I would point you to DCEvolution, but our site is offline due to an attack by hackers. Anyway, here's my round-up on some of the most interesting releases during the past few years:
- Hope you got "DownThemAll" installed, you will need it....
In news of non-Japanese commercial scene releases, we saw releases of Last Hope (a NeoGeo shmup) and Cool Herders:
http://www.lasthope.ngdevteam.com/
http://www.harmlesslion.com/
Both are at least as good as Maqiupai, Inhabitants and Feet of Fury; for which DCEvolution released a compilation of all the long lost Feet of Fury swap discs:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...fswap_4in1.rar
Here's an exclusive demo of the commercial version of Cool Herders:
http://www.harmlesslion.com/zips/CoolHerders_DJ.zip
...which brings us to the freeware stuff:
In 2005, Patbier and Poche released demo v3 of Alice Dreams and announced
Dynamite Dreams for this year:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index...in/AliceDreams
http://www.alicedreams.com/aliced3.zip
http://www.alicedreams.com/NewsANG.htm
Handmade Videogames released a demo of a fantastic homebrew shmup called Drill in 2005:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/Drill
http://www.drill.rr.nu/index.htm
http://www.drill.rr.nu/includes/down...rill-promo.avi
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...d/Drill001.rar
After three years of development, Phantom and MrSiggler released DreamChess for DC:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index...ain/DreamChess
http://www.dreamchess.org/
http://prdownload.berlios.de/dreamch...plainfiles.zip
http://prdownload.berlios.de/dreamch....0-dc-nero.zip
http://dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=86485 &
http://dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=95301
MetaFox abandoned his DreamOn project and left the scene in 2006 but DCEvolution hosts the CD that was going to be included to the magazine, featuring 17 of the most impressive homebrew games for Dreamcast:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...on/Sandman.rar
Dreamcast-Scene released Scenedicate #1, a disk mag for DC back in late 2005:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...nedicate01.zip
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index...in/Scenedicate
Featured on Scenedicate #1 is dcplaya 2.0, the best media player for Dreamcast:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/dcplaya
http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...eta2-files.zip
Taxman released a Dreamcast port of the excellent RetroSonic game engine in 2006:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...onic-Demo1.rar
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index...ain/RetroSonic
http://rsonic.randomsonicnet.org/index.html
Sonic Robo Blast 2 based on the Doom Legacy engine got ported to Dreamcast:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index...onicRoboBlast2
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...ted/Srb2dc.rar
bucanero and speud released awesome compilations of VMU saves and games, the VMU Backup CD and DreamExplorer:
ttp://bswirl.kitsunet.org/vmutool/release/about/?lg=&menu=
http://bswirl.kitsunet.org/vmutool/r...y_Speud_DJ.rar
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...amExplorer.rar
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.../DreamExplorer
http://www.bucanero.com.ar/verpost.php?id_noticia=155
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sou...on_edition.rar
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...sted/VMUCD.rar
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/VMUBackup
OneThirty8 released a fresh port of Wolfenstein 3d:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...-Shareware.rar
http://dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=54046
The Beats of Rage / OpenBoR scene released two of their best mods, Battletoads by bwwd and Final Fight: The Last Round by Mr.Q:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...toadsDCEvo.rar
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...dcevo/FFLR.rar
SCUMMVM developed quite a bit during the past years and DCDayDreamer compiled these CDIs with FOTAQ and BASS for DCEvolution:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...game/Fotaq.rar
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...egame/Bass.rar
He also made Dreamcast eBooks using the DCTonic menu:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...aliceebook.zip
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down.../Halloween.rar
...and a complete compilation of bunerO's Dreamcast works:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...SimonBonus.zip
fackue compiled the DC Dev ISO R3 and Code::Blocks - DC Dev R1
http://dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=88526
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...sted/DDEr3.rar
http://dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=94665
http://dchelp.dcemulation.com/downlo...s_DCDev_R1.exe
Fragger prepared a final release of JoyMenu and compiled a QuakeDC compilation with us at DCEvo, featuring all his improvements to QuakeDC on one disc:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...QuakeDCEvo.rar
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/QuakeDC
His new project is nxMakaqu, a fresh Quake port based on BlackAura's nxQuake:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/nxMakaqu
http://dcemulation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=73662
I've released initial versions of my DEP compilation series of which I hope to do more in the future:
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...terDEP_v11.rar
http://dcevolution.netfirms.com/down...n/S8DEPv1b.zip
- The later features the excellent SMSplusDC by Pascal Bosquet and Heliophpobe.
In late 2005, Scherzo released NesterDC SE, an impressive update to Takayama Fumihiko's last release. If you don't use all features and stick with a smaller selection of your favorite games, this emulator will provide you with an excellent NES experience:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index...ain/NesterDCSE
http://www.sch3rz0.com/nesterdcse/
http://www.sch3rz0.com/nesterdcse/do...2005-12-10.zip
In 2006, BlackAura and Warmtoe released GenesisPlusDC. The emulator runs full speed with decent compatibility and VMU saving:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.../GenesisPlusDC
In other emulation news, Chui and Fox68k released many excellent M68k based emulators; the probably most notable one being Neo4All/CD, a great full speed NeoGeoCD emulator:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index...ain/Neo4All-CD
