Amateurs Pushing the Dreamcast's Boundaries

Wraggster writes "The Sega Dreamcast console, which died an early commercial death, has recently seen some amazing new projects mainly aimed at emulation. Recently, a coder named Bluecrab released a port of the Saturn emulator called Yabause for the Dreamcast. Also, GPF (Troy Davis) has ported the excellent Visual Boy Advance (Game Boy Advance Emulator) to the Dreamcast. Finally, yesterday it was announced that Nincest (Nintendo 64 Emulator), an early N64 emulator that played demos only, has also been ported to the Dreamcast. All the projects are somewhat slow, but the achievement of the work is not to be discounted. Who says the Dreamcast is dead?"

Comments

More emulation on Dreamcast

[Anonymous Coward]

There's plenty of emulators available for the not-so-dead dreamcast
http://www.zophar.net/consoles/dreamcast.html

Re:More emulation on Dreamcast

[lou2ser]

>>There's plenty of emulators available for the >>not-so-dead dreamcast
>>http://www.zophar.net/consoles/dreamc ast.html

Or you could just goto DCEmulation.com the mother of all Dreamcast Homebrew Software.

Cool system for $15

[Anonymous Coward]

Best part about the Dreamcast is that it can be found for as low as $15. I recently picked one up at EB. It was a great decision as I can get all the games I want online. These kinds of projects just make me even happier to have bought it.

DC Emulator on PC

[ProudClod]

It's worth noting another recent breakthrough in the DC scene - a DC emulator for PC that works with real games at a playable rate.

Chankast is that piece of software, and it's a joy to see running :) I can now play rez on my PC.

However, with DCs available at as low as 15GBP, it's silly not to pick it up. As a games writer, it's my favourite console I've owned, for the high quantity of top-notch games that were released in its short life. In fact, if you haven't explored the DC's back catalogue - I'd thoroughly recommend it. It's one of modern gaming's best kept secrets.

Re:Isn't this illegal?

[drcagn]

Sega v. Accolade in the Genesis days determined that if a display of a trademark is required for the software to boot, it is legal to display it and boot even if the trademark isn't correct. Also, in the bottom right quadrant of the screen, a developer can insert an image at the same time as the Trademark Sega text is shown. Unnofficial developers such as bleem! (The commercial PSX emulator for DC) used this space to insert an image that basically says "-- Ignore that information right there, it's not true"