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Retro Tunes On Your Dreamcast

Posted by Zonk on from the blips-and-bleeps-now-playing-on-the-DC dept.

wraggster writes "DCEvolution, a Dreamcast site that specializes in legal rom images and more specialist homebrew offerings has released the following: "Another classic music release from us! We offer you an updated image of Dream68 featuring over 1800 Amiga and AtariST songs in the sc68 format."

10 comments

  1. Sure, this is cool, but by lightspawn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dreamcasts are not like cart-based consoles. They're CD based, which means they have moving parts, which means they'll all fail after a few years of use.

    You only have that much time with your Dreamcast. Do you want to spend that time together doing things you could do with any computer? Shouldn't you cherish the time you have left together and spend it doing what makes your Dreamcast special?

    1. Re:Sure, this is cool, but by Mr.Dippy · · Score: 0, Informative

      I guess you never had to experience the wonderful time of having to blow,slide,alcohol swab (repeat) nintendo games. I have a system at home were I have a one percent chance of getting the game to work the first 50 times of doing the insanely obnoxious routine.

      moral of the story: all hardware, no matter what format, eventually dies.
      And with that said, yes cheerish each and every day with your dreamcast. Just like you, it has a life span.

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      -Dipster
  2. Video Game Music by superpulpsicle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry when I think music/remixes for video games that are truely GOOD. Only one thing comes to mind... http://www.ocremix.org

    1. Re:Video Game Music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you are a fan of ocremix, then you should check out the Tetris 2: Overclocked image that is also available from DC Evolution. It features quite a bit of music from ocremix, along with a fantastic Tetris clone that allows you to swap in your own CD or mp3 compilation while playing along.
      You can find it at http://dcevolution.net/hb_tetris2oc.shtml

  3. Low Risk of Slashdotting by JackBuckley · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm having a hard time thinking of a story with a lower risk of slashdotting the server than this one. Let's see, what would I be less likely to download than a disc imagine of Amiga and Atari songs for the DC? Maybe a rip of the new Strong Bad Sings...in Farsi! cd?

    [Note to big videogame music fans: I'm just kidding, not trolling. Don't hurt me!]

    1. Re:Low Risk of Slashdotting by dougmc · · Score: 1
      I'm having a hard time thinking of a story with a lower risk of slashdotting the server than this one.
      Well, the demand is likely to be low, but it won't take many people downloading a full CD image to kill their bandwidth.

      Sounds like a job for Bit Torrent to me ...

  4. Even more "retro" by St.+Arbirix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great. Just when I was feeling outdated by only having a Genesis and a Dreamcast my nice new console gets the latest and greatest in... really dated music.

    Oh, how cool this does *not* make me feel.

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    Direct away from face when opening.
  5. Play them om Linux and Mac by julie-h · · Score: 1

    Use Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator and all your problems are solved =)

  6. Publicity stunt! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Its just an attempt by the dreamcast / emulator scene news-poster extraordinaire wraggster to get some publicity. I'd love to see the stats on how many stories he has posted to slashdot (both successful and failed ones!)

    Anyhow kudos to the author(s) of this but did we really need the blurb about wraggster's site dcevolution!

  7. outdated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    why slashdotted now? dream68 has been available for two years or more...