How is your Dreamcast gaming going on?

[CD AGES]

Noise, try forcing SFA3 into 240p by holding Start+L (or Start+Z on the Arcade Stick) when you turn the Dreamcast on, before the Capcom logo appears.

This won't work with A3.

[CD AGES]

Noise, try forcing SFA3 into 240p by holding Start+L (or Start+Z on the Arcade Stick) when you turn the Dreamcast on, before the Capcom logo appears.

I still get Pong.

Hmm... strange.
Do you have a means to display in VGA with your DC by any chance?

I don't have a VGA box right now. :\

Darn. I'd strongly recommend one if you plan to play DC on a more modern set. Or at least a wonderful CRT TV.

[noiseredux]

oh I'm planning to pick some up again, I just haven't yet. I actually put one on my Christmas list for my wife, haha.

[CD AGES]

Ah! Goodtimes.
I'm still curious about your current dilemma here.

[noiseredux]

me too, I've never seen anything like it. Usually a game just won't boot at all. But it's so weird, it does the SEGA logo screen, then white screen, then that weird Pong screen - on two different consoles. One console hooked up to an LCD via composite, the other hooked up to a CRT monitor via composite/VGA converter. Neither console has any problems booting any other disc, so I can't help but think it is a problem with the disc. But what specifically? It's odd that it boots up at all.

[mas]

Can you get a refund on the game? If so get it and of course get another copy.

[noiseredux]

Can you get a refund on the game? If so get it and of course get another copy.

It was a gift.

[mas]

Ok. I have never seen that on a game. I have seen games never boot or freeze but never black screen

[Exhuminator]

Noise, try forcing SFA3 into 240p by holding Start+L (or Start+Z on the Arcade Stick) when you turn the Dreamcast on, before the Capcom logo appears.

This won't work with A3.

Really? I thought it worked with all Capcom games.

[noiseredux]

Another vote for a VGA box btw. VGA for Dreamcast is an absolute must for games that support it.

no vote needed, haha. Preaching to choir. Back when I was last collecting DC stuff I had several different VGA boxes/adapters. I already know the full glory of DC VGA - especially on a 4:3 CRT.