Dreamcast Homebrew Scene Continues To Thrive

wraggster writes "Sega's Dreamcast might have succumbed to a premature death as a mainstream commercial console, but due to the efforts of the amateur and hobbyist fans of the Dreamcast, the Dreamcast Homebrew site, now freshly redesigned, has over 200 free and legal games, demos and multimedia software for use with the Dreamcast. From DC Movie Player through Robotfindskitten, there's still a multitude of good free DC software out there."

Such a great deal

[Anonymous Coward]

At an all-time low of $20 at EB.

I wish awesome underground scenes like this received mainstream attention, but then I guess they wouldn't be too awesome anymore... :1

Re:This convinced me to get a Dreamcast..

[sindarin2001]

The network adapter allows you to connect the Dreamcast to your network. It's also sometimes called a broadband adapter. Depending on you choices of games/software, you can do many things. If you use the linux/net bsd port I believe that you can SSH into other machines...do basic *nix stuff. There are some games for the Dreamcast that utilize the network connection (although few and far between). I've never had any experience with connecting one to a wireless network...my guess is it's not all that easy because the Dreamcast came out before wireless was proliferating as much as it is now. You can purchase special DC keyboards and mice that use the controller connectors...I've also found some stuff online that shows how to rewire a ps/2 device to work with it (sorry, lost the link a while ago...but I'm sure you'll find it if you google).

Hope that helps and good Dreamcasting (it's my favorite system out there).

Re:This convinced me to get a Dreamcast..

[Anonymous Coward]

The Dreamcast BBA is hard to find lately and is usually at least $100. Unless you are a big dreamcast fanatic, it is probably not worth it. Not many games support it. If you only want it for homebrew, the coders cable (special serial cable) is available for about $20 I believe. You can upload games through that and even emulate an iso image as a cd in the drive over serial cable. It is slow but great for development. Otherwise just burn cds. As always, lots of great stuff available at lik-sang [lik-sang.com]. I got an adaptor from them that lets you plug in a ps/2 keyboard, or a ps1/sega saturn controller along with a coders cable and an extension cord for the controller.