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January 1st, 2006, 02:02 Posted By: wraggster
News posted over at the Screamcast site:
BootDreams 0.6.1 FINAL released
LyingWake's final update of the BootDreams toolkit.
LyingWake's source codes released
LyingWake has been a true developer's developer in the DC homebrew community, constantly creating and updating tools useful to creators and gamers alike. Today, he has opened the sources of all of his projects, and announced a hiatus from DC dev. We salute you, Cyle!
More info --> http://www.screamcast.net/html/
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January 1st, 2006, 03:20 Posted By: wraggster
What a year for the DCEmu Homebrew & Gaming Network, the network expanded from the original Dreamcast site to take in all of my sites and then with the server problems we upgraded to a Vbulletin Forum and now the forums actually serve as news forums for all the network sites.
The community is expanding at a massive rate with a total of 20 sites under the network covering all these consoles
PSP
Nintendo DS
GBA Micro/GBA SP
Nintendo Gamecube
Xbox
Xbox 360
Dreamcast
PS2
PS3
GP2X
GP32
Nintendo Revolution
Tapwave Zodiac
Gizmondo
Nokia N-Gage
iPod
Retro Consoles & Gadgets
We also have some of the Homebrew scenes best developers hosted here at DCEmu:
Chui
PSmonkey/Nexis2600
GPF
We are a network of sites who post news about Homebrew, Development, Hacking, Emulation and the Commercial side of each console, we never ever take the easy road and post warez or host iso loaders etc, the quickest way to destroy a scene is to do that so we keep well away from it.
This year has seen the emergence of the PSP scene and our PSP News site has enjoyed so many releases to a new console that it has been staggering, of late the GP2X has took over the billing of the scene with the most releases but that could change at anytime.
We have over 18,000 members now and looking at the stats we had over 4100 online at one time and thats pretty damn decent, some of the scenes we cover dont see much activity but we follow them regardless.
In 2006 we hope and well with a nutter like me running the place, this network will get bigger and better and hopefully one day the legal Homebrew scene will be looked on more favourable than it has been in the past, we can but hope 
Of course even though i do a heck of a lot of work id like to thank Martin64 for hosting me and my server killing sites (yeah we actually killed a server), also Soully and DS69 and indeed all the staff and mods at DCEmu and the members and helpers who make my job easier, a big thanks to you all, it has personally been a year with some great ups (this network) and some severe downs ( losing family members) but its great to come home and emerse myself in the Homebrew scene, a scene ive followed for 9 years or more (im forgetful), ive had some crackin arguments (yeah those are fun) and made some great friends but its all worth it overall, just remember though without the developers and hackers and i suppose in a smaller way newsposters and webmasters/mods etc you wouldnt have your scene, so its always worth trying to say things in a correct way even if you dislike their work or release.
Ok ive bored everyone to sleep and im drunk anyway but HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL 
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January 1st, 2006, 20:49 Posted By: quzar
Quzar proudly announces 3 new ports and an update to an old classic! Let your Dreamcast scream in the New Year with the addictive puzzle logic of BINIAX, the run and gun platforming of BLOB WARS, and the old schol exploration of GNU ROBBO! Then grab a friend and fire up the new build of DODGIN' DIAMOND 2, now with 2 player shmup action and high score records!
That's not all! CorticalStim's unused soundtrack to Screamcast's very first project, Tux & Barrels, is now available in mp3 format!
Speaking of music, Screamcast announces the unveiling of the official site of resident musician Catch The Bear! Look for more of his amazing work when you catch a certain bear-themed game which which will release in 2006!
As if that weren't enough, all Screamcast games are now available as DiscJuggler images (CDI's), making easier than ever to burn selfbooting discs with BootDreams!
http://www.screamcast.net
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January 7th, 2006, 13:18 Posted By: wraggster
DCIberia who are the Spanish side of the Dreamcast Scene and surrounding them one of the best team of coders in the Dreamcast scene have let us know of the release of 6 New games for the Dreamcast by LTK
· SDL_prim
· Super Methane Brothers
· Gemdropx
· Komi
· InterLogic
· TrailBlazer
Not failing that a new Amstrad emulator for the Dreamcast has been announced also by LTK, (ive got some major catching up of pages it seems.
