Is this true about US DCs and JP games?

doodude · Post by **doodude** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:04 am

Q: will a US Sega Dreamcast play Japanese games? Jan-09-08
A: Dreamcasts don't actually have region locks on them. It was a flaw that Sega didn't notice until it was too late. To be honest, all Dreamcasts will play any game, even games you have burned to a blank CD. It's kinda cool, really.

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:10 am

I'm not sure about regions, but it will play burned games with no modding or boot discs or anything.

lawnspic · Post by **lawnspic** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:17 am

it will play games from all regions with the use of a boot disc (Utopia) or DC-X whether burned or original. If self booting will play on any Mil-CD compatible DC manufactured anytime before 10/2000

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:24 am

First, not sure about the rules of the forum but i think the subject of the thread should give an idea of whats in it....

To be honest, all Dreamcasts will play any game, even games you have burned to a blank CD. It's kinda cool, really.

NOT that simple. A GD-ROM is about 1.2gb and a cd is only 700mb and many dreamcast games take advantage of this. This mean making a "backup copy" of a GD-ROM to a CD wont work in most case. not only the games have to be "ripped" of some content but you also have to defeat the protection, at first pirates made boot CDs to be able to play ripped copies of dreamcast games...now many pirate games are self-loading so the naive user may think the dreamcast simply works with any backup CD.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:56 am

Would it be too much to ask to use a title that tells us what a thread is about next time? And how is this "Shmups Chat"?

PS.
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FIL · Post by **FIL** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:14 am

My PAL Dreamcast will play Japanese games if I use a bootdisc.

Post by **Ghegs** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:13 am

Thread title edited, moved to Hardware.

doodude · Post by **doodude** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:23 am

Ceph wrote:

Would it be too much to ask to use a title that tells us what a thread is about next time? And how is this "Shmups Chat"?

PS.
www.google.com

My apologies to everyone ( expecially you, brother Ceph ) for the "undefined" title & "incorrect" category of my, um...topic.

Where it is no excuse, I was extremely tired yesterday ( went to bed before the sun went down ) & just wasnt thinking clearly.

I will be more careful in the future...

But more to the topic itself:

If a "bootdisk" is used, how does this work.
I assume that it "boots" the console to a certain point & then what? Do you just replace the "bootdisk" with the "game disk" & go on?
If this is the case, how do you "unboot"? Or is this just done by powering down?

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neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:23 pm

The boot disc spins until a menu is displayed. You then change the disc for the game of your choice. Press continue on the menu. Thats it.

What will happen next is you will see the boot screen again like you just turned it on. Except this time there will be no region check, the game will start loading at this point.

What basically is happening is the boot sequence is being loaded into main memory without the region check

You have to turn the machine off after your done playing. Just repeat the above.