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Amateurs Pushing the Dreamcast's Boundaries

Posted by timothy on from the pushy-amateurs dept.

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?"

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  1. NetBSD project by raistphrk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Having BSD on Dreamcast made the system appealing to me. Granted, NetBSD has been ported to every electronic device that has enough memory to hold the kernel. But there is a certain geeky alure to using a video game console as a terminal, or, as some people have demonstrated, even as a webserver.

    I guess it's just the "I can do this" aspect that draws me to it. Just having the ability to tinker with things makes them more interesting.

  2. broadband (ethernet) adapter by Lazy+Jones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... now if only someone would build broadband adapters for the DC - it's really hard to get one and they're pretty expensive.

    --
    "I love my job, but I hate talking to people like you" (Freddie Mercury)
  3. I'm all for indie game dev by inkless1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But I'm not sure how porting emulators of weaker hardware to the Dreamcast in any way constitutes "pushing it's boundaries".