Dreamcast GDI Compatibility List

[nuvalo]

Hello, thank you for your amazing job. I recently did the IDE mod to my dreamcast and installed dreamshell, wich seems to work correctly. I was able to play several games but i'm having some problems, no one seems to work with DMA activated. If i activate this option i can see a black screen, then the dc boot animation, and then nothing...

Appart of that, i tested some games, but i found several glitches and errors wich not seems to be reported in this thread:

- Sonic adventure (EU) CDI: Seems to work, but have several graphic errors. There is some kind of opaque "blue layer" that covers the screen sometimes. For example , the first battle with chaos level 0 appears randomly, but the next level is unplayable.

- Soul Calibur (EU/NTSC)(CDI/GDI): Tried several versions of this game and formats, none of them worked. I can see the first "boot animation" with the soul calubur logo, then the 50Hz/60Hz selection, then black screen. If I use the NTSC version of the game it is the same without the video mode selection.

- Marvel vs Capcom 2 (EU/NTSC)(CDI/GDI): I tried this game, and had the graphic errors mentioned in the first post (invisible characters). Anyway after playing with the options, if i set the "async read" option to "none" I can see the characters sprites in the center of the screen. Anyway it keeps unplayable.

I tried other games wich seems to work, Dino crissis and Code Veronica works perfectly. I had other problems using your Iso Make tools, i wasnt able to create a working iso image from a cdi. If i try "any2iso.bat" it seems to create a new iso image, but iso loader says that is corrupted. also, i was unable to mount or open that newly created iso. I'm using Windows7 64 bit, not sure if it is important.

Also, i'm having an strange problem with some programs in dreamshell. I'm sorry if this isn't the correct thread to ask for this, but i'm not sure if this is an incompatibility with my IDE installation or another problem. I used a 29l3211 eeprom to replace the original bios rom, wich seems to be compatible with your flasher (http://www.dc-swat.ru/page/dreamshell/firmware/), but it doesn't seems to be recognized by it (it is marked as a 2MB XXXX eeprom). If i try to read the eprom and create a bios image it blocks after some seconds and creates a zero byte file. Also, after editing the presets of some games in the iso loader options, sometimes it gets corrupted and throws a core dump with some strange SDL errors. If I copy again the Iso loader files it seems to work OK if i don't save the changes in the preset options.