Games/Apps that use Dreamcast Keyboard

[Allan]

As I bought one of these today for £5, boxed, near-mint... solely to play Typing of the Dead, I'm now interested in what other stuff I can use a Dreamcast Keyboard for.

So... help? :?:

[Iron Lizard]

Web Browser?

[M4R14NO94]

Other games that use the keyboard are Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament and Outtrigger. They can be played with the mouse as well

[JackieBogard]

Typing of the Dead.

[nathanallan]

Typing of the Dead.
If you can get that one, you'll love it. Maybe I'm just biased, I like killing zombies.

[Iron Lizard]

LOL, read first post. :)

[Allan]

Web Browser?

Woo - dialup! :daze:

Mabye someday I'll post here from my DC. More interesting than people going "lolomg posted from mah iPhone/Wii/PS3/XBawx" etc. :P

[Iron Lizard]

Just track one of these buggers down.

http://www.estarland.com/images/products/25/29025/50720.jpg

[KnightWarrior]

Good Luck finding one at a good price, one it over $200 on ebay

[Iron Lizard]

Still a shitty deal, but its under $200 :)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dreamcast-Broadband-adapter-BBA-DC-HIT-0401-Sega-lan_W0QQitemZ180445001511QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVideo_ Games_Accessories?hash=item2a035c3727

[j_factor]

Feet of Fury has a typing mode.

[Puffy2k316]

man i was just playing typing of the dead right before viewing this thread. what a great game

phantasy star online uses it as well i think

[nathanallan]

LOL, read first post. :)
DOH! Well, he knows what a great game it is already.

[Rusty Venture]

Railroad Tycoon II uses it.

[Smii]

I read somewhere that you can use the keyboard with Soul Calibur. Dunno whether it's true though, I don't have one.

(Ah, I remember when there were bins full of 50p DC keyboards in Gamestations... :P)

[Aaron]

I think Half-Life uses the Keyboard. But that game was never "officially" released.

[Devil N]

I read somewhere that you can use the keyboard with Soul Calibur. Dunno whether it's true though, I don't have one.

(Ah, I remember when there were bins full of 50p DC keyboards in Gamestations... :P)
That might've been me you heard it from. I have two DC keyboards and yes, you can play Soul Calibur with them. It's a bit awkward though.

Another thing the keyboard can be useful for: there's a homebrew tool called Dream Explorer (http://bswirl.kitsunet.org/vmutool/release/about/?lg=en&menu=on) that you can use to manage your VMU's. It includes an enormous collection of savegames that you can copy to your VMU, and the option to hex edit your savegames. Using that tool, I hacked my Japanese Marvel vs. Capcom 2 savegame to give myself 65535 V-Points and N-Points, which you can't get normally anymore. Having a keyboard is very useful for that purpose.

[mick_aka]

Woo - dialup! :daze:

Mabye someday I'll post here from my DC. More interesting than people going "lolomg posted from mah iPhone/Wii/PS3/XBawx" etc. :P

Why not I've posted here using my Dreamcast, and Saturn for that matter ;)

[Allan]

That might've been me you heard it from. I have two DC keyboards and yes, you can play Soul Calibur with them. It's a bit awkward though.

Another thing the keyboard can be useful for: there's a homebrew tool called Dream Explorer (http://bswirl.kitsunet.org/vmutool/release/about/?lg=en&menu=on) that you can use to manage your VMU's. It includes an enormous collection of savegames that you can copy to your VMU, and the option to hex edit your savegames. Using that tool, I hacked my Japanese Marvel vs. Capcom 2 savegame to give myself 65535 V-Points and N-Points, which you can't get normally anymore. Having a keyboard is very useful for that purpose.

Ah sweet, I knew of Dream Explorers ability to stick ~40 extra blocks into a VMU, but not the hex-editing of game saves. I'll be sure to try this with Code Veronica save games, if I can ever get to a save point.
(For some reason, Claire seems to think she can ricochet EVERY BULLET off a wall onto a zombie in my version. It's like "Zombie dead ahead - must aim at wall on right hand side for l33t trickshot!" - very annoying.)

