/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5183485]

Dreamcast Thread

What games are you playing right now?
Best Hidden Gems/Imports?
Any cool fanmade games/hacks?
Fun peripherals to try out?
Best controllers/memory units?

I've been trying out the prototype version of Propeller Arena with my friends and it's been a lot of fun, seems like it should have a modern release already.

[Anonymous No.5183491]

if you havent played and beat the beautiful dreamcast exclusive "Elemental Gimmick Gear" and A ranked all the egg racing, you sir are a spoer and fuckfagnig

[Anonymous No.5183561]

>>5183485
>Hidden gems
Seventh Cross Evolution. The game is so fucking weird.

It seems so normal at the start and then it just gets wackier and wackier as the storyline comes closer the forefront. Did anyone else play this one? I only rented it, but we renewed it a couple of times just to finish it.

[Anonymous No.5183956]

>>5183485
>Best Hidden Gems
>HIDDEN GEMS

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[Anonymous No.5184074]

I suddenly had the overwhelming urge to play tech romancer

[Anonymous No.5184534]

Hey, today, November 27th 1998 is the DoB of the DC. Happy Birthday DC.

[Anonymous No.5184538]

>>5183561
Hell yeah, someone else spreading the good word. That game is so fucking weird.

[Anonymous No.5184541]

Third rate console with a shovelware library. Glad I skipped it for the PS2 back in the day.

[Anonymous No.5184549]

Has there ever been a console more heavily marketed towards negroes? I don’t think that gamble paid off for Sega.

[Anonymous No.5184565]

Lack of Love (L.O.L.)

It's like a linear Spore. I'll let Rab do the talking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUwzjE6ZU-M

[Anonymous No.5184575]

I want to play Cool Cool Toon but I can't find a CDI or GDI.

The prices on ebay are not astronomical, but how would I even go about ripping a GD-ROM game I had in my possession?

[Anonymous No.5184616]

>>5184575
Never mind, found the guide,:

http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=GD-Rom_Dumping_Guide

[Anonymous No.5184895]

I've been trying to play my DC, but it won't read the discs. They start spinning slowly but then they suddenly stop. What can be happening?

[Anonymous No.5184907]

>>5183485
>What games are you playing right now?
None, CRT is dead.
>Best Hidden Gems/Imports?
Super Runabout
>Any cool fanmade games/hacks?
Doom port is legit.
>Fun peripherals to try out?
Mouse/Keyboard are awesome for the shooters
>Best controllers/memory units?
Never found good third party stuff for the DC

[Anonymous No.5184934]

>>5184541
>bought PS2
>complains about other consoles having shovelware

[Anonymous No.5184937]

>>5184616
For the love of god DO NOT use Redump’s method. Use an SD adapter and dump the disc on your Dreamcast with jj1d0m’s program. Redump’s GDIs are fucking garbage and aren’t compatible with anything. I wish people would stop distributing that trash.

[Anonymous No.5184941]

>>5184937
What aren't their GDIs compatible with? Do they not work with the GDEMU or USB-GDROM?

[Anonymous No.5184950]

Is it possible to use a PAL RF lead on a NTSC-U Dreamcast? The reason I ask is because I have parts I need to test and it turns out the mainboards are all US versions (model 837-13778/02) but I'm in the UK where we use PAL. I have a TV tuner card that can receive NTSC but need to know if the RF lead will still work on it (model HKT-8830). I don't have any other AV cables right now like component before anyone asks, this is just for testing purposes.

[Anonymous No.5184954]

>>5184941
They aren’t compatible with GDEMU and I think their games with more than 3 tracks won’t work with USB GD-ROM. Redump’s format adds some kind of lead in data that isn’t necessary. Their GDIs won’t work with nullDC or most PC utilities for opening/manipulating GDIs. Their set is also shit because they release hashes for games that they only have 1 dump of so if you grab a Redump set the images aren’t necessarily verified, where TOSEC won’t add anything until they have at least 2 dumps with matching ring codes.

[Anonymous No.5184971]

>>5184954
There's someone on reddit from redump who told me that the Samsung drive they recommend catches more data than the console's drive.

[Anonymous No.5185056]

>>5184950
It should work fine.

[Anonymous No.5185068]

>>5184971
>Reddit
Oh, must be true then. I mean really, think about that claim. Do you think a PC drive that you’ve swapped a disc out of to force it to read a disc that it normally couldn’t could provide more accurate data than dumping on a device made to read that type of disc that can be controlled directly?

[Anonymous No.5185070]

>>5184950
Ive once tested pal rf cable on japanese DC and it worked

[Anonymous No.5185076]

>>5185056
>>5185070

Neat. I know I've done it before but can't for the life of me remember what I did.

