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The Dreamcast 7 Years Old and Still Marching

Posted by Zonk on from the i-love-that-little-white-box dept.

Craig writes "The Dreamcast turned 7 only a few days ago but still the amateur developers and fans keep the Dream alive, only a week ago was the final of the DreamOn Coding Competition and today the announcement of a new Commercial Shootemup. The Scene centres around DCEmu with multinational support from French & Spanish sites with the majority of releases stored at Dreamcast Homebrew."

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  1. Dreamcast Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This makes me wonder how ol' Dreamcast Linux is coming along...

  2. Dreamcast was seriously wounded... by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dreamcast was seriously wounded, but the soul still burns!

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  3. Re:Of course it's still around by Threni · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > If only they hadn't had such a hard time with the Saturn Sega

    You make it sound like the failure of the Saturn was someone elses fault! They got what they deserved. If they'd produced the PSX then things would have been different.

  4. Propeller Arena: Aviation Battle Championship by Stormwatch · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This is coming to you from Aviation Radio Station. The year is 2045. Who thought of this? I don't know! But it's a crazy tournament of cool battles in the sky. Aviation Battle Championships begin! Proud warriors of the world's skies gather in hopes of winning the prize!

    All Dreamcast fanatics out there, check out my PROPELLER ARENA FAN SITE . I've amassed quite a nice bit of info and media on this lost (but also found) Dreamcast masterpiece by Sega/AM2.

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  5. Re:Of course it's still around by kramthegram · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently the same people who used the basic design again for the Xbox.

  6. NES games by Eightyford · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The best thing about the dreamcast was the ability to run NesterDC on it. You could burn your own disc with 100 nintendo games on it and play them without a mod chip or even a boot disk. NesterDC even supports save states and game genie codes.

    Who needs the Nintendo Revolution for that?

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    1. Re:NES games by miyako · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Actually, this brings up one of the things that I think might hurt the Revolutions backwards compatibility. I have a pretty large collection of NES, SNES and N64 roms. The main reason I use emulators for these systems is that I simply do not have room to have all of them hooked up to my TV along with a Game Cube, PS2, DVD player, etc.
      The other thing though, is that a lot of these emulators offer a lot of additional features, cheat finders being a big one. Being able to use game genie or PAR replay codes, and modify the memory of the game as it's running to create cheats can add a lot of life to older games.
      While nintendo has said that some of the older games might get graphical improvements- presumably though the use of video filters that modern emulators user- I find it dubious that they will include some of the features like cheat finders that are available in modern emulators.

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  7. That is the US release date. by Traegorn · · Score: 2, Informative

    The DreamCast debuted in Japan back in November of 1998.

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  8. 7 years? Pah... by LocalH · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Commodore 64 is over 20 years old and there is still a demoscene.

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  9. Re:Of course it's still around by November+1,+2005 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ha! Sega screwed up with the Master System, the Sega CD, the Game Gear, and the Nomad as well. Giving Sega credit where credit is due - they got the middle stages of the Genesis life-cycle right. (Recall that the time period between when the Genesis came out and it was competing against the aging NES and when Sega finally got Sonic the Hedgehog to actually move a few units was not that brief) Other than that, Sega has never marketed hardware well.

  10. Another new homebrew/commercial release by Man+In+Black · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned, but the Goat Store is also releasing Cool Herders really soon, which would be the 4th title they've published for the system (The others being Feet of Fury, Inhabitants, and Maqiupai). I have my copy on pre-order and am very much looking forward to it. These releases may not be as extravagant as "regular" commercial releases, but they're still plenty of fun.

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  11. Re:Of course it's still around by Dave2+Wickham · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The LCD was part of the memory card (VRM), not the controller itself. And it was hardly huge.