[Nick16]

Now, there are a few import games that use the keyboard; however, I don't know the names of them. The only info I have on one of them is that it came bundled with a Pink keyboard, A PINK ONE, I'd love to type some zombies to death while sporting that!

[Chilly Willy]

My Doom port for the DC has both mouse and keyboard support. :)

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=241908

[Devil N]

On one of my eBaying adventures I noticed there's also a weird Japanese Dreamcast game called Typing of the Date. I don't know anything about the game, but I assume it involves the use of a keyboard.

[NeoVamp]

On one of my eBaying adventures I noticed there's also a weird Japanese Dreamcast game called Typing of the Date. I don't know anything about the game, but I assume it involves the use of a keyboard.


You sure you're not thinking of "Typing of the Dead" which was just House of the Dead 2 but with a keyboard typing gimmick.

[Devil N]

No no, that's what I thought too at first, but there really is a separate game called Typing of the Date. I looked it up, apparently it is a dating sim by Hudson that takes some inspiration from Typing of the Dead. I don't know much else about it, because there aren't many reviews to find or even screenshots for that matter. Something tells me it won't work properly with a western keyboard, but it is worth a try.

[M4R14NO94]

On one of my eBaying adventures I noticed there's also a weird Japanese Dreamcast game called Typing of the Date. I don't know anything about the game, but I assume it involves the use of a keyboard.

Typing of the Date exists?

[j_factor]

Yes, it does:
http://i48.tinypic.com/28jadr5.jpg

Looks like it supports Western keyboards / romaji.

[Allan]

Yes, it does:
http://i48.tinypic.com/28jadr5.jpg

Looks like it supports Western keyboards / romaji.

Without a Japanese keyboard, that game looks almost impossible!

[j_factor]

Without a Japanese keyboard, that game looks almost impossible!

Uhh... do you not see the Western lettering directly below the Japanese?

[Nick16]

Uhh... do you not see the Western lettering directly below the Japanese?
But look at that hodgepodge of alphabetic characters, I'd reckon it'd be quite difficult seeing how they're not common english words. It's not often you hear someone screaming "KIMIHAASOBUKOTOSIKAKANNGAETENAINNDANE!!" down the street!

[Rusty Venture]

I believe "KIMIHAASOBUKOTOSIKAKANNGAETENAINNDANE!!" is what Rayden says when he does his superman move.

[Smii]

That might've been me you heard it from. I have two DC keyboards and yes, you can play Soul Calibur with them. It's a bit awkward though.

Ah, that must have been you then! I don't go out of my way to research the DC, but remember thinking it was odd :)

I got hold of a copy of Typing of the Dead today, now all I need is a keyboard. Anyone fancy selling me one for 50p, so I don't have to go through the bother of time-travelling back to Leeds Gamestation? :p


I believe "KIMIHAASOBUKOTOSIKAKANNGAETENAINNDANE!!" is what Rayden says when he does his superman move.

Due to extensive research (aka "arsing about playing MK with silly people") I can confirm that in MKII he clearly says "I got a dog!" Not sure about the first game though - I always thought it was something to do with spaghetti bolognese, but I might be wrong.

[delmoko]

Attention Dreamcast Railroad Tycoon II fans:

I recently completed the 24 campaigns in the game and I have some questions.

1. Can the keyboard be used for this game? What does HARDWARE/SOFTWARE mean in the option menu for the keyboard setting? How does it work?

2. How do you enact the CHEAT CODES? It says you will unlock them through the campaign mode, but like I said, I beat all 24 campaigns and all the Cheat Codes are still “??????????” on the screen! Very frustrating.

