How To: Running Old Sega Games On Your Desktop
How To: Running Old Sega Games On Your Desktop
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Sega's consoles have a long history of storied, classic games that go right back to the dawn of the computer gaming age. Such classics as the Phantasy Star series, the birth of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, right up to the sheer open world awesomeness of Shenmue have delighted gamers the world over for years. Though the consoles themselves are no longer made or supported, it is still possible to play your old collection of Sega classics with the use of console emulator software.
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On the topic of Dreamcast emulation, it has come a long way, but is still far less than desirable. Alot of games that do work will have graphical errors/glitches. Many games simply won't run at all.
DC Emulation is just not that simple.
A: Buy
Easier than hassles with emulators.
Might be worth a refresher; I'm a little unclear as to what we can and cannot do here in the UK.
I'm a little disappointed to not see Saturn emulation covered here, to which I would say look for SSF. It's a Japanese emulator which can run with or without a Saturn BIOS, and plays games directly from CD. It runs perfectly smoothly on even a single core of my PII X3 710 (2.6GHz) and, as it employs software rendering, doesn't require more than a modest graphics card even if you do opt for more advanced graphics. However, due to the lack of clarity as regards emulation law, I cannot/will not provide a link. I imagine emulators themselves aren't illegal, but that's it.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=29927&p=263207
While quite rare, there are technically GD-Rom drives out there for PCs. Just saying.
Also this article says you can get the Dreamcast BIOS with a quick internet search, really? I don't think toms should be promoting piracy as this is completely illegal. Again there are homebrew tools available to help you dump your own BIOS from your Dreamcast.
I know for as hard as the mod's are in the forums closing any thread asking for password help, windows keys, etc, they push the anti-piracy part hard. If the BIOS was legal, all the emulator people would include it with their software. There is a reason they don't.
Source please.
http://yabause.org/