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October 7th, 2004, 08:15 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
ExtremeTech reports that Renesas Technology has taken many of the technologies used in the Sega Dreamcast game console and combined them into a single core.[br][br]Officials from Japan's Renesas, which assumed control over the development of the SH processor from ST Microelectronics on Sept. 28, announced the SH3707 embedded processor at the Fall Processor Forum here today. The SH3707 combines both an advanced SuperH core and a PowerVR graphics core, the components found in the original Dreamcast. [br][br]Specifically, the Dreamcast console contained a 200-MHz Hitachi SH4 with the capability to perform 360 million instructions per second (MIPS) and 1.4 million megaflops, or floating-point operations per second. The Dreamcast also contained an NEC PowerVR2 graphics chip.[br][br]The new SH3707 uses a faster 540 MIPS/2.1 gigaflops engine, with a 64-bit interface to memory. The core also contains a PowerVR MBX chip, a core that Imagination Technologies has licensed to Intel and Texas Instruments, among others. [br][br]According to Miyazaki, the target specification for the platform is to achieve up to 1024 x 768 resolution, 10 million to 13 million vertices or 5 million to 6 million triangles per second, with up to 20 percent translucency per scene – in other words, anticipating a game where some of the polygons would be enhanced with transparency effects. That would place the SH3707 at somewhat over twice the performance of the Dreamcast, which could handle up to 3 million triangles per second. The SH3707 also has the capability of processing MPEG-1, -2, and -4 video and eight-channel PCM/ADCPM audio.[br][br]The SH3707 will ship in the first quarter of 2005, Miyazaki said.
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October 5th, 2004, 13:41 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
As you know just lately we have started a Coding Competition for the Dreamcast and also the GP32 which is sponsored by Lik Sang (more details at the official Page) and the great news for both scenes is that Slashdot Developers posted the news too which has brought more attention to the contest.[br][br]Today is a great day because we have had a shuffle of sorts in the staff dept and now Darksaviour69 joins Soully has an asistant webmaster and me and Lyonhrt as joint webmasters of DCEmu.[br][br]The reason for another webmaster is that it gives the site coverage of nearly the full 24 hours and its always important to have a great staff team.[br][br]I would like to thank the visitors of this site and forums for making this site the powerhouse that it is and the teamwork from all aspects of the Dreamcast Community and all Nationalities have inspired many newcomers to the scene and given us a mass of publicity.[br][br]Thanks
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October 5th, 2004, 12:36 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
News from DCEvolution [br][br] We have a competition running where you can win an sealed Bleem for Gran Turismo 2 disk, together with the Gran Turismo 2 Playstation 2 game. The second price is a used version Bleem for DC GT2. You only have to be the best at five flashgames. Click here for all the details.[br][br]Here are the players who are currently on the winning positions:[br]1. Skullreaper2000 (3 golden trophy's)[br]2. Gav-X (2 golden trophy's)[br][br]The runner up players are: Darksaviour69, Quzar and Hobbes. Keep on playing, there still is chance of enough to win!
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October 4th, 2004, 10:53 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
News from DCevolution [br][br] One of our best downloaded images, but most of all, our first compilation image has gotten a small update. The original contents are still there but DCDayDreamer updated the menu to have it at today's standards.[br][br]The menu is running smoother now and all info and credits can be viewed within the menu as with all our current releases. Also a new animation movie is added for the DCDivX section. We now only offer this improved image at the site.
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October 4th, 2004, 10:32 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
News from GI.Biz [br][br] One of the biggest ever mergers in the videogames industry has been successfully completed, with Japanese giants Sega and Sammy finally coming together under the banner of Sega Sammy Holdings.[br][br]The new firm, which is being run by around 60 management staff taken from Sega and Sammy, is expected to report net sales of 442.5 billion Yen (3.24 billion Euro) for the current financial year, with the lion's share being generated from Sammy's pachinko gambling machine business.[br][br]Sega Sammy Holdings is headed up by Sammy CEO Hajime Satomi, who is chairman and CEO of the new firm, while Sammy president Kenkichi Yoshida (formerly a Sega game designer) will be a board director and Sega president Hisao Oguchi will be an executive vice president.[br][br]A huge array of development studios and sub-companies will come under the banner of the holding company, including all of Sega's internal studios such as Sonic Team and AM2, which were rolled back into the company in preparation for the merger, along with other studios such as Dimps (Sammy's Seven Samurai 20XX) and Red Entertainment (Sakura Wars). [br][br]"In order to become the world's top entertainment industry, Sega and Sammy will work together to provide entertainment towards people of all ages throughout the globe," according to Satomi. [br][br]Sega Sammy Holdings is expected to focus its efforts mostly on the profitable arcade business both in Japan and overseas, while continuing to push the home console game business into profitability. The company hopes to see profit growth of 40 per cent by 2007, with 75 per cent of revenues at that point being generated from the pachinko business.
