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April 12th, 2014, 01:49 Posted By: wraggster
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April 12th, 2014, 01:47 Posted By: wraggster
I’ve sent out first few units to have some feedback. However, doing it this way is rather inefficient – I need to prepare a batch and send them all at once. Which is what I’m aiming for after this weekend.
I’m going with the list but so far I’ve only picked EU orders as it’s usually less hassle – no customs, no additional taxes, cheaper postage too. Next week I’m going to try USA and Canada to see how it works out. Basically there is a lot of confusion as to whether or not I need to have CN22 sticked to the envelope. It’s so small and light it gets sent as letter, so technically no need for CN22. On the other hand it does contain “goods” and not documents…
Problem with CN22 is I can’t put 100 Euro on it as value anyway or you will have to pay import duties. So it needs lower value, probably also be marked as a gift, but then why bother with CN22 at all, customs might decide to inspect it anyway. I’ve heard small envelopes like these tend to get by witout CN22 just fine, and it’s less paperwork for me so I’m going to try that way first.
http://gdemu.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/strange-customs/
GDEMU is an SD card based replacement for the optical drive in Dreamcast console.
GD-ROM drives inevitably wear out and fail – as do all mechanical devices – and since the console is no longer being manufactured it’s nearly impossible to source spare parts. This project was meant to provide a “once and for all” solution, since it doesn’t have any moving parts.
Features:
- 100% compatibility with existing software
- No need for custom BIOS or other modifications
- Full support for CD Digital Audio
- Considerably faster loading times
Please note: GDEMU does not endorse software piracy. It is end user’s responsibility to ensure the device is used in a lawful manner.
The project was started in 2008 as purely hobbyist endeavour, and was kept private for a long time. A few prototype units were made and the last ones received praise from the testers, so I have decided to make it more public by selling some in hope to raise money for hardware and software upgrades I need. This is still, however, just my old hobby project and not a business venture.
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April 12th, 2014, 01:45 Posted By: wraggster
Here it is, the very first v5 unit assembled, I haven’t even cleaned it properly yet:
This is what you’ll get, without the SD card of course 
That’s the good news. Now for the bad: I dun goofed up and there will be a tiny wire added on the back on some units – but don’t worry, it’s fully functional. The wire fixes the oops.
One of my suppliers also messed up and sent me less parts than ordered. Turns out they had less in stock than what their system showed. I should have the rest on first week of May.
And finally I’m still waiting for some additional soldering equipment, which I might finally get this weekend. Hopefully. Or else this whole assembly thing is going to take a while.
Oh and by the way, I’ll stop taking preorders soon because the waiting list is almost full. I will take a bit more than I can sell in case someone changes their mind last minute. Again, you will not be asked to pay anything unless I’m sure I can deliver.
If everything goes well (and trust me, so far it’s a mixed bag) I will have some v5 units ready for shipping on Monday.
http://gdemu.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/hot-stuff/
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April 12th, 2014, 01:44 Posted By: wraggster
A lot of people asked to see a video of GDEMU running, so here it is, courtesy of a tester:
Note that this is a v4 unit so it has a “remote” attached with a flat cable. The v5 will only have one button on the main PCB and no remote – but will also feature solder points for additional up/down buttons should anyone want to mod their Dreamcast case and add those on their own.
As you can see GDEMU is very easy to install and use, doesn’t need any BIOS mods. You just swap out your GD-ROM drive and put the unit in it’s place. Having said that, my testers asked if it’d be possible to boot a simple menu for choosing the image to load – the answer is yes, I’m working on it, but it’s not a high priority task right now.
http://gdemu.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/prototype-demo/
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April 9th, 2014, 22:56 Posted By: wraggster
Sega Europe suffered "a limited number of redundancies" due to a restructuring in Sega of America's Sonic and mobile divisions. The layoffs follow those that hit Sega of America in October 2013 due to another restructure.
"Sega is in the process of consolidating certain functions of the Sonic and Mobile departments within Sega of America, where the management and production for those areas of the business reside," Sega told Joystiq via email. "As part of that strategy a limited number of redundancies have taken effect in our European office, based in London."
Sega slashed its profit forecasts in February for the fiscal year ending March 31, cutting its expected net income by 36.2 percent to 30 billion yen ($293.5 million).
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/04/09/la...ructure-in-us/
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March 31st, 2014, 00:58 Posted By: wraggster
Deunan posted this on his site:
Decision has been made, there will be a short production run of GDEMU soon - as in, a few weeks. After that, when I can tell just how many people are actually going to pay for it, I will decide if I will continue or not. More details will follow once I get everything sorted out.
In other news, my testers notified me of some recently done Dreamcast dumps that appear to be broken on GDEMU, so I investigated.
