Dreamcast backups ?

[Darkforce]

wait... what kinda batteries do they need?

CR-2032 x 2

 

[iza]

fking gay....
how long will one last?
is there a way to turn the display off on the vmu, or is it always necissary?

 

[mcsquared]

you only need batteries if you're playing the mini games or re-arrangin your savegames on the vmu instead of the DC, they fork fine as a mem card with display running off the DC's power

 

[iza]

groovy, so a pack of 5 would last me quite a while if i use em right... thanks!!!

 

[adgloride]

I stopped replacing my DC batteries ages ago. You can't fit one mini game on them and not that many saves. Its a shame they made them with so little storage. You can get the batteries for the dreamcast on ebay. Can't remember how much they sell for.

Found a tutorial for the AA/AAA or 9v battery mod below. Couldn't find one with pictures though.

http://devcast.dcemulation.com/mods/vmubattery/battery.php

 

[lenselijer]

if the batteries are empty it will make this *peeeeeeeeeeeeep* noise everytime you turn your dreamcast on, i was getting so sick of it that i disconnected the speaker wires in the vmu

but the nice thing is it still works with games, on virtua tennis you can see the playfield in 3d on the vmu screen

 

[jchen]

Wait so the memory card thing still works for saves even if there is no battery?

 

[mcsquared]

yes - batteries only needed for taking mem card out and playing with

 

[Hadrian]

Which came first VMU or the PSX equivalent (was it called Pocketstation?)?

 

[djgarf]

the pocketstation came first according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketStation as it was released on the 23rd of december 98

 

[SeanoRLY?]

I shall now be the proud owner of a PAL DC and 2 controllers + 3 random games.

Won a bid on Ebay today

Hope it gets here by the weekend!

 

[decept]

I have a US Black Dreamcast that came as part of the Sports Package which is esentially a Black Dreamcast, NFL 2K1 and NBA 2K1.

All my 100+ Backups work without any problems.

 

[XxTRIFORCExX]

The dreamcast is a great machine as you don't need a modchip to run backups. Nearly all the games on the internet are now self boot. I've recommended you a site to visit, check you PM box.

PM me too please?

 

[[M]artin]

I'd like to request this site as well, please...

 

[fatfrank]

best app for burning dc games? Without a doubt alchool 120... Like Djgarf (sry if i got the name wrong) said, he burned over 300 dc games and never had a problem, and i back this for i did the same, discjuggler, clonecd or whatever other app just doesn't compare

 

[iza]

okay, so i finanly got the DC. i aquirred crazy taxi-kliapo (sp?), MvC Remix(i'm guessing a fan edit), and i'm enroute to getting more. unfortuantly my i wont be able to get back on usenet till friday, so i've been using alternative means. but anyways, back to my question, the crazy taxi one came in .bin and .cue files after extracting. but none of the prog's i tried worked... i used alcohol 120, nero, imgburn... all of em would kick it back saying it was invalid. any ideas? (edit: could it have been corrupted? didnt come with pars...) the marvel v capcom was in .cdi form and disc juggler worked fine (only got to test it, not play it) but any tips of getting them from .cue to .cdi is appreciated. also, i dl'd that utopia think, but it's a boot disk, i thought there was an autoboot patcher around... if any of this is a simple google search away let me know, my work blocks almost any results on google..

 

[Bitbyte]

I just can't get Chu_Chu_Rocket_USA_DC-KALISTO working =/. When I extract it and click on the UNPACK.exe, I get all the .wav files. I tried burning the .cue with alcohol 120% but it was fucked up, audio was like it was scratching or something. So then I tried dropping the bin in the bin2boot gui tool and i got an image.cdi of about 100 MB. This one was selfbootable and fully working, but I didn't get music in the stages :\

 

[lenselijer]

you want to get the bin2boot cdda version, then it works with the music.

I dont understand why people still post these old kalisto bin/cue releases, they are not dummied, so slow loading times and when there's cdda tracks involved it gets even more difficult because most sites with dreamcast tools are already dead...

 

[chuckstudios]

Wonder if it still works online, though I doubt it

Phantasy Star Online does, with this

 

[OSW]

lol, I PM'd him the site too

:X Want to PM me with that site?

I'll be buying a DC when I go up to Gamestation this week.

I hate to ask..... but could i have a PM?

I reckon i'll get a dreamcast this week if i can find one!