<div>This idea has been floating around various Dreamcast forums, such as Dreamcast-Talk and Dreamcast.Onlineconsoles.</div><div><br></div><div>The Dreamcast comes standard with a modem (56K in NTSC & 33.6K In PAL).</div> <div><br></div><div>A good number of games supported online play back then, but as of now these are the only ones that can still be played online:</div><div><br></div><div>Phantasy Star online</div><div>StarLancer</div><div> 4x4 Evolution</div><div>Maximum Pool</div>Quake III Arena<div><br></div><div>To play these games online you could either:</div><div><br></div><div>Pay for Dial-Up</div><div>Or</div><div>Create a PC-DC Server</div><div><br> </div><div>A PC-DC Server is the most used method to get online, but it can be annoying to setup and is hard to setup.</div><div><br></div><div>The best guide for setting one up is located here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ryochan7.com/blog/2009/06/23/pc-dc-server-guide-part-0-introduction/">http://www.ryochan7.com/blog/2009/06/23/pc-dc-server-guide-part-0-introduction/</a></div> <div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ryochan7.com/blog/2009/07/11/pc-dc-server-guide-part-1-pc-side-configuration/">http://www.ryochan7.com/blog/2009/07/11/pc-dc-server-guide-part-1-pc-side-configuration/</a></div><div> <br></div><div><a href="http://www.ryochan7.com/blog/2009/07/11/pc-dc-server-guide-part-2-dc-side-configuration/">http://www.ryochan7.com/blog/2009/07/11/pc-dc-server-guide-part-2-dc-side-configuration/</a></div><div><br> </div><div><a href="http://www.ryochan7.com/blog/2009/07/11/pc-dc-server-guide-part-3-connection/">http://www.ryochan7.com/blog/2009/07/11/pc-dc-server-guide-part-3-connection/</a></div><div><br></div><div>There are also other complications.</div> <div><br></div><div>Most of the games support Blind-Dial, which means it doesn't require a dial-tone to connect, however one of the most played ones don't support Blind-Dialing, Quake III Arena.</div><div><br></div> <div>Supposedly there is a way to make the modem produce the dial-tone, here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2608"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2608</font></a></div> <div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6.94444px; line-height: 16px; "># resets the modem<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> ATZE1<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> # puts the modem into voice mode<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">AT+FCLASS=8<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "># opens the connection<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> AT+VLS=1<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> # produces the tone<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">AT+VTS=[440,350,255]<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "># closes the connection so it can answer<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> ATH<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> # answers the connection<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">ATA</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6.94444px; line-height: 16px; "><br> </span></div><div>However, nobody has figured out how to actually put this information in use.</div><div><br></div><div>There is also another problem, it requires you to be using your computer while connecting.</div><div> <br></div><div>You have to issue the mgetty command and then a few seconds later use the killall command, which means it can't be headless.</div><div><br></div><div>I found a way to make it headless and wrote a tutorial on it here:</div> <div><br></div><div><a href="http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2681">http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2681</a></div><div><br></div><div>But it isn't very reliable and often times doesn't work.</div> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It would be nice to fix this, the priorities should probably be this:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Make the server headless</div><div>2. Make it produce the Dial-Tone</div> <div><br></div><div>And eventually:</div><div><br></div><div>Make a Distribution and/or Live cd that would have all of this setup.</div><div><br></div><div>This would also require drivers such as the Linux modem drivers for Conexant modem provided for free from dell, here:</div> <div><br></div><div><a href="http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/">http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/</a></div><div><br></div><div>For priority one and two, I've made topics on the Ubuntu forums, but nobody seems to know how to accomplish this, but I know that it can be done.</div> <div><br></div><div>Here is a link to one of the forum topics discussing the dial-tone:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10063265#post10063265">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10063265#post10063265</a></div> <div><br></div><div>Please help the Dreamcast community with priorities one and two.</div><div><br></div><div>Dreamcast-Talk - Make Modem Send Out Dial Tone</div><div><a href="http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2608">http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2608</a></div> <div><br></div><div>Dreamcast-Talk - Headless PC-DC Server</div><div><a href="http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2681">http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2681</a></div><div><br></div> <div>Ubuntu - Producing Dial Tone With Mgetty</div><div><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10063265#post10063265">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10063265#post10063265</a></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div><div>Thank you</div><div><br></div><div>-TeamXlnik</div>