NAME

flycast - The Sega Dreamcast, Atomiswave and Naomi emulator.

SYNOPSIS

flycast [OPTIONS]... [IMAGE FILE]

DESCRIPTION

flycast is a multi-platform emulator for the Sega Dreamcast, Atomiswave and Naomi systems.

EXAMPLE COMMANDLINE

No command line options will start flycast and load all values from the config file.

flycast

Override the image specified in the config file to load a specific image.

flycast /path/to/your/image.gdi

Start flycast in full screen.

flycast -config window:fullscreen=yes

CONFIG FILE

The config file for flycast can be found at:

~/.config/flycast/emu.cfg

VMU SAVE FILE

The VMU save files can be found at ~/.local/share/flycast/, by default flycast will create two VMU files for the first controller:

~/.local/share/flycast/vmu_save_A1.bin
~/.local/share/flycast/vmu_save_A2.bin

BIOS AND FLASH ROMS

flycast needs the original Atomiswave or Naomi BIOS files. The Dreamcast BIOS isn't needed in most cases but is recommended. For copyright reasons it is not possible to distribute them bundled with flycast, so you have to dump them from your own Dreamcast. flycast will look for these files in:

~/.local/share/flycast/data/dc_boot.bin
~/.local/share/flycast/data/naomi.zip
~/.local/share/flycast/data/awbios.zip

CONTROLS

flycast uses the kernel event devices for capturing input. You can define the evdev device id in the config file:

[input]
evdev_device_id_1 = X
evdev_mapping_1 = my_mapping.cfg

If your version of flycast is compiled against X11, you might want to disable the built-in X11 keyboard support as this can interfere if your controller is detected as a keyboard:

[input]
enable_x11_keyboard = -1

GENERAL OPTIONS

-config section:option=value

Temporarily override a value of the config file.

[IMAGE FILE]

Load a specific image file.

Although Flycast supports images in GDI, CHD, CUE and CDI format, you should avoid CDI images since they often have issues.

If no image is given on the command line, flycast will display the list of available content.

AUTHOR

flycast is developed by a number of people. A list of contributors can be obtained at:

https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast/graphs/contributors

Head over to flycast's git repository if you want to contibute:

https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (Version 2).