Head on over to DCIberia to download all those new Dreamcast Games
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January 11th, 2006, 18:33 Posted By: wraggster
News From Lik Sang
From G Rev, the developers of Senko Ronde and Border Down, comes a new seek-and-destroy helicopter shooter, Under Defeat. Powered by the Naomi board, the game is currently doing the rounds across Japanese arcades, and celebrating its popularity, has already been announced for a Dreamcast release on March 23rd. With both a range of projectile weapons to choose from and bombs to drop, you'll take on the forces of air, land and sea across five large stages.
 
In either single or two player modes, there's plenty of action here to get your old Dreamcast's heart pounding once again, and bring back fond memories of the days of Desert Strike. Finally though, don't forget Milestone's cel-shaded shoot 'em up Radilgy is also due out soon for the DC, expected on Feb 16th.
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January 12th, 2006, 18:32 Posted By: bucanero
This new Win32 GUI tool I´ve just released will help those who want to easily convert Dreamcast savefiles from .DCI, .VMI/VMS or plain raw saves to PlanetWeb´s .VMI/VMS format or Nexus .DCI format.
You're also allowed to edit the file's attributes like name, date, copy protected flag, etc.
As an added bonus, this tool allows to extract the VMU icons and save them as animated .GIF files, so they can be used in webpages.
More info and download links here: http://www.bucanero.com.ar/verpost.php?id_noticia=185
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January 15th, 2006, 03:48 Posted By: DCDayDreamer
No!, it's Superman at DC Evolution!
To start off the 2006 releases, we're releasing a media image, this is a straight forward 'boot up and watch the classics' CD for your Dreamcast, the CD image uses DCDivX by Mark Dukette with the complete set of the very first Superman cartoons ever created. The animations can also be played on your PC - just burn the image and pop your CDR into your CD/DVD ROM drive and use Windows Media Player (or your favourite media player) to view the cartoons (you may need the DivX codec for your PC).
Superman (the character) was only 4 years old when the first of these animations appeared at movie theatres, the cartoons (produced as short films) were also the first cinematic incarnations of the man of steel, they are a must see for any animation or Superman fan.
The cartoons now reside in the Public Domain, we've gathered them all together, and to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that all 17 cartoons have been made available in any format as a 'one file' download from any site.
For the site page, info, CD covers, and CD image download - go here: http://www.dcevolution.net/goto.php?id=69
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January 19th, 2006, 01:38 Posted By: wraggster
News From Dreamcast Scene
Ya, it's about time. Sega of Japan have finaly added Rajirugi to their upcoming Dreamcast releases page. (You know, the page that suddenly stopped showing released for a few months and caused us all so much panic  ) Anyway, there it is in all its glory. Hopefully they'll catch up with Under Defeat as well. Check it out here
Also, the cover art for Rajirugi has been released. Whether or not this is the cover art they are sticking with is yet to be said.
Check it out at Dreamcast Scene
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January 19th, 2006, 01:39 Posted By: wraggster
News From Dreamcast Scene
A Depressing day for all dc online players F355 Challenge Passione Rossa has officially gone offline for good. The Following are the words from the official website. ''"Notice for Terminating "F355 Challenge" network service on Dreamcast. December 29, 2005'' Thank you for your continued support on Dreamcast software "F355 Challenge". We unfortunately decided to close network service oｆ "F355 Challenge" due to technical issue. It will no longer be available on January 16, 2006 noon (Japan time). ''We really appreciate your long-term support on this service. We hope you keep enjoying "F355 Challenge" offline mode and other SEGA titles.'' There it is, in all its sorrow. A few say a written petition is absolutely necessary. “What do YOU think?â€
Check it out at Dreamcast Scene
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January 20th, 2006, 10:28 Posted By: qatmix
From the Website...
