about Dreamcast emulators?

[Cinos]

can someone recommend one that can load a game from an actual dreamcast disc and is easy to set up?
thanks in advance.

[Lefteris_D]

Real dreamcast disks cannot be read by pc dvd or dvd blu ray drives.

You will need a real dreamcast to rip the game or download it.

[Cinos]

you sure I know that Saturen and Playstation 1/2 and xbox can be run from disc in emulators?

[ulaoulao]

Every console does it their own way.
PSX and ps2 (maybe 3,4,5 not sure) all use the same ECC trick. You can read the disc but not copy it because a burner will not write a broken ECC.
GC, are written backwards and are GD-roms.
Not sure about XBOX, my guess is there are just PC discs as most of the xbox stuff is nothing more then a PC running windows (not really that knowledgeable about xbox).
DC, are also gd-roms that Sega managed to squeeze over a gigabyte of data on the disc. No PC drive will read that.
and I'm not sure about Saturn.

[Lefteris_D]

Not sure about XBOX, my guess is there are just PC discs as most of the xbox stuff is nothing more then a PC running windows (not really that knowledgeable about xbox).

You use a softmodded xbox with a custom dashboard, connect to the xbox over the network and use it as an "external disk drive" to RIP the games on a pc.