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You will need to place the BIOS and other files in the archive into the вЂdataвЂ™ folder within the nullDC folder.

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A quick Google search for вЂnullDC BIOSвЂ™ will yield quick results, or for a safe download I recommend grabbing it here. The reason for this is that the developers donвЂ™t want to risk angering SegaвЂ™s lawyers, and I donвЂ™t blame them. Like most emulators, nullDC requires a BIOS to operate, and adding to the similarity, itвЂ™s the one thing that doesnвЂ™t come included with the program. ThereвЂ™s no installer for this emulator, so wherever you extract it is where it will run from. YouвЂ™ll want to download the non-NAOMI version of the emulator, and then extract it. NullDC doesnвЂ™t have much of an official website, but rather is hosted via GoogleвЂ™s вЂcodeвЂ™ project hosting here. IвЂ™ve been unsuccessful in trying to find alternate plugins for nullDC. The downside, however, is that if one plugin doesnвЂ™t really agree with you, then you are somewhat out of luck. That means that youвЂ™ll be able to get going fairly quickly without having to hunt down different plugins from a bunch of different websites. This is one area where nullDC shines (or doesnвЂ™t, depending on your view), as it pre-bundles all of the plugins right inside of the main package. If youвЂ™re familiar with emulators, chances are you know how tedious it can be to find the right plugin for each module of a console, such as graphics, audio, gamepad and so forth.

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Select games that run on WinCE and subsequently wonвЂ™t operate in nullDC are Resident Evil 2, Armada, 4Г—4 Evolution, Matt HoffmanвЂ™s Pro BMX, POD SpeedZone and Ducati World. ItвЂ™s worth noting that DEMUL does support WinCE, so that is one thing that does set the two emulators apart. If a game happens to use it, then it will not work in nullDC. You might have noticed that I mentioned вЂњeach one that workedвЂќ above, and thatвЂ™s because not all games are going to work with nullDC. There are occasions where texture glitches occur or fonts may not render ideally through the emulator as they would on the console, but so far I havenвЂ™t encountered any problem too notable. In all of the games I tested with nullDC (about 80), each one that worked delivered the same audio IвЂ™d expect to get from the console, and for the most part, the same could be said about the graphics. In the case of nullDC, my overall experience has been amazing вЂ“ much better than I anticipated. The most important factor that sets an emulator apart from the rest is how well it works. Unfortunately for Linux and OS X users, neither of these emulators are designed for either OS вЂ“ though Wine might be an option on the Linux side. nullDC on the other hand, I had working no problem, so thatвЂ™s the focus of this article. For various reasons, I didnвЂ™t have luck with DEMUL at all, after a couple of nights of testing. To my surprise, I found two popular choices: DEMUL and nullDC.

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I guess we canвЂ™t have it all!вЂќ This sentiment was directed at Linux, but the truth was that the options were ultra-limited for Windows as well.ДЄs itвЂ™s been a while since I last gave any Dreamcast emulator a test, I decided to once again seek out the available options and see how they fared.

At the end, I stated, вЂњ The only other system I really wanted to see an emulator for, but didnвЂ™t, was the Sega Dreamcast. Nearly five years ago, I wrote a how-to entitled вЂњ Game Emulation in LinuxвЂњ, which as the title implies, talked about getting various emulators working under the OS along with a gamepad.

Luckily, pretty-well every console prior to and including the Sega Dreamcast have stellar emulator options available. Also inevitable is the fact that fans will create an emulator to make sure that the platform never dies. As a gamer, one of the worst experiences is finding out that your favorite console is reaching its end-of-life stage.