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January 19th, 2015, 23:46 Posted By: wraggster
Sorry everyone still waiting for their GDEMU, the delay I wrote about earlier got even worse now. I’m doing what I can to catch up but short of a small miracle most of the orders that were supposed to ship by now will be some 3 weeks late. I understand you aren’t happy with this, trust me, neither am I.
On the plus side so far every GDEMU got safely to its destination, though some took a rather scenic route. That’s out of my hands though – I did say that December is not a good time to be shipping stuff. Now you know why.
Some of you are waiting for Rhea sales to start and I feel I should explain few things first:
- The 20-pin model is already out there, I think enough people have tested it without having any serious issues to call it stable. I might start selling that soon. For now I have some 20 PCBs left (since I ordered more just in case), but not the parts to assemble them, but I can have those in few days if there is enough interest.
- The 21-pin model is not ready yet and there is already a problem. I couldn’t find a connector and a cable with 21 pins. Keep in mind I need a stable source of parts, preferably cheap, not an ebay listing with a couple of items. The popular and available ones are 20 and 22 pins and I think the best option would be to go with 22 pin, it’s possible to insert a 21-pin cable into it properly without too much trouble (so the original Saturn cable can be reused). I can also include a spare 22-pin cable which would require some cutting on one end but would allow people with damaged original to use Rhea at all.
- Right now it seems that full support for all 21-pin drive models might require some final configuration via jumpers. If so I’m probably going to opt for solder jumpers since it’s usually one-time deal for given console, and can be changed still (just not frequently). I will probably offer to pre-configure the Rhea if you can show me your drive photos, but I can also leave that to the buyer. And before you ask, auto-detection seems unlikely.
- The power connector, and the fact that there were several kinds of it, is another problem, so v3 models will require soldering 1 or 2 wires until I can think of something else. This makes Rhea install more difficult but it’s not that hard really. Much easier than doing the region switch mod for example. I am thinking of some sort of pin header though, if I can find one that fits the plug on Saturn side.
- Fitting two FFC connectors on Rhea is not easy, layout is different and some signals are present only on one of those. It would be difficult to place them in such a way that the cable would not have to be bent quite a lot. That and some minor other problems made me rethink the whole “universal” Rhea idea and the end result is: it’s not coming anytime soon, if at all. So if you’re waiting for one you’d better be very patient.
- Seems like various versions of Saturn have a bit different height at which the metal PCB cover is. That makes it difficult to ship Rhea with correct support pegs. I could maybe ask for photos in advance, or ship both sizes (it affects the price but not much). Well, assuming there are only two that can fit all units.
UPDATE: If only VA0 Saturns have the metal cover at different height then it’s not much of an issue. You can tell VA0 apart from other models quite easily, it has the PSU attached to the upper cover. I should be able to find a support that fits later models, in fact I already have my eyes on a good candidate. Please check your exact Saturn model before you order Rhea.
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January 6th, 2015, 01:22 Posted By: wraggster
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Reicast Git (2014/12/31) is compiled. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds.
Reicast Git Changelog:
* Linux GLX/3.1 support
My setup is only 2.1 right now, so this is totally untested
* Use netinet/tcp.h, not linux/tcp.h
* Fix building for linux (-DGLES && eglCreateWindowSurface)
https://www.sendspace.com/file/4xbemh
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January 4th, 2015, 23:25 Posted By: wraggster
Indiket has ported to Dreamcast the last version of the freeware game Giana's Return!
Here are the changes in this version:
- Included logo Retroguru
- Added thanks to Spellbound / Blackforest Games
- Improved by Simon Graphics, thug and Flarfy
- Adjusted SFX (thanks Wiklund!)
- Fixes in the caves bonus that make them more visible
- Fixed some design levels
- Fixed some bugs
- And much more ...
http://www.gianas-return.de/
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January 4th, 2015, 20:38 Posted By: wraggster
How could a gaming system with this powerful a retail presence possibly fail?
