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Title: What nintendon't Joined: Dec 08 2010 Posts: 58

I was wondering if anyone ever dabbed into Dreamcast emulation?

I just downloaded Nester DC- Special Edition and its a great little CD that brings back alot of memories. Also I am loving the Japanese Shumps on the DC.

The DC can NES at full speed but it can't run the Genesis/SNES at full speed for some reason, I always wondered why this was.

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1: Look, the forum rules state that this kind of talk about emulation is not permitted here.
2: Meh.

Posted: Jan 17 2011 05:46 am

GenesisDoes wrote:

The DC can NES at full speed but it can't run the Genesis/SNES at full speed for some reason, I always wondered why this was.

A combination of the 16-bit emulators requiring more power and the programmers for said emulators not working on them enough to tweak out the problems. Your problem probably won't get fixed, either. It's not like a ton of thought and resources are being given to Dreamcast emulators anymore.

I've played the SNES emulator on my Dreamcast, it worked ok. And before anyone says I'm breakin' da law, breakin' da law, I just happen to own every SNES game in existence, and I just happen to have legally backed up my property onto my hard drive for my own personal enjoyment. No, you can't see my collection. She lives in another state, you don't know her.

Posted: Jan 17 2011 11:50 am

Jack Slater wrote:

And before anyone says I'm breakin' da law, breakin' da law, I just happen to own every SNES game in existence, and I just happen to have legally backed up my property onto my hard drive for my own personal enjoyment. No, you can't see my collection. She lives in another state, you don't know her.

No one is going to ask. Either.

Syd just doesn't want un-needed attention to his site when people start searching for this stuff.

Anything falling in this category should be reserved for Abandon Fairground/NWO Forums.

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Jack Slater wrote:

GenesisDoes wrote:

The DC can NES at full speed but it can't run the Genesis/SNES at full speed for some reason, I always wondered why this was.

A combination of the 16-bit emulators requiring more power and the programmers for said emulators not working on them enough to tweak out the problems. Your problem probably won't get fixed, either. It's not like a ton of thought and resources are being given to Dreamcast emulators anymore.

I've played the SNES emulator on my Dreamcast, it worked ok. And before anyone says I'm breakin' da law, breakin' da law, I just happen to own every SNES game in existence, and I just happen to have legally backed up my property onto my hard drive for my own personal enjoyment. No, you can't see my collection. She lives in another state, you don't know her.

nobody really gives a shit. we all play emulators here. we're just not allowed to share links for some reason.

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I was under the impression we can share as many links as we want as long as they are in the private forums.

The reasoning as I understand it is that if someone searches Dreamcast Emulation and one of the first things to pop up is a thread in Sydlexia, that's just bad for the site in general since emulation isn't the focus. If this were a Warez of Emu site it wouldn't matter.

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That's exactly it. I just wasn't really clear in my explanation.

Posted: Jan 17 2011 07:06 pm

Im sorry, what the hell is this?

Posted: Jan 17 2011 07:09 pm

There's no excuse for emulating Dreamcast. You can get a used Dreamcast for $20 and then burn as many games as you like it for it. I'd like to think everyone has $20. $20 is the new $5.

Posted: Jan 17 2011 07:26 pm

It's not a DreamCast emulator I don't think. I'm pretty sure it's emulators that play on your DC.

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yeah, that's what he was talking about.

Posted: Jan 17 2011 08:03 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

There's no excuse for emulating Dreamcast. You can get a used Dreamcast for $20 and then burn as many games as you like it for it. I'd like to think everyone has $20. $20 is the new $5.

I got mine for like $30 and spent an extra $10 doing stuff to it to get it to play some imports I bought. It was totally worth it.

Posted: Jan 17 2011 08:41 pm

I still have my Black Sega Sports Edition.

Posted: Jan 17 2011 08:46 pm

Douche McCallister wrote:

It's not a DreamCast emulator I don't think. I'm pretty sure it's emulators that play on your DC.

