Hi guys! Flycast 2.4 is now here for all releases, including the Google Play Store. Flycast is the number one rated free Sega Dreamcast Emulator,...
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Hi guys! Flycast 2.4 is now here for all releases, including the Google Play Store. Flycast is the number one rated free Sega Dreamcast Emulator, which runs on almost any device that has the power to do so. You can go to either The Google Play Store for android, or the Git repo for ALL the other releases ( There are a load of builds for different devices like Android, Windows, Linux, Mac os, IOS, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and many more like Vita, oculus, fire tv, Nvidia shield, and the list goes on and on. Flycast has over 99% compatibility and even has HLE bios that flaunts a 97%+ compatibility. Now, let us take a look at what is new in 2.4.

What’s Changed

Retro Achievements support

UI improvements with save state thumbnails

Force Feedback support for some arcade games (F355, 18 Wheeler, Maximum Speed, Faster Than Speed, Initial D, Club Kart, King of Route 66, Tokyo Bus Guide, Sega Driving Simulator)

Discord Rich Presence (Windows, macOS, linux)

Android: gamepad rumble, custom Adreno drivers and many bug fixes and improvements

Vulkan optimizations by u/Wunkolo

Various fixes by u/vkedwardli

Many upgrades by u/scribam

Fixed Games

Beach Spikers

Capcom vs SNK 2000 Pro

Irides: Master of blocks

Mars TV

Metropolis Street Racer

Mortal Kombat

Quake III

Red Dog Superior Firepower

Shin Nihon Pro Wrestling

Soul Surfer

Virtua Cop 2

One thing I love is when you see “bug fixes”, most of the time I feel that this is just included in updates for software, but, The bugs that get fixed, are usually ones that the community brings up to Flyinghead in the Github OR the discord. If you every find bug, PLEASE let the Dev team know, so they can be fixed! Here is a list of things that Flycast does that most of are not found on any other Dreamcast emulator.

  • DirectX, Vulkan, and OpenGL APIs.

  • 3 Different sorting’s to allow Less accurate/Lower Resource Requirements for low end devices to enjoy gaming.

  • Up to 8K resolutions for 4K monitor Super Sampling.

-Light guns, and basically every other devices emulated/useable/recognized.

  • xBRZ Upscaling.

  • Texture Replacement

  • Online modem Emulation

  • FREE, NEVER ANY AD’S

  • Emulates Naomi 1 & 2, System SP, Win CE, and Atomiswave games play.

  • 10 save states for each game.