3. Has anybody had problems with saving their game? Mainly when you’re about 15-20 years into a scenario and your railroad is pretty big, you go to Save the game and it just kinda locks up on you. I know it says you may need 200 blocks to save mid game, but the VMU I’m using already has 40+ blocks used up from saving the 24 campaigns. Do I plug a 2nd controller/VMU into port 2 and save there? I don’t get it?!?!

4. I played a “stand alone scenario” last night, WESTERN UNITED STATES I believe and one of the standards for winning the silver/gold was to have 10 Million in Industrial profits. Something that COULD have been easily done (Iron/Coal from Vancouver/Seattle to Portland for steel, then steel to Spokane for Goods; REPEAT), but the scenario would not let me buy industries. Just a small glitch? I think there are a few like this in the game unfortunately. 

My biggest complaint is that the manual for this game just plain sucks. It doesn’t tell you ANYTHING! I’ve been a RRT fan since it came out on the PC, so that helped. If I didn’t have background, I would have been totally lost. The tutorial is OK, but they really could have put together a HELPFUL manual for players. That’s really my only complaint, because the game itself is TOP NOTCH!

I’ve only heard bad things about this game for the Playstation… has anybody played both?? I’d love to hear your opinions.

Please help if you can!!! I wanna hear from some fellow Tycoons!!!!

A true Railroad Tycooner,
Delmoko

[old man]

I always wondered if you could use House of the Dead 2 with the mouse. Can anyone check that for me? (I don't have a mouse)

[Deo]

I know you can use the mouse with Rez, I'll check if you can use it with House of the Dead 2 later.

[havok666]

Hidden & Dangerous uses the KB and mouse.

[delmoko]

So what about Railroad Tycoon II?!?!

[E.J.]

What apps support the keyboard?

Well there are a few homebrew uses.

Pretty much any of the Doom ports including CW's, the Quake 1 ports, ScummVM, and few others like the emulators for Amiga, Atari ST, etc...


I got hold of a copy of Typing of the Dead today, now all I need is a keyboard. Anyone fancy selling me one for 50p, so I don't have to go through the bother of time-travelling back to Leeds Gamestation? :p
I can't verify this personally, but you could try this (http://www.consolesandgadgets.co.uk/catalog/dc-keyboard-converter-p-149.html).

[Allan]

I may be useless at it, but it is quite a laugh to play Typing of the Date. If nothing else, it's for the seemingly impossible messages on the load-screens. Typing one of those in = :D when you finally do it.

Just wish those points did something...

[delmoko]

I don't think the Keyboard works for Railroad Tycoon II

[A Black Falcon]

3. Has anybody had problems with saving their game? Mainly when you’re about 15-20 years into a scenario and your railroad is pretty big, you go to Save the game and it just kinda locks up on you. I know it says you may need 200 blocks to save mid game, but the VMU I’m using already has 40+ blocks used up from saving the 24 campaigns. Do I plug a 2nd controller/VMU into port 2 and save there? I don’t get it?!?!


Dreamcast VMUs have 200 blocks by default 220 if you unlock the hidden 20 blocks in the VMUTool app, but either way that's not enough for both 40 blocks of stuff and a 200 block file... VMUs are annoyingly small, like PSX or N64 memory cards anyone with an even moderate game collection will need a whole stack of the things. :(

[j_factor]

Dreamcast VMUs have 200 blocks by default 220 if you unlock the hidden 20 blocks in the VMUTool app, but either way that's not enough for both 40 blocks of stuff and a 200 block file... VMUs are annoyingly small, like PSX or N64 memory cards anyone with an even moderate game collection will need a whole stack of the things. :(

That's why Sega made 4x memory cards. :)

[delmoko]

4x memory for what?

How do you unlock the extra 20 blocks?

Thanks!

[j_factor]

4x memory for what?

Sega made a product for Dreamcast called a 4x memory card. It allows you to switch between 4 banks of 200 blocks each. But it lacks the VMU's screen and buttons.