Dreamcast backups ?

[SeanoRLY?]

I LOVED the DC because I didn't need to use the boot disc. In fact, I think the most costly part is buying the accessories like lightguns, arcade sticks, memory cards and the maracas which in turn is almost like having an arcade in your room. That said, I think I might buy another DC since my one is resetting on it's own a lot now.

SeanORLY: Lol, another Inverness GBAtemper.... never thought I'd see one.

You from Inverness yourself like?

Offtopic, I know :X

 

[Harsky]

I LOVED the DC because I didn't need to use the boot disc. In fact, I think the most costly part is buying the accessories like lightguns, arcade sticks, memory cards and the maracas which in turn is almost like having an arcade in your room. That said, I think I might buy another DC since my one is resetting on it's own a lot now.

SeanORLY: Lol, another Inverness GBAtemper.... never thought I'd see one.

You from Inverness yourself like?

Offtopic, I know :X

Yep. Don't believe? I know one thing.

Hilton Mental Crew FTL.

Also Lucky Star FTL.

Okay that's 2 things.

 

[teH XeRO]

would any kind of mod to the DC make it boot my backups flawlessly every time? my backups used to always boot up perfectyl every time but i guess from straining the lense/eye from playing all the backups it struggles to boot the games sometimes...anyone know a way i can fix the lense or should i just buy another DC off of like ebay or something.

 

[iza]

damn you guys.... now i have to go buy a dc, memory cards, light guns, and cd's.... never had a dc, and now you guys tell me i can boot backups without a mod.... why didnt someone bring this up sooner?!?!?!?!

 

[sekhu]

damn you guys.... now i have to go buy a dc, memory cards, light guns, and cd's.... never had a dc, and now you guys tell me i can boot backups without a mod.... why didnt someone bring this up sooner?!?!?!?!

i still have a working and a faulty dc, four controllers, four vmus and two arcade sticks, along with a light gun. it was like having an arcade in your room when it came out, full of sega classics. it's only feature was pretty backwards at the time, with the UK getting a 33k modem built in where as the US had 56k modems. Wonder if it still works online, though I doubt it

 

[Harsky]

damn you guys.... now i have to go buy a dc, memory cards, light guns, and cd's.... never had a dc, and now you guys tell me i can boot backups without a mod.... why didnt someone bring this up sooner?!?!?!?!


i still have a working and a faulty dc, four controllers, four vmus and two arcade sticks, along with a light gun. it was like having an arcade in your room when it came out, full of sega classics. it's only feature was pretty backwards at the time, with the UK getting a 33k modem built in where as the US had 56k modems. Wonder if it still works online, though I doubt it

2 years ago, I went online with Phantasy Star Online with a Dreamkey 3 disc I bought off ebay. The people were happy to dish out hacked items. Sadly my save got corrupted so I lost everything. Luckily I only put in 2 days work into it. But really, online gaming have moved on. Just go online to see what it was like to be in 1999 but don't rely on it.

 

[asher]

I LOVE SEGA

the best game news someone could ever give me...
WOULD BE a NEW SEGA CONSOLE.

 

[madmk]

The Dreamcast rocked so hard, one of the best consoles I've ever owned :-) Might have to get that one out of the attic soon

 

[lenselijer]

i even have 2 dreamcast consoles here incase my launch one breaks down

 

[iza]

doesnt seem like my local game shop has any instock... should i be looking for a specific model or anything?

 

[sekhu]

there's no specific model that you should be looking for, they all were designed and worked the same, I don't remember any revisions for the DC, cept that the US release had a 56k modem and the PAL was 33k, other than they played and worked the same.

 

[adgloride]

doesnt seem like my local game shop has any instock... should i be looking for a specific model or anything?

People do say backups work better on the dreamcasts made in 1999. Others say it doesn't matter. The ones that won't play backups at all are usually the special editions ones.

Anyone that wants to know a good website for all your dreamcast needs, give me a PM. I don't think the admins/mods would appreciate me posting it on the forums.

 

[asher]

doesnt seem like my local game shop has any instock...

of course not.

 

[amptor]

Well for the games you needed the loader, you can download a small tool to convert it to self booting, just drag and drop the iso and it makes you a new iso and you burn that. You can find torrents with all the original rars out there pretty easily, usually ratio though. This system doesn't have very many games, if one doesn't own it already I don't think you'd get much use out of it if you went out and bought one. There's also emulators for the PC anyway. This totally shows you that you can make the same games that run on console on the PC but it's all about marketing. I'm surprised they put top notch stuff on PC still, since it seems like everyone's hovering around their TV set still.

 

[adgloride]

I was looking in gamestation today and the had a dreamcast in for £14.99. You can also get them cheap of ebay. If they have the reset problem which is easy to fix. You can get them even cheaper. I still love the idea of the VMUs on the dreamcast. Its just a shame they never used rechargable batteries that recharged from the controller.

 

[SeanoRLY?]

I LOVED the DC because I didn't need to use the boot disc. In fact, I think the most costly part is buying the accessories like lightguns, arcade sticks, memory cards and the maracas which in turn is almost like having an arcade in your room. That said, I think I might buy another DC since my one is resetting on it's own a lot now.

SeanORLY: Lol, another Inverness GBAtemper.... never thought I'd see one.

You from Inverness yourself like?

Offtopic, I know :X

Yep. Don't believe? I know one thing.

Hilton Mental Crew FTL.

Also Lucky Star FTL.

Okay that's 2 things.

Lol, Lucky Star pwns. But the forum keeps re-sizing the avvy, so I can't use it

 

[mcsquared]

the worst thing about the DC was the VMU - great idea but jesus did they eat batteries! think i replaced them once and then couldnt be arsed there's a website where someone modded theirs to use AA's but seems too much like hard work. shame there was never a good footy game on it (soccer) SWWS was grap as was virtua stiker, the closest to a decent game was 90minutes and that was terrible!

do we need a sticky 'essential DC games'?

 

[sekhu]

i stole a couple of VMUs from ECTS and wore it like bling, it was always dead though, since , as you say, the batteries were eaten up like rice at a famine party

 

[xenon]

do we need a sticky 'essential DC games'?

Yes we do!

 

[iza]

I was looking in gamestation today and the had a dreamcast in for £14.99. You can also get them cheap of ebay. If they have the reset problem which is easy to fix. You can get them even cheaper. I still love the idea of the VMUs on the dreamcast. Its just a shame they never used rechargable batteries that recharged from the controller.

wait... what kinda batteries do they need?