On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:42:53PM +0200, Marcus Comstedt wrote:
> 
> Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> writes:
> 
> > But I also seem to recall that the BBA works with _any_ Dreamcast,
> 
> Yes, where it's a Japanese, American or European Dreamcast does not
> matter.
> 
> 
> > regardless which type of software you use (be it a game, NetBSD, or other third
> > party software), so your BBA might actually be broken.
> 
> Um, for the software to actually _use_ the BBA, it has to be written
> to do that of course.  Most games which feature some online function
> only support the modem.
> Whether it's a PAL or NTSC game, or a PAL or NTSC Dreamcast doesn't
> make any difference.  But for the game to use the BBA it has to
> explicitly contain the code to do so.

That's exactly what I meant to say :-).  As you're somebody with
a BBA, thanks for giving an "authoritive" statement on the
compatibility between certain BBAs and Dreamcasts.


bye,
  Harold