Seems like there is a group, or groups, that started doing GD-ROM dumps using PC drives with a so-called "swap method". I did that too once, other than having slightly different "audio offsets" there is nothing preventing such dumps from working - if done correctly. And that's the key word here. Well, the group(s) in question decided they know better and introduced changes into tracks' positions and lengths - to "fix" things I guess. The worst part is they've just shoved all their changes into .gdi files and typical user has no way of knowing if it's a proper dump or not.
GD-ROM images made using GD drive in Dreamcast are not perfect either, but frankly no CD image format is, or will ever be, unless we store raw EFM stream (assuming we can even read it glitch-free, which is debatable). But small flaws can be corrected if the method is good in principle and the changes are always consistent. For GDIs it means you need to adjust for missing pregaps (not really needed) on data tracks and starting address on audio tracks. My guess is the new dumps were supposed to overcome that, but instead are plain broken.
As an example let's take a look at Chu-Chu Rocket, the PAL version. The new .gdi file says this for tracks 3 and 4:
3 45000 4 2352 "ChuChu Rocket! (Europe) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es) (Track 03).bin" 0
4 355602 0 2352 "ChuChu Rocket! (Europe) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es) (Track 04).bin" 0
Track 3 file is 730535904 bytes long, that is 310602 raw sectors. Since it's missing the pregap I mentioned, the actual length of the track is 150+310602=310752.
Let's add this length to it's starting address, to see where it ends: 45000+310752=355752. See the problem? Track 4 starts at 355602, which is less than 355752. This creates an impossible situation where tracks overlap.
But wait, what if we treated this new image just like the old dumps and actually did apply the fix for audio tracks as usual? Then it'd be 355602 plus 150 fix which equals 355752 and it checks out. Yay! Maybe this is the correct way after all, let's investigate further:
18 505295 0 2352 "ChuChu Rocket! (Europe) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es) (Track 18).bin" 0
19 505819 4 2352 "ChuChu Rocket! (Europe) (En,Ja,Fr,De,Es) (Track 19).bin" 0
Track 18 is audio, 1232448 bytes long, which makes it 524 "sectors". If we add the fix, then it starts at 505295+150=505445, and ends at 505445+524=505969. Oops. Track 19 started already, at 505819... Now track 18 end overlaps with track 19 pregap.
The funny thing is, the situation with track 18 overlapping track 19 will kinda work still, since no code ever tries to acces the pregap, so the collision will never be discovered. But this tells you a lot about quality of this dump. Can it be fixed? Maybe. Question is, why break and fix it, rather than just use a known good dump.
I rest my case.
http://dknute.livejournal.com/42778.html
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March 22nd, 2014, 00:25 Posted By: wraggster
Shenmue was an ambitious game for its time, incorporating a massive open world, environments full of people and activity and a complex combat system, all of which was delivered using state of the art graphics. It was a huge project and, as director Yu Suzuki revealed during the Shenmue postmortem panel atGDC 2014, it wasn't without some bizarre development bugs. In fact, up to 300 were found every day, according to Suzuki.
Without some form of compression, said Suzuki (through interpreter Mark Cerny), all of the content in Shenmue would have required 50-60 CD-ROMs. As that would have been ... prohibitive to the average consumer, the Shenmueteam had to come up with ways to save space, though this sometimes created unexpected results. Like cats walking on two legs.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/21/sh...-people-and-e/
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March 21st, 2014, 18:31 Posted By: wraggster
Yu Suzuki is researching Kickstarter, and looking into the possibilities of using it to fund future projects.Suzuki's always been vocal about how he'd like to return to Shenmue, a series famously cut short after the 2001 sequel, if the chance arose. At yesterday's Shenmue post-mortem at this year's GDC, he said he'd like to make Shenmue 3 with the "right opportunity."Speaking in an interview today, Eurogamer asked Suzuki that, given his desire to make the game and the fans desire for him to return to the series, whether he'd considered crowd funding the game via Kickstarter."Yes," Suzuki answered. "I am researching it."Suzuki was unable to go into specifics about how much he'd need to raise to make Shenmue 3 a possibility - the original two games famously cost $70 million to make, a figure that amounts to $98 million today taking inflation into account - nor did he want to commit to bringing the project to Kickstarter, reiterating that he's merely researching it at present.Suzuki's been notoriously elusive since Shenmue 2, most recently working with his own company ys.net on mobile games. So what is he working on right now?"Just now, I don't have anything I can say yet," he smiled. "I can't announce right now - but I'm making something."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...to-kickstarter
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March 21st, 2014, 01:05 Posted By: wraggster
 Yu Suzuki surprised and delighted a rapt audience during yesterday’s Shenmue postmortem.
