ARGH! I cant find this anywhere Dreamcast question!

[tweakmm]

What is the last revision of the dremcast bios that can still play back up games?
Is it november 2k?

 

[Nitemare]

Not sure..What is a Dremcast and a Qustion?

 

[tweakmm]

<< Not sure..What is a Dremcast and a Qustion? >>


grrrrrr.... too early

 

[Nitemare]

<<

<< Not sure..What is a Dremcast and a Qustion? >>


grrrrrr.... too early >>



that's an understatement

 

[tweakmm]

come one guys....

 

[cressida]

around october and november 2k was when they changed the bios..
mine is september 2k and it works with my backup games

 

[voodooguy]

November 2k seems to be the magic date.

Avoid November 2k and later dated units.

 

[vash]

I've read that even recent ones that you can still purchase have no problems with backups.

vash

 

[DarkLight]

stop using the word backup! Just call it copied games!

 

[cappsa]

Mine's October 2000 and works. Someone posted a URL that discusses which units work and which don't recently. I did a search here and found it when I got my DC for Christmas.

 

[Goldfish]

Stop, this question has been asked at least twenty times!

The ONLY Dreamcast that doesn't play CD-R games were Hello Kitty Dreamcasts released ONLY in Japan, so any console bought in the US WILL play CD-R's, no matter when it was produced!

 

[MCS]

All European DCs of any date can play backups - I know that much. I heard that about the Japanese ones too though.

 

[Soulflare]

Who cares about copied games when new-legal ones are so cheap? I picked
up a DC and 19 games during December and only paid more than $19 for Skies
of Arcadia.

 

[voodooguy]

<< Who cares about copied games when new-legal ones are so cheap? >>



Let me know when you can go to a store and buy a DC game for 20 cents, which happens to be the average price of an 80 minute CDR.

 

[royaldank]

<<

<< Who cares about copied games when new-legal ones are so cheap? >>



Let me know when you can go to a store and buy a DC game for 20 cents, which happens to be the average price of an 80 minute CDR. >>



Oh, wait a sec. You aren't factoring in computer costs (wear and tear) and your bandwidth (if you downloaded, let's assume you do).

That would probably bring each game up to the 23-25 cent range.

 

[gopunk]

how long does it take you guys to find a game you want? like crazy taxi 2 for example?

 

[royaldank]

personally, I got sick of looking on webpages and irc awhile ago.

I got a newsgroup subscription. most everything I get comes from there. @Home had a dreamcast thread, so I just got my games from there. They repost games all the time. You can probably post a request and it'd be filled in a matter of days. Especially if you want CT2, since it's only a couple files to begin with.

if you want to get a premium newsgroup subscription, here are some choices...

teranews.com
giganews.com
newscene.com
newsfeeds.com

 

[JonnyBlaze]

im on a friends ftp who has every DC game on there. so its not hard for me to find backups for the games i own.


JB