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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 8th, 2004, 19:01 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
DCStuff (the premier site for newbies) and the Dreamcast Emulation Knowledge Base (the greatest FAQ available for Dreamcast emulators) have merged together and moved to a new location.[br]Our new site has been re-named DCHelp. We are committed to answering any and all questions that people may have related to the Dreamcast and any software related to the Dreamcast.[br]In addition to the merging of these two sites, we are proud to announce the addition of a Dreamcast Homebrew Knowledge Base, which will be coming online very soon.[br]The new site is located at http://dcevolution.net/DCHelp/. Together with DCEvolution, we are the one-stop-shop for newbies and anyone else with questions about Dreamcast software.[br]Please update your bookmarks to reflect this monumental change.
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October 12th, 2004, 13:52 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Theres a webdesign competition at the scummvm with a prize for the winner, the compo started on september 30th, so only 10 days left, if you want to enter:[br][br]Greetings fellow adventures! [br][br]Just a reminder that the submission deadline for the Website Revamp contest is here in just ten days! The very first submission was just received, so if you have yet to even start, times running out. [br][br]The prizes will be announced as soon as somebody gets back to me since certain sites news posts suggest he hasn't forgotten [br][br]Go here for more info.
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October 15th, 2004, 02:12 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
For all of you who had probs accessing Storm-studios.net, it seems that Will (aka storminator16) has had domain probs, but hopes to get it back up by saturday.[br]You can still access the site here.[br]Thanks to Will himself for the news.
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October 15th, 2004, 21:44 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Finally got round to opening up the quite massive news archive, check back on the scene and this site since it opened Here
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October 17th, 2004, 01:58 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Our good friends over at Madri DC have posted 3 items of news that will interest:[br][br]Confirmed the annual fair of Sega in Japan.[br][br] Sega finishes announcing the dates of the edition of this year of its Sega Private Show: the 2 of November (Tokyo) 4 of November (Osaka) and 9 of November (Kyushu). During these days will be to the last product advances for the console market and arcades in the different Japanese cities. [br][br]1! Meeting Pre - Party in Madrid.[br][br] The next Saturday, 23 of October we will meet in Madrid to chat of first hand and to decide what we are going to do and all those things of the SCENE. We will communicate to you where reuniermos us, hour and place so that whoever is not lost it. OS we can comment that sera in the evening and we will be at least a pair of hours and aside from speaking of Dreamcast and GP32, this time I believe that there will be something more. [br][br]The DREAMCAST turns 5 years in SPAIN[br][br] We congratulated you to all those that you are fans of the Dreamcast, since today 16 of October turn 5 years since it appeared to the market in Spain. Something dead was never SO ALIVE.[br]Special congratulations from the Web of party of the DC and congratulations also stop:[br][br]Talfi.net[br]Dreamadictos.com[br]Dcemu.co.uk[br]DreamCastSpain.com[br]ElOtroLado.net[br]Emulatronia.com[br][br][br](to be in the breach day to day)[br]We hoped that 2005 are at least as cañero as this. we see ourselves [br][br]Thanks to MadriDC for all that news.
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October 19th, 2004, 04:47 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Its nice to see a truly great Dreamcast site get some recognition, DCEvolution are not a team of coders but they are the very best at what they do, they take programs like Self Boot Inducer and push it to its limits and with so many great projects under their belts and many new ones to come, its nice to see them get a bit of mainstream recognition from the likes of Slashdot [br][br]Good work gang 
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October 21st, 2004, 03:00 Posted By: ron
On next saturday 23 October, we'll meet in Madrid to talk about the future actions to be taken by all friends of DC & GP32.
During the evening we'll talk about the actual state of emulators, cores, games, developments, homebrew and all related to DC & GP.
Also we'll prepare the 2nd Dreamcast Party and will decide the dates, the contents, and many many things that are not decided yet. Our intention is create the 1st European DC meeting and see wich projects are more realiable. Soon more news. Thx
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October 23rd, 2004, 05:01 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
One of the reasons i opened this site was to have a great forum for Dreamcast Fans as a base but for all console emulation as well. [br][br]Recent events have brought me to question the use of Yabb in our forum we do seem to be having a few minor glitches and i dont want to lose any posts.[br][br]So this is a question to all those who use our forums and thats Dreamcast and fans of other consoles. Shall we keep using Yabb or swap over to a PHPBB forum or even a Invision Forum.[br][br]As long as i can have a few features i require then im happy, i look forward to your views.
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October 27th, 2004, 01:38 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
The Dreamcast scene has had a great year in 2004 with so many quality emulation and homebrew releases, what would you like to see tackled next (of course it has to be a sensible goal), what improvements to emulators/homebrew thats already been released would you like to see?[br][br]Lets see what this throws up
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October 30th, 2004, 05:08 Posted By: DCEmu_Newsposter
Todays emulation and retro fans love to relive the classics of yesteryear, now it seems that an American company called Messiah have developed and selling Wireless controllers for both the Snes and the Nes and coming soon they have Genesis & Atari 2600 in mind, and also eventually Wireless Dreamcast controllers.[br][br]If anyone has one post your review/findings here.[br][br]Thanks to Da Mad Fiddler for the news.
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