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October 3rd, 2004, 12:02 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Max the webmaster of Dreamcast-Scene has posted some news about the future of his Site [br][br] Thanks a lot to the ppl who still care about DCS and me, and asked be about I'm doing lately.  [br][br]There are quite a couple of things why it became this silent about DCS: [br][br]* My ADSL connection died and I have to use wireless LAN, this means I can't use Linux for emails, planing and those stuff anymore. All those important mails are now messed up cause I have to chage from Linux to Windows to look for everyone's email addresses and the messages itself. [br]* Got a new job in another city, I even have to work on Saturdays. [br]* Wanted to move to this mysterious "another city", looked for apartments or houses, all I got in 3 months were five promises which all were broken only a few days before I wanted to move in. [br]* I'm too lazy. [br][br]But don't worry, right in this moment we're working on the re-design of DCS. Beside a new design it will feature the all-new Wiki-system [tm], which means that everyone can write artices for DCS. The goal is to became the #1 DC related information database in the www. Everyone can add anything senseful to DCS, write textes, upload photos and those stuff. [br][br]Its great to see some news about this site and when i find some time i will help out with news over there too.
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October 2nd, 2004, 20:57 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
The Dreamcast Independant Rating Board is a new project that aims to act as a surrogate rating board to the ESRB for all independant Dreamcast projects. The goal of this project is two-fold:[br][br]1) provide a rating system for independant projects that acts the same as the commercial game rating system - it allows people to know what they are getting before they get it in regards to violence, sex, and drugs. This way a game isn't accidently downloaded for a small child when it contains innappropriate material.[br][br]2) to provide a rating graphic for creators of cover images for independant Dreamcast games, so they don't use the copyrighted ESRB rating system graphics, and so the ratings actually mean something.[br][br]If you want to submit your game for content grading by the DIRB, please use the form on The DIRB Site.
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September 28th, 2004, 18:39 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
I'm proud to announce that my fellow webmaster, on DCEvolution has finally relaunched the site, it mean's more content, more images and new staff member Curt Grymala.[br]To celebrate the launch dcevo has a gaming competition going on, on its flash arcade (registered members only)[br][br]"There are 5 games to play for the competition and the person who have the most trophy's at the end of the competition (26th December 2004) win's Bleem for GT2!"[br][br]Finally, theres also a Beats of Rage Collection image the image has:[br][br]Beats of Rage, the full game by team Senile and with the following completed MODS: [br]Megaman War of the Past (by DcSteve) [br]Road Rash Revolution (by Predator002) [br]Kill Ryu Volume 1 (by Hyo Art Product) [br]Kill Ryu Volume 2 (by Hyo Art Product) [br]Joe and Mac Caverman Ninja (by Belavi)[br][br]For more info go to http://www.dcevolution.net.
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September 27th, 2004, 22:48 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Ljsdcdev has been updated with news on the perennial homebrew RPG, DCRPG. Here's what BlueCrab posted on the site:[br][br]DCRPG, that ever so anticipated, yet never released game is finally on a track for a preliminary demo release soon. Forget everything you thought you knew about DCRPG in the past, as this is a completely new beast. Expect a demo release within the week (barring any unforseen difficulties).
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September 27th, 2004, 18:57 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
News just in that our beloved Dreamcast Scene is featured in Issue 8 of Retrogamer which is a great UK based magazine that covers all aspects of the Retro scene.[br][br]Heres the info posted on their pages:[br][br] DREAMCAST[br]It's five years since Sega launched the Dreamcast, and while it failed commercially, the machine still attracts a hardcore following. To celebrate the Dreamcast's birthday, we look backwards to the very best Dreamcast games, and forwards to the console's bright future as a homebrew platform [br][br]Great to see the scene in the spotlight.
