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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 '''[https://segaretro.org/Sega_NAOMI [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 Atomiswave]''' is an arcade system board that is was also based on the Dreamcast and Naomi.

Microsoft Sega collaborated with Sega for DreamCast Microsoft on the Dreamcast's development (which , and this partnership would continue later with the [[Xbox)emulators|Xbox]]. The Sega Dreamcast is known What came out of this was the possibility for games to be developed for running an optimised optimized version of '''Windows CE''' (with DirectX) as an operating systemon each disc. However, Sega chose to go down a different route than what was originally planned - bundling simple operating systems within the discs themselves. Running games through Windows CE was still an option wasn't mandatory to use and most developers opted for developers, but most games used Sega's proprietary software development tools instead out of convenience. This Even in major emulators, this aspect isn't implemented in all emulators(or implemented well).

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;[[DEmul]]:Has the highest compatibility and accuracy, but is Windows-only. It supports Windows CE games, but in general , they run worse than standard Dreamcast titles. It's also more resource-intensive than other emulators.;[[NullDCnullDC]]:Can run a lot of games at great speed in mid-end PCs. It's no longer developed in favor of its fork&hellip;:;[[reicast]]:Made by the same team. Runs on Android, Windows, and Linux.:;Reicast regular and Reicast OIT[[reicast#Libretro_core|reicast libretro]]:[[libretro]] forks 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. regular 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, meaning it is limited to 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> In the same month of these cores' huge graphics renderer addition, they added support for the This fork also supports [https://www.youtubepatreon.com/watch?v=xTaRNNYTcYI posts/reicast-libretro-19733457 Naomi]/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CcQAFEem38 and Atomiswave] hardware.;[[redream]]:Has a good interface, is simple to setup, set up and can run without a BIOS (though it's better to use one anyway).;[[Makaron]]:One of the only two closed-source Dreamcast emulators that can properly play Windows CE games.

Dreamcast emulation is not isn't very good. 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.

FortunatelyIn recent times, the first viable open-source Dreamcast emulator that community has gotten a near complete graphics renderer began appearing in June 2018 in two newly split cores inside the libretro multi-system emulator. But the more accurate core works better leg to stand on PCthanks to RetroArch's onlyreicast cores. Its graphics renderer can be found in Their team has been integrating a fork version of the separate Reicast emulator which it backported the code fromreicast 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==

[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]