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February 15th, 2008, 14:49 Posted By: Guaripolo
This is something that i´ve been working on, but stopped because i need to study for exams. It´s a snowbros2 (toaplan2) driver on franxis mame4all 5.1 in dreamcast (with chui´s port code).
The sprites doesn´t show: i disabled them because (i think) they "eat" all the memory while mame decode gfx.
I think that using some functions of mame 0.37 will make the game work fine.
If anyone want to help/see the code/get a binary/dance like robot just SCREAM...AWehAUWhEUhaUeh...
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February 13th, 2008, 21:46 Posted By: wraggster
Major Games sale from Play Asia
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Play-Asia.com kicks off the Year of the Rat with another exciting Lunar New Year Sale. Celebrate the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar with us and enjoy thousands of brilliant bargains. But that's not all. Simply place an order for any discounted item and get a chance to win fantastic prizes.
Now is the perfect time to browse through our extensive offerings and find one or another product that was left on your Christmas wish list, with a good chance of it now available at a lower price tag. We have spent time carefully reviewing our inventory and the result is a total of more than 5,000 in-stock items, all of them now available at discounted prices and only for a limited period of time.
Just like we've done with our sales in the past, you will again have the chance to win fantastic prizes, including an Xbox360™ or PlayStation3™ Console, Nintendo Wii™, Nintendo DS™ Lite or PSP™ Slim & Lite, store credit vouchers and much more by simply joining our New Year Sale.
And this is how it works:
Joining the Lucky Draw is easy. All you need to do is to place an order for any discounted item eligible for the Lucky Draw at Play-Asia.com between February 13th and February 29th. You can recognize these items by the "Year of the Rat" icon located on each individual product page.
Every paid order item will automatically join the Lucky Draw. The more items you order, the higher your chance to win one of our prizes. The winners of the 50 main prizes will be announced in this news post during the first week of March 2008 and will also be notified by e-mail.
Prizes:
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A: Xbox 360 Console (Halo 3 Special Edition) (Japanese Version) + 3 Xbox 360™ Games of your choice
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A: Nintendo DS™ Lite Console + 2 NDS™ Games of your choice
OR
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4th Prize: GP2X F-200 Game System + Eigertec Easy Access Leather Case
5-10th Prize: A copy of Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer [First Print Limited Edition] for PC
11-20th Prize: A store credit voucher worth US$ 30 each, redeemable for any purchase at Play-Asia.com
21-50th Prize: A store credit voucher worth US$ 20 each, redeemable for any purchase at Play-Asia.com
(*) The "game of your choice" is only valid for any game priced up to a maximum of US$ 70 per title. Winning choices may be limited to countries where shipping restrictions apply. Prizes cannot be redeemed as cash.
Discounted Items:
More than 5,000 different in-stock products have been discounted at Play-Asia.com, including about 3,000 video games and accessories, 1000 movies, 700 CDs and 400 toys.
Dreamcast™:
Action Replay CDX (French PAL Version) EUR US$ 9.90
Dreamcast Controller EUR US$ 9.90
Dreamcast Visual Memory Card (VMS/VMU) EUR US$ 6.90
Dreamcast Visual Memory Card (VMS/VMU) clear black US US$ 9.90
Dreamcast Visual Memory Card (VMS/VMU) clear blue US US$ 9.90
Dreamcast Visual Memory Card (VMS/VMU) clear green US US$ 9.90
Quake III Arena EUR US$ 4.90
Virtua Fighter 3tb EUR US$ 9.90
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February 13th, 2008, 20:50 Posted By: Christuserloeser
-Description-
Golden Axe Remake is an enhanced version of the arcade original. This game was initially made for Windows by Chinese OpenBoR coder utunnels.
 
utunnels also helped a great deal with the Dreamcast version. He vastly optimized the script language in OpenBoR and did many other engine related code optimizations to allow the game to run on the Dreamcast's 200Mhz CPU and 16Mbyte RAM. (In the future we will use the DC's 8Mbyte Video RAM and 2 Mbyte Sound RAM too! )
My part in this release were the RAM related optimizations to the mod itself. I also recorded the music.
