Features and Important Information - TheArcadeStriker/flycast-wiki GitHub Wiki

Features

Flycast has support for the following things:

  • Emulating standard Dreamcast controllers, Keyboard, Mouse, Light-Gun (with your mouse), Twin Sticks, and even the ASCII Mission Stick
  • Mobile has On Screen Button Layouts, that change based on if you play Dreamcast, or Arcade games. (there are a growing collection of custom layouts you can use on the Discord)
  • Emulating two expansion sockets per controller (VMU, Purupuru/Rumble Pack, or Microphone)
  • Widescreen Hack (Rendering outside of native 4:3 screen using a "Brute Fore" method, which works on MANY games)
  • Resolution and Texture Upscaling (up to 7K+ resolutions)
  • Frame Skipping
  • Dump textures and load custom textures with a growing texture pack list
  • Support for HLE BIOS, for fast and quick playing with a 95%+ compatibility (NOTE: It is ALWAYS recommended to use a real BIOS for the best experience)
  • Automatically configured to be able to connect to Dreamcast Live fan servers for the games supported
  • High compatibility and high performance
  • Widescreen Game Patches (Auto-applying codes/patches to certain games to do Widescreen instead of using the Flycast Widescreen Hack, which also works on MANY games)
  • Screen stretching to utilize the native Widescreen Mode in many games, or if it is one of the handful of games that wont work in wide screen, you can stretch the image to fill out your screen if you want.
  • Retro Achievements
  • Discord Rich Presence
  • DCnet for native online game play

Compatible games with Widescreen Game Hacks (W.I.P)

  • 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker (JP, USA, PAL)
  • 4 Wheel Thunder (USA)
  • 90 Minutes - Sega Championship Football (PAL)
  • AeroWings 2 (PAL)
  • Animastar (JP)
  • Alien Front Online (USA)
  • Berserk (JP)
  • Blue Stinger (JP, USA, All 3 PAL variations)
  • Bomber Hehhe! (JP)
  • Bomberman Online (USA)
  • Buggy Heat (JP)
  • Cannon Spike/Gun Spike (JP, USA, PAL)
  • Carrier (USA, PAL)
  • Capcom vs. SNK Pro (JP)
  • Capcom vs. SNK 2 (JP)
  • Charge ‘n Blast (JP, PAL)
  • ChuChu Rocket! (PAL)
  • Coaster Works (PAL)
  • Cool Boarders (JP)
  • Cool Cool Toon (JP)
  • Cosmic Smash (JP)
  • Crazy Taxi (USA, PAL)
  • Crazy Taxi 2 (USA, PAL)

Important Information

There are certain situations that may be confusing to understand when using Flycast for first time, as well as some few questions that may be around your head, like how to know if you are using the right ROMs for NAOMI/Atomiswave games (if it does tell you there are missing files), how to configure controls for certain NAOMI/Atomiswave games, how to connect to the internet, if it is possible to unlock everything in certain NAOMI games, etc. For that, there is info in the following pages; some are still in construction and ideally there would be some more additional info later on, but at the moment the current resources can be useful for certain needs: