Dreamcast Jap: is Dreamshell a good solution for loading games?

[legolas119]

Hi, I have a VA1 Japanese dreamcast. i would like to avoid to mod it using GDEMU so i checked Dreamshell, it seems really good, with Retrodream too. But i have some questions:

1) does it have a good compatibility list? Where I can find an updated compatibility list? I'm interest to the atomoswave games compatibility too.

2) I checked this video guide with a pack including Dreamshell and RetroDream already configured and atomiswave games included: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToWqIDf15PQ
It is suggested this sd reader+bootcd: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32904706...4c4dUyCdSx
Do you think it could be ok?

3) I read that it is not easy to run properly games on dreamshell as it is necessary to modify them and so on... do you know if it is available a database with working games on Dreamshell? Is it true that it is better to use an external HDD in order to have better compatibility?

I would like to know if it is a good solution for me or if it is better for me GDEMU

thank you!