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
  • Emulating two expansion sockets per controller (VMU, Purupuru/Rumble Pack, or Microphone)
  • Widescreen (Rendering outside of screen)
  • Resolution and Texture Upscaling
  • Frame Skipping
  • Dump textures and load custom textures
  • Support for HLE BIOS (note that it's recommended to use a real BIOS)
  • Automatically configured to be able to connect to Dreamcast Live fan servers for the games supported
  • High compatibility and high performance
  • Widescreen Game Hacks (Auto-applying codes/patches to certain games to do Widescreen instead of using the hack)

Compatible games with Widescreen Game Hacks

  • 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: