Dreamcast-Talk.com

Okay, so I'm so desperate for these Jet Set Radio custom tags that I have hooked my Dreamcast up to my laptop to use my laptop as a monitor so I could move my Dreamcast close enough to a phone outlet to connect via the 56k modem. But that's not important.

The problem is, I can't connect to the internet using the Jet Set Radio browser.

I tried using fastfreedialup.com as per the Free ISP thread. Used a demo disc I had with PlanetWeb 2.6 and just made up a name and password and entered one of their phone numbers. Worked great. Could browse the net fine using the PlanetWeb Browser.

Then I put in my Jet Set Radio disc, went to the internet section, loaded that up, held A and pressed Start 10 times to unlock the extra functionality. Brought up the URL bar and entered google.com as a test.

The JSR browser brings me to a page that says:

Connecting to ISP...
Dialing...

And never leaves that page. Why can I connect to the net using other web browsers but not the one built into JSR? I tried using Juno as well but got the same result in the JSR browser.

Help? Can anyone connect to the net using the JSR browser and give me detailed network settings (i.e. ISP used, "Pulse" or "Tone", etc.)?

I have spent way too many hours on this.

I think it has more to do with the fact that it's trying to connect to a non-existing page. The JSR page went missing among others back in the days. Besides, I think the built in web browser in JSR (and respective games for the matter) are set to only access a certain programmed in page. SInce this page is taken down it doesn't know what to do and stays locked into "Connecting to ISP".
I don't have my Dreamcast connected yet, but when I tried to connect while having a phone cable plugged into the DC and wall it stayed on the same thing as you got, when I disconnected from the wall it quickly cancelled out the next time I tried.

Actually, most games with built-in browsers have a workaround so you don't have to try to access the no-longer existing pages.

If you hold A and press Start 10 times, you unlock a bunch of stuff you can't normally do.

B+Start for Bookmarks
Y+Start for History
X+Start to Connect
Place the cursor down near the status bar at the bottom of the screen and then press X+A to bring up a URL bar.

So even when I just press X+Start to try to connect without loading a page or when I bring up the URL bar and type in a web address (like google.com), it still just brings me to that connection page that never goes anywhere.

I also can't do anything once that page comes up except power off my Dreamcast. No way to cancel the connection.