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{{Infobox console|title = Sega Dreamcast|logo = DreamcastConsole.png|developer = [[:Sega]]|type = [[:Category:Consoles|Home video game console]]|generation = [[File:DreamcastCategory:Sixth-and-controller.jpggeneration video game consoles|Sixth generation]]|release = 1998|thumbdiscontinued = 2001|250pxpredecessor = [[Sega_Saturn_emulators|The Sega Dreamcast and controllerSaturn]]|emulated = {{✓}}}}The '''[[wikipedia:Sega Dreamcast|Dreamcast]]''' is a sixth-generation console released by [[wikipedia:Sega|Sega]] in on November 27, 1998 in Japan and later on September 9, 1999 in 1999 NA. It retailed for $199 ($298.72 in other territories2018 money). It had a Hitachi SH-4 RISC CPU at 200 MHz with 16 MB of RAM and 8 MB of VRAM. It had a PowerVR2 GPU at 100 MHz, which theoretically was capable of pushing 3 million polygons/second on-screen. There is a 2 MB audio RAM, which complemented a powerful 67 MHz Yamaha AICA sound processor, with a 32-bit ARM7 RISC CPU core. The audio chip could generate 64 voices with PCM or ADPCM codec and provided ten times the performance of the [[Sega Saturn emulators|Saturn's]] sound system.. Sega also released the '''[[Sega NAOMI and variants|Naomi]]''', an arcade system board with similar components to the Dreamcast, is supported by some Dreamcast emulators. Sammy's '''[https://segaretro.org/Atomiswave is an Atomiswave]''' arcade system board that is was also based upon on the Dreamcast and Naomi. Sega collaborated with Microsoft on the Dreamcast's development, and this partnership would continue later with the [[Xbox emulators|Xbox]]. What came out of this was the possibility for games to be developed for an optimized version of '''Windows CE''' (with DirectX) on each disc. However, Windows CE wasn't mandatory to use and most developers opted for Sega's development tools instead out of convenience. Even in major emulators, this aspect isn't implemented (or implemented well).

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* ;[[DEmul]] has :Has the highest compatibility and accuracy, but is the most accurate Dreamcast emulatorWindows-only. But there may be some games that work better on NullDC or reicast, so it's a good idea to try them all. Supports It supports Windows CE games , but in general , they run worse than standard Dreamcast titles. It's also more resource-intensive than other emulators.* Makaron one ;[[nullDC]]:Can run a lot of the only two Dreamcast emulator that can properly play games which use Windows CEat great speed in mid-end PCs.* NullDC is It's no longer developed and is replaced by Reicast, which is made in favor of its fork&hellip;;[[reicast]]:Made by the same team. ThusRuns on Android, Windows, and Linux.:;[[reicast#Libretro_core|reicast libretro]]:[[libretro]] fork similar to [[Mednafen]]'s PCE-fast and PCE-accuracy cores that backport changes from [https://github.com/flyinghead/reicast-emulator flyinghead's fork] of reicast. It aims to be compliant with OpenGL 2 and OpenGL ES 2 so that it can continue to run on mobile devices and mid-tier PCs. A graphics feature of the Dreamcast, Order-Independent Transparency, can only be properly emulated using recent versions of OpenGL 4 on supported hardwares and platforms (currently Windows and Linux).<ref>Daniel De Matteis. [https://www.libretro.com/index.php/introducing-reicast-oit-libretro-core-updated-reicast-regular-core/ Introducing Reicast OIT libretro core + updated Reicast regular core] on libretro.com. June 12, 2018.</ref> This fork also supports [https://www.patreon.com/posts/reicast-libretro-19733457 Naomi and Atomiswave] hardware.;[[redream]]:Has a good interface, is simple to set up and can run without a BIOS (though it's better to use one anyway).;[[Makaron]]:One of the latter is more recommendedonly two closed-source Dreamcast emulators that can properly play Windows CE games.

Dreamcast emulation is not isn't very good. Some For the emulators that are either mature or maturing, a very large percentage of games work well, but many games still have problems and glitches. In recent times, the open-source community has gotten a better leg to stand on thanks to RetroArch's reicast cores. Their team has been integrating a version of reicast that deals with many graphical issues (elaborated on above).

===Poor VMU Emulationemulation===

While current Dreamcast emulators can display leverage the screen of the VMU display when while the game is running, none of them can be used allow you to play the minigames which were made to run on the VMU. To play developed for it so playing those minigames you'll need to use would require another emulator. There The problem is no there aren't any complete list lists of VMU emulators , and the ones which emulators that can be found are poorly documented and/or closed source.

==VMU emulationemulators==Emulating the dreamcast Dreamcast VMU is possible via use of this emulator:[https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rai7db85bqq5iz0/AAAbnQfEJpTFaHkQ8K6nP6kVa?dl=0 Dropbox linkof ElysianVMU] [http://forums.elysianshadows.com/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=9171 Link to the forum thread about it] ==References==<references />