/vr/ - Retro Games

What is date of manufacture on the bottom of your Dreamcast? Some of them can be kinda funny about playing burned discs.

>>1318253
i have been using an emulator to verify if the cds will work on my dreamcast. i am away from my dreamcast at the moment

DiscJuggler is the major solution.

What guide are you using to burn your games?

>>1318261
for imgburn i used this tutorial :http://theisozone.com/tutorials/dreamcast/burning-and-backup/dreamcast-burning-cdi-2012-style/

for alcohol 120% i used this:http://www.1emulation.com/forums/topic/25432-the-end-all-be-all-dc-burning-guide/

and as for discjuggler, i never had a very trustworthy guide to go by, as many of them give different instructions.

>>1318264
I've been using 120 for years doing the same thing in that guide, never had a problem.

I've used all those. They all work. I personally prefer imgburn.

There are a few things that can cause this problem.

Wrong region. The DC won't warn you a game in the wrong region like pretty much every other console is just shows up as a CD.

Laser problem. Probably can be adjusted to work.

Incompatible CD-Rs. In particular on systems with picky lasers you may have to try a few brands before you find one that works well.

Download Utopia Boot Disk, burn it and see how that goes. Use whatever image burner you want, but I personally have been using 120 for years and never had a problem with it. I always had problems playing Dreamcast games that claim to self boot and Utopia Boot Disk would be the solution.

>>1318317
yeah, i think maybe i burned the discs properly, i'll just wait until i get to try the discs on a real dreamcast. this whole time i have just been trying to verify that the discs themselves are actually playable, but i suppose an emulator isn't going to get the job done. thanks though

>>1318321

Fuck the Boot disc. I hated using that shit.

Self-Boot FTW. They always worked for me.

>>1318317

Huh? Games are regionfree if they are burnt copies. Have an European DC, mainly played NTSC and NTSC-J on it.

I also used shitty CDs and they still worked. Must be the burner settings.

>>1318345
>regionfree
Only if they've been altered to be.

>shitty
If your definition of shitty means the cheap off brand disks that work with picky lasers as opposed to the name brand ones that don't then yes, shitty ones work

>burner settings
Nope, it's a an issue of compatibility between the laser and the disc. Burner settings have little if anything to do with it.

Get NBA 2K. You can create obese basketball players with skill.

>>1320753
...do you even know what this thread is about?

>>1320764
Import the Japanese version?

With Discjuggler:
Default tab
>New --> Burn Disc Image
>Source --> choose .cdi file

Advanced tab
>Mode --> Mode1/DVD
>(Overburn if necessary, usually is not)

Set speed to "optimal" if the option is available. No need to burn at lowest settings, that's a thing of the past.

>>1320773
Oh, and it'll say "It can only burn 700mb, should you continue?" click yes.
If it says there are errors that it can try to automatically fix click no.

I don't give a fuck what the sticky says. Dreamcast is not retro. Sage.

>>1320886
>counter sage
imgburn works 90% of the time for me. I've never got a good copy of Quake III arena, using DJ or imgburn. My buddy did somehowthough

not retro

>>1320987
...but it is.
Check the sticky.

Make sure you use the correct older version of IMGBurn, with the plugins etc in the correct place. Works for me. I still burn BoR discs when I'm bored with my Wii.

I used Dream Burner. It burned my DC games in minutes and best of all the games were able to boot as a stand alone. I didn't need the Utopia boot disc.

>>1320991
Ouch...

>>1318249
Your emulator might not like your PC optical drive, oddly enough. burn the disc for on a dreamcast, but for emulation try to use the cdi file.I'd make sure I had a dreamcast to test before you end up making unnecessary coasters/copies for friends/cat toys. If you can, I mean.

IMGBurn+Verbatim. Never needed a bootdisk.

>>1318249
This works for me
http://theisozone.com/tutorials/dreamcast/burning-and-backup/burn-dreamcast-games-perfectly-on-discjuggler-every-time/

I own a dreamcast. but i want to use an emulator to play Seaman. Is there any ANY Emulator out there thats supports a microphone???? Ive been looking for the last 2 hours.

>>1321262
http://dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=69600&start=40
Your google-fu can use some work.

If you have a version 2 Dreamcast (mostly October 2000 and later) it won't play self booting CD images. It is a non mil-cd compatible.

>>1321265
lol i just kept googling dreamcast emulator microphone. Thought I had one link but it was dead.

>>1321272
Yeah, this one was dead too... my apologies.
Gonna keep looking.

>>1321265
that being the link i was talking about lol

>>1321275
ive actually been looking for a few years... :-/

>>1321287
Its like trying to find a unicorn.

>>1321262
No. I've been looking for years. Someone started working on it for NullDC a while back but nothing much came of it. There was homebrew code that used the mic so the information should all be out there somewhere but no one and put it all together.

>>1321563
I read something about the kallistiOS but I guess it's a homebrew OS for the DC. It still uses the vmu microphone I think.

>>1321587
It's a developing platform for DC and it has mic capabilities.

>I own a dreamcast

You can just buy Seaman for under thirty dollars with the microphone and everything. I see it at my local game shop all the time. The mic even has the little green sponge on it.

>>1321675
This, nigs.

>>1321587
KOS is a homebrew OS for developers. It's not just DC, but in reality its just DC. Some guy wrote some stuff that used the mic 10 years ago or so. Little progress has been made since then.

>>1321675
You can get it for far less...In the States. No one has it and shipping costs more than the mic.

>>1318249
Here's how I do it
>download dat iso (DCRES are the best ones)
>get dat CD-R (NOT CD-RW)
>burn dat iso onto onto dat CD-R using dat Diskjuggler
>pic related

>>1321675
I can't find the unit the mic goes into for under 45$ where are you finding it bundled for under 30$?
>>1322124
https://code.google.com/p/nulldc/source/browse/trunk/nulldc/plugins/XMaple/ i think i found the source for a plugin that uses the Mic but i dont know how to compile .Dll's

>>1318258
Not all dreamcasts play backups.

>>1322646
That's it. It supports something like 1-2 functions like check status. But yeah, like I said, I think all the code needed is out there someone just needs to put it all together. But it looks like NullDC is dead. I gave up on it years ago and have been concentrating on collecting original hardware.

>>1318258
It should be obvious

check the silver label on the underside of the console, there should be a number in a circle. 0 or 1 will play burned disks, 2 won't, simple as that