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AUTHORS.KOS	2018-04-10	Lawrence Sebald	[7b993f] First commit.
COPYING	2018-04-10	Lawrence Sebald	[7b993f] First commit.
Makefile	2018-04-10	Lawrence Sebald	[7b993f] First commit.
README	2018-04-10	Lawrence Sebald	[7b993f] First commit.
README.3rdparty	2018-04-10	Lawrence Sebald	[7b993f] First commit.

Read Me

README for Dreamcast Flashrom Tool v1.0
Copyright (C) 2018 Lawrence Sebald
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What is Dreamcast Flashrom Tool?
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Dreamcast flashrom tool is a simple tool for manipulating the data stored on the
internal flashrom of a Dreamcast console. Simply put, it is mostly aimed at
people who play the Phantasy Star Online series of games, but it is still
potentially useful for those who don't (especially if you intend to sell a
console that you've used to play online games in the past).

The tool has three main useful operations that it can perform:
1. Display the serial numbers used on the console to play Phantasy Star Online
2. Delete the serial numbers used to play PSO from the console
3. Delete game settings, PSO serial numbers, and ISP information (probably
   amongst other data) from the console

Of these operations, #3 is especially useful before selling a console, to ensure
that potentially private data is not given inadvertently to the next owner of
the console (specifically, your ISP/email login information and your PSO serial
numbers).

All operations that make changes to the console require confirmation before they
can be run. Unless you're mashing a bunch of buttons on your controller, there
should not be any way to inadvertently delete data from your console. However,
I don't promise anything. ;-)

There are also a number of other operations that were added to the program
mainly for my own debugging purposes. These operations are not useful unless you
load the program with dcload/dc-tool, and they serve fairly little purpose
outside of debugging the program itself, so they will not be discussed further
here.


Why not just include this with the PSO Patcher?
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At some point, I might include it with the Sylverant PSO Patcher as an extra
utility, however at the current time it is not written in a way that makes that
convenient or easy.


3rd Party Acknowledgements
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This program makes use of the following 3rd party software:

KallistiOS - Copyright (C) 1997-2018 KallistiOS Contributors
- Licensed under the KOS License, which is a 3-clause BSD license. See
  README.3rdparty for more information, and AUTHORS.KOS for the list of
  KallistiOS authors.


License
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3,
as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.