Ron of dciberia.net has released a demo of DCider //e, an Apple //e emulator.
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In Summary: F3 reduces CPU. F4 Incrementa CPU. F12 Reset. Av Pag. Way Video +. Re Pag Way Video -. F1 Loads FD6-1. F2 Loads FD6-2. F11 and F6 load disc image.</blockquote>
At the begging of this year (1/16/2006) sega closed the servers for Online Ranking for F355 Challenge. But some guys at onlineconsoles.com and dcarena.de have been working to setup their own.... and they have
<blockquote> http://matchingservice.dcarena.de/
Looks like we got the first 3d party online rankings done
The admin of dcarena.de did a little research and got his first beta of online rankings for F355 to work
PS: Thank you for your interest and support, OC users and Staff
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The DCEmulation forums are conducting their annual polls.
To vote for your favorite emulator, homebrew game, dreamcast developer, dreamcast rookie developer (just started coding for the Dreamcast in 2005), and other DCEmulation-specific polls, head on over to this forum:
LTK has posted a new version of CPCast the Amstrad CPC Emulator for the Dreamcast, heres whats new via translation:
<blockquote>New version of CPCast. Still one is a quite primitive version of which it is expected is the final version. There are enough quite significant changes and, Here a list
- A little more speed.
- Partial support of virtual keyboard
- Feasible Selecionable from images DSK
- Car writing of run " exec_file in the modoemulador
- Fosforito Ways/Color
- Intensity of selectionable Monitor
- Directional Pad mapping with the keys Or, P, Q, To, SPACE,
- (Perhaps) U.S.able with no need of keyboard</blockquote>
This weekend, we are very happy for good progress of PCX4ALL: Playstation1 emulator for Dreamcast, GP2X, Zaurus, Zodiac, GNU/Linux and Windows.
I just have been able to adapt PCSX CPU recompiler for SH4 by Mark Grilenkov and Dreamcast gets 14fps using our GPU software render for a lot of games. I hope get fullspeed (frameskip0) when we will write a new GPU using PVR hardware aceleration.
DCiberia comments and shows a set of screenshots and a video running PCX4ALL under Dreamcast (register is need it).
The GOAT Store, LLC is doing some spring cleaning of our inventory and we want your help! To help us clean up, we are offering a special discount this week only!
When placing an order with us this week, use the coupon code "SPRING06" on the checkout form to receive a special discount of 10% off!
- Hardware video scaled.
- Previous menu for choosing a MAME4ALL.
- New skin by DarkSlain.
- VSync Option.
- Filechache for speed up loading time.
- A lot of minnor fixes.
- Bugs solved:
Bug in the sound with some games (Bomb Jack, Pinball Action, etc).
Bug with games with I8085 processor (Phoenix runs with sound again).
Screen centering in the not scaled + rotated video mode.
- Some changes by Slaanesh:
New playable games: Robocop, Hippodrome.
Sound improvements: Sly Spy, Midnight Resistance, Dark Seal, Juno First.
Control Improvements: Midnight Resistance, Heavy Barrel, Ikari Warriors, Victory Road, Defender.
Optimizations: Galaga.
Other improvements: Time Pilot, Pooyan, Tutankham, Gyruss.
- Support for 3 new romsets (MAME 0.35b5):
Boulderdash / Boulderdash Part 2 (bouldash), Sly Spy (revision 2) (slyspy2), Gate Of Doom (revision 4) (gatedoma)
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Just a reminder that the contest ends at the end of this month.
There's still plenty of time to enter. I'll accept entries all the way until midnight PST on the 31st.
Remember, you don't have to make a complete game - there's a minigame section of the contest as well.
For the full game contest you don't have to have a completely polished game - just a game that is near professional level. If you run out of time, but have a playable game that just lacks some spit and polish - submit it anyway - you still will have a good shot at winning.
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Quite a while back, I had a discussion with burnerO, regarding Sbiffy!com and the files hosted there. I asked him at that point if it would be okay to move everything from the old site into the DC Evo network, and he said that would be just fine.
After quite a bit of hurdles and leg work, the entire Sbiffy!com file structure has been downloaded from Consolevision and copied over to our DCHelp server.
