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7424227 No.7424227 [Reply] [Original]

I'm spending my days snowed in burning games for my Dreamcast. What should I get? Playing thru EGG right now and its pretty good!

>> No.7424243
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>>7424227
Bangai-O is fun af!

>> No.7424250

>>7424243
hell yeah, i played that ages ago on my DS. Will burn that next

>> No.7424285

>>7424227
Capcom vs SNK 1 & 2
Fatal Fury Mark of the Wolves
Hydro Thunder
Ikaruga
Jet Set Radio
King of Fighters Dream Match 1999
Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver
Marvel vs Capcom 1 & 2
Metropolis Street Racer
Power Stone 1 & 2
Rayman 2
Rez
Skies of Arcadia
Soul Calibur
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 & 2
Virtua Tennis 1 & 2

>> No.7424289

Will 2nd bangaio that's a must.
Even if you don't think you like sports games, imo the DC ports of NFL Blitz are the absolute GOAT versions of a top 5 sports game

>> No.7424291

>>7424227
Dreamcast has made me take the Segapill. For that, I say: fuck nintendo

>> No.7424317

>>7424291
why Nintendo? It was Sony who fucked them. Sega v Nintendo was a relatively healthy competition

>> No.7424320

>>7424317
Oh right, fuck Sony too.

>> No.7424331

>>7424285
Good list! Already did SF3rd Strike today, doing Bangai rn and then will probably get Skies.

>>7424289
Thanks for the recommendation! Would have probably skipped it

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>> No.7424406

is there any equivalent yet for the DC like the PS2 has with its games being installed onto a hard drive? Like something through the Ethernet port connected to a PC that you can load your games off of after copying them from the disc?

>> No.7424442

>>7424406
GDEMU, where you use a SD Card. From what I heard it's kind of an ass of getting it, other anons may know better.

>> No.7424478

>>7424406
https://terraonion.com/en/producto/terraonion-mode/

>> No.7424479

>>7424442
it is a pain because the guy does it all by hand, so you have to wait for him to decide to make a set, which he announces by email list, and then you have to stalk the site the day he says he'll be listing them, at which point you better be quick or you are missing out and waiting again.

There are chinese clones too; They are lower quality and you can't update them, but they are much more widely available.

I have two official ones, one for Dreamcast and one for Saturn. They are finicky at times, but they work for their intended purpose.

There is another device out there called USB-GDROM, which uses USB devices, and if I understand correctly, is less difficult to use. I have never used one, so I cannot confirm.

>> No.7424828

>>7424227
Is it true burning CDs for free pirated games fucks up the laser in your Dreamcast over time? I have a hand me down DC from my cousin back in 2002 but I never bothered getting games for it, it sort of just sat there in a shoebox under tons of shit for years until I tried burning aome shit for it back in 2015. I got to play Daytona USA, Power Stone and Soul Caliber but for some reason the burned CD of Cyber Troopers refused to work. And now I look online for DC game prices and they're fucking retarded. 80 bucks for Power Stone 2. Fuck off. Ill just keep pirating but I want to know if its killing this thing faster than it would naturally.

>> No.7424891

>>7424828
It's not true unless it's still the mid-2000s and the world of recordable optical media is still a jungle. I've always played pirated games that were burned on reputably branded CD-Rs and have never had any laser problems with my Dreamcast.

>>7424406
There are fairly expensive devices that replace the entire disc drive with a hard drive or an SD card, which have extremely good performance and compatibility since they are transparent to the console (like a flashcart to a cartridge-based console). What you've been linked already falls into that category. There are also very cheap, low quality dongles that plug into the serial port on the back of the console and allow you to load games from SD cards. These are slow and have hit or miss compatibility, more like loading games onto a PS2 over USB instead of from an internal HDD, but they only cost about $10.

>> No.7424929

>>7424442
>>7424479
I have a gdemu clone and it's mostly fine, for some reason it only wants tosec rips and I have a hard time getting some cdi's working. was $60~ so I can't complain.

>> No.7424932

Mark of the Wolves is the greatest fighting game ever made

>> No.7425045

>>7424929
Why so much? They all seem to be like $35 on Aliexpress right now, but a lot of the sellers are also selling some kind of plastic part (that looks like it would be easy to 3D print) for $25 more, is that part actually necessary somehow?

>> No.7425103

>>7424828
probably not lol, like its cheaper to buy a whole dreamcast at this point than to buy the games

>> No.7425108

>>7425045
I think if you buy the $60 or so ones you aren't left waiting 4-12 weeks for one so it's a little better.

>> No.7425287

>>7424479
interesting. I knew about the disc drive devices, but I really liked how the PS2 set up does it where i can put a game into my actual system and install it completely to the drive via that without needing to use a PC to copy the files from the disc, so was hoping there was some similar option out there for more systems. i may fuck around with that SD card option just to try it.

