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Just got my Dreamcast up and running!

twelve

twelve

I'm not dead
Tommi said:
A lot of games are simply download and burn, and If I remember there was a way to downsample music and video to allow the higher density games to fit on a CD-Rom, due to the GD-Rom being double the density of a standard CD-Rom.
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It's not the density that's any different, it's the way the disc is read. Rather than the disc spinning faster as the laser moves out from the centre (as a normal CD) the disc spins at a constant rate allowing more data to fit in the same amount of space.

IIRC the maximum capacity was around 1.2GB so it was almost double the capacity of a CD without actually changing anything physically. Which is pretty clever, until you remember that DVD was available...
 
Noriyuke

Noriyuke

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twelve said:
It's hard to find a rip of that that works. Or it was last time I tried.
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why? i have a copy of the retail game sitting in my closet somewhere, awesom game.
 
Scorned

Scorned

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Abe Froeman said:
So what's the best site to learn about getting roms and emulators loaded on this thing? Is it all disc based or do you install a HD or something? I can't get onto most sites since I'm at work to find out if the content is good or not, etc.
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If you still need help with that, i got an DC emulator working recently so i could give you some working links.
 
Noriyuke

Noriyuke

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wow, i remember when that was still in beta and they were still having problems with the DC menu. Ill look into it. Maybe i dont have to get another DC to play powerstone on the big screen.
 
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