Jason Brassard of Fenton, Missouri has a pretty amazing collection of old-school video games, but as the folks at the Sega Channel pan over his cavern of wonders, the eyes are inexorably drawn to his crown jewel — a lovingly restored retail display for Sega's final console, complete with games, consoles and a working demo station. It's enough to make me want to buy a Dreamcast all over again.
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December 21st, 2014, 22:38 Posted By: wraggster
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Reicast Git (2014/12/15) is compiled. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds.
Reicast Git Changelog:
* Remove READ_LOGS, see issue 571
* Merge
* No debug plugin means no need for a sharedId
May also resolve some issues with installing over an existing build
without uninstalling the build first.
* Push version to r7
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December 21st, 2014, 21:38 Posted By: wraggster
There’s a new firmware available for GDEMU that fixes the slightly muted sound issue that some Dreamcasts had. I took this opportunity to introduce some more code changes so please report any regressions and/or new bugs.
Several Rheas have already been delivered and these are very common questions:
There is a solder point on the PCB marked “Hz“, and a solder jumper marked “Select“. You need to route a wire between the Saturn’s chip lifted pin and the Hz point, plus solder the jumper to select the default setting. This however is not yet working (the current FW doesn’t even support it) so leave it be for now. It’s coming soon, I need to test this first to make sure it works as expected.
Rhea is region free as is GDEMU – in the sense that it doesn’t care about regions at all. The lockout is enforced by BIOS, not the drive. You can however either patch the images yourself (there are tools for that) or have Rhea do it for you during game detection/loading. To enable that you need to tell it what region your console is – create ASCII text file named “Rhea.ini” in the root folder of the card, then place the following entry in it:
auto_region = N
where N is the code for your console region, or -1 to disable the patcher (the default setting). The codes are:
0: JAPAN, 1: TAIWAN and PHILIPINES, 2: USA and CANADA, 3: BRAZIL, 4: KOREA, 5: ASIA PAL area, 6: EUROPE, 7: LATIN AMERICA
Email me if you find a game that’s not working when patched.
https://gdemu.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/go-go-gadget/
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December 15th, 2014, 20:46 Posted By: wraggster
The parts I needed for GDEMU have now arrived but I’m already a week behind schedule, and I still have to actually make and test the devices so that’s going to be another week at best. Shipping anything during that time is pretty much guaranteed to take much longer than usual to arrive due to general Xmas shopping spree, in fact you’ll be lucky to get your GDEMU in 2014 still. What’s more, it turns out I will be away from home, visiting family. That means <del>no games will be played</del>, er, I mean no GDEMUs will be made anyway during holiday.
Very sorry about this but at this point there’s simply nothing I can do.
I should be able to deliver the early Rheas though, I have one fully assembled (but not yet even programmed) and the rest should be ready in few days if there are no problem with the first unit.
The gold on black looks nice, doesn’t it? I might go that route for some of the last GDEMUs as well.
https://gdemu.wordpress.com/2014/12/...h-ho-heigh-ho/
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November 26th, 2014, 23:44 Posted By: wraggster
Sega peeks into its storied past this week with the Humble Sega Bundle, a pay-what-you-want collection featuring a handful of classics adapted from the Saturn and Dreamcast eras.
Pay any amount for the bundle and you'll get the surreal score-attack action gameNights Into Dreams, kart racer Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, and the Dreamcast Collection, which includes PC versions of Sonic Adventure, Sega Bass Fishing, Crazy Taxi, and Space Channel 5 Part 2.
The package also offers Total War: Rome II's "Caesar in Gaul" expansion and the Miles' Tactic DLC for Football Manager 2015. Beat the bundle's average purchase price (currently $3.68) and you'll unlock Empire: Total War, Company of Heroes 2 - The Western Front Armies: Oberkommando West, and additional games that will be revealed as the bundle enters its final week.
Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai is up for grabs as a $12 incentive, and you can also get an exclusive Dreamcast-themed t-shirt with a purchase of $50 or more. The Humble Sega Bundle will be available through December 9.
http://www.humblebundle.com/
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November 16th, 2014, 23:44 Posted By: wraggster
As some of you already noticed preorders for GDEMU are open again. I did it quietly this time to not have my mailbox overloaded. I still have more units coming but be aware that the waiting time is already about 4-5 weeks by now so you’re unlikely to get it before Xmas. That being said, the early bird gets the worm so get ‘em while supply lasts 
Rhea on the other hand is running a bit late, the MCU change means I need to rewrite some code and do a lot of testing. Still not sure if v2 will be good enough for sale but keep your fingers crossed. Oh, and I recently purchased a VCD/MPEG addon card to test compatibility – I know it’s not exactly frequently used and I don’t expect problems, but I’d like to be sure.
PCE is also deep in the woods, I had to restart proto PCB design on this project as well due to lessons learned from Saturn. In fact I’m going to do a simplified version first that will plug into a dev board (which in turn is getting upgraded from ARM7TDMI to CortexM4 next week) – it’ll be easier to work with, I don’t need it to be very portable yet.
Lastly I’m also getting a Mega Drive / Genesis + CD addon to look at the internals. This is completly on-the-side project with next to zero time assigned to it so please don’t expect any results soon. I won’t lie though, I like playing with new toys more than soldering all those GDEMUs :P This is something to keep me busy during December holidays, assuming I won’t be swamped with other work.
To sum up, you better hope I can keep my resolve not to play Civ:BE
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October 28th, 2014, 00:12 Posted By: wraggster
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Reicast Git (2014/10/24) is compiled. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds.
Reicast Git Changelog:
* Merge branch 'skmp/gl3.1'
* Isolate GLES, add DESKTOPGL option to core.mk
* Update gitignore
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October 20th, 2014, 23:13 Posted By: wraggster
Tom Enright is 28 years old and has worked in games retail for nearly a decade, and as with many of his colleagues a significant portion of his wages goes right back into the store. His tiny bedroom – a converted garage at his parents’ house that only recently got a door – is lined wall to wall, floor to ceiling with video games from multiple generations. He has limited-edition consoles, games signed by their developers, and a sealed full-scale replica Portal gun. But closest to his heart is his collection of every Dreamcast game ever released in the PAL region that includes the UK.
Tom is also a friend of mine, and one of the reasons I got back into console gaming after I practically skipped the PS2/Xbox/GameCube generation. I didn’t yet know him when he started his collection of Dreamcast games and accessories, but I knew him when, three or four years ago, he finished it.
“It was sort of mostly complete for ages”, he tells me, “There were just one or two certain ones that were a massive pain in the arse to get hold of.”
Those included: Samba de Amigo (with Maracas), whose undamaged box is so difficult to find that people sell the empty packaging on eBay; Sega Bass Fishing with Sega Fishing Controller, a bundle that he had to order from Australia (also part of the PAL region); and a couple of more expensive titles like the “bloody terrible” MoHo and French-only Taxi 2, which is “probably even worse”.
Bundles and accessories for the Dreamcast
Sega Bass Fishing isn’t his only import. While his complete collection is PAL-specific, he’s also added a few games that only came out in North America and Japan. Since he doesn’t speak Japanese, he’s not even sure what some of those are about, but predicts that there are probably some “weird ones”. Any dating sims, for example, would fall under the category of games he didn’t know he owned and wouldn’t even know how to play, whereas Tokyo Bus Guide, a precursor of the likes of Euro Truck Simulator, was an intentional purchase.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/15/m...dreamcast-game
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October 14th, 2014, 23:20 Posted By: wraggster
I’ve been getting more and more emails from people who bought and tested 64GB+ cards. It occured to me that rather than having to retype this every time I should just make a public post.
