Does a (workable) dreamcast emulator actually exist on any platform?
Yes. There are several on the PC for various operating systems. nullDC and Chankast come to mind, although there are others.
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DC plays copies with out any kind of softmod and i think 99% of games fit on CD-R
also it has no USB Port, so how do you suppose we connect a hard drive?
easier use the Utopia CD to boot games or just make SelfBoot games its easy man.
Not quite. GD-Roms hold 1.2 GB, instead of the 700 MB of CD's. While you are correct in that SOME games would fit on a CD-R, this is only after removal of dummy data (it's similar to what you do with scrubbing on the Wii, except the data is erased instead of zeroed out) and with significant hacking of the game. And that is if you're lucky that the game would normally fit on a CD without the dummy data. Many of the scene releases you see have media that is down sampled or otherwise lowered in quality to fit. I could go on, but there are many dirty workarounds you have to use to bypass the size limitations of CD's. Knowing that, one could hardly justify saying that 99% of games fit onto a CD-R. That is simply false.
Regarding your USB port comment, there are ways of adding one to the dreamcast, although I doubt that would ever evolve into much beyond a development platform considering the dreamcast's age.
Also, with pure GD-Rom dumps, it is not easy to make them self boot or utopia boot cd compatible. They already have to be modified to work with such tools as it is. You get the idea that it's easy because you take already hacked games and make them self boot. You cannot do that with pure GD-Rom dumps.
So if you want the best dreamcast experience, the only real way to do it is good emulation or buying the original games for the dreamcast.
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