Dreamcast Homebrew

[Apollo]

I'm looking to buy a Dreamcast, and I know that there's supposedly a lot of homebrew available for it. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get it running things? Or, at the very least, could someone give me a good site to go to for help? I've tried a few and haven't been able to find much.

[Dreamcast]

I'm looking to buy a Dreamcast, and I know that there's supposedly a lot of homebrew available for it. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get it running things? Or, at the very least, could someone give me a good site to go to for help? I've tried a few and haven't been able to find much.

http://www.dcevolution.net/
www.dcemu.co.uk

the 2 best sites for everything you need to know. Are you planning on making a homebrew game or playing homebrew games?

[kedawa]

I hope you like spending hours dicking around with buggy utilities and archaic burning software.
There's a lot of cool stuff for the DC but it's such a pain in the ass to get it set up that I honestly don't think it's worth the trouble.

[rkotm]

Its worth it if you want NES and Game Boy and (some)SNES on your tv, if youre a fan of the controller. Ive got most homebrew of what can be done on the DC's hardware, and its alright. SNES never will improve, but lots of games are pretty playable at 85% speed. Other than the emus mentioned there isnt really any better ones out there. Also Atari 2600 and colecovision and master system. forget GBA and any supposed N64 emu. ToO.SloW. Its a cheap alternative to PSP SLim homebrew with Av out. But its harder to achieve.

[kedawa]

The beta of bleem runs a few PSX games acceptably too.

[Apollo]

I've heard that you can also run DC games that are burned to discs. Is this true?

[Dreamcast]

I hope you like spending hours dicking around with buggy utilities and archaic burning software.
There's a lot of cool stuff for the DC but it's such a pain in the ass to get it set up that I honestly don't think it's worth the trouble.

all you have to do is download disc juggler. and thats all you have to do. set up some of the stuff and your ready to burn

[Dreamcast]

I've heard that you can also run DC games that are burned to discs. Is this true?

Sorry for the double post.

Yes it is true. but you only download these games because back ups (like it really matters. the companies dont get the money for the games anymore)

When you download a game it will be 700 - 800 MB because no one owns a GD rom burner (GD-ROM is a cd that hold up to a 1.17GB and was made by sega to stop pirating) do they compress it to that size. if the file is over 700 you have to do a thing called Overburning. Overburning could destroy your burner (only if the file is 900mb or so but i doubt it) overburing crams as much as it can onto the CD. but in the game it can screw up sound, loading times, graphical glitches, etc. when you are burning make sure you dont burn over 8X. it will make the dreamcast Not read the CD. Echelon is a Cd booting hacker group. they reslease dreamcast games without using a boot CD.

BAD: the movie quility of the games could reduce massively. and you still dont really own the game (unless otherwise)

my advice....Dont play the game with your real copy. one day you could sell your real copy for a high price becuase of the condition.

Man that was alot of typing.