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i'm looking to buy a dreamcast and i would like to play backups on it :rolleyes: and i remember reading something about dreamcasts' made after a certain date didnt like copied games or wouldn't boot them or something with backups wouldnt work and i was wondering if anyone knew the month and year that it needed to be manufactured before in order to work properly with my backups. thanks
jteffo
I have a DC that will do just that which I'll let you have for a reasonable cost. Includes 3 VMUs, a MegaMemory card, 2 controllers, Skies of Arcadia, etc.
PM me for details if you're interested...
I think all the units made after January 2001 can no longer play cd-r games. You still can't make backups yourself though, but i'm assuming you knew that already.
my friends brother has one that was manufactured in october 2000 and it wont play backups, but his might just be ****ed up, thanks for the info though
oh and i knew i couldnt make my own backups :)
jteffo
actually.......
With a DC Coders cable from lik-sang.com , it is possible, you can then hook your DC up to your PC and make the backups by ripping the data from the CD drive on the DC to an ISO file on your computer. That's how most make their backups.
It's not quite that simple, the coder cable alone won't let you backup all of the games data.
The coders cable will just rip the data to the pc, there's a lot more after that to get it to be a functional backup. I gave up doing it myself, too damn complicated. And I believe any DC manufactured before Oct, 2000, will play backups just fine. After that they'll still play won't they? They just have to be burned in a different way I thought.