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Title: Dreamcast experts: any idea on how to change the dashboard image?
Post by: crashwg on May 24, 2007, 08:40:17 pm

Checking out dreamcast stuff on ebay and came across this:
HUGE LINK SHORTENED (http://cgi.ebay.com/Sega-Dreamcast-VMU-GAMERA-EDITION-w-SPECIAL-FEATURE_W0QQitemZ330090446137QQihZ014QQcategoryZ41055QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem)

Title: Re: Dreamcast experts: any idea on how to change the dashboard image?
Post by: Dave_K. on May 25, 2007, 03:21:27 am

Its true.  The same thing happens when you play/save Puyo Puyo Fever on a memory card.  It we change the Dreamcast bios background images to Puyo Puyo when you have this memory card loaded and go into the system menu.

Title: Re: Dreamcast experts: any idea on how to change the dashboard image?
Post by: northerngames on May 25, 2007, 10:42:48 am

no but now I know it can be done I am looking into it to see how it is done or if we can add our own images.

found this link with all kinds of vmu crazyness

http://www.maushammer.com/vmu.html

Title: Re: Dreamcast experts: any idea on how to change the dashboard image?
Post by: crashwg on May 26, 2007, 01:42:05 pm

Quote from: Dave_K. on May 25, 2007, 03:21:27 am

Its true.  The same thing happens when you play/save Puyo Puyo Fever on a memory card.  It we change the Dreamcast bios background images to Puyo Puyo when you have this memory card loaded and go into the system menu.

I found the setting in the options for doing this and saved a picture to the VMU but when I load the dash it's either normal or if I hit start like it says in Puyo, I just get a shiny version of the stock dash with no picture...

Title: Re: Dreamcast experts: any idea on how to change the dashboard image?
Post by: Dave_K. on May 28, 2007, 04:46:38 pm

I don't remember any official means to uploading a picture and saving it that way (is this a hack or something you are talking about)?  This video shows what the standard puyo puyo fever game save should do to the dashboard.  I don't know whats up with the rest of that video showing the dash go into 3D and all, but I'm assuming this is an emulator hack of somekind.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2540417534694267009

Title: Re: Dreamcast experts: any idea on how to change the dashboard image?
Post by: northerngames on May 28, 2007, 07:28:02 pm

I found the setting in the options for doing this and saved a picture to the VMU but when I load the dash it's either normal or if I hit start like it says in Puyo, I just get a shiny version of the stock dash with no picture...

dunno if it will work but try naming the file/picture the exact same name as the one you are tyring to replace and see if it work's with the same name and if not try to match the size exactly and try it again and see what happens.

Title: Re: Dreamcast experts: any idea on how to change the dashboard image?
Post by: AcidArmitage on May 30, 2007, 03:08:20 am

i think I remember that you could do all kinds of crazy stuff with Dreamcast if you could connect to the internet with it.. i could never get the damn thing to work tho :-\