The Dreamcast Scene - Your Hopes for the Year Ahead

[Heavy Stylus]

I'm really looking forward to both R4 and GR.

[Christuserloeser]

- A Dreamcast port of Streets of Rage Remake

- Releases of Giana's Return; Rush Rush Rally Racing; Donk; Dalforce (XOP); Wind and Water; Time Hunter; etc.

- GenesisPlusDC update using FAME and FAZE

- FAME and FAZE updates to emulators for all those systems that use Z80 or M68k CPUs: like GBC; ZX Spectrum; Amstrad CPC; MSX; ColecoVision; etc.

- Emulators using FAME and FAZE for those systems that use Z80 or M68k CPUs: Sharp X68000; Sega System 16; CPS1 and CPS2; ...

- And of course at least one big Dreamcast game by SEGA to celebrate the Dreamcast 10th birthday

[quzar]

A better way to develop games, Ive been trying to set up an evironment but the guides are either:

A. Outdated
B. Not worth it, because if you have questions no one is able to help you out.

If we can get this problem sorted out and get a solid place to develop DC software, similar to the PSP, we can see a resurge.

Im looking forward to that PS1 emulator that was started a few months ago, mabye a revival N64 emu?

Um... for the past, at least, three years the number one way to set up a dev environment on a windows PC has been to use fackue/lyingwake's DCDEV ISO. Now on rev 3 it includes everything you need, as well as doubling as a bba/cc loading disc when inserted into a DC.

Most dev questions asked here and at DCEmulation are answered relatively promptly. If you've been having problems you just havn't been asking your questions properly or have been asking elsewhere.

[Gunnex]

I have a set of 10, how about that.

1) Further development on the Sega Saturn emulator.
2) SegaCD/MegaCD/CDX emulator with disc swap support.
3) Better PS1 emulation.
4) Heck, N64 if possible.
5) Inexpensive BBA clone.
6) HDD/CF or some form of larger storage.
7) More commercial games.
8) More homebrew games.
9) Giana's Return and Donk being finished.
10) More 'Magazine CDs' because they are fun :thumbup:

[knifethrower]

While PSX/N64/Saturn/SNES emulation would be lovely, I would love for some ports and emulators that are a little more unpopular.

First up I would love a mac emulator of some sort, B&W Mac not even colour, I know that running mainly from a read-only medium and having to mess with saving to the VMU (tiny floppy images suck on the VMU for save files and things like that perhaps?) would make it a lot less useful I still think it would be neat to have some old MAC games running on the Dreamcast.

Next up, a working MPEG-1/VCD player. MPEG-4 is great and I while would love a Divx/Xvid player I would also like to see this relatively low resource-requirements format supported as well. I've never quite understood why MPEG-1 playback on the Dreamcast has always stayed so lousy, is there some issue I'm not aware of that would make it out of the question?

I want the games the GOAT Store announced to be released.

I don't want the scene to die, I loves me my Dreamcast I do I do.

The last thing is (this is what I really, really want even though I know it will likely never happen), a Dreamcast port of Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, yeah it would be a pain to use for people without the mouse/keyboard but if you don't have a set by now you are a hopeless cause .

[Maturion]

I want to see some ports of SDL-based games. I hope I'll have enough time to do my own ports.

And I want a central place for all Dreamcast Development. Like Dreamcast-Dev.com where every DC-Developer is active and where you can find loads of tutorials.
That'd be great and I hope there will be new homebrew servers for online games. Donk: Samurai Duck and R4 will come very soon.


And I want a Dreamcast coding contest like there is one for the Saturn

[the_eternal_dark]

An update to Marathon, that's all I ask.