lazyboot-20260531

v6.1 (2026-05-31)

Windows 10/11 Compatibility Fix

• Removed broken UnxUtils tools (cp, du, cut, ls, win32gnu.dll) that caused _commode_dll entry point errors on modern Windows
• Replaced with dirsize.exe: a native 32-bit directory size calculator (source included) for broader compatibility

Experimental: Native C++ CDI Builder (nightly branch only)

• mkcdi.exe / iso2cdi.exe replaced with C++ cdibuilder app: was 6.9MB Python/PyInstaller, now 280KB
• ~3x faster build times, no Python runtime required
• Drop-in compatible with both mkcdi.exe and cdi4dc.exe CLI

Important: By default, this release uses cdi4dc with full ECC generation — slower but battle-tested and produces images compatible with all CD-R burning software and virtual drives. If you're making a mod or translation and rebuilding images frequently, switch to fast mode: type fast in the main menu or disable ECC in Options. This skips ECC generation and saves a lot of time. The fast mode is still experimental, hence cdi4dc remains the default.

Other

• Added icon.ico and dpiaware.manifest for better antivirus compatibility
• Version bump to v6.1

Known Bugs

• WinCE games with CDDA are not supported. CDDA support was broken in recent releases — it worked in older versions but is rarely used, and the exact version where it regressed is unknown. If you need proper CDDA support for a translation or release, build a GDI with GDIbuilder instead, which handles CDDA perfectly. For testing your translation during development, CDDA is unnecessary — use this toolkit without CDDA, then produce the final release image via GDIbuilder.

• Worms World Party, V-Rally 2, and some other CDDA titles cannot be built with this toolkit. Support may be added later, but V-Rally 2 will most likely remain unsupported.

  The CDDA Bug: Sega's WinCE libraries contain hardcoded limitations in how they handle audio data addressing. When cracked or rebuilt into a mil-CD compatible CDI image, the audio subsystem breaks down. In most custom CDI rebuilds of Sega Rally 2, CDDA tracks either refuse to play or loop the same track endlessly. Worms World Party shares the same WinCE hurdles — missing background music, corrupted file systems during reconstruction, or total freezes when the audio engine tries to call a CDDA track from a modified layout.

  V-Rally 2 (Expert Edition): While not a WinCE title, V-Rally 2 relies heavily on CDDA audio data streaming synced with data track buffering. Rebuilding it requires manually downsampling files and carefully matching LBA sectors so the game executable can locate sound data on a standard 700MB CD-R instead of the native 1GB GD-ROM. Doing this by hand without pre-existing cracking scripts is tedious and prone to breaking the game's audio loop routines.

lazyboot-20260528

v6.1 (2026-05-28)

• Fixed Windows 10/11 compatibility (broken dummy calculation): replaced broken UnxUtils tools (du, cut, cp, ls) with a native dirsize.exe. No more _commode_dll entry point errors
• Removed win32gnu.dll and all tools that depended on it
• New tools/dirsize.exe: native directory size calculator, works on Win7–Win11
• Added tools/dirsize.cpp source code

lazyboot-20240817

updated license