-Download-
There were problems with the previous download but it seems I got it working: The problem was FireFTP!
I uploaded it using Windows Explorer now and it seems it worked fine as the file size finally is correct this time.
-DOWNLOAD HERE-
So, please download again using above link. The file you receive should be 163.99 MB (171,961,060 Bytes) big.
Sorry for the inconvenience everyone.
- Enjoy! 
Source: DCEvolution.net & LavaLit.com
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February 12th, 2008, 19:23 Posted By: wraggster
The Sega Saturn emu for Windows gets an update, heres whats new:
Not much has changed, but up.
SCU end of the DMA interrupt handling fixed.
VDP1 reset process fixed.
VDP2 back screen processing fixed.
State saves data changed version.
After ERADAIAROGU but not to end.
However, the execution is continuing.
SCU end of the DMA and interrupt generation timing is off as production,
Delay ON / OFF established option.
Most software is slowing down is not necessary,
BAKU Animal BAKU, including some software is required.
Download and Give Feedback Via Comments
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February 10th, 2008, 17:03 Posted By: Christuserloeser
I've uploaded a fully tested and working Dreamcast version of Golden Axe Remake to DCEvolution.net:
It's a full remake and enhanced version of the arcade game - Golden Axe.
This game was initially made for Windows by Chinese OpenBoR coder utunnels. I merely did a huge part of the RAM related optimizations for the Dreamcast port and also recorded the music modes.
utunnels helped a great deal with the Dreamcast version too. He vastly optimized the script language in OpenBoR and did many other engine related code optimizations to allow the game to run on the Dreamcast's 200Mhz CPU and 16Mbyte RAM. (In the future we will use the DC's 8Mbyte Video RAM and 2 Mbyte Sound RAM too! )
-DOWNLOAD HERE-
Enjoy!
Source: DCEvolution.net & LavaLit.com
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February 7th, 2008, 06:41 Posted By: JKKDARK
via official site
Oh yes! Since today Giana’s Return features WARP ZONES… of course we can’t tell where they are  Every WARP ZONE allows to jump over 3 levels, which should be timesaving a lot.
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January 31st, 2008, 23:22 Posted By: wraggster
Lxdream is a linux-based emulator for the Sega Dreamcast system. While it is still in heavy development (and many features are buggy or unimplemented), it is already capable of running many demos and some games.
Last 0.8 point release, I swear. Just for a change, this one actually has some new features too. Specifically, it now runs linux (now some may argue that that’s not actually a _useful_ feature, but it’s a nice milestone)
With that out of the way, I think it’s finally time to rip the renderer apart and fix it all up, don’t you? ^_^
What’s New
MMU Implementation - As previously noted, linux-dc now runs quite well, albeit slowly.
Dreamcast mouse and keyboard controllers (also rather essential for running linux-dc)
Support for real joysticks and gamepads (linux host only)
Various bug fixes
Other Changes
Change timer (TMU) interrupts to be precise (within the bounds of a code block anyway)
Implement SLEEP op properly in translator
Clamp run speed in the GUI if it’s running too fast
Run event loop more frequently to avoid missing keyboard events
Download Here --> http://www.lxdream.org/news/
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January 30th, 2008, 00:22 Posted By: JKKDARK
via Giana’s Return Progress Blog
We had the honor to catch your musician today and he is ready to make Sound FX for the game. First results should be out in 2-4 weeks. As he has to write his master degree work, he will be busy for the next two months - after that, he can fully concentrate on finalizing music, soundfx and jingles!
Good luck, operator!
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January 26th, 2008, 18:24 Posted By: JKKDARK
From the official site:
After fixing some boneheadedness in the ASIC event code (and a whole passel of translator caching and other bugs), I’ve finally gotten to the login prompt:
(to clarify, this is the dreamcast-linux-010605 ISO that Takeshi Yaegashi put together several years ago, running a modified 2.4.5 kernel)
Unfortunately (after the happy dance), it was at this point that I realised I haven’t actually implemented the keyboard yet, so it’s impossible to do anything useful with it. It’s also admittedly painfully slow to start, but I was expecting that (TLB lookup is currently near pessimal).
