Reccommended Dreamcast homebrew?

[Tobriand]

I'm sure there are a fair few threads along these lines, but I couldn't see one (or at least, one that was about homebrew as opposed to emulators) since February, so forgive me if that is the case.

Just got a DC (at last), and of course, I'm now rather interested in which games are worth playing for it. Some of them, of course, I recognise from the GP32 scene, but others in the long list of homebrew are completely new - and as ever, many among them probably won't be that fun.

So, as ever, I'm looking for recommendations - what should I spend the next few days, weeks, and months trying out?

I'd also be interested in recommendations towards commercial games that I ought to look out for in the next little while...

[Darksaviour69]

check out http://www.dcevolution.net/ for bor Cd images (ready to burn) and some other great images.

of the top of my head
Brkout
Cool Herders (demo)
Echo's Quest
Feet of Fury
Smash DC
Alice Dreams
Drill
Tetris 2
Joggle
Giana's Return
Feet of Fury demo
DCastle
DCSquares
Revolver

just some

[beetroot bertie]

And 'Beats of Rage' too. Collections of this are also available at dcevolution.

[Christuserloeser]

It's really time to start compiling a list of all the recommend games... :)


Some of the best games (tbc):

Alice Dreams - http://www.AliceDreams.com/

BlockSmash

Burger DC

Cool Herders - http://www.harmlesslion.com/

DCastle

DC Squares - http://dcsquares.c99.org/

DreamChess

Drill - http://www.drill.rr.nu/

Echo's Quest - http://consolevision.com/members/trilinear/

Feet of Fury - http://www.feetoffury.com/ & http://www.cagames.com/

Giana's Return - http://www.gianas-return.de

Inhabitants - http://sfsoftware.zophar.net/

Joggle

Maqiupai - http://www.goatstore.com/maqiupai/ (commercial, no public demo available yet)

Melchior

MSK-XT - http://www.dchomebrew.org/kamjin/index.html

NOIZ2SA - http://chui.dcemu.co.uk/

Outbrk (aka Brkout) - http://3e8.org/

Tetris 2 - http://www.vgsoftware.com/

Xump - http://www.psilocybindev.org/index.php


The best FPS (ports):
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=22300


If I remember correctly these are perfect/quite good:

Rise of the Triad:
http://www.dchomebrew.org/rott.shtml

Hexen:
http://www.dchomebrew.org/dchexen.shtml

Heretic:
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/sbi3.0/Heretic-Shareware.sbi

QuakeDC (best for original Quake):
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/plain/quake_sw.rar
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/plain/quake_sw.r00
http://www.dchomebrew.org/files/plain/quake_sw.r01

nxMakaqu (best for playing your Quake Mods & TCs):
http://www.dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=861929

nxDoom:
http://www.dchomebrew.org/dreamcastdoom.shtml

[fackue]

I haven't tried it yet, but Fragger hex edited QuakeDC. Something to look into.
Here's a link
http://quakedev.dcemulation.com/fragger/downloads.htm

[Christuserloeser]

HexQuake is a mindblowing piece of work! It's an optimized and improved version of QuakeDC. If you want to get the maximum out of QuakeDC, this is for you.

[beetroot bertie]

I tried HexQuake the other night after fackue posted a link elsewhere on a Quake recommendations thread and it is really good. It worked with my Quake for Macintosh paks and the graphics are really nice and crisp. Lovely.