Widescreen Treamcast now available

How reliable was the original Treamcast anyway? The DC had to be the flimsiest/most fragile system I've ever had the pleasure of owning. No offense, it just was though.

 

Is this thing made to automattically have Snes ROM support?

 

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The "Treamcast" always seemed to be a waste of time/money to me. I'd rather just get a small LCD screen and use it if you weren't going for a TV. At least that way you could plug something else into it.

 

Usually when games are converted to run at 60Hz, there's pretty big letterboxing as the console is not rendering the game at a higher resultion, i.e. it's still only producing 480 lines, but on a 576-line display, so the remaining 96 lines are just left black. This isn't the case for all games, though, especially some newer conversions, as new consoles can do some sort of funky resizing stuff, and not all resolution modes on all consoles produce 480 lines, so sometimes the size of the borders are different.

Though, no I wasn't really serious ^_^. The Treamcast probably just plays 60Hz games in the wrong aspect ratio, i.e. Fat-Head-o-Vision.

 

I want to learn how to run DreamSNES on my Dreamcast like the Treamcast. I heard that the treamcast already has all that stuff on it, and will work out of box, or special carrying case, whatever.

 

Mr. Casual, here's some stuff:
http://www.dcemulation.com/neededtools.htm

Get DC Factory 0.9.5, then install it.

http://www.zophar.net/consoles/dreamcast.html
DreamSNES 0.9.8, but leave it zipped.

Now get some roms, put them in a DIR, then run DC Factory's Tasks for DreamSNES.

Voila! It makes a .cdi or .nrg file to burn to a CD-R. Once you do that, you can play the SNES games on your DC.

Ah, its wonderfull playing SMB 3 on the Dreamcast...

 

Thanks, I tried it before and I had trouble.

 

How well do they play? I might burn some if it's actually worth the time.

 

I hear DreamSnes plays as well as 98% of Snes9x, and thats pretty damn good.

 

Most games run quite slow, unfortunately.

Super Punch Out does run 100% perfectly, though, but it's the rare exception in the rest of the games.

It's still an impressive, VERY impressive concept, to have Snes Games on Dreamcast.

 

Yea i`ve heard a lot of ppl with that problem.

I have the Ver1 US DC, it had a meltdown, a fall from 2 meters and it still works like a charm :happyhap:

 

That's odd. The Dreamcast seems to be the sturdiest of all of my systems (except for my Saturn, which I've never had any issues with, either).

DreamSNES works fairly well for RPGs, but if you have any real plans to play SNES ROMs on any home console (other than the SNES), I just say mod an Xbox.

 

Some guy got a cuncusion when a saturn went flyin trought the air and smack him in the forehead :die

The saturn on the other hand didnt suffer any damage

 

Yeah, consoles used to be hard as nails back in the day. I know of a Master System II getting thrown down a stairs, and still working perfectly afterwards. And my good ol' PS1 was pulled off a 2 metre-high shelf and fell on a wood floor - while in operation. After putting the laser back in the right place, it worked fine.

 

More like coffin nails, especially those big SMS :smt023

The problem is that they were more simple too, with not so many parts, and the plastic was ticker.

Now you have complex systems with movable parts (DVD, HD, etc...) and thinner plastic to reduce its weight.

Old PCs were hard as hell too, same reason.......

 

you could use a sega saturn as body amour...maybe not

 

I say a Xbox, I heard of someguy who shot his xbox and it survived the impact.

Aparently the HD stoped the bullet :smt067

 

Yeah, maybe not. It would really suck to damage your saturn, and all...:smt071:smt067:-D

 

Well, why does anyone buy clones? Becasue they're neato. But is there any problem with the Tramcast, like compatibility issues of whatnot?

 

Dreamcast was anything but flimsy, it had an examplary record compared to both the ps2 and xbox.

Us version one maybe, but all the rest were fine, more than fine in fact!!