[Anonymous No.5185119]

>>5185068
ok, dude. everyone on reddit is full of shit and 4chan is the bbs of record.

[Anonymous No.5185158]

Fur Fighters
This wasn't really huge or anything but it's got a few people that remember it well.
It had a lot of charm put into the levels. They were huge, featured puzzles and unique and creative designs. There were levels based on the Guggenhiem museum, space station meer, hell and a beaver damn for example.

putting nostalgia aside it's got quite a few issues. There's a lot of running back and forth to reach character changing telepoints, there are a lot of weapons but you end up using the same one/two. The gunplay doesn't involve, stealth, sniping or crouching, I think it was trying to keep the action simple to be fair. The game also features platforming but it has the standard shooter tank controls.

[Anonymous No.5185163]

>>5185158
Does this have multiplayer? I just got it recently and have it in my backlog.

[Anonymous No.5185168]

>>5185163
yes, 4 player split-screen.
The character switching gimmick is also in the multiplayer death matches, so it added an extra layer of strategy. some characters could obtain different collectables for example.

[Anonymous No.5185339]

>>5185068
All right, I took a closer look at the audio track offset differences and TOSECs standard makes more sense, I think. I wouldn't have any use for GDIs until the DCIO comes out, but anyway.

Goodolddownloads only had a redump of Cool Cool Toon. Where can I find TOSEC dumps?

[Anonymous No.5185357]

>>5185339
Cool Cool Toon isn’t in the TOSEC set, unfortunately. Try archive.org, I believe someone had uploaded a TOSEC set on there. TOSEC used to be more common to find but Redump memed themselves into relevancy and people bought into it.

[Anonymous No.5185379]

>>5185068
>>5185119
>4chan

home of qanon and pizzagate

[Anonymous No.5185383]

>>5185379
I once got /v/ to believe that the sensory nerves in their tongue and glans were analogous and that they could therefore taste through their penis, so I had a thread full of people fucking jers of peanut butter.

Give me a shoutout if you remember that hilarious evening in 2009-ish.

[Anonymous No.5185620]

>>5184541
>shovelware
>has the highest good games:total games ratio of any console
kys

[Anonymous No.5185984]

>>5184541
you weren't even born then you fucking liar.
>source? i was fucking your mom.

[Anonymous No.5186007]

>>5185357
Well, what do I need to rip games on my Dreamcast? I was thinking of getting a legit copy of the game anyway.

[Anonymous No.5186517]

>>5186007
Pretty easy, here’s a simple guide I found:
http://hiddenpalace.org/Dreamcast_SD_Rip

To get the info on the file hashes and what not to TOSEC you just register at the Dumpcast forums and either find or make a thread for Cool Cool Toon.

[Anonymous No.5186529]

>>5186517
Actually, disregard - Cool Cool Toon is in the 2017 TOSEC set.

[Anonymous No.5186765]

>>5186529
Do I have to register to grab the TOSEC gdi of the game?

[Anonymous No.5186782]

>>5183491
>Conspicuously leaving out mention of THAT part
It's shit. I even got the eco spinner beforehand and I still think that part is fucking terrible, what where they thinking?

[Anonymous No.5186973]

>>5186782
What part, I honestly dont remember.


You mean the wood and the fire, to go forth you desire?
Thats the only part I had trouble with when I first played it in like 2000

[Anonymous No.5187801]

I'm getting botched colors and vertical lines when playing this burned CDI, the menu before opening it looks fine.
My console is PAL and the disc NTSC, I'm trying to find any other game to try it with since I don't have any games lying around.

[Anonymous No.5187910]

>>5186973
The seven or so gates you need to spin through in quick succession. You have to spin to open the locks, pop out, start spinning again, and then navigate carefully and quickly though.
It'd be one thing if it was just that as a skill challenge, but remember that using the top mode drains health unless you have the aforementioned (bonus) item the eco spinner. I'll get back to the game eventually, but that one spot really soured my play experience.

[Anonymous No.5188112]

>>5187801
Download and burn the Utopia boot disc if your console's manufacturing number is 0 or 1.

[Anonymous No.5188123]

>>5188112
Same graphical glitches

[Anonymous No.5188130]

>>5188123
Is your TV PAL?
Did you patch it for 60hz?

For the patch:
>Open the CDI image in a hex-editor and search for all occurences of following byte sequence:

>A0 09 00 05 A0 01 E4 03 A0 02 E4 01 A0 03 E4

>and change this three bytes to zero:

>A0 09 00 05 A0 00 E4 03 A0 00 E4 01 A0 00 E4