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GDEMU SD Card Maker

GUI (Lazarus / Free Pascal) to manage Sega Dreamcast game collections on a GDEMU SD card: scan local games and the SD card side by side, copy/remove games, regenerate the GDMenu (CDI), extract IP.BIN metadata and download box-art covers. It also bundles an OpenBOR disc creator.

Two widgetset builds are produced: Qt5 and GTK2.

See docs/ROADMAP.md for where the project is headed.

Building

Dependencies

• Free Pascal + Lazarus (lazbuild, fpc)

• Qt5 build: libqt5pas-dev

• GTK2 build: libgtk-2-dev

• Runtime tools: exactly three external binaries — genisoimage (from cdrkit), cdi4dc and cdirip. They are not stored in git; fetch them into tools/ after cloning:

  bashCopy

  ./scripts/fetch-tools.sh     # downloads the 3 tools (Linux x86-64) + verifies sha256
  ./scripts/check-tools.sh     # verify what's available (tools/ or PATH)

  The app finds each tool either under tools/ or on the system PATH (see ResolveToolPath), so installing them system-wide works too. GDI boot-sector (IP.BIN) extraction is native Pascal — no Python is required.

Note: the published tools/ binaries are Linux x86-64 only. On other platforms, install/build the three tools and put them on the PATH. Full cross-platform support is planned (see the roadmap).

Compile

A Makefile at the repo root drives lazbuild:

make            # build both release binaries (Qt5 + GTK2)
make qt5        # build only gdemugui.qt5.bin
make gtk2       # build only gdemugui.gtk2.bin
make debug-qt5  # debug build (Qt5)
make clean      # remove build artifacts
make help       # list all targets

The release binaries are written to the repo root (gdemugui.qt5.bin, gdemugui.gtk2.bin).

Used Resources

Images / Icons

https://iconarchive.com/show/console-icons-by-sykonist/Sega-Dreamcast-icon.html

Based on other projects

• DC Card Maker Script: https://github.com/jstolarek/dc-card-maker-script
• img4dc: https://github.com/Kazade/img4dc
• cdirip: https://github.com/jozip/cdirip