Cowboy Bebop -The Game- is a Video I play based on the popular Japanese series -COWBOY BEBOP- Copyright (C)SUNRISE. and programmed mainly with the excellent FENIX programming language.
As of the first version were programmed different special issues for assorted platforms and systems, thanks to the FENIX portability and of other programming languages as C, Visual C++, Div.
The game contains: 1 Training level, But of 24 experience Levels, 10 Episodes and 3 Chiefs that to defeat.
http://cowboy32.iespana.es/
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January 21st, 2006, 00:43 Posted By: wraggster
News from Dreamcast Scene
Our loyal forum member Yakumo had the chance to test the latest two upcoming Dreamcast shoot em ups Rajirugi and Under Defeat as NAOMI versions in the Japanese arcades. Read about his opinion in our forum here: "Yakumo plays the two new coming Dreamcast shooters !!"
And don't forget to preorder those upcoming Dreamcast game at your import dealer of choise.
Max
Read the reviews via the link above
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January 21st, 2006, 02:21 Posted By: wraggster
The Makers of PSPonTV (PSP to TV Adapter) sent me some rather interesting news earlier that isnt on their website, heres the info from the email/press release:
<blockquote>First, the most exciting thing to happen this year for us may be the SEGA licensed TV game systems. We hope you are equally excited, and that you will try to secure an agreement with us ASAP.
SEGA LICENSED DIRECT "Plug & Play" TV-GAME
Since the HK Toy Fair finished, we have finalized the official license from Sega to manufacture many Sega licenced TV game systems and a hand-held console (like Gameboy).
Until now, we have nearly 50 licensed Sega games that you can choose from! Many of them are Sonic the Hedgehog and other big name titles! Our product design is done by a famous Japanese product designer, and resembles the Sega & Sonic style outlook. You will be quite impressed by our current in-house designs.
You can choose from either 10 in 1 or 20 in 1 versions of the "Plug & Play" Sega TV Game systems.
This means you can get the list and choose 10 or 20 games to put inside each game console. You can do less than 10 but the cost would be the same as 10 games. But for example, you can create a Sega Sports game system just for sports games, or a Sega Sonic game system just for Sonic games...however remember the price stays the same for 1 up to 10 games.
Please see the attached photo "thumbnail" of the clamshell packing, so you can have an idea of the quality for our in-house designs. Anyone wishing to sign an NDA, are welcome to view our full size in house designs immediately.
You are welcome to discuss your own tooling design with us, as we will be happy to do the custom tooling or you can accept our in-house designs which are also very attractive. We can offer some exclusive designs and configurations for many countries, so you are welcome to ask for exclusive distribution of our designs if your company has large enough sales channel to support the exclusivity.
You are welcome to request a quote based on your estimated quantity order, and the 10 or 20 game systems. The retail price should likely be up to US$29.95 for the 10-in-1 game systems, and up to US$39.95 for the 20-in-1 game systems, but this is up to your market to decide.
We are developing a Sega hand held system also (like Gameboy), which will contain 20 games of your choice and have a high quality 2.5 inch LCD screen. For an additional cost, we can create a cartridge based version as well, so you can have 20 games inside plus sell multi-game cartridges also. Due to some exclusivity being discussed for some countries already, please rush to tell us ASAP if you wish to order the hand held console system for your country. Our in house design for the Hand-Held system is similar to the Sonic design of the plug-and-play TV game system, so you can expect it to be very attractive design.</blockquote>
So it seems that Asian Toy Source are going to make a new Sega Hand Held System that will play 20 game cartridges. This is going to be an interesting year for Sega fans.
