DreamSNES once a commercial Emulator?

[Shibathedog]

Hey everybody, ive recently descovered another amazing discovery of discoveries related to the dreamcast!

 

First, some background info...

 

I knew someone a long time ago that was really into games, and his name was Dallas. I wasnt really good friends with him or anything so i didnt really know him very well, but i did know he was REALLY into his games. Anyway, he ended up moving (ironically, to texas) and then he sold his dreamcast and all his dreamcast stuff to my friend dan. Then Dan asked me if i could burn him a shitload of Dreamcast games, and me being lazy, and him being impatient, said, forget it, and sold the Dreamcast to my other friend, Canyon. Now, this Dreamcast has a Network adaptor in it so ive been begging to buy it from canyon, but thats another story. Anyway, I was at dans house with Canyon the other day and we discovered a few things he hadnt givin to canyon. Among these items was a DreamSNES disc. Now your thinking, woo, who cares? but heres the strange part, Its a professionally pressed and printed CD. Even with inner labeling. As if it was bought from a store. Im trying to get in contact with dallas to see where the flock he found this thing. But right now i dont know. Also, Dallas being Dallas, the messy kid he was, scratched the disc so badly, it doesnt really run at all, just glicthed images on the screen. Dan however recalls playing it, and he said that the emulation was actually pretty good, with some color issues, but ran at pretty much full speed, and with minor sound glitches. Which is pretty good actually. Im going to try resurfacing the disc and maybe recovering the data tomorrow, but for now, heres some scans of the CD.

 

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Pretty cool huh? And this is Volume 2, whoah, where are the other volumes?!??! Notice the professional labeling/inner print/etc. (and the scratches that look like knife gouges my god...)

Edited October 5, 2004 by Shibathedog

[Fatal Rose]

Cool. Be sure to keep us updated.

[Shibathedog]

okeedokee

 

If anyone finds any of these for sale online still or something, post it, because now they i know they exist...

 

I NEED THEM!!!

[PLasticSlug]

dude im sure you arlready found these

 

http://peter.bortas.org/dreamsnes/shots.html

http://peter.bortas.org/dreamsnes/

 

at one time people were selling this disk on yahoo auctions

http://ratings.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com...ID=crowhuss194&

[Fatal Rose]

dude im sure you arlready found these

 

http://peter.bortas.org/dreamsnes/shots.html

http://peter.bortas.org/dreamsnes/

 

at one time people were selling this disk on yahoo auctions

http://ratings.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com...ID=crowhuss194&

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Wow PS you really came through with the info. Thanks.

[DanManXZ]

shibathedog.stuffhosting.com/Scan1Large.jpg

 

shibathedog.stuffhosting.com/Scan2Large.jpg

 

Pretty cool huh? And this is Volume 2, whoah, where are the other volumes?!??! Notice the professional labeling/inner print/etc. (and the scratches that look like knife gouges my god...)

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It looks it was sold in a flea market(a great place to get pirated games heh ) and tried to make a few bux off Emu disc. I wonder when he played it, if it said "If you bought this then you have been ripped off" or somthin. That's what my DreamSnes disc does.

[iq_132]

I'd bet money this was burnt by professional pirates or something. That emulator has NEVER been commercial.

[Gryph]

Yeah, that still looks fishy. Especially the front of the CD.

[Agozer]

To my knowledge, NO emulator for the Dreamcast has ever been commercial.

 

Pathetic.

[Shibathedog]

yeah, plus commercial emus are really not even bothered with because of legality issues (cept that Action Replay Genesis emu for PS2 and crap)

 

Im still trying to get in contact with Dallas, and ill ask dan about the If you bought this you have been ripped off thing.

[ken_cinder]

Hardly a professional looking label......I've seen my brother fire out better looking stuff using MS paint, not to mention it looks pretty fuzzy for a press job. I'd say the previous owner just made his own label/case covers for all his stuff, lots of people do it and there are plenty of unofficial covers/labels for emulators and homebrew.

[Shibathedog]

yeah but when you made a label with a label maker, you can peel it off or scrub it off with nail polish, i know because i make them myself, and ive been trying to get it off, and i cant.

 

The part that has me almost completley convinced is that inner labeling part, you NEED a presser to do that, plus its not a CD-R at all, its a pressed CD.

 

I wish i could at least theive the snes roms from it hehe

 

but anyway. Pirated games usually do have crappy looking lables because anywhere decent wont break the law for you.

[Bluestinger X]

i dont see how u consider that a comerical emulator. If it was burned on a dc disk then maybe... but just a cd? and it says self boot and has a DC comic trade mark probably just some chinese company making money off a dc emulator thats free to get online anyways.

[Shibathedog]

well by commercial i mean it was done with a commercial recorder (NOT a CD burner, it was actually pressed) and that it was paid for.

[alundra]

i think that is pirate disc, because i've bought some psx pirate discs in vietnam (all the games over there are back up by pirate), all the label of the disc look just like this one, they all look crappy and stuff and the labels stick into the surface of the discs that you cant scratch or anything just like you mentioned..