SCDConv v2.50 - (c) 1999 by Eidolon - http://eidolon.psp.net
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This little utility can be used to convert between the different
country versions of Sega CD games.

Currently implemented:
- conversion American -> European
- conversion European -> American
- conversion Japanese -> American
- conversion Japanese -> European

Planned for future release:
- conversion American -> Japanese
- conversion European -> Japanese

However, I will give NO GUARANTEE FOR SUCCESS of the conversion,
because there might be some games which don't have relocatable
code (which this program assumes).

NEW in version 2.50: The program is now able to detect whether it is
necessary to relocate the initial and system programs or not. This
improves success rates greatly, especially for European -> American
conversions. Most Japanese -> American and Japanese -> European
conversions are not affected, unfortunately.

The reason for the different success rates lies in the special design
of the Sega CD games' boot blocks. Unfortunately, Sega decided to mix
security code and actual game code in the first few sectors, which
makes it very difficult (in most cases) to relocate the game code in
order to gain space for the lengthy American and European security
codes. If a game doesn't use relocatable code (as it is theoretically
a Sega programming standard), the conversion might fail.

Please let me know when you find a game which does not run after the
conversion (i.e., if you have burnt a coaster). This kind of info is
very important to make future releases of SCDConv more reliable.

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written by Eidolon, 9th of August till 25th of October 1999
contact me via email if you have further questions: eidolon@psp.net
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