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[Haruka-chan]

Yeah I have a Dreamcast, there were a lot of good games for it. Shenmue, Sonic, Jet Set/Grind Radio, Space Channel 5, SEGA Rally, Grandia, Soul Calibre, Dead or Alive, Phantasy Star Online, Power Stone...

Only I think it was a little ahead of it's time in some respects. It would have been great with wireless or broadband, but instead we were stuck with 28/56k modems and a very limited amount of broadband adapters were sold in Japan.

[Tahtsel]

One of the best gaming platforms ever, far better than Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2.

[chainsoar]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JJXB @ Jul 29 2007, 11:29 PM) [snapback]301876[/snapback]</div>

most dreamcast's can't read cd-rw's, mine included. [/b]

Dreamcasts don't play CDs at all. They used a weird format called GD, don't ask me what that means because I don't remember. To get a copied CD working on the DC you have to use a hell of a lot of clever tricks.

[DonCorleone]

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JJXB @ Jul 29 2007, 11:29 PM) [snapback]301876[/snapback]

most dreamcast's can't read cd-rw's, mine included. [/b]

Dreamcasts don't play CDs at all. They used a weird format called GD, don't ask me what that means because I don't remember. To get a copied CD working on the DC you have to use a hell of a lot of clever tricks.
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Well, that's definately not true at all. What's right is that the cd-roms were called GDs. But the name's all what's different. You can copy every GD with the right program. Not a problem at all...!!!

And well, in my opinion it was one of the greatest platforms at the time. No, it WAS the greatest platform at its time. Most people were blinded by the holy crap of what was called the Playstation. Which had definately more games. But even more games that were simply dumb and really bad...

[Tahtsel]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DonCorleone @ Aug 28 2007, 06:24 PM) [snapback]307385[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(chainsoar @ Aug 28 2007, 09:03 PM) [snapback]307383[/snapback]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(JJXB @ Jul 29 2007, 11:29 PM) [snapback]301876[/snapback]

most dreamcast's can't read cd-rw's, mine included. [/b]

Dreamcasts don't play CDs at all. They used a weird format called GD, don't ask me what that means because I don't remember. To get a copied CD working on the DC you have to use a hell of a lot of clever tricks.
[/b][/quote]

Well, that's definately not true at all. What's right is that the cd-roms were called GDs. But the name's all what's different. You can copy every GD with the right program. Not a problem at all...!!!
[/b][/quote]

You don't just need the right program to copy a GD-ROM, common CD burners don't read GDs, so you need a special cable to connect your dreamcast to your PC, and one other thing, a GD has like 1GB of space, and as Dreamcasts can't read DVDs some heavy games have to be ripped so they can fit in a CD.

[JJXB]

it is possible for some normal drives to read GD-Rom's with hacked firmwares. they have to read at x1\x2 speed though. or you can use either a broadband adapter or dreamcast coders cable. BBA is faster though. and people have been working on getting 99min cdr's to burn so they work in the dreamcast, with varying results.

[DonCorleone]

Well, fine. But that's just a matter of how the Data-Stream is put on the discs. A GD still keeps being a CD-ROM. You don't give an amiga-floppy-disk another name just because you can't read them on your computer...

But I don't wanna distract from the point where I was wrong Thought it wasn't a problem cause you can simply download images of DC-Games and burn them with appropriate software and play them on your DC... But now: thyt's not a problem at all

Anyway, the DC rocks

[JJXB]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DonCorleone @ Aug 30 2007, 09:39 PM) [snapback]307875[/snapback]</div>

But I don't wanna distract from the point where I was wrong :-D Thought it wasn't a problem cause you can simply download images of DC-Games and burn them with appropriate software and play them on your DC... But now: thyt's not a problem at all :-D

Anyway, the DC rocks :-)
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how do you think i was playing flashback and quake on my dc then?

[DonCorleone]

Well, I guess you chose the complicated way
I got Resident Evil2 this way, since I was dumb enough to sell it when I owned it

[JJXB]

there is no easy way to get flashback on dc since you need to download the REminiscence binaries for it along with the dos data files and amiga mod music files and put them together in the right directory structure before burning with something called "BootDreams" as an AUDIO/DATA disc. you learn this stuff when trying to burn homebrew...