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[A2600]

Game Images for the Dreamcast to burn with NERO to play on the Sega Dreamcast I have allredy successfully done one with NERO and it worked now I need a place where to find more game images for the Dreamcast the game was Gundam Wing

Thanks For The Help

[Ze_ro]

Go buy them. The local stores around here are selling DC games for dirt cheap. I'd much rather get a game with a complete manual and packaging for $5 than burn it onto a $0.40 CD. Not to mention the fact that my stack of Dreamcast originals is a lot more impressive than a spindle of pirated software. I make exceptions for games that weren't commercially available here (Evil Twin, Headhunter, Rez, Capcom Vs. SNK 2, etc).

If you still insist on stealing games, then your best bet is the alt.binaries.dreamcast newsgroup... of course, this assumes you have a quality newsfeed (I'm lucky that my ISP actually has a great news server... most ISP's don't, so you may just see tons and tons of broken files). You'll need to know how to use newsgroups of course, and you'll have to wait until someone posts what you want, or try to make a request.

--Zero

[liquid_sky]

ugh we yell at you for making old rom requests in one forum now you come here asking for modern roms but calling them "images". Go buy the games from a store. They are cheap.

[Miqorz]

http://www.ebay.com

[Raijin Z]

Umm, because they ARE called images. Most stores don't even carry recent DC games. Check filesharing services, and tell all your leecher pals to never ask for roms or ISOs on message boards ever again.

[MegaManFan]

Still, it doesn't exactly look flattering good to be asking for ISO's, images, or whatever you choose to call them for Dreamcast. In my own mind there's a qualitative difference between asking for a binary for something that's been out of print for 20 years, is relatively rare, and was only put on a cartridge than there is asking for something just recently out of print, sometimes still available new, and certainly widely available used from numerous sources. I know people are trading GBA files online too, and I don't dig that either. There's a line emulation crosses at some point where it stops being about preservation and it starts being about getting something for nothing.

[Miqorz]

Yeah I back you up %100 MMF...


I can see someone asking for a Quadrun rom because it IS a good game and someone looking for ps2 Iso Image FTP's....

[Hydian]

CD's are saved as images. ROM's are chips.

Trading something in print and something out of print (2 hours, 20 years, time frame doesn't matter) are completely different things IMHO. Anything out of print is no longer making the property holder money (and making a copy of something that isn't making them money isn't costing them money.) That said, both are illegal and under the Disney copywrite law nothing electronic will be public domain for another 50 years or more.

Emulation is protected under fair use laws (well, what is left of them under the DMCA which isn't much.) If you own the original ROM, then having a copy on your PC for an emulator is fine. Giving a copy of your ROM to someone else is not fine (technically, even if they have an original ROM you still can't give them a copy.) If you follow the law, there is nothing wrong with emulating anything. Some people not following the law doesn't make the entire thing illegal or wrong.

All of that out of the way, there is no reason to pirate Dreamcast games as they are readily available for the most part.

[jetset]

Ze_ro said:

If you still insist on stealing games,  

Are there still companies producing games for the Dreamcast?

[Hydian]

AFAIK, the last licensed Dreamcast game was KOF 01 released last year.

Edit: Looking on lik-sang, there is apparently still some commercial development for it.

[MegaManFan]

Yup, Feet of Fury is being published as we speak.

[cryptik76]

MMF, I back you up 100% as well.