activate dreamcast on batocera

donnie84 · 2019-09-06T13:58:26+00:00

Hello. I liked to activate de dreamcast on my batocera. the emulator don´t appear in the menu. where i can find the bios and emulators of dreamcast?

joinski

donnie84

just watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YPAXvS-NW4

and then search on youtube for batocera bios pack

donnie84

thankz 🙂 i will try it

donnie84

i did it all and put some games but they didn´s apear in the menu after.

i need to download any emulator?

joinski

donnie84

no, you do not need to download an emulator.

did you update/refresh the games list or reboot? you have to do this after you transferred roms to the folders.

what file extension do your dreamcast games have?

donnie84

For the dream cast is .7z , and the psone is .rar

joinski

donnie84
.7z and .rar are compressed files and not supported for dreamcast and psone.

within the roms folders under /share there are info.txt files, where you can read, which file extensions are supported.
for dreamcast you need .cdi, .gdi or .chd

donnie84

now i cant find any working dreamcast games. the games wont start.
and have another problem, my psone games are too slow and the sound is very bad :/

joinski

donnie84
What are the hardware specs of your PC?
And what does "Main Menu", "System Information" say for OPENGL and CPU MODEL?

Which dreamcast and psone games did you try?
You are using the 32Bit x86 version of Batocera?
Which version of Batocera?

donnie84

Intel Atom cpu n270 @ 1.6ghz , 32bit x86 - ASPIRE ONE
OpenGL 2.1 Mesa 19.0.8

Dreamcast ..all of them.
psone .. street fighter alpha ..and others... all do the same ..slow and noise sound

Batocera 5,23 2019

joinski

donnie84

You did not read the supported system section on the homepage:
https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/#systems
Dreamcast requires an OpenGL >=3.1 GPU
You only have OpenGL 2.1

regarding psone, i guess the Intel Atom CPU is just too weak for psone emulation.

donnie84

yes yes i know .. thats why they didn´s start t all ...and i forget to see that ...
... but for the psone games didn´s required that openGL ..

joinski

donnie84

for psone games your CPU is to slow.
try with another notebook/pc

intel atom is one of the shittiest CPUs ever

donnie84

i know but is the only pc i have to do this. thanks anyway

SingingCoyote13

have you alternatively tried to lower the resolution for psone games to 640×480 it will likely speed things up - hotkey/advanced config per system/resolution