And you can just get this from a ROM site?

Posted: Jan 17 2011 09:58 pm

I remember having a NES CD that a coworker burnt for me back in 2001. It was a wonky setup but it had all the NES games on it. I can't remember if the VMU saved your data though.

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the dreamcast is also the preferred method of playing Beats of Rage.

Posted: Jan 18 2011 11:46 am

I remember the days of burning emulators FOR the Dreamcast. (Not OF the Dreamcast).

Back then, you had to use a 3rd party program to infuse them right so that they would be self-bootable and wouldn't need a loader disc. It would make them into a CDI file with your ROMS added in. Then there was only one or two programs that would burn them right. (I think that was what got me to originally start using "Nero Burning ROM" I think I still have my NES, SNES, and Commodore 64 custom made discs stashed away somewhere.

I loved the C=64 one, because it was the only thing the Dreamcast keyboard was good for other than "Typing of The Dead."

Posted: Jan 18 2011 12:30 pm

Douche McCallister wrote:

It's not a DreamCast emulator I don't think. I'm pretty sure it's emulators that play on your DC.

Oh... so it's even more fucking useless. You can run an emulator on fucking ANYTHING. Who the hell cares about NES emulators for the DC in fucking 2011? Play it on your damn computer.

Posted: Jan 18 2011 01:21 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Douche McCallister wrote:

It's not a DreamCast emulator I don't think. I'm pretty sure it's emulators that play on your DC.

Oh... so it's even more fucking useless. You can run an emulator on fucking ANYTHING. Who the hell cares about NES emulators for the DC in fucking 2011? Play it on your damn computer.

Well back in 2001, when I had it, ROMS weren't that popular and it was awesome playing them on a tv rather than my 15 inch CRT monitor. But yea today it's mostly useless.

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Knyte wrote:

I remember the days of burning emulators FOR the Dreamcast. (Not OF the Dreamcast).

Back then, you had to use a 3rd party program to infuse them right so that they would be self-bootable and wouldn't need a loader disc. It would make them into a CDI file with your ROMS added in. Then there was only one or two programs that would burn them right. (I think that was what got me to originally start using "Nero Burning ROM" I think I still have my NES, SNES, and Commodore 64 custom made discs stashed away somewhere.

I loved the C=64 one, because it was the only thing the Dreamcast keyboard was good for other than "Typing of The Dead."

they keyboard and mouse were good for quake III and unreal tournament...

Syd Lexia wrote:

Douche McCallister wrote:

It's not a DreamCast emulator I don't think. I'm pretty sure it's emulators that play on your DC.

Oh... so it's even more fucking useless. You can run an emulator on fucking ANYTHING. Who the hell cares about NES emulators for the DC in fucking 2011? Play it on your damn computer.

it's just like those assholes that build a toaster that can play NES games. is there really a point to a nintoaster? It's just a fun hobby that some people have.

Title: What nintendon't Joined: Dec 08 2010 Posts: 58

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Oh... so it's even more fucking useless. You can run an emulator on fucking ANYTHING. Who the hell cares about NES emulators for the DC in fucking 2011? Play it on your damn computer.

Dreamcast requires no modding like an XBox or Wii and I like the controller, Along with playing Japanese SHUMPS I didn't get to play back in the day .

Sorry I brought this topic up, go ahead and close it.

Posted: Jan 19 2011 10:40 am

GenesisDoes wrote:

Sorry I brought this topic up, go ahead and close it.

Don't feel bad about it. I know I wouldn't. Very Happy

Posted: Jan 19 2011 01:44 pm

I love the Dreamcast but I absolutely hate the controller for it. Damn things break too easily.

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I hated the tamogotchi pet thing that the memory cards had

Posted: Jan 19 2011 04:37 pm

I Hated that the VMU function of the memory cards only lasted for about a week on the shitty watch batteries they took.

The saves still work fine, but none of my 3 memory cards have worked as VMUs in a decade.