We are proud to unveil the "DCHelp SBI File Repository". Currently, it holds every single SBI and SBT file that were located on Sbiffy! In the future, it will contain so much more, including an area for users to easily contribute their own SBI files.
In addition, we will hopefully be incorporating the Sbiffy! forums into the DreamZone boards very soon.
Thanks to burnerO and everyone else that has made this possible.
The famous games magazine Edge has reviewed Under Defeat in there latest issue. They gave it 6/10 which for Edge scoreing, is good (for example they gave Oblivion 8/10, Grandia 3 6/10, The Godfather 4/10, etc).
The review begins..
"Another year, another Dreamcast shoot'em up Swansong..."
NiktheGreek has scanned and uploaded the review here
So... yesterday I was messing around with some files I had with tons of GameShark codes, and I decided to build an online Dreamcast cheat code database using PHP+MySQL.
Right now there's 3500+ GameShark/ActionReplay CDX cheat codes for 254 dreamcast games, but I'll keep adding more games and codes I've around. I also have a couple of related projects in mind that will help Dreamcast's gamers to handle cheat codes.
the new version was almost ready to be released when I discovered another bug from the previous version. So I decided to take some more time to fix this bug, this shouldn't take too long hopefully.
Here is the list of improvements from VMU Tool v0.8.0 so far:
- fixed bug of VMU files' compression
- fixed bug of VMU last formatted a sunday
- added a "defragment" option in the "Open VMU" menu
- implemented PSO screenshots reading in image viewer
- implemented GD-ROM reading support
- fixed weird display for some images in the image viewer
- increased text viewer's capacity to read files of 500KB max and changed words limit to 200000
- rewrote the "rename" function so it more works as expected (insert chars with keyboard and pad)
- implemented BMP images reading
- fixed the possible buffer's overflow when loading a bad DK/DP embeded file
- changed the default name of files extracted from a VMU dump
- added options to change the menus' background color and opacity
- implemented themes support
- allowed GUI files to be loaded from PC
- added options "rename" and "delete" for files loaded from PC
- made options saving to VMU optional
- allowed options changes to be saved without saving to VMU
- added saving/loading of options from PC
- changed options loading/saving code so it checks every other VMUs after reading/writing error
- added texts shadows
- implemented pre-loaded files list
- modified VMU emulator's texts and default size
- replaced keyboard keys by pad buttons combo for "mirror", "rotate" and "flip" functions of the image viewer
VMU Tool 0.8.5 should be released in 3 versions, each one with its own default theme:
PSO theme, Love Hina theme,Shenmue 2 theme
The theme only sets default wallpaper and colors, you're free to change them anytime as you wish.
Apart from allowing to backup VMU files to PC and vice versa, or save them from CD/PC to VMU, VMU Tool has some functionnalities that are not well known. Here are some misc screenshots that demonstrate some of them: The image viewer supports BMP, PNG, JPEG images and PVR textures The text viewer displays text files by respecting alineas and tabs The audio player loads some Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Wave musics with a timer displayed in real time
VMU TOOL PC, a cool Windows-Like explorer which allows you to manage Dreamcast's saves on your PC has been released. I (SiZiOUS) made with Speud.
It's a cool add-on for VMU TOOL avialable on Dreamcast (by Speud, v0.8.5 soon). You can get all information you want, such VMU icons, copyright, size, etc, modify these information, and much more. Currently, this program supports VMS+VMI files and DCI (Nexus) files.
Two versions has been released, a ZIP (no install) and an Setup. Choose your favorite package
CA and GOAT Store have figured prominently in three recent podcasts from Team Fremont! A review of FoF as well as mentions of the other GOAT Store games. Check out their podcasts page and grab 04.09, 04.12, and 05.21 for more fun.
We plan to release the final of Giana’s Return when everything is in 101% shape. Basicly we target to release a Dreamcast or Win32 release at a demoparty called Buenzli (www.buenz.li) and we probably going to enter the GP2x port into the GPH coding contest.
Most staff members are very busy by now, specialy the ones attending university or school. Only the organizer and the main coder are kind of limited busy. In any way there will be no release before end of July 2006.
