sizious / binary-checker

Binary Checker (or BinCheck) is a tool made to check if your Sega Dreamcast homebrew binary in .BIN format is in scrambled or unscrambled state.

Binary Checker

Binary Checker (or BinCheck) is a tool made to check if your Sega Dreamcast homebrew binary in .BIN format is in scrambled or unscrambled state.

It was firstly released on July 10, 2005.

Introduction

A .BIN file is a compiled program for your Sega Dreamcast, it's those that you can get most of time in packages labeled "plain files". Scrambled state files are used when the binary is meant to be booted from a CD-ROM, i.e. when the homebrew program is started from the bootstrap, often called IP.BIN.

Such bootable programs are commonly named 1ST_READ.BIN. The unscrambled state for binaries, meanwhile, is used in all other cases (e.g. a binary executable started from another binary). Please note the scrambled/unscrambled state notion is ONLY used for homebrews programs, i.e. programs compiled with homemade toolchains. This notion doesn't apply for binaries produced with the official Katana toolchain.

Usage

1. Compile the library project. This will produces the bincheck.dll file.
2. Compile the checker project. This will produces the checker.exe file.
3. Run the checker.exe program then select the .BIN file to test, and hit the Test! button.

Credits

This library/program is a port of the Visual Studio 6 project made by Fackue/LyingWake.