make it self booting
thevalorousone: let me try to find the tutorial for doing it yourself
thevalorousone: yeah
DPkoosh25: I did go through a process of it
thevalorousone: there's one that's very specific
DPkoosh25: where you load the games in the game file, then delete some files and run this program on a file called IPbin
thevalorousone: yeah
DPkoosh25: where i went through this detailed stepby step process
DPkoosh25: to make it self booting, at first you had to run a batch file
DPkoosh25: to determine which OS you would use.
thevalorousone: which tutorial did you use?
thevalorousone: this one http://www.dcemulation.com/newhelp/selfbootdir.php?i tem=NesterDC%20Version%203&binfile=1st_read.bi n&romdir=GAMES
DPkoosh25: I forgot, and it worked fine, because it make the .nrg but then i burned it and no sucess
thevalorousone: the first time I ever burnt an emulator for the DC it was through the manual process
thevalorousone: because there were no batch files or programs that would do it for you
thevalorousone: which is nice now
DPkoosh25: no i didnt do it that way!, it looked like it would loose me
thevalorousone: the programmers have learned a lot about the DC
thevalorousone: if you want you could try with that tutorial
DPkoosh25: yeah that looks pretty complicated
DPkoosh25: did you mess up at all
thevalorousone: yeah I ended up with a few coasters
thevalorousone: lol
DPkoosh25: you must be pretty good with the command prompt
DPkoosh25: ?
thevalorousone: yeah you have to be with this stuff
thevalorousone: it's easy to mess up
thevalorousone: I'm really enjoying the Dreamcast though
DPkoosh25: yeah, I think it would be so cool.
DPkoosh25: I really think stuff like that is interesting
thevalorousone: yeah
DPkoosh25: hacking things that most people don't even know about.
thevalorousone: you should learn how to program in sh4 assembly
thevalorousone: that's the dreamcasts native language
thevalorousone: most of the emulators that are written for it are in sh4
thevalorousone: the better ones
thevalorousone: the slower ones are in c++
thevalorousone: from what I've seen SH4 is very complicated
DPkoosh25: You'd have to be devoted to learn a whole language just for one system, thats dead anyways..publically atleast.
thevalorousone: that's why there's no full speed SNES emulator for the dreamcast
DPkoosh25: how would someone learn SH4 anyways?
thevalorousone: they can't seem to optimize it
thevalorousone: yeah
thevalorousone: not sure
DPkoosh25: did you find out about this on that site?
thevalorousone: there has to be books or something on it
thevalorousone: yeah
DPkoosh25: is it used for anything else besides dreamcast?
thevalorousone: I remember when the guy first opened the siite in September 2000
DPkoosh25: because if thats the only system that uses SH4, then I would highly doubt there'd be books
thevalorousone: from what I've read there's other things that use it
DPkoosh25: like what?
thevalorousone: most consoles
thevalorousone: Gameboy advance uses SH4
DPkoosh25: Oh, really?
thevalorousone: yeah
DPkoosh25: then learning that language would be cool
thevalorousone: yeah but what if with the newer consoles they use some other language
DPkoosh25: then you wasted your time!
thevalorousone: yeah lol
thevalorousone: so do you have the dreamcast with you
thevalorousone: to test these discs
DPkoosh25: yeah its plugged up
DPkoosh25: but I havnt done it yet
DPkoosh25: as in downloaded DC factory
thevalorousone: oh ok
DPkoosh25: I think im going to do that tommrow
thevalorousone: I was thinking about burning something new but I only have a few cdrs left lol
DPkoosh25: because I have to study for my exam tommrow, and also I have to look at my friends computer
thevalorousone: what exam do you have tomorrow?
DPkoosh25: Program and logic- with mr.alimagham
DPkoosh25: b ut other than that , im free. so ill try to mess with it then
thevalorousone: oh I remember that class
thevalorousone: fairly easy
DPkoosh25: Yeah, its not too bad.
thevalorousone: I'm still pissed about what miss tate did to us
DPkoosh25: but he expects us to know C++ without teaching it to us properly
thevalorousone: we probably made the lowest
DPkoosh25: yeah, shes a skank
DPkoosh25: that wasnt cool
DPkoosh25: But ah well
thevalorousone: not to talk bad about the other groups but I thought we had better info and a better power point presintation than they did
DPkoosh25: yeah our presentation was pretty good I thought, but maybe she took off because that one guy justin didnt speak loud enough?
