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Dariusz:
Is anyone able to assist me with the following question?
'Is there an DC Emu which supports the original (or CDI) CD thru the use of the PC CD or DVD drive?'
Thanks,
Dariusz
RyoriNoTetsujin:
--- Quote from: Dariusz on June 16, 2007, 03:51:58 pm ---'Is there an DC Emu which supports the original (or CDI) CD thru the use of the PC CD or DVD drive?'
--- End quote ---
Sadly, at least for original DC games, the short answer is No. It's almost certain that will never be possible. "Original" DC games are not on CD-Rom discs, but are on GD-Rom discs, which is essentially a proprietary format unreadable by current CD or DVD-rom drives. Both Nologic (and SavannahLion) referred to this fact in a previous post.
The disc images that are available (regardless of format, cdi, gdi, etc.) have been burned through tedious and arcane methodologies of acquiring the data streamed from an original DC GD-rom drive (meaning, I don't know how to do it. :)) The sad part is that, now that Sega has ceased servicing of GD-Rom drives... "once they're gone, they're gone."
Nologic:
Dariusz -
Yes & No, both current DC Emu's will run original or CDI burns from CD\DVD drives...there is an issue with original disc's tho...only certain drives will work, and most require altered firmware...so in a nut shell no to originals.
unclet -
1. Yes SSF is good enough to run most games perfectly fine, provided you have a system fairly modern.
2. Japan typically has more games for any given system, post NES.
3. squirrellydw gots you hooked up. :)
4. I personally run SSF, but not on a cab, but HTPC and I use GameEx as a frontend tho they should work fine with any other FE out there.
5. Yeah wives tend to ---smurf--- about things not getting done around the house, kids bug you that its their turn to play...
6. Generally speaking most are fairly easy to get setup.
7. hmm no not really.
SavannahLion -
Well I've dumped 100 of my games thus far and I have a small handful that are 1.2gigs of data. I'm no expert in this area...so really can't comment. :(
SavannahLion:
Oh yeah, gotta mention this.
Sweet! Someone else who likes AMA!
I spent months trying to create a high rez image of Cheshire for a T-Shirt I wanted printed up.
Dariusz:
SavannahLion,
Thank you for the information. Further to your answer to my question, which DC Emu would you consider best running the original Dreamcast CD’s, and would you know which CD/DVD drives are supported, and which drives out of those which do support the original Dreamcast CD, which ones do and do not require the firmware to be updated, and lastly, has the firmware been developed by the Emulator programmers, or is the firmware just an improvement over the previous firmware on the drive provided by the original drive manufacturers?
Does anyone use the original Dreamcast CDs in their emulator, and how do you fine it?
Thanks,
Dariusz
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