Dreamcast Homebrew Scene Continues To Thrive 42
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."
NetBSD (Score:2)
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I have much love for the dreamcast (Score:2)
Such a great deal (Score:3, Informative)
I wish awesome underground scenes like this received mainstream attention, but then I guess they wouldn't be too awesome anymore...
Re:Such a great deal (Score:1)
Carefull what you wish for.
DC emulators vs. PS2 emulators (Score:5, Interesting)
The DC homebrew folks have made some nice ports of DooM and Quake as well, which I recommend folks check out. It's a great use for your Dreamcast, if you've been letting it collect dust.
If you do anything, however, try out NesterDC (my experience here [curmudgeongamer.com]). A great, featureful NES emulator which supports everything you could want, including a DC light gun acting as an NES light gun for games like Duck Hunt! (Also, don't forget that you should only download ROMs for the cartridges you own. Even if you don't own any, there are a good number of homebrew NES games in the public domain that you can use to try out the emulator itself. My NesterDC disc has all the homebrews I enjoy playing and the ROMs for my entire NES collection.)
Pocket PCs have similar results (Score:2)
Although the Axim has a 400Mhz CPU in it, it really struggles to emulate the SNES or the Genesis. NES games are very basic. What I have found to be a good play though is a Game Gear / Master System emulator called CE/GG [geocities.com]. I used to have a ma
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PDA can also play mp3's / AVI's from the 1G microdrive I already owned. PDA can browse the net through the GPRS bluetooth phone I already owned.
Seems like a good deal to me.
Dreamcast, Playstation2, X-BOX (Score:2)
RobotFindsKitten (Score:2)
Not that I'm sneering. I tried to run RFK on my XP box (my DreamCast is in storage), but the console mode doesn't approve of the DOS version. Had to
Re:RobotFindsKitten (Score:2)
I'm more interested in "whats the point" projects than most of what passes for news these days. AT least it is interesting. Lately I've taken to pretending I'm a /. moderator whenever I hear news on the radio. Once you put that additude on it is very rare not to be saying "flamebait" for most stories, with most of the rest as troll. Once in a while, but I've never rated anything as informative or insightful.
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Too, too true. But is Rush Limbaugh a flamebaiter or a troller? How about Bill O'Reilly? Are those Democratic Presidential hopefuls Redundant or just Overrated?
Anyway, I do agree that most "Important Stuff" isn't all that important. And if your idea of an interesting pastime is learning Klingon or hacking your Dreamcast to play Hunt the Wumpus, I'm not going to sneer. Everybody sho
This convinced me to get a Dreamcast.. (Score:1)
A network adapter lets you connect it to your network, right? Is that the correct name for it? What can you do once you're on the internet? And is there a way to connect to a wireless network?
How do you connect a keyboard and mouse to one? Is there some sort of adapter, or it is a special keyboard for the DC?
If anyone could answer those it would be great!
Re:This convinced me to get a Dreamcast.. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:This convinced me to get a Dreamcast.. (Score:1)
I'm mainly going to get a Dreamcast to emulate games from older consoles I have, would I have any good reason to get the broadband adapter?
Also, what Linux ports are there?
I've seen the one at http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/dreamcast/index.en.h
Are there any others?
Thanks again!
Re:This convinced me to get a Dreamcast.. (Score:1)
If I got the broadband adapter, is there a way to download files and run them? Like running ROMs under a NES emulator in Linux? Or is it better just to burn a CD?
Re:This convinced me to get a Dreamcast.. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:This convinced me to get a Dreamcast.. (Score:4, Interesting)
You should be able to use your Dreamcast on a network as well, since you can run NetBSD and Linux on it. There is no hard drive adapter, however.
It should be noted that the broadband adapter will run you around $75-100, with even the browser needed with the adapter costing you quite a bit. The game servers have all been shut down now, and even when they were up, there weren't many broadband enabled games. The adapter came out right around when the system was dying and was only sold directly at Sega's site I believe.
As far as I know, there isn't a way to go wireless.
The Dreamcast has a first-party keyboard and mouse that plugs into your controller port, each of which you can buy separately. You can use your thumbstick as a mouse as well.
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Nope.
When the Dreamcast died, I bought one for USD$69 (or USD$49, whatever it was right at the end) along with a bunch of games. I didn't know enough about consoles to understand the need to snap up cheap accessories at the time. However, I looked 'em over. At the local Fry's (Houston, Texas), there were a couple of cases of those broadband adapters going for, iirc, USD$29.95. I thought to m
Fun hardware. (Score:5, Interesting)
Back in the early libdream days, you had to write your own routines for 2D graphics (3D was still off-limits) by writing directly to video RAM. Today, KOS supports 3D acceleration via the PowerVR chip, as well as support for various other pieces of once-mysterious hardware. And the SDL port lets you take a break from writing directly to video memory if you're doing 2D.
dcQuad [min.net] is another Dreamcast project which I started working on after finishing the DC version of robotfindskitten [min.net]. I've been messing around with SDL in Windows a bit lately, and I look forward to getting up to speed on the KOS implementation for my next project.
Totally Cool (Score:1)
This is totally cool. I just checked out the refreshed DC Homebrew site, downloaded some .sbi's and burned a CD. Then fired up the ol' DC so me and my son could do a test drive.
This is some cool stuff, I may just add the DC to my list of platforms just for the pure fun of it! Kudos to all the DC homebrewers out there!
You Need To Check Out IMR Technology (Score:1)
The Dreamcast doesn't need a modchip either... (Score:2)
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30% Off At GameStop (Score:1)