NEW DreamCast Emulator: nullDC v1.0.0 Beta (Runs games at FULL SPEED!)

It seems like my problem is that NullDc wont recognize that I have a pc controller hooked up. I’ve used joy2key and xpadder to set things up, but when I turn on nulldc, it’s only controlled by the keyboard and wont respond to any of my buttons on the controller.

Any help would be appreciated

My fault, good lookin out.

Thanks for being fast.

I can’t wait for that final version!!:lovin:

The emulator doesn’t recongnize pc controllers only keyboards. use xpadder to set keyboard buttons to your controller buttons and make sure the keyboard buttons are set on the emulator.

Remember to have xpadder turned on and have the profile for your controller loaded up. It has to stay on for it to work with null.

Thanks. I’ll try that when I get home.

EDIT: It worked, thanks.

Mark of the Wolves

Has anyone gotten Mark of the Wolves(J) to work? I see the DC logo and then it goes blank after that and i hear some sort of kiddy type music. 3rd strike is awesome on it.

not sure if this helps but im running at 60fps with a 1.8GHz Athlon, 1Gb of Ram and a 6600GT video card. only mentioning cause some ppl say you have to have a really high end system to run smooth. apparently not the case.

heck if this is the case then I must have done something wrong but seriously, how the hell do you map a playstation controller via xpadder?( I got the bmp file to map the buttons correctly via keyboard and later configure it in nulDC but yet, it will NOT work) I followed a flash tutorial and have yet to get it working. hell I only get the eject button to work which sucks as I see the game passing me by. What gives? Any help would be much appreciated or heck a pm would suffice if possible. Thanks.

i’m all for this as most people are. Finally being able to play 3s\mvc2 online would be great w\ no lag or very little lag. xbox live is shit because i’ve had my experiences with cvs2 being just horrible. I don’t like the service. So thats my question. Whats the lag time going to be like? would there be any way for 2 pc’s to run off a server rather than a pc to pc conncetion to lower the latency? I don’t mind forking over a few bucks a month for good quality ping that would make fighters over the net playable.

would marvel stages interfere with latency? IE, training mode stage compared to all other mvc2 stages. Training mode has very little as far as visuals go, its just a black background with green lines on it.

does anyone have a good idea of what the latency might be? whats good latency for a fighting game over the net? i’m probably thinking less than 20ms?

i don’t know if my terminology is right so don’t bash on me.

this could be the first big step for fighters to make worth playing online in the US. If by chance the net play is great and it allows for great connections, maybe sega might jump in and create their own version with better net play code and offer servers for dedicated players for a fee.

Can this new dreamcast emulator run King of Fighters 99 Evolution?

It’s completely up to the programmers what kind of netcode they would be running. direct seems to be better for 1 on 1 fighters rather than through a server so I think we’d want that. Good, stable, almost instant performance would be in the 20 ms range but that is near network speed. I’d say a really good goal would be in the 40ms range, I’ve played mvc1 over kaillera with that with good results. net code gogogogogogo

ahh thnx for helping me out.

i think i’ve heard of the xvsf guru’s playing off a server because the ping over kaillera(sp) isn’t as good as they wanted but I don’t know if thats true. can anyone confirm? wouldn’t difference in pc performance be a factor for ping?

also, I hope the net code doesn’t incoporate frame skip because that means marvel\3s get bumped down. Marvel players do use 1 frame stuff all the time and 3s players need those frames for hit confirms…

i’m really praying that they try to suit the netcode for dc fighters than the rest of the games. Seriously, everyone who has a DC these days practically plays street fighter on it.

im kinda screwed up… i have the original mvc2 and also a i have a boot disk and also a remixed version of mvc2 where i can play on my older dreamcast but i would like to play on my pc using this version of beta…

what do i need to do to find the image files for it to load correctly on my computer someone help!!!?

im a dummy so give me caveman instructions please…

Check your PMs.

EDIT: And I need a working way to get VMU Saves because I don’t want to beat Project Justice again. The one I have freezes ater selecting a theme.

If I could also have a copy of those caveman instructions I would be grateful. I have some BUs as well as originals, but my new Apt can’t have everything hooked up yet so this would be a godsend

When you guys play, do you have trouble doing complicated motions?

Like, watching your youtube video, it seems like you couldn’t do sj. hyper viper
too easily…

When I play on chankast, I have trouble doing HCF motions and "tiger knees"
are impossible. When doing a basic storm AC, I can only get her lightning storm to come out when I am facing right. Also, her HCB tornados don’t come out either.

Does the joystick solve this problem? Cuz it seems like the emulator only accepts Up, Down, Left, Right inputs…

The emulator DOES only accept down, left, right and up. The dreamcast does too. For diagonals, you have to press two buttons at once. This isn’t a problem to be fixed, but a joystick would help.

can’t you just download them off gamefaqs?

specifically for PJ: http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/dreamcast/save/377885.html
just make sure you download the correct region though (USA / JPN)

This is true for just about every game, btw. 3S, CVS2, etc – just d/l the save off gamefaqs. Saves you the pain of unlocking everything all over again.

ok i got the cdi image and the thing runs but it doesnt seem to load up the game…
i dont know whats going on…

it says in the command prompt cannont load dc_flash_wb.bin
syscalls.bin and ip.bin
files arent found…

someone help?

i have the same problem, i found ip.bin in the game disk itself, but cant find syscalls and doesn’t recognize dc_flash_wb cuz says its missing but it’s in the folder :sad: