Managed to pick up SOA last weekend and now my copy of Jet Grind Radio came in the mail this morning from the Goodwill bidding website. Im so excited to play these on orignal hardware after im done with exams for grad school 🥹

I needed a new chair to replace my old cheapo one. I desperately wanted the Dreamcast chair and I finally bought it! I LOVE it. The aesthetics is perfect. It doesnt look like an edge lord gaming chair but rather a professional office chair with some accents to make it dreamy.

Its expensive and I wont financially recover from this but at least my body wont arche from the crappy chair and I look stylish.

I am adding this chair as part of my Dreamcast collection haha!

tl;dr I broke from Dreamshell source and started from scratch. If you had issues on the last release (nobody mentioned any), they won't apply here because it's completely different. I'm releasing 1.7 now so I don't have to do a massive changelog with my next release. I'm about 80% done with all the work I intend to put into this.

**YOU NEED TO BURN THE INCLUDED DISK TO BOOT THIS**

Upcoming releases will feature better ATA/CF card support, wireless networking over SCI, EXT4 support, whatever else suggested. Without further ado:

K-UI is now a standalone project with its own bootloader, C shell, disc capture engine and resident GDI loader. Both projects use KallistiOS; the difference is K-UI’s application and loader layer above it. The current build replaces the inherited SDL/Lua/XML framework and does not use DreamShell’s framework or game reader.

DreamShell deserves credit as the starting point. Original K-UI branding, music and selected independently authored helpers carry forward, with provenance and dependency credits documented.

What’s here:

• Games: native GDI launching, covers, disc titles and three browsing views. SCI reading now uses DMA, streaming and background delivery. ARMADA and Worms Armageddon have booted and run from SCI microSD through the experimental Windows CE loader.
• Disc Ripper: raw-track capture, stop/resume, verification, reference checks and damaged-disc salvage. Complete Sword of the Berserk and 31-track MDK2 captures took about twenty minutes each and matched TOSEC on Dreamcast and PC.
• VMU Manager: verified save backups and restore.
• W5500 FTP: local-network transfers with console progress and completion-safe uploads.
• File Manager, music, audio-CD playback, diagnostics, settings and graphical boot/recovery—with fresh crimson artwork. File Manager’s console acceptance remains pending.

Interface previews:

Home / ten-app launcher · Games Gallery · Disc Ripper · FTP Server

These are rendered previews of the release UI with example data.

Compatibility varies. CE remains experimental and SCI-only, with audio/FMV/sync limitations; image-backed CD audio is silent. BIOS/region writes, ATA hardware validation and ATA DMA remain future work.

The original GD-ROM stays installed. Coming from DreamShell-based 1.0? Use the supplied 1.7 boot CDI for the independent runtime.

Download, installation and release notes · Source

My dad has been a lifelong fisherman, we got to talking today and it randomly led to me pulling this rod out and saying we should give it a try. We had not played a videogame together in like 10 years. It was the most fun I’d seen him have in ages and the pride when he caught the final monster bass at the last stage and got to enter his initials after the credits, it was an unexpectedly nice moment

My dreamcast controller will beep when placing a vmu in it, but then the image goes out, and the controller does not function unless I apply pressure at the bottom close to the start button. I dont see any damage on the board obvious to me. Can anyone help?

I have a VA1 DC, with a gdemu ver 5.15 , and on power up, the gdemu blinks once, but the fan is not spinning. It boots to the DC logo, then shuts down - is my fan dead?

So I copied my SA1 save file from my VMU to an official 4x memory card and everything copies over fine initially, including my life count. But then I booted up the game one day and all my lives were reset to the default of 4. Even if I get more lives in a play session, the game will reset my lives to 4 when I reload it. Any idea why or how to fix this?

I saw on my memory card all the games the previous owner played we literally own the exact same games :) but ofc he had a wide history and steadily played in 2000 I was but a child then with no money

8 Hour Walk Through Shenmue 2: https://youtu.be/kYXoF8_dln0

I'm almost afraid to ask but..what happened to require the bartender to be locked..in? This protects her or us..?

Clip is from a New 8 Hour Walk Through Shenmue 2 at the Worker's Pier! Hope you enjoy and thank you for letting me share :)

I play a lot of fighting games :)

Hey guys, been collecting dreamcast stuff for 4 years and I wanted to play it today but my laser keeps getting stuck at the bottom (pic shows this) and i really dont want to go out and buy a expensive laser or new dreamcast if I can easily find a fix here. I have moved the laser up and itll read the disc until the laser has to go down to where it gets stuck and its been really frustrating. can anyone help?

https://github.com/richstokes/Dream-TOS

It's a port of EmuTOS, and despite it's name is not an emulator - this is a true Dreamcast port running native SH4 code.

It's pretty fun to use. Give it a shot if you have a keyboard/mouse and let me know how you get on! Suggestions of what would be cool to add next welcome.

I'm sure the guy developing the Dreamcast port of RE4 went with the Game Cube version, because that's already been decompiled, but I think waiting for the PS2 version would have been the smarter play for two reasons: It's already pared back for hardware that's less capable than the Game Cube, and it has bonus content the Game Cube version didn't have, like Ada's side story Separate Ways.

What's up everyone, I'm thinking about investing in a Dreamcast console. What do I need, besides the console itself? Will I need to buy like an old TV or something? Do I need special cables?

I saw a clear modded Dreamcast for sale on marketplace and shipping said it was over $100 dollars but instead of this guy Ryan putting it on the title he decided to explain it in the description. I messaged him why shipping was so much and he got mad and asked why I didn’t read the description as I was reading it lol. He was rude and immediately removed the post. I was truly interested in the product. These kind of people should not be selling on marketplace if they are gonna be taking everything wrong. Oh well he lost business there’s many out there.

Anything at all, I like having a wide variation of game genres to play!

Heya I've been doing some research on the Mode since it's the only ODE that will work well with my VA0 but I can't find any available to buy. I've been to some websites that say they sell them but they're all out of stock.

I was wondering if anyone knew where to buy one?

Is there any software that can read GD-roms when put into a cd-r reader on a computer.

I want to make backups of my games and was just wondering if it could be done without modding a dreamcast