News Archive: April 2004

Monday, April 26, 2004

DC homebrew round-up Posted by Darksaviour69 @ 17:04
Heinrich Tillack has updated his site with more pics and news that it will be shown betwwn 22 - 24 May at the Midwest Classic Gaming fair by the Goatstore.

Deeroc of RavenousGames has named his RPG, Fantasy Tales and is looking for help (artist, game/plot ideas http://www.ryanwarner.org/~deeroc

After a long break from the DC scene, Jimbo has returned and released a new fighting game for the Dreamcast, Battery

Vortexx has release a "Virtua Cop Style game" called Revolver 1.0. It looks great! You can get pics and downloads from dcemu.co.uk here

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

GOAT Store announces release date for 2 new DC games Posted by Darksaviour69 @ 15:21
GoatDan posted in this topic saying that on the May 22nd GOAT Store Publishing will be releasing two new Dreamcast games (the winners of the Dream On Contest).

Inhabitants Preorder here

Maqiupai Preorder here

www.goatstore.com

Monday, April 19, 2004

Ravenous Games is back! Posted by Darksaviour69 @ 15:22
Well its been over a year since ravenousgames Ravenous Games have posted anything, but just a few days ago Dee-roc emailed me saying
..Ravenous Games is still going on however I'm a sole developer now, my buddy has become to involved in other activities. However, I'm still around and coding :)

get news, also you can follow the development of the RPG hes working on here here

Alice demo2! Posted by Darksaviour69 @ 15:17
Sorry, a bit late with this news!

patbier has posted in our forums about a new demo of Alice. This game is one of the best looking homebrew games for the DC.

Check out his post in this Topic

Sunday, April 11, 2004

New Dramcast site Posted by Darksaviour69 @ 11:36
DCemu.co.uk is a new site opened today, here what they said:

Today is Easter Sunday and for us more importantly its the Launch day of the newest Dreamcast Emulation and Homebrew Site in the scene.......We have every emulator released for the Dreamcast on the site and also the latest homebrew releases too and as we build the site up we will become the most up to date site featuring the best in features, downloads and so much more, with a friendly forum/community to enhance that.
There is lots more i could say but for now i declare this site open. :)

Saturday, April 10, 2004

New Downloads from OneThirty8 Posted by Darksaviour69 @ 18:59
OneThirty8 posted this in the Storm-Studiosforums:

I've converted the DirectDraw example of the Yeti3D engine to render and accept keyboard input via SDL. It compiles without changes for Windows (with Dev-C++), Mac OS X (Project Builder) and Dreamcast (I used Cygwin, but whatever.) I've included project files and a DC makefile.

Also, I put together a zip file of helpful tools. Some of these, like bitmap-to-texture converters, come from GP32 devvers. A couple other apps, like one that converts the binary texture and palette files into a C file, are by me.

Both zip files can be found at http://www.storm-studios.net/onethirty8/Yetistuff.html

Thursday, April 8, 2004

New 3D Light gun game Posted by Darksaviour69 @ 15:29
Vorrtexx has posted over at consolevision forums, saying hes been working on a 3D Light gun game.
This is what he said about the game:
The game is an arcade shoot 'em up which is temporarily named RevolveR. It's a game similar to house of the dead/Virtua Cop, in that you play it with a lightgun or control pad where a lightgun is not an option. Although it's nowhere near as sophisticated as Virtua Cop, I wanted to develop something fun to play with, and also to bring the lightgun into the game. The game is set in Old Western Times so I tried to develop it with this theme in mind.

Hes looking 2 or 3 people with BBA's to test the game.

For more info head to this topic
For some pics head here and here

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Fenix Dreamcast Port ++ Posted by CyRUS64 @ 14:27
Chui has created a self-bootable discjuggler image containing 8 Fenix and 8 'for-dreamcast' games. The package includes the following: ARK-4, Cubomania, Paf, Tilt, FliPull, Fish Dish 2, Vegetas Wrath II, Invasion of the Evil Cats, The Monkey King, Dcircus, Vectoroids, Defendguin, Tetris, dRxLaX, 3d Invaders, and Rise of the Triad.

Links:
Download
Screenshots

Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Melchior Posted by Darksaviour69 @ 16:23
Posted over at Dreamcaster download page

We are proud to host a brand new shoot'em up game for the Sega Dreamcast called Melchior by Anton Norgren and Inc. This is the full game feel free to download it ,and enjoy it.

for more info go to their download page
here

Monday, April 5, 2004

NEOCD/SDL DC Beta 3 *lite* Posted by Darksaviour69 @ 1:42
Ian Micheals of IMRtechnology has posted a new version of NEOCD/SDL DC.

A CD loading bug has been fix and so many new games should work (including Metal Slug 2)

WARNING: Do not press the Dpad in game, as they are reserved for saving and sound. Controls in game is analog only.

Dreamcast port Credits: Ian Michael, Fosters, Troy Davis (GPF)- bugfixes to the timer, and CDrom.c files, BlackAura- translated extract 8 asm function, BlueCrab- helped with z80 makefile output to C, Speud -fsopen routine.

Sunday, April 4, 2004

Dream On Contest Winners! Posted by Darksaviour69 @ 0:51
This was posted in this topic by Metafox in our forums

I just recieved the last results from the judges. The winners are as follows:
1.) Inhabitants
2.) Maqiupai
3.) Boll
I will be contacting the winners shortly to arrange shipping of prizes. The winners of the pressed CD have already been contacted by The Goat Store.
Thank you to every single one of the entrants for making this contest a success.

Friday, April 2, 2004

Programmer shortage at EA Canada! Posted by TheGypsy @ 15:32
[I'm bumping this to the top once more since EA is STILL actively searching for coders (and other positions). Seriously -- if you have the skills and interest, get a resume submitted!]

It seems that despite producing some of gamedoms most beloved titles such as FIFA, SSX, James Bond 007 and Need For Speed, EA Canada just can’t find enough talented programmers, designers and technical specialists. EA Canada is located in Vancouver and doesn't usually have problems arranging work visas. Anyone fitting the bill and is interested in career progression, variety and attractive compensation all within driving distance to Whistler should click here for more info.