If youre familiar with file hashing tools, you can check that the files are the correct ones by comparing the MD5 hash numbers weve provided too.

Sadly it seems like the emulator hasnt been updated since 2013, but it still works well so dont concern yourself with that.

The emulator downloads as a.rar file.

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You will need to extract the files from this archive to any convenient location on your PC.

Rar files are similar to Zip files, but Windows does not support them without extra software.

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If youre not familiar with dealing with.rar files, we recommend you follow these simple tutorials for 7-zip, a free tool that can open.rar files.

Unfortunately these files are under copyright so we cant link to them directly, but the file you need is called dc.zip and it should contain the following files.

When you do this, an error message will appear saying that BIOS Plugins are not configured.

The emulator will take you directly to the configuration window, so lets look at that now.

As you might have guessed, gpuDX10 will work on DirectX 10 graphics hardware, while gpuDX11 will only work on hardware that is DirectX 11 capable.

GdrImage is compatible both with Discjuggler CD image (typically these have a.cdi file extension) and 1:1 dumps of a Dreamcast GD-ROMs (typically these come in.gdi format with several other.bin or.raw files).

GdrDemul can use a real optical drive.

Although real Dreamcast games arent compatible with regular PC DVD drives, a large number of homebrew and pirate Dreamcast titles were distributed on CD and CD-R discs.

Finally, gdrCHD is compatible with the CHD format used by the MAME arcade emulator.

For this to work you also need the OpenVPN software for Windows.

We may cover Netplay in a later article, but for now, leave this option disabled.

The Roms and Bioses Paths should already exist as we created that earlier in the tutorial.

Several windows will now pop up telling you that things arent configured.

We want to use the default configuration on everything for now, so simply keep clicking OK (not Cancel) on each notification window and configuration window that then appears, without changing any settings just yet.

Finally, if everything is working correctly, you should see the following window.

Congratulations getting this far You wont be able to do anything yet though, since we need to configure controllers.

Once youve managed to extract the files, the next step is to copy your Demul compatible Dreamcast BIOS images.

Dc Boot Bin File Download