has anyone ever had this problem? It only seems to happen to a select few PAL Dreamcast games, where they will suddenly stop letting you play the game at all, even if there not being any scratches. Normally when you put a disc in the Dreamcast that won't work, it just throws you straight to the Bios, but in these cases I've had, it will show the Sega logo, go black for a few seconds, then send you to the Bios.
This problem seems to be most evident in PAL copies of Virtua Striker 2. I've gone through about 5 copies of this game now that have all ended up doing this, good thing it's a easy and cheap game to find. Unfortunately I've also had this problem with Virtua Tennis 2. No US for Japanese games have ever done this to me, though, literally just these two games.
Suiciding PAL Dreamcast games of the Virtua nature..
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Well this is the first time that I've heard someone else haveing this problem. I had it happen to my copies of Blue stinger and Sega rally 2. Just one I tried to play them and ...nada, I thought my DC was dieing on me but it only did it on those two games, all others worked perfectly. The machine itself is still functoning perfectly today almost a year later and it gets used very often so it is obviously not an issue with the machine just dud games.
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Yes here in Australia we are pal just like you guys. That's why I buy a lot of my harder to find games from the UK.
However thankfully they are the only DC games of mine to do this, none of them were of the Virtua variety , if I lost my tennis I don't know what I would do. I have the new VT3 on the PC but it just ain't the same as playing it on my DC.
However thankfully they are the only DC games of mine to do this, none of them were of the Virtua variety , if I lost my tennis I don't know what I would do. I have the new VT3 on the PC but it just ain't the same as playing it on my DC.
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.