going crazy... need help

[abs1980]

Was your dreamcast made after october 2001? Dreamcasts made after that date will not play backups.

[liquid freeze]

no it was made in august 99

[Hacker999]

Originally Posted by abs1980

Was your dreamcast made after october 2001? Dreamcasts made after that date will not play backups.

That's not true. All USA and European Dreamcast's play back-ups. Some models can only read a disc in data/data format.

Liquid freeze, try getting the utopia boot image form here (click on the link, don't save as)
http://megagames.com/console/cgi-bin/dl.cgi?id=dc&file=utp-load!zip