Working Dreamcast games
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@AndersHP I am using a xin mo two player for two arcade sticks on a bartop and have soul caliber, crazy taxi 1&2, Daytona 500, marvel vs Capcom 2, Virtua Tennis and Virtua fighter 3tb plus on there. I did overclock my pi3b+ using the settings a lot of people use / recommend for N64 and I have a fan on there. Audio skips a bit on crazy taxis but they are still super fun. I just used the manual controller setup to setup the joysticks and buttons - you go to manage packages, reicast, configure/tools in retropie setup and configuring your controller is there. A few suggestions on that - follow this guy’s video for the controller part:
. You can also follow that guide to set up the virtual memory card. The other thing is I found in the controller setup I needed to not map the digital up down left right (just say “no” you don’t want to map those) but rather map the joysticks only to the analog inputs. The reason is because as of now as far as I can tell from everything I have read there is still no good simple fix for the fact that the date time screen comes up every time you run a Dreamcast game. And, as far as I can tell, you can’t move past that screen without controls mapped as an analog controller (the bios must not recognize the dpad on the oringal Dreamcast controller to set the date and time). So if you only map the digital Gamepad you won’t be able to ever get past that screen to get into the game! The odd thing about this - and I was going to post this as a separate help question but maybe someone can answer here instead - is that this need for analog mapping means I can’t use Virtua Figbter 3tb even though it otherwise seeems to work great. The reason is that I can get into the game by getting past the date/time screen but I can’t move the character selection or move the character because it appears that game was originally created to ONLY use dpad controls. So I need the dpad mapping to play the game. And the reicast version we have as far as I know doesn’t have “game specific” config files. This is not an issue with the rest of the games I listed above, fortunately, and maybe someone has developed a workaround that I couldn’t think of yet. I think a working solution would have to let you past the date time screen but then only for the specific game allow you to map the joystick as a dpad. -
some personal favorites of mine that all run near perfect:-
Sturmwind
DUX 1.5
Redux Dark Matters -
Here's a dreamcast compatibility list that I use, I find it fairly accurate:
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I have Sega Marine Fishing, Ultimate Fighting Championship and Virtua Fighter 3tb running more or less perfectly. Also Dino Crisis and Resident Evil Code: Veronica. Those two are a tiny glitchy. Alone in the Dark the new nightmare runs, but no visuals in cut scenes just audio.
EDIT: Sword of the Berserk - Guts' Rage still has the bug where he keeps walking forward.
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@Libation Have you tested these games since the recent reicast update on retropie?
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Latest update fixes a lot of things. Small overlays that did not show earlier do now, also, some games became playable, such as Border Down that use to have the game flash horribly during gameplay, Soul Calibur stopped flashing the background, etc.. This is fixed now... I started to update the compatibility list with the games I re-tried....
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Sports Jam
Sword of the Berserk - Guts' Rage
Toy Commander
AeroWings 2 + 1
Dinosaur, Disney's
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
/Project Justice
Space Channel 5
Zombie Revenge
Shenmue I+II
Headhunter
Sega GT
Dead or Alive 2
Volgarr the Viking
Sega Tetris
Power Stone 2 +1
Sonic Adventure 1+2
Confidential Mission
Godzilla Generations
Fighting Vipers 2
Sturmwind
Max Steel
Ecco The Dolphin
Aqua GT
Tech RomancerWill love to hear more games that working now....
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Would certainly not say "working perfectly", but I'm through the New York level in THPS 2 and it seems like the update made it work better than before. Timing was tough previously due to slowdowns but in a quick test, it seemed more playable to me.
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@quicksilver Yes sir. Updated Reicast recently to get rid off the date/time bug, all games still working. Didn't really notice any improvements. Don't have Alone in the Dark anymore, not sure if the update would've fixed the cut scenes
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@shavecat Does Sword of the Berserk - Guts' Rage still have that bug where the character keeps walking forward on his own?
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@Libation
I actually played Sword of the Berserk - Guts' Rage last night for a little bit and the character was walking forward on his own and I thought maybe I had some dead zone issues with my Xbox360 controller so maybe that's still an issue. -
@backstander I just tried that game again, same issue. Not fixed yet, unfortunately.
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@backstander You understand that emulators are generally coded by 1-3 persons in their spare time, and that there is no way they would have time to test all games on the platform by themselves ? So when you find a bug, don't be stupid, report it on their bug tracker...
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@barbudreadmon Wow thats a pretty harsh reply. You make it sound like @backstander was being ungrateful or entitled and I didnt get that at all from what he said.
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@quicksilver said in Working Dreamcast games:
@barbudreadmon Wow thats a pretty harsh reply. You make it sound like @backstander was being ungrateful or entitled and I didnt get that at all from what he said.
No, i just don't understand why there is no trace of this issue on github (i checked both reicast and lr-reicast) while @backstander apparently found this issue some time ago already. That's not how this issue will get solved, and as an author of those projects it is kinda infuriating to see issues reported on the retropie forum instead of the rightful place.
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@barbudreadmon Some users don't use Github or even know there's such a thing - they use RetroPie (or other frontend/image) and that's it. I think you overreacted - as @quicksilver said - and calling your users 'stupid' is not the way to encourage them to add proper bug reports on the project's page.
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@mitu said in Working Dreamcast games:
@barbudreadmon Some users don't use Github or even know there's such a thing - they use RetroPie (or other frontend/image) and that's it. I think you overreacted - as @quicksilver said - and calling your users 'stupid' is not the way to encourage them to add proper bug reports on the project's page.
Maybe "stupid" was too much, however i'm right, there is no way a bug will get solved if the author is unaware of it.
Also, let me be clear, @backstander is not someone who is unaware of github, or the fact that emulators have their own repository (i checked his history before my harsh comment), so your statement doesn't apply here.
11 hours after my harsh comment, i see people tagged me as a bully for saying the truth, but still no report on github... -
@barbudreadmon said in Working Dreamcast games:
Maybe "stupid" was too much, however i'm right, there is no way a bug will get solved if the author is unaware of it.
Nobody is disputing that .
Also, let me be clear, @backstander is not someone who is unaware of github, or the fact that emulators have their own repository (i checked his history before my harsh comment), so your statement doesn't apply here.
I also checked his profile, since he's a longtime user, but that doesn't excuse your insult.
11 hours after my harsh comment, i see people tagged me as a bully for saying the truth, but still no report on github...
No, they tagged you as bully because of you insulting a forum user, not because for saying the 'truth', and that includes me. As I said, if you want to encourage people to report problems - here or directly on the project's Github page - you might consider not insulting them first.
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@mitu Sorry, it's not in my habits to sugarcoat my words. Seeing someone who is aware of the bug trackers, aware of an issue, but won't report it, is kinda infuriating, and as far as i can see :
- saying nothing will lead to nothing being reported
- saying things gently will lead to nothing being reported (i already tried)
- saying things harshly will lead to nothing being reported
This is a dead end...
Anyway, sorry for the digression and the insult.
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@barbudreadmon said in Working Dreamcast games:
Seeing someone who is aware of the bug trackers, aware of an issue, but won't report it, is kinda infuriating
I understand, but you're sometimes taking it too harsh (and perhaps too personally, on your projects ?). A bug is a bug, don't get mad if it's not reported - the important thing (IMHO) is that is eventually gets fixed.
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