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February 26th, 2015, 00:27 Posted By: wraggster
The demise of Sega was not inevitable and can be blamed on two decades of bad decision making.
That’s according to for Sega of America CEO and current LeapFrog vice chairman Tom Kalinske.
"It could have been avoided if they had made the right decisions going back literally 20 years ago,” Kalinske toldGames Industry of the company’s inability to compete in the modern console market. “But they seem to have made the wrong decisions for 20 years.
"One of the key reasons why I left Sega is when we had the opportunity to work with Sony, when [Sony Interactive CEO] Olaf Olafsson, [Sony Corporation of America president and CEO] Mickey Schulhof and I had agreed we were going to do one platform, share the development cost of it, share the probable loss for a couple years on it, but each benefit from the software we could bring to that platform.
“Of course, in those days, we were much better at software than they were, so I saw this as a huge win. We went to Sony and they agreed, 'Great idea.' Whether we called it Sega-Sony or Sony-Sega, who cared? We go to Sega and the board turned it down, which I thought was the stupidest decision ever made in the history of business.
“And from that moment on, I didn't feel they were capable of making the correct decisions in Japan any longer."
Kalinske went on to address former market rival Nintendo, saying that bringing Mario to smartphones would be a sensible business decision.
"I don't think [Nintendo] should give up hardware or consoles," Kalinske addedd. "I am surprised that they haven't formed a division to extend the IP. I'd love to play some of their games on my iPhone or iPad.
“It's really a form of marketing for them in a sense. They wouldn't even need to make that much money off it, but it would keep their brands relevant with the users, including people that are older, like me. So it seems to me it's a marketing mistake, but I don't think they should give up what they're doing because they're damn good at it."
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/sega-...s-says/0145654
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February 23rd, 2015, 21:50 Posted By: wraggster
As CEO of Sega of America in the early 1990s, Tom Kalinske oversaw the company during its glory days, when all eyes in the industry were glued to the titanic struggle for console superiority between the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. Times have changed, to put it mildly, and Sega is now a shell of its former self. Where did things go wrong? According to Kalinske, Sega's downfall was failing to partner with Sony on a new platform, and the bad decisions kept piling on from there. Sega's exit from hardware "could have been avoided if they had made the right decisions going back literally 20 years ago. But they seem to have made the wrong decisions for 20 years."
http://games.slashdot.org/story/15/0...the-next-atari
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February 16th, 2015, 01:26 Posted By: wraggster
via http://pdroms.de/
Giana’s Return aims to be a worthy UNOFFICIAL sequel of “The Great Giana Sisters” and has been recently updated for Dreamcast to match to it’s latest v1.10 version. Ported to Dreamcast by Indiket.
Evil Swampy and his followers have stolen the magic ruby, which made it once possible for Giana and Maria to return from their dream. Many creatures are after this ruby, but does it really has power, or was it just a coincidence?As this is not bad enough, Swampy fell in love at first sight with Giana’s sister Maria and shamelessly kidnapped her. She simply has been at the wrong place at the wrong time.You will now have to take on the role of Giana and get back the magic ruby. And most important of all, save your beloved sister Maria and get home save!
Release notes:
Unfortunately we had a bug in Giana’s Return v1.10 for Dreamcast, which crashed the game after level 8. After some investigation Indiket was able to track the bug down. The version of mikmod used was a bit old and had to be updated to v3.3.7. The game works as expected again. Sorry Dreamcast users! Head over to the download section for the update and enjoy a crash free version.
http://www.gianas-return.de/?p=1235
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February 16th, 2015, 01:25 Posted By: wraggster
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Eight Queens by Sebastian Mihai is an implementation of the Eight Queens Problem on Sega’s unfortunate add-on to the Genesis, the 32x. Towards the end of the Genesis era, Sega’s plan was for the 32x to tide Genesis players over, until the release of the next-gen system, the Sega Saturn. It seems that Sega preferred planet code-names for their systems, as the internal name for the 32x was Project Mars.
