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What are the chances my DC from EBgames.com will be able to run emulation programs, such as the ones found on dcemulation.com? I nearly creamed my pants when I found out I could do this.

The morally inclined need not post here.
 
According to that same site, they are all compatible. Incompatibilities are apparently a rumor.
 
Yeah. A Dreamcast is a Dreamcast is a Dreamcast. Any variations in hardware there were shouldn't interfere with secret, illegal rom playing.
 
[quote name='jmcc']Yeah. A Dreamcast is a Dreamcast is a Dreamcast. Any variations in hardware there were shouldn't interfere with secret, illegal rom playing.[/quote]

Oh no, fucker, I'm going to hell.
 
Oh crap. I shouldn't have said you were going to play roms. Oh crap! I shouldn't have said they were secret! OH CRAP! I certainly shouldn't have said they were illegal! Sigh...it's too hot today.
 
[quote name='jmcc']Oh crap. I shouldn't have said you were going to play roms. Oh crap! I shouldn't have said they were secret! OH CRAP! I certainly shouldn't have said they were illegal! Sigh...it's too hot today.[/quote]

Sizzle!
 
[quote name='jalu6']very good chances. I have yet to come across a dreamcast that does not play them.[/quote]

Some Dreamcast fan you are... you obviously do not own the Hello Kitty special edition Dreamcast.
 
[quote name='eldad9'][quote name='jalu6']very good chances. I have yet to come across a dreamcast that does not play them.[/quote]

Some Dreamcast fan you are... you obviously do not own the Hello Kitty special edition Dreamcast.[/quote]

LMAO
 
[quote name='redgopher'][quote name='guyver2077']yea i dont know why people think it is a myth....[/quote]

Soulless Dragon is very confused...[/quote]

Heh, nice PA reference.

Is there any real benefit to running emulators on a DC instead of a PC, other than the novelty of it, and the ability to use a good gamepad?
 
1. Sega finds out the Dreamcast is hackable
2. Sega immediately issues press release saying new Dreamcasts will not be hackable.
3. A couple of special editions in Japan are released which are not hackable.
4. Sega stops production of Dreamcast before any changes are made to U.S. Dreamcasts.
5. Everybody looks for Dreamcasts from before November 2000 (or whatever).
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin'][quote name='redgopher'][quote name='guyver2077']yea i dont know why people think it is a myth....[/quote]

Soulless Dragon is very confused...[/quote]

Heh, nice PA reference.

Is there any real benefit to running emulators on a DC instead of a PC, other than the novelty of it, and the ability to use a good gamepad?[/quote]

It just feels... boring on PC. If its not on a TV it just doesnt feel that authentic. Of course, if I want 100% authenticity I'd buy the cart.
 
Yeah, unfortunately NES is the only emulated console that runs well that I know of.
Does anyone know if MAME runs well under it? I don't have much in that area of emulation.
 
yeah, it has to be before nov 2000 or something like that. you can also play back-ups of games on them too, with nothing extra.
 
[quote name='JSweeney']Every time you pirate a Nintendo game, Yamauchi kills a puppy.[/quote]

Shit! Plus all the kittens I am killing! Guess there is no need to spade or neuter pets anymore.
 
[quote name='BigNick']
Shit! Plus all the kittens I am killing! Guess there is no need to spade or neuter pets anymore.[/quote]

Bob Barker would kick your ass like Happy Gilmore if he heard you say that...
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin'][quote name='redgopher'][quote name='guyver2077']yea i dont know why people think it is a myth....[/quote]

Soulless Dragon is very confused...[/quote]

Heh, nice PA reference.

Is there any real benefit to running emulators on a DC instead of a PC, other than the novelty of it, and the ability to use a good gamepad?[/quote]

It's not just the gamepad but having a standard platform connected to it. Having every Dreamcast be identical allows the coder of the emulator to tune the input response far more exactly than can be achieved on the highly variable PC. This source of frustration is one of he reasons I long since stopped bothering with certain types of games on the PC. I like to stick in the disc and have it just work exactly the way the developer intended. Microsoft is trying to address some of these issue to make the PC more competitive with consoles on certain genres but it remains to be seen how much can be done. This isn't their first attempt at such. Before DirectX there was a Microsoft effort with some partners to offer tools that allowed developers to treat the PC like a virtual console with things like sprites and multiple priority planes defined like they were done in hardware but entirely software. This allowed for something in between a SNES and a Playstation with no 3D, something like a less buggy Jaguar. The idea was to make playing console style games of the era comparably easy on a PC.

The early demos used Bubsy and the only produced games were Earthworm Jim and the 16-bit Pitfall that recently reappeared on the GBA. The software technology was effective but there just wasn't enough market response to support continuing the idea as 3D was just starting to become the dominant feature in PC gaming.
 
The Sega Master System emulator is very good too. The SNES emulator is fast enough for rpg's.
 
[quote name='BigNick'][quote name='JSweeney']Every time you pirate a Nintendo game, Yamauchi kills a puppy.[/quote]

Shit! Plus all the kittens I am killing! Guess there is no need to spade or neuter pets anymore.[/quote]

If only there were some frowned upon but enjoyable act that selectively sterilized stray domestic animals. The PETA people need to work this angle.
 
How did you get other roms, games whatever, to play on the dc? I got an nes one that I LOVE on ebay a while back before they got rid of them all.
 
