Just in case anyone stumbles across this in the future, I never did get that to work correctly. I ended up wiping my card clean and starting over. This time it all works right, as far as I know, I did everything the same.

@Drax98 when you set it up you have to set up a,b,x and y like a Super Nintendo controller not an xbox controller x and y are reversed and a and b are reversed. Set those up correctly and you wont have issues.

@Stuart2773 I did try that, and was then prompted to install place bios files when loading up system manager

@melbmatt50 https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/364/every-time-i-play-dreamcast-displays-the-setting-screen-time-date There is a step by step in that thread to fix the date and time issue. It worked for me. I'm not sure if it still works with the latest version of retro pie however so use at your own risk. I'd recommend backing up your image first.

@ccaveman84 said in Dreamcast wont load: @EndersEnigma awesome thanks man I was having similar issues and your fix worked perfectly nice work. 😊 I was also struggling with Reicast. I think you can save this whole reinstall procedure and just delete the symlinks (and create new ones), your 4th step. This worked for me.

@qcerb You obviously haven't read the forum rules and after having been warned, you continue to ask for the file. One more request and it's a ban.

@ecks Did you test those files with some other emulators (eg: nullDC for pc) just to check their validity ?