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• In console circles, it’s sometimes referred to as “DC”

• (date not recorded) — I gave my DC away.
• (date not recorded) — Broke, though I fixed it.

• (date not recorded) — I was given one as a gift, but I already owned one!

  • It was taken back, but I wish it wasn’t, because mine would end up breaking (though I fixed it) and could have used a spare.

• (date not recorded) — Bought

  • I believe I got Spider-Man early on. Since its release date was April 19, 2001 this means I got the Dreamcast after that date.

• I recall running a BSD on it, maybe NetBSD.
• Cryptic Allusion Game Dev [ 1 ] http://gamedev.allusion.net/dckb/
• Wiki [ 2 ]

• KallistiOS

  • A pro-grade development system for consoles. There exist ports to the Dreamcast, Gameboy Advance, Playstation 2, and x86-based PCs, though the DC port is the only one that can claim any sort of completeness right now.

Games Enjoyed ∞

• Gauntlet Legends

  • GameFAQs – Gauntlet Legends [ 3 ]
• Soulcalibur (video game)
• Record of Lodoss War

• NetBSD:

  • Quake – (1996 game) – It didn’t work right, but it was pretty.

many fighting games

Games not enjoyed ∞

• Spider-Man

  • The controls were shit.

Probably more, but I didn’t take notes.

Strange Hardware I owned ∞

• Adapted 6-button gamepads for all those fighting games.
• An expanded memory cartridge that didn’t work right under Record of Lodoss War, and was returned.

• A dual keyboard/mouse adapter

  • It’s too bad the keyboard couldn’t properly transmit multiple keys simultaneously. (n-key rollover)

Dreamcast disk copying ∞

I never did get copying to go anywhere. I didn’t own a CD burner during this project, and attempts to grasp the methods for copying or even burning iso-esque files failed rather miserably. Mind you, I didn’t try all that hard.

• gone: http://www.geekbombs.net/tutorials/dcrip.shtml

Links/notes ∞

• https://www.gamecopyworld.com/games/index.php
• Dreamcast Programming

• Massive Memory Card Plus

  • Maybe this is what I tried and couldn’t get working..

• PC-Dreamcast Server – have the dreamcast share a PC’s broadband connection

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20020208140632/http://www.dcvision.com/Mterlouw/

• dccopyworld.com

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20010401020417/http://dccopyworld.com/
  • Later redirects to Using the PAL/NTSC Patches it is possible to convert a NTSC only game so it will play on a PAL Dreamcast in full color and visa versa.

• megagames/dc

  • Console Gaming World – DC – Utilities Index
  • While megagames.com exists, it’s rather different now. See https://megagames.com/search/google/dreamcast

• dcemulation.com [ 4 ]

  • adding dummy files with nero to speed up load time

Footnotes

1. also http://gamedev.allusion.net/[ ↩ ]
2. was https://web.archive.org/web/20050204105310/http://gamedev.allusion.net/dckb/[ ↩ ]
3. was www.gamefaqs.com/console/dreamcast/game/26169.html [ ↩ ]
4. it got hacked (archive). As of 2019-12-19 (10 years later) it was never restored. [ ↩ ]