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The Dreamcast's Final Death

Posted by Zonk on from the live-on-little-console-live-on dept.

Croakyvoice writes "The Dreamcast games Last, Hope Karous and Trigger Heart Exelica will the last officially licensed Sega games for the Dreamcast because from February Sega Japan plans to stop production of GDRoms. The death of the GDRom format will mean no more Dreamcast or Naomi Arcade games. The Dreamcast Community has sent emails to Sega Japan to ask for a rethink on this issue. From the article: 'This doesn't need to happen, as developers are fond of the NAOMI for its relative low cost, ease of production and accessibility, and straightforward ports to the Dreamcast home console. Warashi returned to the scroll shooting genre with Trigger Heart Exelica on NAOMI, and Milestone would likely gladly continue to produce further games following Karous on the system as well. Sega themselves have recently presented Dynamite Deka EX running on NAOMI. If GD-ROM production continues, there is a much greater chance that we'll see a home console port of this game on DC within a year.'"

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  1. Or... by casualsax3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... they could just start using CD's, since those work too.

    1. Re:Or... by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 1, Insightful

      CDs don't work in the arcade hardware.

      But surely the arcade version of the hardware doesn't rely on GD-ROM as its storage medium? One would think that in a use case like that, a more fixed and reliable technology like hard drives would be utilized.

  2. Re:Dreamcast? by nomadic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yep, I was shocked at this myself.

    I wish they'd make one last Shenmue before they go...