Boot Disk Help

[Aydan]

Hey guys I have been reading up on boot disks and am interested.

It seems a good way of playing backups without modding a saturn.

My question is, it there a security ring on them? If not then are there any iso rips of them so I can try it out? I highly doubt there are but meh.

If not how rare are they and if you have one can it boot all games from any developer?

[Snowcat.]

i think they are actually pretty rare.

:/ good luck finding one. its probably easier just to mod your saturn

[RallyDon82]

yea an iso of a boot disc would be very handy indeed!

[Aydan]

the thing is do the boot disks have the security ring on thm which bypasses the check or is it coded on. If it's coded that means it can be copied. Would make so many lives easier for those who can't/don't want to mod. I guess I'll end up havign to mod though unless the above question is answeres positively haha.

[superdeadite]

The bootdiscs have the physical ring just like a normal retail disc. I've seen iso rips of the bootdiscs, though they are useless if you don't have a modchip/swap.

[Aydan]

Aha ok I figured they'd have one of them rings. Modchips away!!! gotta wait 'till my girl gets back though heh!

[Madroms]

all of the boot discs have the protection ring. The saturn checks the ring BEFORE running the code from the boot disc. So a burnt boot disc will not work.
Also, there are 3 types of boot discs (in fact 6 types, and each of them are somewhat unique but not in the way people think they are ), one red boot disc for booting SEGA burnt discs, one black boot disc for booting every third party burnt discs, and one blue boot disc with another feature.