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January 22nd, 2006, 17:32 Posted By: wraggster
We already told you that there was going to be new Licensed by Sega TV Game System and a New handheld that will play those games too although the full details were a little vague, well Mike of Asian Toy Source gave me some more details:
<blockquote>It is Sega after all...and great games are available. 7 Sonic games, 5 Alex Kidd games, 2 Phantasy Star games, and a whole lot of others! Total are 48 games available up for license right now, and there will be 10-in-1 and 20-in-1 systems only, so several consoles to be had. As you can see, our designs are quite attractive, and we're allowing distributors to have their own console systems designed which takes about 45 days for the mould toolings to be done. Should be available to market in April, and we're actively seeking distributors world wide right now.</blockquote>
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January 23rd, 2006, 15:12 Posted By: Darksaviour69
Rockin'-B, posted in our forums here :
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After over 3 years of no releases for the SEGA Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit, here are two brandnew VMU demos:
 Tiny 3d Engine (vms, vmi, dci, source, video #1, video #2) for VMU is the first and only realtime wireframe 3d engine for VMU.
 Shenmue Goodies 2 (vms, vmi, dci) is a B-movie showing hundreds of Shenmue 2 character images taken from the secret Shenmue Goodies 2 website.
Furthermore I added 2 more great homebrew VMU games to the VMU downloads page:
 space invaders (vms, vmi, dci) and
 idoudo (vms, vmi, dci) from Rednuht 2000.
Both games were released long ago, but they were missing on my website.
You can download all 4 VMU games via Dreamcast browser directly (select vmi), too!
Grab out your VMU and enjoy,
Rockin'-B, www.rockin-b.de
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January 24th, 2006, 22:18 Posted By: Darksaviour69
GPF posted here about hes latest release, OpenJazzDC.
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This is a port of OpenJazz for the Sega Dreamcast.
OpenJazz is a free, open-source version of the classic Jazz Jackrabbitâ„¢ games. OpenJazz can be compiled on a wide range of operating systems, including Windows 98/Me/XP and Linux. To play, you will need the files from one of the original games.
</blockquote>
Download it from GPF's Site
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January 25th, 2006, 02:26 Posted By: wraggster
Just a quick newspost to clear up some emails thrown at me, the photos were supplied to me by a potential distributor of the Soon to be released TV Game System and that the designs are preliminary, ive been requested to take the screens off the front of the website by Asian Toy Source for now until official news from them or Sega comes through.
Lets hope its not too long eh
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January 26th, 2006, 00:09 Posted By: wraggster
GPF is a one man coding sensation at the moment, in between propping the DS scene up hes back again with another great release for us Dreamcast Fans, heres a screen:
This is a port of CloneKeen for the Sega Dreamcast. CloneKeen is an almost almost complete open-source clone of the old classic DOS game, Commander Keen: Invasion ëf the Vorticons by ID Software. CloneKeen requires the original game data files to work. You can play all three episodes of the game.
CloneKeen currently runs under win32, with SDL, and under Linux/X11, with SDL. and now the Dreamcast.
Downloads and feedback can be found at GPF`s Site here --> http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk
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January 28th, 2006, 10:37 Posted By: wraggster
Ron posted this news:
From MadriDC, we want and need your help to consolidate the MadriDC.
Please feel free to comment and we'll appreciate visits, contributions, donations, participation and such. We want to host projects like Dreamcast-Scene, if you want you can contact me, you're welcome.
MadriSX & Retro -the Retrocomputing fair of Madrid- makes its XIII edition, and MSX Power Replay and this is the third edition with the "retro" zone. MadriDC by 2nd consecutive year will be present with lots of news for Dreamcast. This year supported by DCiberia.net will celebrate the 3RD Edition. We inaugurate a new era, with the full collaboration of the Madrid city hall, we will can offer you free entrance.
We will enjoy with the last year´s location: the cultural centre "El Greco", a nice meeting place located in a quiet zone of the big city of Madrid, close to the green Madrid (Casa de Campo park), in a perfect comunicated enviroment, with public and private transportation. We will enjoy with the colaboration of the big computer services company called Instrumentación y Componentes, Ebay Spain and Megamultimedia. We hope to situate MadriSX in an important place inside of the growing world of the retrocomputing, with more and more fans.