Anyway, working on the keyboard driver now ^_^.
PS: If anyone has a working link to this image, please let me know where it is (I’d like to keep a link to it) - my google-fu has utterly failed to turn up a good version as yet, and my own copy is only on a somewhat scratched CD…
Changes
* Add VMA support to the SH4 disassembly functions
* Handle out-of-page delay slot execution with emulation single-step
* Finish translator breakpoint implementation
* Fix a pair of long standing ASIC event bugs
* Fix xltcache forgetting to clear references to blocks before overwriting them
* Fix recovery + backpatch records not being position independent (big duh!)
* Fix yet another translate block bounds overrun
* Fix MAC.L/MAC.W exception handling (broke the stack if the second arg caused an exception)
* Fix various other minor bugs
Update: Just hacked together a quick keyboard driver, able to login and launch X now. Excellent…
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January 25th, 2008, 23:52 Posted By: wraggster
Awesome Newspost from Insert credit
Madroms, who unveiled the Dezaemon 2 Saturn save system a while back also has a lot of info on Saturn Game Basic, which allowed hobby programmers to program in Basic on the Saturn. If you check that link, you can learn a fair bit about a lot of the games released by homebrewers over the years (there have been a surprising number of releases since the Dreamcast came out...), and there are a number of videos as well - all the games are downloadable if you have Saturn Basic to play them on. I'll highlight just a few.
Funny Zone is a Space Harrier-like realization of Opa Opa in Fantasy Zone.
Return of Grass is a rudimentary 3D shooter.
Fake Dragoon is a moderately charming Panzer Dragoon clone test.
Radi Con Boy is a racing game, with a tank as the "protagonist" vehicle.
Tactics Blaze Chapter 2 is actually a real game - a tactics RPG.
Pro Wrestling has charming 2D chunky graphics but doesn't seem to play well.
Hot Kick is a very nice looking 3D shooter starring the letter A.
Casmi ga Yuku! is a shooter starring the Dreamcast, versus the Saturn.
Kakutou Game (aka Fighting Game) is a pleasantly horrid looking fighter with obnoxious stock sounds.
Hien is close to being an actual game, a scrolling shooter to be precise.
This is probably the best one though. It's called Super Mario, and is a frightening 3D remake of the first level of Super Mario Bros. Well worth a look.
http://www.satakore.com/sega-saturn-...sic,,1,,0.html
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January 24th, 2008, 14:21 Posted By: JKKDARK
New version of the Sega Saturn emulator for PC.
Changelog:
CD drive block state transition process fixed.
SCSP timers processing fixed.
SCSP RISANPURINGU the process fixed.
SCU end of the DMA interrupt handling fixed.
VDP2 rotation of the plane of the drawing process fixed.
State saves data changed version.
Leading SH2 iteration of the master clock system from the center of the center changed.
In accordance with the optional SH2 Instruction Numbers 1 Block Clock change.
May be slightly heavier.
Also, the abolition HSynch Real Clock option.
Ver0.09 alpha compiled from the option to change, but
It is due to the failure occurred.…
Alpha back to its original option because the software came from the failure直っI may.
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January 22nd, 2008, 22:53 Posted By: JKKDARK
via Giana's Return Progress Blog
As promised here is a small roundup of the current standings.
We hopefully finalized the levels of world 1 to world 3, the last adjustments we did, were to have equal enemies, instead of having them mixed up all over the game. This adds some kind of “system” and should let the game appear more professional. While we were working on this task, we added way more enemies to the playing field. The game is slightly harder, but nothing is impossible. Considering we gave Giana a nice and proper energy bar, there will be definatly use for it now.
The level designer is playing with his mind to add another few extra levels. There would be an extra level for world 1 and 2 already, but it’s unsure if it will make it into the main game. (This one is even new to the coder *grin*)
Another thing our coder was working on, we now have foreground and background tiles, but… to keep the game at decent difficulty, only objects such as the gras in world 1 and the mini-mushrooms in world 3 will stay “in front” of Giana.
