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who needs the full version if you have the player? The vmbuilder works great for me. all you need is an iso in the same directory as the vmx file. open notepad copy your code in save it as ".vmx" and you are good to go.

I can point you to many people.

dcemulation.com
dcemu uk
ConsoleVision
Boob

I've also played Doom on a Kodak DC265 digital camera.

And if you can't afford an XBox (due to student loans and such), the ol $50 Sega Dreamcast has some really nice emulators for it! No mod chip required. I use the NES emulator all the time. Apparently MAME runs well. There's also some BSD distro for it, and homebrew games. Plus, it's so small and cute!
http://www.dcemulation.com/
http://www.consolevision.com/

For all you people complaining about not being able to "get into consoles", may I humbly suggest a Dreamcast?

You can find a fully free SDK here, a thriving homebrew community here, and there are already hundreds of homebrew games out there, many of them with source code.

A top of the line dev station will run you about $200 -- $50 for a used DC console, ~$15 for a serial cable, ~$135 for a BBA (100mbps ethernet), and a Cygwin install if you use Windows.

We're also working on opening up a market again with various others which, if not as large as the PS2 or GameCube, would certainly qualify as one of Garage Games' "niche markets". There are millions of DCs out there, about 90% of which can run games burned on CDR or pressed on a CD with no modifications.

So what are you waiting for? :)

Buy a Dreamcast.

No, really. They cost almost nothing, you can get great games for them also for almost nothing, and they can do all of those things for free out of the box, no modding required.

Check Boob, ConsoleVision etc for more info.

BTAF

It's already been done. You can share your PC's dial-up OR broadband connection with your Dreamcast. For Windows 2000 For other Windows OS's Knock yourself out.

cadcdev.allustion.net

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcdev/

b00b Dreamcast Research (no, NOT pr0n. sorry.)

DCEmulation.

ConsoleVision.

Hanger Eleven

Have fun!
--j0shua

I'm only replying because by some miraculous wonder, you did not get modded down.

There is absolutely no legal reason to own a modified console.
I'll repeat the obvious, Import games that are regionally encoded with no plans to ship to your region.
"Well, my modified Dreamcast lets me make my own games and play them!" No, it lets you play burned games that you download from the Internet.
There are people that do write their own DC games. Just because the majority of people use it to steal games that aren't being produced, or sold right now does not make everyone who modifies thier machine a pirate (and the people who do steal games are not right just because they aren't available anymore, either).

as soon as you put a burned game into that machine, you've committed a felony
This is not always true. You are allowed to make backup copies of software you legally own. I only bring copies of my music CD's to work, does that mean I'm a felon whenever I listen to "3 Doors Down"?

Why do you think Microsoft included an ethernet adapter? It's because when "Xbox Live" goes live, they can see your machine. They could see your saved games, they could see how often you play, and nobody would be the wiser. Why? Because the entire operating system is proprietary, and there's no way to disassemble it. You couldn't even install a piece of software on the Xbox to trap packets coming out of it, because it would have to be approved by Microsoft.
And you AREN'T bothered by them watching what you do on your home entertainment system? Remember that they are adding a PVR to this machine, they will watch that as well. (My only hope is that they use information about what people REALLY watch on TV to keep from cancelling the good shows. Of course, I know I'm going to be sadly disappointed by finding out what people really watch). What happens if someone watches an adult movie on their X-box one night when the kids aren't home, only to have "adult entertainment" ads invade their home for the next few weeks when the kids are home. This should bother everyone.

No legit user would ever want or need to open up their console to play games
I agree and disagree with this statement. This IS why people buy console machines. You have a black box, toss in a game, flip a switch, and you're playing. That's all it's supposed to be, no more, no less.
I disagree with it because many legit users open their machines for fun. Who didn't open up their nintendo or atari at some point (usually near the end of it's life) just to see what it was like on the inside? Saying no legit user should ever have to open it up for any reason is akin to saying no driver should ever look at their engine: They don't know what is happening, and could only either break it, or be doing it for an illegal purpose.

The amount of "good" games is controlled by the console manufacturers already. Sony releases fewer games in the U.S. as it does in Japan, Nintendo is not much better. I'm sure that Microsoft will do the opposite (release more games in America than Japan), at least I hope so. Modern games being copied hurt game developers severely. Older games aren't the same way. The people who put the blood and sweat to work on them usually aren't with the same company 15 years later. There are Three different games that are freeware for MAME even.

As for your last argument, THAT should have earned you flaimbait -1 right away.


Mod chips don't make felons - copied games make felons.
TDY