This fair will be celebrated inside of a big meeting room of the refered cultural centre, a big room ampliated to 250 m2 fully equiped. The visitor will can meet and know more about news and projects for the MSX system and other vintage platforms. As a great new we will enjoy by second year the presence of MadriDC / DC Iberia group, specialized on Dreamcast and vintage machines . We open our doors to the presence of classical consoles, until now they was not so present in M&R, MadriDC area will organize activities and conferences.
This is because MadriSX & Retro is a fair that must be visited, the effort of this club and another ones that are working for these systems, must receive your support with your visit: the main part of the fair. We will prepare a "retrocomputing" zone, where you will can know more about old computing platforms trough expert collectors that are working for maintain old computers like MSX.
More information :
Official web site: http://www.madrisx.cjb.net (Spanish)
Official web site: http://perso.wanadoo.es/replay/edefault.htm (Englsih)
DCiberia MadriDC Home
http://www.dciberia.net/tiki-index.p...ama+MadriDC+06
Forums:
http://www.dciberia.net/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=14
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January 28th, 2006, 19:34 Posted By: DCDayDreamer
Not the people!, the games:
Here's another 'ready to burn and play' release from us: the CD image contains the Beats of Rage game mods Crisis Evil and Crisis Evil 2 made by HarlemHero, each game on the CD can be played on your Dreamcast in NTSC or PAL format with rumble support (thanks to L@cible). The game mods feature the characters from the Resident Evil game series, not only are the good guys here... the Zombies, Dogs, Plants, Spiders, and even the Nemesis is here!.
For the site page, info, CD covers, and CD image download - go here: http://www.dcevolution.net/goto.php?id=70
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January 31st, 2006, 21:11 Posted By: wraggster
Some crackin news of a new ScummVM Release, heres the details:
<blockquote>Release Name: 0.8.1
Notes:
General:
- More descriptive game titles in all engines.
- Fixed crash when trying to apply aspect-ratio correction to games that
cannot use it.
- Fixed potential security vulnerability with oversized PATH environment
variables.
- Lowered the default gain for the FluidSynth music driver and made it
configurable.
SCUMM:
- Scrolling fixes in COMI, so it is less CPU-hungry.
- Added support for Maniac Mansion NES German version.
- Fixed mouse button states in COMI.
- Fixed overflow when using control panel for robot in the Dig.
- Added support for sound code, used by songs in HE games.
- Improved shadows in later HE games.
- Fixed subtitles glitches in HE games.
- Improved music/sound for HE games.
- Improved support for international versions of HE games.
- Improved support for Macintosh versions of games.
- Fixed several minor bugs.
BASS:
- Fix crash when speed/volume sliders are clicked and then dragged out
of the scummvm window.
Gob:
- Fixed disappearing cursor when level password is typed in
- Warn user if he tries to run CD version directly from CD under Windows
SAGA:
- Fix digital music playback under BE systems.
Simon:
- Implemented more precise MD5-based game detection.
- Added Polish support for Simon the Sorcerer 2.
- Fixed fades during ride to goblins camp in Simon the Sorcerer 2.
- Fixed palette delay at the end of Simon the Sorcerer 1.
- Fixed sound looping in Windows version of Simon the Sorcerer 2.
Sword1:
- Fixed a bug where looping sounds would keep playing during cutscenes or
when displaying any form of control panel dialog.
- The save game dialog would erroneously claim an I/O error occurred if the
savegame list had unused slots, and savegames were compressed.
- Fixed a scrolling bug which caused the finale sequence to be displayed
incorrectly.
Sword2:
- Fixes and cleanups to the end credits. The German credits work now.
- Fixed missing speech/music in the second half of the game, reported to
happen in some versions of the game.
PS2 Port:
- Completely reworked and now really goes official.
PSP Port:
- Fixed a bug that caused Broken Sword 1, and games that use ripped CDDA
tracks (most notably the CD version of Monkey Island 1), to stop
functioning properly after a while.
WinCE Port:
- Check backends/wince/README-WinCE for the latest news
- Fixed disappearing panel when opening a list widget in GUI
- Knakos patches (QVGA smartphones fix, easier key binding and panel
switching)</blockquote>
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