Hydro Thunder

Post by **acampero** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:48 pm

Quick question regarding VGA and this title.

I have a launch version (which I believe has glitch music and sfx)

I am trying to play it via VGA adaptor and it won't work. Is this the case for the later pressings of this game?

If thats the case, I heard there is a way to patch the game, but the problem is I dont have an image file for this game, just the original disc?

Any suggestions?

thanks

Post by **pixelbender** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:40 pm

My versions that are DL'd have never worked via VGA. It is a shame, it is a great game.

Post by **d123456** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:19 am

It is possible to force some Dreamcast games to vga.
You have to have a vga cable that you can switch from 15khz to 31khz.
I believe at some point you have to quickly switch to 31 khz.
not sure if it works with HT though.
Good Luck

Post by **RyaNtheSlayA** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:27 pm

didnt this come out for PS1 or am i crazy for thinking that i had it for ps1 at one time.

Post by **Doctor Fugue** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:27 pm

RyaNtheSlayA wrote:didnt this come out for PS1 or am i crazy for thinking that i had it for ps1 at one time.

Arcade ports of different qualities were available after the Dreamcast version was released for PC, N64 and PS1.

Post by **link343** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:45 am

There were three version out. Each version had a feature special to it. The Dreamcast version had the most accurate graphics to the arcade version. The PS1 version had a career mode while the Nintendo 64 version (Own;personal favorite) had a four player mode. This mode was not usually unlocked unless you had an expansion pack, If I remember correctly. I never got that far in the game because it required you to save on a memory card. I always thought that was a bad idea. Most N64 games allowed you to save on the cart. This is one of the only N64 games I know of that requires you to do so.

Post by **GagaMan** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:30 am

d123456 wrote:It is possible to force some Dreamcast games to vga.
You have to have a vga cable that you can switch from 15khz to 31khz.
I believe at some point you have to quickly switch to 31 khz.
not sure if it works with HT though.
Good Luck

If you use a boot disc (not Utopia, but something like DC-X) to run the game, you can force it to run in VGA that way. Works on quite a few games for me, including this one. Some games show up squashed to the top half of the screen though, like Plasma Sword and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

Post by **acampero** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:44 am

I'll see what I have. I know I have the Uptopia, but I think that when I bought Shenmue it came with something called a Super Game Converter? I don't have it in front of me but I will check.

Shame that that game doesn't support VGA out of the box.