FIX Dreamshell

[keilmillerjr]

Hello! I’m new here, and new to Dreamcast modification as well. Perhaps I will have a different but good perspective.



First of all, thank you for making Dreamshell. I sent my Dreamcast to some one who is experienced in modifying them. I received a dual bios and compact flash mod. It’s awesome. Thank you again.





Overscan. Dreamcast was made to work with television sets. CRT televisions have overscan, unlike crt monitors with underscan or fixed pixel displays. It would be awesome if Dreamshell utilized the title safe area. Honestly, the bottom bar on operating system could be eliminated if pages could be navigated by controls such as the left and right triggers. Space icons appropriately. Could add dots indicating pages like iOS.

Navigating iso loader list view is difficult with weird scrolling. Capturing the d-pad with some sort of smooth scrolling would be better.

Perhaps icons representing serial port, gdrom, and ide would be better than the labels. I am using compact flash via ide, not a hard disk drive. Not sure what the PC option is. Is it even necessary to select a drive? Should it just select the drive Dreamshell booted from automatically?

Please take this as constructive criticism. I only post because I think Dreamshell is awesome. I would like to contribute in any way I can, but must familiarize myself first. Thank you.