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September 26th, 2004, 17:01 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Another site redesign and this time its Heinrich Tillack who has updated his site with a brighter new design, check out his newlook site Here
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September 26th, 2004, 02:03 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Mekanaizer one of our friends from the Spanish talking Dreamcast scene has updated his site with a great new look, check it out Here
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September 24th, 2004, 15:26 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
DCStuff has added quite a few new SBI's to the Sbiffy!com database, today. Those SBI's are:- KETM - Games[br]
- Eremit - Games (requires the mouse)[br]
- Reverzi - Games[br]
- Revolver - Games[br]
- Melchior - Games[br]
- Gyruss - Games[br]
- Nazcatron - Games[br]
- SDLFighter - Games[br]
- Tux N Barrels 0.2 - Games[br]
- UAE4All 24-09-04 Release - Emus[br]
- Noiz2SA - Games (fixed the SBI that was there)
Please try them all out and let us know what you think. Eremit, Reverzi and KETM are all developmental releases from IMR Technology, and are in various stages of development. They were intended to help other devvers work things out. More information about those releases can be found on the dev page at IMRTechnology.[br]A few of the others might be PAL only, because they use the Fenix loader.[br]I also uploaded an SBI for the new SGA of TMNT the other day.
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September 23rd, 2004, 20:50 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
This topic has been moved to [link=http://www.dcemu.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=UAE4all;action=display;num=109599214 6;start=0]UAE4ALL[/link] by Wraggster.
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September 23rd, 2004, 13:45 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
BlueCrab has updated his ljsdcdev website with a new theme. Here's what he wrote about it:[br][br]Well, as you can probably see (unless you're logged in), the site now has a new look to it. The theme isn't completely done (actually, its only about 30% done), but I decided I wanted to integrate everything further. So, I started working on this new theme. I hope you like it. If there are any major problems (yes I know there are some minor glitches here and there), let me know with the comments link (on the news page) or in this topic (on the forums).[br][br]While I'm thinking about it, the Projects, Links, and History links on the menu don't work, so don't click them.[br][br]http://ljsdcdev.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/portal.php
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September 19th, 2004, 16:12 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Ive had a fair few emails asking about the Treamcasts since my review and a lack of legit shops that sell them, unfortunately the stockist where i got mine from in my review are out of stock but i was told today that GBAX.com have the Treamcast in and at the cheapest price i have seen so far especially if your in the UK/Europe, they also have a review of the Treamcast at the same Site.
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September 17th, 2004, 12:48 Posted By: MetaFox
For those of you who keep up with all the latest releases here's a new one:
http://www.sega.jp/dc/angelwis/home.html
AngelWish is yet another dating sim - a genre which is getting alot of flack from the English Dreamcast community lately. 
Which is understandable, since they're Japanese intensive, and thus not really open for playing for gamers not fluent in Japanese.
It's still neat to see all the new games getting announced. There are 13 official games and 3 unofficial coming out soon at the last count. Certainly a respectable amount for a cancelled console. :P
I've really had my hands full keeping my Upcoming Games List up to date lately.
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September 16th, 2004, 04:00 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Dan Potter has posted in this ]topic about Tryptonite, the game they are currently working on[br][br][i]....I can give a few more interesting tidbits of info. [br][br]One is that there is going to be a music tie-in in Tryptonite. This won't be to the extent of e.g. FoF, but music will play a part in the visuals. Think WinAMP visualizer as a game. It's a bit abstract. This is incidentally why it's taking us so long to find the exact right look (and why there are no screen shots still) but we're determined that people be impressed or we failed! [br][br]I may or may not have mentioned all this stuff before, but our 3D engine (exists and fully working, just waiting for a bit more optimization) does full-color light source shading, fake phong highlights, and environment mapping. Lighting is omni right now, but I am planning to put directional lights as well. You guys will have proof of these claims some time soon... It's been heavily optimized to take advantage of the DC's abilities (like the hardware matrix and dot-product ops). We're planning to make use of all of that in Tryptonite and any other projects that make use of it. [br][br]Finally, I'll introduce our artist and 3D modeler. He goes by Qatmix and you all might know him better as a member of Kudos, one of the third-party music groups who provided material for FoF. He built the initial Tryptonite ship model that's in use on the web site right now and several others (some of which unfortunately got lost in an HD crash... but I have confidence that the new ones will be even better ).
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