Surprising precisely no-one, the first audience question asked at Yu Suzuki’s captivating and revealing Shenmue postmortem was about Shenmue III. Suzuki held the same line he’s held since the request was first made: “I sure want to make it. Of course I want to make it. If I get the right opportunity…”Suzuki isn’t working on any other projects, he confirmed, but he did reveal an incredible amount about the creation of Shenmue, which began as a surprising and obscure prototype called ‘The Old Man and the Peach Tree’ before spiralling into a proposed eleven-chapter saga with restrictive Coke product-placement and AI-driven interior design.Drawn from Suzuki’s dissatisfaction with the Japanese RPGs of the 1990s — he wished to fix things as simple as walk loops that don’t end when a character walks into a wall — The Old Man and the Peach Tree was an (unshown) prototype featuring full 3D graphics and cinematic presentation telling the story of a man, Taro, on the quest to find a great martial arts master Ryu, potentially masquerading as a lazy beggar who requests a peach to eat.Further inspired by a research trip to China, Suzuki evolved this concept into a plot with four acts and four concepts: Introduction, sadness. Development: departure. Denoument: fight. Conclusion: starting afresh. It’s here that you can begin to see what Shenmue would become, with the first act of what had become Virtua Fighter RPG: Akira’s Story following the theme of sadness with Akira losing his father, the “development” following the theme of departure with Akira leaving for China.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/the-...series-future/
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March 20th, 2014, 23:46 Posted By: wraggster
There were a lot of people at the Shenmue postmortem panel during GDC. Alas, Yu Suzuki, director of Shenmue, didn't stun the audience with the surprise announcement of Shenmue 3. That wasn't enough to stop eager fans from crowding around the former Sega guru behind classics like Virtua Fighter,Virtua Racing, Outrun, Daytona and Space Harrier.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/20/se...ing-yu-suzuki/
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March 3rd, 2014, 22:33 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.emucr.com/
reicast r6 for Android is released. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. We'll fix them the following weeks! As we only have a few android devices, we'd really love to see your videos of it running!
Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds.
The Dreamcast BIOS is required for this emulator to work. In the internal memory of your phone, create a folder named dc, make a folder named data inside it, and put the bios files there (dc_boot.bin, dc_flash.bin). If you are using a file manager, the path for the folder is /sdcard/dc/data/. You should dump these files from your Dreamcast, Google has many tutorials on how to.
In order to save your game-play progress you will first need to format the memory cards. In order to do this you need to start the program, select the "boot bios" option, go to the "file" option, select the memory cards and then select the "delete all" option.
reicast r6 for Android Changelog:
- Fixed shenmue and many other games, microphone emulation, improved ui, configuration & lots of other stuff
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...icast.emulator
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March 2nd, 2014, 02:16 Posted By: wraggster
Format: Dreamcast Publisher: Sega Developer: in-house (AM2) Read our Shenmue review here
It’s telling that there are only two series which share that much in common with Shenmue: Yakuza, with its heady Japanese environments, kitsch mini-games and crowd combat, plus The Elder Scrolls’ immense interactive population, circadian routines and completely voiced dialogue. This pair of game series, and their respective yardsticks of production, have paddled in Shenmue’s gene pool, even if that was never their intention. There are no Shenmue clones, of course.Shenmue was ahead of its time just as much as it was ahead of itself. It arrived on three GD-ROMs (proprietary 1.2GB Dreamcast discs), just one year after the console’s debut. At the time, it was the most expensive videogame developed. Originally planned for release on Saturn, it swelled into a 16-chapter tale that was eventually compressed into three games, but that weight loss still wasn’t enough to save it from its own ambition, with the third and concluding chapter still nothing but a cross that Sega’s fans continually beg it to bear. Perhaps its only software legacy is to have sealed the ascent of the QTE – quick time event – into gaming’s plump lexicon of abbreviations, but its heritage lives on, often quite fiercely, in the hearts of those who plunged themselves into Shenmue’s grand world.Despite Shenmue’s prerelease selling points embodying the tiresome bunfight of specs, jargon and pillow-talk that would clog up 21st-century E3 events and blustery, post-GTA press releases – Millions of the most realest graphics ever! Unprecedented explorational freedom bar none! – it still successfully tapped into a tremendous wellspring of faith. And Dreamcast owners were certainly looking for something to believe in, with Sega having delivered a console that personified its effervescent arcade joy; Shenmue was the game that would prove to the rest of the world that Sega could also hold its own among the grandiose, multi-disc epics of the post-FFVII gaming scene. “It’s involving, and ultimately rewarding, but only represents a step towards what may be possible in the future, rather than the milestone Edge hoped for,” we concluded in our Shenmue review.