The graphics guy, who is responsible for the tileset readjustments is waiting for his next job - but the depressed organizer somehow can’t make it, to send him the next steps. See this positive or negative
The promised “Lava-World” video will be delayed to the corrupt graphics files, we need to find a proper intact pre-version of it first.
As you can see, things are rolling more or less.
Regards
Your Giana’s Return Team
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January 21st, 2008, 22:58 Posted By: JKKDARK
drkIIRaziel posted information, screens and a video about the upcoming nullDC version, showing progress on the Sega Naomi emulation.
Info:
I was messing today with some old Naomi emulation code and after fixing some stuff on the dynarec/PowerVR plugin I got the naomi bios running.
UPDATE:
<update #4>
It seems that the naomi 2 bios just wanted some DIMM emulation to get to the error screen.
NOTE: NAOMI1 or NAOMI2 GDROMS are STILL FAR AWAY FROM RUNNING.Dont get too excited.
<update #5>
Fixed some bugs here and there and got vs2_2ka intro working with sound.
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January 20th, 2008, 20:06 Posted By: BlueCrab
Well, there's been another release of Yabause, the Sega Saturn Emulator for Dreamcast (as well as Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows). As for what's new, there's been plenty of bugfixes. Most of the bugfixes were for the Linux and Windows versions, but there were a few to the core of the program. No major changes were made to the Dreamcast version, so if you have 0.9.2 around, there's probably little reason to update.
Anyway, You can get it at the following address: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=569739
Enjoy (and leave any comments you might have here).
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January 20th, 2008, 20:06 Posted By: BlueCrab
Well, there's been another release of Yabause, the Sega Saturn Emulator for Dreamcast (as well as Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows). As for what's new, there's been plenty of bugfixes. Most of the bugfixes were for the Linux and Windows versions, but there were a few to the core of the program. No major changes were made to the Dreamcast version, so if you have 0.9.2 around, there's probably little reason to update.
Anyway, You can get it at the following address: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=569739
Enjoy (and leave any comments you might have here).
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January 20th, 2008, 13:19 Posted By: wraggster
Im sure you know that the Dreamcast Download Archive is down yet again and despite my very best attempts i cant get the thing to work.
Martin seems to be very busy these days which kinda means that i have to act sooner rather than later.
Now dont worry we have all the files and even though DCHomebrew the site is offline i can still access the files (pity ztnet.com wont give me access)
Now DC News needs a new revamped look that fits in with the other network sites and with its own colour but im also thoinking of using a Vbulletin database that we originally set up for the PSP Site instead of Cfiles.
I do wish i could get cfiles back online as the workload is rather massive already but i shall get something done is the next week or two.
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January 16th, 2008, 23:04 Posted By: Christuserloeser
Giana’s Return - returns for sure, but when?!
Dear Giana Sisters enthusiasts,
Working on a sequel of such a famous game as “The Great Giana Sisters” is not an easy task. We have heared many comments up to now and most of you might still remember the public Versions of Giana’s Return v0.91 for GP32, Dreamcast and Windows (32-Bit). Most people are happy to see the progress, some just feel ashamed that we are touching an alltime classic and trying to put it in a new shape. As the team itself is very addicted to those kind of games, let us assure you, that we do our best to keep the faith of the original.
The current progress is in a stage, where everything is fully playable but needs a lot of graphical adjusting and level retouching. Our betatester Mulle, a kind and helping hand from Germany, has already put a lot of time into the game, by testing details. The game wont be out tomorrow, neither in a month - but we will not abandon anything.
The storyline is complete and currently beeing added to the engine, same applies for the illustrated story. The tile adjusting will require some more time, so far 4 tilesets are adjusted, this makes 3 sets left.
The rough final should be ready by end of this quarter, we will use the second quarter of 2008 to iron out and fix details - of course this timeline is rough and only applies if nothing bad happens.
To raise your mood and get the time of waiting a bit reduced, here are the links to the videos posted on youtube.
World 3 in action:
A new video of the lava world should be up in the next two weeks. For everyone who was in the dark about the “release date”, now you have more background information.
Greetings
Yours Giana’s Return Team
Source: GianasReturn.de
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