>> No.7425410
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It's also possible to DIY a dreamcast to read games from an old IDE hard drive, using the same Dreamshell OS needed to read games from SD cards. Dreamshell itself can be flashed onto an alternate BIOS, but this requires physically soldering a new flash ROM to the main board.
>http://8bitplus.co.uk/projects/dreamcast-ide-dreamshell/

This kind of mod appeals to me but there's no way I'm going to solder that many connections directly onto my dreamcast's main board. But, I wonder if there could be something like a piggyback connector for the ROM chip or a solderless version of the IDE breakout board used in that writeup. It looks like someone may have designed something like part of that already
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lizu54URYmE

>> No.7425543

>>7425045
the plastic thing is a 3D-printed tray that was designed as a way to make it slightly cleaner inside. The reason for this is that the GDEMU sits inside the space where the GD-ROM drive was, but it doesn't take up the same amount of space as the original drive, so there's an opening into which you could drop the SD card. It's as simple as fishing your hand back into it and grabbing it out, but if you are not a fan of reaching into your console to grab the SD card as it drops, then the plastic thing will just stop it from falling in and make it all look a little better overall.

I don't give a shit about it, but if youwant it, it's there.

>> No.7425550

>>7425287
unfortunately nobody devsed that for DC, unless you want to rip games via the serial cable (aka the 2000-era method that took for-fucking-ever)

The SD works out well enough

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>>7425550
You absolutely can do that with a DC, from Dreamshell. If you have the IDE hard drive mod installed as a slave drive with the original GD-ROM drive still in place (possible if you solder connections directly to the motherboard), you can rip a game directly from a disc to the hard drive. Otherwise, you can still rip to an SD card (not to mention play the backup loaded from either of those sources).
The main drawback compared to the way it works on a PS2 is that FMCB is essentially a softmod that only requires certain data on a memory card. Booting dreamshell either requires a disc or a hardware modification.

>> No.7425695

Blue Stinger
Illbleed
Seven Mansions (there is a fan-translation for it)
Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream (same)
L.O.L.: Lack of Love (again)
Maken X
Dynamite Cop
Cosmic Smash
Mars Matrix
Triggerheart Exelica

>> No.7425993

>>7424828
I've had my dreamcast since 2003 and while it hasn't been consistently used over that time, I've never replaced the laser on it, it still works fine, and probably 50% of it's total playtime is from burnt CD's, perhaps even more.

>> No.7426293
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>>7424227
>snowed in

>> No.7426589

>>7426293
Based. Still wish the M2 version had been released, though.

>> No.7426761
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>>7424227
Dopey, soulful low-poly JRPG coming through.

Its sequel is pretty good too.

>> No.7426824

>>7424227
If you're looking for something to play that time the snow turned to rain you should try Shenmue.

>> No.7426957

>>7424227
>burning games
R.I.P. to your Dreamcast. CD-R's tend to make Dreamcasts die really quick. My Dreamcast couldn't read discs anymore after I kept using CD-R's.

>> No.7426964

>>7426957
Nah, the lasers just die over time like all disc based systems.
>t. played burned games on my Dreamcast for years straight until the laser died after 20 years

>> No.7427132

>>7426964
Except...
>1) I was using CD-R's in 1999 to play music on my Dreamcast. Didn't pirate games at the time.
>2) My first Dreamcast died in 2001. Had to buy a new one, which has lasted me for 20 years now, thanks to not using any CD-R's.

>> No.7427295

>>7426957
Drive death is inevitable, just going to keep at it until it dies and when it does I'll install an ODE.

>> No.7427432

>>7427295
Good idea. I should have installed an ODE on my old Dreamcast.

>> No.7427473

>>7427132
>1) I was using CD-R's in 1999 to play music on my Dreamcast.
CDDA is what killed it, not the CD-Rs. Reading an audio CD means that the optical pickup is constantly streaming data instead of just occasionally (from the perspective of a computer performing millions of operations per second--this can still mean many reads per second) loading bursts of data into RAM as occurs when playing normal games. The laser wasn't built to withstand a 100% duty cycle.

>> No.7427560

>>7427473
Except my CD-R's aren't "CDDA", it reads "CD-R". I still own several CD-R's that I own from 1999.

>> No.7427578

>>7427295
Death in general is inevitable. Emulation is eternal.

>> No.7427651

>>7427560
Google the words you just used, you don't know what they mean.

>> No.7427669

>>7427560
>my CD-R's aren't "CDDA"
>I was using CD-R's in 1999 to play music
Really makes you think

>> No.7427678

could any one help me my discs arent reading on my dream cast they stopped reading randomly and i need help fixing it

>> No.7427726

>>7427560
lol based retard

>> No.7427729

>>7427651
>>7427669
>>7427726
Trolled!

>> No.7427735

>>7427295
i mean, arnt we at the point, or really close, that chinks over in chinerland can just manufacture decent replacement drives/lasers?