What AM2 delivered was an ineffably slow-paced and coagulated experience, centred on Japanese teenager and monotone human chipboard Ryo Hazuki, and his search for his father’s killer. Some were entranced by the game’s abounding atmosphere and visual detail. Others left frozen by clumpy interaction with an unthreatening, almost rustic world whose lofty promises were its only true revolution. And some must have felt somewhat marooned, afloat in an atypical world where they’d wander the districts of Yokosuka while asking unusual questions to pensioners and hairdressers with ornate faces in a bid to follow the protracted trail of breadcrumbs left behind by Lan Di, the murderer of Ryo’s father. It felt as if, however glamorously realised it may have been, Shenmue was a game of middle management, often composed of the unglamorous daily grinds – being home for bedtime, wisely spending money earned from a day job, or training combat moves through lonely practice – that other games bypass.It’s this domestic-level existence that’s the key to Shenmue’s power, however. Nothing allows you to drink in visual finery quite like a game character that walks at, well, walking speed. When drama kicks off, it’s Ryo’s otherwise drab existence – his hand held by the player at every stage – that gives it genuine, memorable weight. The 100-man battle; the ultimate showdown with Gollum-esque brawler Chai; Ryo’s motorbike ride with long-time friend and emerging sweetheart, Nozomi; even Christmas, as part of the game’s real-world 1986/1987 calendar, feels more than just an excuse to skin Yokosuka with some festive touches. And Lan Di himself makes for a cruel nemesis indeed, rarely appearing throughout Shenmue. Ditto Shenmue II, in which he steals the hero’s ending via a helicopter ride into a sunset sky. Two games in, and with justice not yet meted out, he’s the videogame equivalent of a war criminal.It all feels somewhat perverse, next to the exaggerated power-fantasy otherworlds, confidently structured goals and firm conclusions of other adventures. If not perversion, then it’s definitely representative of a player’s will to believe, a will that still persists in the never-static Shenmue III rumour mill, in the calls, petitions and laments for a closing chapter to the series, and in the fansites dedicated to reverse-engineering as much of the Shenmue universe as possible. It showed not just what gamemakers are capable of, but also what gameplayers are capable of, in how keenly some of them can connect and empathise with the vision presented to them. It’s a game that felt as full of optimism for the future potential of gaming as its readily receptive audience, and remains an immense and charmingly idiosyncratic achievement that loiters in the minds and even hearts of its fans as surely as it’s etched on to a trio of Dreamcast discs.
http://www.edge-online.com/features/...ctive-shenmue/
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February 26th, 2014, 00:44 Posted By: wraggster
Sonic Boom will represent one of the biggest visual refreshes for Sonic since his 1999 Dreamcast debut, and Sega has released a new 'Behind the scenes' video which details how this makeover came about.
The 10-minute clip features commentary from Sega and developers from Big Red Button, the studio handling the console versions of Sonic Boom.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...tary-released/
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February 19th, 2014, 22:54 Posted By: wraggster
The Shenmue trademark looks like it may no longer be the property of Sega.
DualShockers has spotted an update to the Shenmue trademark page on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website that says the rights have been lost due to lack of use.
“Registration cancelled because registrant did not file an acceptable declaration under Section 8,” it reads.
That section is associated with the “continued use” or “excusable non-use” of a trademark. All of which suggests Sega either didn’t provide the required declarations or couldn’t explain the trademark’s dormant state.
The last proper Shenmue release was 2001’s Shenmue II. A planned sequel was scrapped due to the game’s disappointing sales, but that hasn’t stopped Shenmue III becoming one of the most requested games in the history of the internet.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/sega-...report/0128365
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February 6th, 2014, 14:54 Posted By: wraggster
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Some because we were biting their nails, but a few hours ago has been confirmed retro premier event in our country, no less than 2014 RetroMadrid ! Also this year Dinamic be the star of this year its 30th anniversary!
For now we only know a few facts: the dates will be . 26th and 27th April and repeated place for the third consecutive year, in the cultural center Matadero Madrid . Unless unforeseen last minute Dreamcast.es not miss the appointment being to on the ball and a lot of trouble with our dándo Dreams! Emotion discovery and above all, MUCH, MUCH FUN! Finally, it is not known whether the event will be a free or input, we will inform you! Learn more at the web renovated: http://www.retromadrid.org /
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January 28th, 2014, 00:52 Posted By: wraggster
Make room for your Sega Dreamcast right next to those shiny new consoles, everyone – Redux: Dark Matters is available now. After raising $53,000 on Kickstarter in 2012, the Sega Dreamcast version of Redux: Dark Matters has begun shipping, priced at €36 (excluding shipping costs).
Redux: Dark Matters is an HD space shmup with seven stages, big bosses, arcade-style gameplay and a "competitive" scoring system. Check out every angle of the game – seriously, there are 75 screens – in the gallery below.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/01/27/se...tters-out-now/
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