
So, for the controls, we need to click on the “Options” drop-down menu, then hover the mouse over “Maple”, then “Port A”, and then click on “Config keys for Player 1”: In this emulator, names are a bit different then your standard emulator. So, go into the alpha version of the emulator and double-click on the “nullDC_Win32_Release-NoTrace.exe” file. Now, the first thing we are going to do is load up a game in the latest alpha release. Put all of you Sega Dreamcast CD image game files in that folder. Create a folder after you finish downloading it for the other version of the emulator and extract the contents of the archive into the new folder.įinally, create a third folder for your game CD images. When done, we’ll next need to obtain an earlier version of NullDC. When you have obtained these files, make sure they go by that name and put them in the data folder of the emulator. I can’t explain where you can get it, but I will say that the proper file size for the dc_boot.bin is about 2MB big and the dc_flash.bin is about 128kb big.
#Dreamcast bios nulldc zip file#
In that folder, extract the contents of the downloaded zip file into the emulator folder. After this, go into your Dreamcast folder and create a folder for this alpha version of NullDC.

When you finish downloading the zip archive, find a convenient place on your hard drive and create a folder for all of your Dreamcast needs.
#Dreamcast bios nulldc install#
If you have Direct X9 and you are still getting a missing DLL error, get the C++ runtimes also mentioned on the page and install it.Īfter that is sorted and you’re back on the NullDC page, head over to the downloads page and download the nullDC_104_r136.7z version and not the version with NAOMI. I, unfortunately, wouldn’t know what the error would be without DirectX9, but it might be similar to what you’d see when attempting to run the Snes9x emulator without DirectX9. If you don’t, I can see it being possible that the emulator would complain about missing DLL files on start-up. So, if you don’t have Direct X9, then it might be a good idea to download Direct X9 through the link they provide (which goes to Microsoft’s webpage). Since I’ve been doing extensive testing of different emulators, I had already obtained DirectX9. The page itself says that you may need to get DirectX9. To get that, we can first simply go to the NullDC Google code page.

So, we’ll start with the latest Alpha build. You might come across some references to NullDC 1.6, but that is actually referring to version 1.0.0, Beta 1.6. From my testing, it’s a good idea to have two versions: the latest alpha version and a stable release of 1.0.4. Unfortunately, like Project 64, this emulator suffers from having one emulator fixing some games and breaking others while another version seems to fix some games and break others. The first thing we need here is the emulator.
#Dreamcast bios nulldc how to#
In this guide, we show you how to play Dreamcast games on the emulator NullDC. While this console suffered from an early exit, some of the games released on this console was considered high quality by a number of gamers. The Sega Dreamcast was the last console Sega release before the company restructured into a third party software developer.