[quote name='scuba']How did you get other roms, games whatever, to play on the dc? I got an nes one that I LOVE on ebay a while back before they got rid of them all.[/quote]

If ebay didn't have them do you honestly think we can give out info like that here?
 
:p

I found websites but they only have the nes which I already have. I don't really care...it would be nice but I love the nes one I have.


if nintendo put it on for gamecube I would pay 50 bucks for it.
 
Yes, Nintendo would rather you pay another $20-$50 for the same games you bought and played 10 years ago.
 
Hey, if it sells, why not?
Sony and Microsoft would die to be able to do that...
it's almost pure profit.

Not to mention that it gives Nintendo every right to savagely safeguard it's IP library.

As a fan of games, you may hate the idea, but in the realm of business, which game production is after all, it makes them magnificant bastards.
 
Most of the emulators I tried, well sucked...
Some didnt have sound, most ran pretty slowly

But that was a few years ago... things improve :)
 
If the emulator runs from a CD you may be out of luck. CDs will only work with MIL-CD compatible Dreamcasts manufactured before October, 2000. Check the date on the bottom of you Dreamcast to see when it was manufactured. I know this because some of the later versions of the Dreamcast wouldn’t run the Bleem! for Dreamcast which allowed you to play certain Playstation 1 games (Gran Turismo 2, Tekken 3, and Metal Gear Solid) on a Dreamcast. My Dreamcast was manufactured on August, 1999.
 
[quote name='mario23air']If the emulator runs from a CD you may be out of luck. CDs will only work with MIL-CD compatible Dreamcasts manufactured before October, 2000. Check the date on the bottom of you Dreamcast to see when it was manufactured. I know this because some of the later versions of the Dreamcast wouldn’t run the Bleem! for Dreamcast which allowed you to play certain Playstation 1 games (Gran Turismo 2, Tekken 3, and Metal Gear Solid) on a Dreamcast. My Dreamcast was manufactured on August, 1999.[/quote]

Are you sure? I thougth that was a myth they debunked some time ago. It may matter for Bleem!, but as for other CDs I thought any DC was capable of running them.
 
Yeah dreamcast is also, all the games you can emulate are games that you can't buy that would give the companies money. So it does no harm to the makers. (other then that stupid ass "classics" gba thing, but those are such goddamn ripoffs)
 
I stand corrected... "The only dreamcasts that won't play Bleem!cast releases are the Japanese Sakura Edition ones. All other dreamcast will play mil-cds as long as the 1st and 2nd sessions are data tracks, as opposed to the first session being an audio track, then a data track. I believe Bleem! is burnt in this way and hence will run on all non-sakura dcs. Bleem! only put this information on the first release, because this is what they thought, but they were subsequently found to be incorrect."
 
[quote name='Duo_Maxwell'][quote name='mario23air']If the emulator runs from a CD you may be out of luck. CDs will only work with MIL-CD compatible Dreamcasts manufactured before October, 2000. Check the date on the bottom of you Dreamcast to see when it was manufactured. I know this because some of the later versions of the Dreamcast wouldn’t run the Bleem! for Dreamcast which allowed you to play certain Playstation 1 games (Gran Turismo 2, Tekken 3, and Metal Gear Solid) on a Dreamcast. My Dreamcast was manufactured on August, 1999.[/quote]

Are you sure? I thougth that was a myth they debunked some time ago. It may matter for Bleem!, but as for other CDs I thought any DC was capable of running them.[/quote]

Its a myth, I got 2 DC systems and 1 is Nov. 2000. It works just like my other DC with CDRs.
 
i know this is purely opinion.. but can someone show me how it is wrong to play original homebrew software or ported games on a now difunct system if all of the games are discontinued or no longer produced?
 
Of course there's nothing wrong with playing homebrew games. However, commercial games are the property of the copyright holder. Just because a product is not available for sale at a particular date does not give you the right to acquire and use it for free.
 
I highly recommend the bleemcast ones if you can find them. I played MGS last year with it, and it cant be beat (unless you get Twin Snakes for GC...); this will forever heighten my already amazing respect for the DC.

Oh, and play Bangai-O is you can find it. I got through the first 43 levels w/o too much difficulty; it took me approximately 100 tries to beat the last boss. After that experience, I know that I can beat any game... Anything.
 
Genesis games run smoothly on the DC as well. Mine show no slowdown, and keep all the sweet ass sound effects.
 
Can dreamcast play game gear games? I have shining force sword of hajin (or something like that) and I can't play it very long, since portables often start hurting my neck. It would be great if I could play it on the tv (playing on the pc isn't very fun).
 
If the emulator runs from a CD you may be out of luck. CDs will only work with MIL-CD compatible Dreamcasts manufactured before October, 2000. Check the date on the bottom of you Dreamcast to see when it was manufactured. I know this because some of the later versions of the Dreamcast wouldn’t run the Bleem! for Dreamcast which allowed you to play certain Playstation 1 games (Gran Turismo 2, Tekken 3, and Metal Gear Solid) on a Dreamcast. My Dreamcast was manufactured on August, 1999.
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Are you sure? I thougth that was a myth they debunked some time ago. It may matter for Bleem!, but as for other CDs I thought any DC was capable of running them.
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It is true, to a point. Some Dreamcasts after Oct 2000 can not read CD-R. Some can. Its not because they suddenly caught on or anything, its simply because they switched to a cheaper cd-rom in the Dreamcast. Its like how some new Xboxes still have the thompson drives. Your odds of success would be greater with one pre October 2000 though.
 
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