This Sega 32x homebrew finds all solutions, whereby no two chess queens threaten each other (as in, share a row, column, or diagonal), on a standard chess board of eight by eight squares.
http://pdroms.de/sega32x/eight-queen...-sega-32x-misc
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February 16th, 2015, 00:59 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php
We present POWDER , a fully functional port for Sega Dreamcast !! Do not be alarmed if you do not hear anything because the game has no music or sfx! xD
And what will? Hmm, is an entertaining rougelike (set of dungeons), where we will have to face many enemies, cast spells, drink potions ... and more! : D. Will you reach level 25 and defeat the villain? Care engaging!  DCEric offers us a short video so you see it in motion ("tricky" looks lol).
http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=715#comments
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February 16th, 2015, 00:41 Posted By: wraggster
I got lucky and hunted down a matching power connector for the 20-pin Saturn drive. From now on all Rheas will be solder-less (unless you want to have 50/60 auto-selector, but that requires some soldering skills anyway) which should make it easier to install for less tech-savvy people.
The PCB layout has changed a bit as well, the support peg holes have moved to allow 2 of them for both VA0 and later VA1+ machines. I might move them yet again in future as I feel current placing is actually less stable on VA0 but there are limits as to where I can put them without rerouting a lot of important stuff. In any case it’s nothing a glue gun couldn’t fix.
I have but a couple of these new PCBs right now, some more should be available soon.
EDIT: Oh, and I figure I should address the GDEMU situation. In short, everything is still massively delayed, sorry. It doesn’t help that people have stopped paying attention to their mail/PayPal and keep missing the payment deadlines, and I have to keep a bunch of GDEMUs in a box for a week before I can consider the request “timed out”. Yes, I know this is the result of the initial delay in the first place but stuff like this is what keeps the situation from improving.
https://gdemu.wordpress.com/2015/02/...ed-more-power/
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February 16th, 2015, 00:38 Posted By: wraggster
This week we are back with some Sega goodness thanks to the latest issue of Sega Pro, which was originally released in August of 1992.
We have an abundance of Game Gear content up as a preview for this issue, so lets jump right in and take a look at the reviews for Prince of Persia, Klax, Popils and last but not least Marble Madness. All of which are for the Game Gear.
Then we have a look at Batman for the Mega Drive, followed by the Firday the 13th inspired game Splatterhouse II, also for the Sega Mega Drive.
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/cat...SegaPro10.html
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January 31st, 2015, 23:11 Posted By: wraggster
Around 300 staff are to be offered early retirement following plans to completely restructure Sega’s business.
“Local organisations managing packaged game software in Western markets will be streamlined”, the company has said, with its San Francisco already confirmed for closure.
Sega intends to alter operations to focus on mobile and online PC games, which it deems to be its growth areas, as well as its Sonic and merchandising businesses.
The changes are a result of a business analysis conducted by the Group Structure Reform Division, which was formed last May and tasked with improving management efficiency, profitability and restructuring the business.
“Voluntary retirement will be solicited in the aforementioned businesses to be withdrawn or consolidated and downsized, while at the same time personnel will be repositioned in digital games and growth areas of Group mainly as development personnel, in order to establish a structure which can constantly generate profits,” Sega said.
The decision comes despite the success of Alien: Isolation – which admittedly was somewhat offset by the catastrophic failure of both Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Shattered Crystal.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/sega-...future/0144528
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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.
https://gdemu.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/the-snow-queen/
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January 6th, 2015, 01:22 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.emucr.com/
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, 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, 22:43 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.emucr.com/
Gens-ReRecording SVN r351 is released. Gens Rerecording, formerly known as Gens Movie Test, is a modification of the highly popular Gens emulator. This modification includes slowdown, recording and playback of controller input logs, dumping of AVI files, and Lua scripting. This emulator is primarily used by the Nesvideos community.
Gens-ReRecording SVN changelog:
r351
A few fixes in Sonic hacks: multisprites and screen-space objects in S3&K, camera hack hanging because of camera bounds preventing it from moving, support for S3&Amy hack.
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r350
Getting Gens to compile on VC++2008.
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r349
Adding resizable file dialogs. Some alignment on starscream.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/g5bkbr
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December 21st, 2014, 22:38 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.emucr.com/
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
https://www.sendspace.com/file/8d09ds
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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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