DPkoosh25: im not sure.
thevalorousone: I admit I'm not good at speaking in front of the class either but some of the other people in class didn't do that good either
thevalorousone: yeah and he didn't even show up for the final
DPkoosh25: lol, wonder why not. Im not too good at speaking in front of people, but it doesnt bother me as much as it used to.
thevalorousone: lol
thevalorousone: what I usually do is talk fast
thevalorousone: when I speaking in front of the class
DPkoosh25: Yeah that happens to me during presentations, or ill try to make it last longer and start talking about stuff I have no clue about.
thevalorousone: lol
thevalorousone: yeah
thevalorousone: but if you noticed we had more questions asked than anyone else
thevalorousone: so that means that our presentation was interesting I guess
thevalorousone: that one guy is pretty cool
thevalorousone: don't know his name though lol
thevalorousone: the guy we talked to after class
DPkoosh25: jeff
DPkoosh25: wait
DPkoosh25: maybe his name isnt jeff
thevalorousone: ok
DPkoosh25: hm...dang i forgot now that i think of it
thevalorousone: I think I'd remember that if his was
thevalorousone: lol
DPkoosh25: maybe its brian
thevalorousone: for some reason I don't know many peoples names in that class
DPkoosh25: no! wait its, john!
thevalorousone: but I talked to them a lot
thevalorousone: lol
DPkoosh25: john is his name
thevalorousone: ok
DPkoosh25: yeah he is cool
thevalorousone: and which of the girls was named becky?
thevalorousone: the one that seems like she's knows everything?
thevalorousone: lol
DPkoosh25: yeah!
DPkoosh25: she doesnt know much about computers, just how to study and stuff. shes alright, ive known her since kindegarden, she used to live in my neighborhood
DPkoosh25: ive made lots of friends in my classes this year.
thevalorousone: really?
thevalorousone: so she's the same age as you
DPkoosh25: yeah we used to go to school together, shes a year younger than me and i never talked to her
thevalorousone: no wonder she kept asking about my age lol
DPkoosh25: yeah she just graduated
DPkoosh25: shes Ok, but she seems a little snotty
thevalorousone: wait a minute
thevalorousone: so she graduated in 2003?
DPkoosh25: yes
DPkoosh25: shes probably 18
thevalorousone: yeah she seemed that way to me too
thevalorousone: pisses me off when people ask me my age and I tell them and they act like they don't believe me though
thevalorousone: felt like telling her a thing or two
DPkoosh25: well at first i thought you and charlie had just graduated together, like from the same school.
thevalorousone: nah
thevalorousone: I haven't known charlie long
DPkoosh25: well for about a year
thevalorousone: just since last spring I think
thevalorousone: yeah
DPkoosh25: do you have a group of friends from HS?
DPkoosh25: I do, they all like video games, much more than I do too
thevalorousone: yeah
thevalorousone: the guy that I went to see in clemson is one of them
thevalorousone: I have a few more that live close by
DPkoosh25: i used to like video games more, but i just like older games now, and dont play much new ones, id rather be learning about computer stuff now
thevalorousone: that I've known since elementary school
DPkoosh25: oh really, do you all hang out a lot?
thevalorousone: yeah
thevalorousone: you remember I was telling you about going to football games
thevalorousone: I usually go with them
DPkoosh25: yeah
thevalorousone: every week
DPkoosh25: ah that sounds cool
thevalorousone: and a few people in my family
DPkoosh25: I see my friends all the time cause we work together
DPkoosh25: oh are you and your family pretty close?
thevalorousone: cool
thevalorousone: well my brother and sister and a few cousins
thevalorousone: lol
thevalorousone: but yeah
DPkoosh25: oh, how old is your brother?
DPkoosh25: didnt you say he was older
thevalorousone: yeah he's a lot older
thevalorousone: he'll be 30 in June