The Saturn had many choices, but I can't seem to find one for Dreamcast (I'm sure the cart port on the Saturn has something to do with that).
The Saturn had many choices, but I can't seem to find one for Dreamcast (I'm sure the cart port on the Saturn has something to do with that).
Can't you get an Action Replay or Gameshark or whatever disc and use that? I remember they were supposed to help you play imports too.
Also, if you have a CD-R drive, you can download a boot disk image, burn it to CD, and use that to start your game. It doesn't always work, but it's free.
When I had a DC, I just used a Utopia boot disc that I burned from an ISO I found online in like 5 minutes.
theres utopia you can download, there's dcrc that you can download, you can use a gameshark,or DC-X
Utopia is very unreliable; better off with Gameshark or DC-X (which I use personally). Not sure if anyone out there still offers the chip-mod on the DC, though.
I think NCS still offers the service, I'm not sure how much tey charge though and I don't think you'd have any trouble finding someone on these forums or one of the better Dreamcast-specific forums that would do the job for you. The modchip only requires four solderpoints, so it's not very complicated to do. At least, i don't think it is, I haven't done one myself because I'm too cheap to pay for anything if the swapdiscs are free even though a modchip would be a lot nicer.
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Don't bother with a mod chip. Use Dreamcast Region Changer 1.5
Check the Tech forum. There's a thread in there about it with all the info
Yikes, that's a lot. even though I assume it includes the return since that's standard for NCS. You could get it done much cheaper. The modchips themselves were only like $10-12 last time I noticed.
Hm, that's pretty cool, I've never heard of this before.
However, I don't see how it's better than a modchip. If you're going to open up your DC and take a hot soldering iron to it, you might as well fully mod the system and not have to worry about swap discs or region changer discs are anything. In fact, unless you know you're going to play Japanese and only Japanese (or PAL and only PAL or North American and only North American) games on your Dreamcast for a certain period of time, this sounds even more complicated than just using a swap disc to boot your imports.
Still interesting, though.
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