still it'd be nice if there's a generic usb disc drive out there that can read GD-roms. has anyone found anything yet? I don't see this ever happening. Drive firmwares are programmed in such a way that they won't read beyond the disc's Table of Contents. On a GD-ROM disc, the TOC only specifies the...

i found a legacy website from the early 2000s, which humorously described the nightmare emulator supposedly working with games that were dumped using that fake "DC rom ripper" software from back in the day, and funnily enough, there was also a ton of fake screenshots showing off the nightm...

thanks, I thought someone here had limited my account here, because of what I posted on dreamcast-talk forum

The Nightmare "emulator" was definitely way before 2003 -- it was either 2000 or very very early 2001. There's a news item from February 2001 in DCEmulation's news archive referencing it. There were emulators before Chankast as well, but Chankast was the first publicly released emulator t...

back in the planet-dreamcast days of 2003, a member posted an alleged first working Dreamcast emulator called the "Dreamcast Nightmare Emulator" which turned out to just be a fake trojin that had spreaded to several major download sites such as CNET's download section. i had a dreamcast co...

does the windows version of reciast support old PC gamepads that uses DirectInput?

i plugged mine in and it's not detected by reicast. it works with redream however.

thanks for letting me know!