Yes, I know SDXC cards work. If formatted to FAT32 that is, preferably with SD Formatter. However, GDEMU was not designed with that in mind and while it seems to work for most people, for some it just might not. I cannot test every brand and model of SD cards, and there are some that don’t behave nicely (like the Transcend Class 10’s) and there’s nothing I can do about it. I don’t want people buying expensive high-capacity cards only to learn they don’t work well, or at all. Therefore the official support ends with 32GB SDHC cards and it’ll stay that way. If you feel lucky and want to try something bigger, you’re on your own.
Obviously for bigger cards the current limit of 64 folders is too low. I’m going to skip the usual rant on design choices I’ve made – you want the limit to be 99+, you can get it. For a price. Right now GDEMU does a prescan of the card folders and can gracefully skip holes in numbering. With more folders both the prescan and the storage of results get too costly, so will have to go. Scanning on keypress would introduce too much lag with many folders, so basically it would become a dumb “try N+1, wrap back to 1 if it doesn’t exist”.
USB support, long filenames, breakfast making – not coming in foreseeable future. Don’t bug me about it.
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September 26th, 2014, 22:09 Posted By: wraggster
For those who know me know ive been a fan of emulation for 20 years or more, the reason i started a videogames website was purely because i like to play emulators of old consoles on a single device.
Recently the homebrew/emulation scene has been stagnant, no real breakthroughs means that the best way is to buy a device that is made for emulation fans like myself, i reviewed the JXD S7300 Android Tablet and for a fan like me i loved it. The Android tablet was for me perfect, the mixing of old style controls and touchscreen inside an Android OS and with Gamecenter X you could download games onto your console with no messing around, the console/tablet game with Android/N64/Megadrive/Arcade/GBA and Nes Emulators with games built in, beyond awesome.
But JXD since then have brought out a new and improved JXD S7800b Gaming Tablet which features PS1, MAME, Dreamcast, N64, NeoGeo, Atari, NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, SEGA Master System, SEGA Mega Drive, CPS1, CPS2, Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum Emulation to name just a few, am i salivating ?, hell yes.
The JXD S7800b Gaming Tablet has a 7" 1280x800 IPS 5 Point Multi-Touch Capacitive Screen, RockChip RK3188 QuadCore 1.8GHz CPU - 2GB DDR3 RAM - 8GB Memory, Network Wi-Fi(802.11 b/g/n), External Ethernet，3G with Dongle and runs Android 4.2.2 Jellybean OS.
So this Android Tablet runs one of the latest versions of the Android OS plus comes built in with all them emulators and you can do what you would expect from a normal Android Tablet.
If i can snag one for review ill put it through its paces but for now check out the JXD S7800B at Funstock in the UK
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September 23rd, 2014, 01:10 Posted By: wraggster
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The House Of The Dead Protection
using part of recently dumped prototype HOTD2 bios we was able to bypass Naomi bios checksumm protection!
that means region-free or any other customization is possible now.
also confirmed working on Sega System SP (AKA Aurora), Dreamcast on the way.
thanks to all who helped in testing on real hardware.
http://forum.emu-russia.net/viewtopi...583e&start=140
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September 23rd, 2014, 00:32 Posted By: wraggster
I’ve received a lot of emails asking about GDEMU so I can confirm now: There will be a 3rd production run. Now, I’ve mentioned Xmas before but that doesn’t mean you’ll have to wait until December. That’s just a deadline of sorts. I hope to have the preorders reopened in 4-6 weeks.
So, in other words, watch this space. Especially if you’re also interested in Saturn and PCE.
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September 17th, 2014, 01:21 Posted By: wraggster
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First release of the What’s Shenmue translation project. What’s Shenmue is a small demo of Shenmue that was not released outside of Japan.
The patcher translates every text, graphic and subtitles into English, Spanish and German (One patcher for all). This can be considered the first final version of the project.
PacoChan’s patcher will only accept original GDI format backups in order to apply the contents of the patch.
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