DC emu

[sharp]

Does anyone know how, if at all, dreamcast emulators work? If so, could you guide me through loading and running an iso on one?

[pirates dc]

You need the bios files and a program such as dameon tools to mount the iso images

[Josh]

Are you talking about running emulators on a DC or playing DC games on a PC. I am going to assume the second one.

You can find Chankast and the BIOS here.

http://mirror.emuparadise.org/NR/

[KIMBRE]

However Chankast doesn't emulate dc games very well and sometimes not at all

[Josh]

It does emulate a lot of games really well though.

[KIMBRE]

only game that flowed on chankast was power stone for me the others had massive fps drops :/

[HarkenSlash]

Marvel vs Capcom 2 on Chankast works fine for me.

[pkt-zer0]

Chankast sucks with some games but not so much as any Saturn emulator sucks with any Saturn game. Ikaruga works fine too, except from a minor bug that will keep me from finishing the game. Anyhow, I've heard that there's going to be a new release of Chankast with upgraded performance.

[Myst]

I'm VERY impressed with the progress Chankast made over the short time that passed since it was made (compared to other emus)

about 75% of my DC games run at perfect speed. sound plays fine. they all have minor graphical glitches like clipping or some background layers missing but compared to Saturn emulation, that's alot! This is one emu worth looking out for.

I completely gave up on Saturn emulation :p It'll never be good, let alone decent

[pirates dc]

The only i reason I dont use chankast is because you cant play it in full screen...or can you?

[Xena]

yes in chankast 0.25 alpha in the options, config video, video mode select "full screen"
and yes like myst says about 90 % of my mamoth collection boots and about 75 % runs perfect

[pkt-zer0]

The only i reason I dont use chankast is because you cant play it in full screen...or can you?

In Chankast 0.25 you most definitely can. Just enable Full Screen under Config > Video mode, if I remember correctly. The option is there in the menu somewhere, that's sure.

I don't know whether it truly emulates 75% of the games, but my major problem was the speed with Shenmue and DOA2. Other than that, it's great, but it's still a pity that these games (basically, 2 of the 3 games I'd want to play on Dreamcast) aren't emulated that well. Anyway, are there any games worth getting for DC? Games that are outstanding compared even to any game, not just simply good fighting games on DC.

[Zorlon]

There is a Shenmue 2 aswell on Dreamcast other games include Phantasy Star online version 2, Grandia 2, Skies of Arcadia and the two Evolution RPG's just off the top of my head, there are others aswell plus if you actually get a Dreamcast it can run a while host of emulators on it aswell.

P.S. Games are still being made for the Dreamcast over in Japan, the console is not as dead as people might think

[pirates dc]

Ehh i think i was using the old chankast this whole time

[Grim_Reaper]

Can someone tell me why Chankcast keeps telling me to "insert game disc" when I already have the image mounted and have changed the drive to direct to the image?