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    Default Dreamcast Chankast Not Working

    I would have made a more specific title but honestly it's one thing after the other so I figured a general title would better fit the situation.

    I'm trying to run RE:CV on Chankast to help Tan out with one of his LPs and it took me a while but I finally got past that damn "no bios file found" error, but then it just gave me anew error and I've been trying and can't get it resolved. I've gone to chanka, read all the faqs here, and simply dicked around for a good while. I have the specs to run it with no problem, I've gotten the bios files, game ISOs, everything I need to run it, it just refuses to work. I'll post a screenshot here and se what you guys can help with.


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    I would forget Chankast and try out NullDC instead, admitedly not tested RE:CV in it but I could do that in the morning, I uploaded compatable bios images already today in another thread in this section.

    I actually only have the emu's for testing, I own a dreamcast and never looked at emulating the machine for playing

    Chankast also has a bug in RE:CV that prevents you from complating part of the 2nd CD (the lion head statue/eye jem puzzle) from what I remember, I hacked a save wat back to bypass it for someone.

    I'm shutting down and off to bed for now though

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zorlon View Post
    I would forget Chankast and try out NullDC instead, admitedly not tested RE:CV in it but I could do that in the morning, I uploaded compatable bios images already today in another thread in this section.

    I actually only have the emu's for testing, I own a dreamcast and never looked at emulating the machine for playing

    Chankast also has a bug in RE:CV that prevents you from complating part of the 2nd CD (the lion head statue/eye jem puzzle) from what I remember, I hacked a save wat back to bypass it for someone.

    I'm shutting down and off to bed for now though
    I'll check out Null thanks. And yeah, I got the bioses from your upload. Thanks Zorlon, if the problem persists I'll figure out how to record my DC on my tv.

    EDIT: I switched to NullDC and it's working although the video seems a bit odd. It may be due to my mom's computer not having proper drivers and such, when I get home I'll post an update about how well NullDC works on my PC.
    Thanks Zorlon, you're super helpful as always.
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    I use something called ezcap to record consoles it's cheap and it works great

    It's a USB device for recording AV or S.Video via a PC

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    Hey Zorlon, it's a bit much to request, but would you be willing to see if you can get RE:CV to run on NullDC? I thought I had it going pretty well until I tried aiming and some other stuff was off. If you do, could you tell me how to configure it?
    For reference, here's a recording I made and you can see a few minutes how terrible it's running. You can see through Steve's Head as well as something going very, very wrong with the targeting.

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    My laptops are dead, can't do anything at the moment... sorry

    Using a very very very old desktop for now

    Lost everything the hdd on my main laptop died last night, it's not recoverable

    My other laptop's bios was screwed anyway so was just a mater of time (hdd can't be used in my main laptop either )
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