WiiWare - Legal Homebrew Coming to Nintendo Wii

[Christuserloeser]

Also, what's up with the mention of Dreamcast homebrew so often? I don't mean to diss it or minimize it, its just that I found my old Dreamcast and realized it was one of the older units able to run homebrew

Most Dreamcast's can run homebrew. The ones that can't are VERY rare.

I tried burning some emulator CD's and all of the emulators seem to run terrible on the Dreamcast. Aside from the Nester NES emulator for Dreamcast, all others like SNES, Turbo Grafx 16, etc. seem to run slow. Frameskip makes playability really choppy and unnatural.

With SNES and TG16 you actually weren't very lucky in your choice of emulators: The existing ones for both systems never really took off. The best we have for those systems would be DreamSNES and PCECast.

What makes the Dreamcast so special is that it's been the first console to have a decent library of homebrew software, long before Xbox and PSP.

Other than those systems, the Dreamcast has it's own legal SDK. Because of that it's the only system out there where you can legally publish your games for. See Last Hope, Feet of Fury, Cool Herders, etc.

In terms of emulation, the 4All series and GenesisPlusDC are pretty impressive. Thanks to its age, Dreamcast also has the biggest library of emulators for old 8bit and 16bit home computers out there. Of course you can emulate about any 8bit console there ever was too.

There also is a load of original freeware games, most of which are of a fine quality. You can use LUA or FENIX to write your games without using C. There are many ports of classic FPS like Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein 3d. It's an excellent Beats of Rage and SCUMMVM player.

Stuff like we do at DCEvolution.net wouldn't be possible for other systems.

Don't forget that the Dreamcast had quite an impact on the homebrew scene, which was rather small back then.

Heck, it even was the reason for this site to be founded, hence the name DCEmu.

[-Xandu-]

Dreamcast is dead now that's for sure..

[VampDude]

Dont worry about that--there would be no way to stop the mods in time...

If so, I would love to see some Emu's running on the Wii!

[Christuserloeser]

Dreamcast is dead now that's for sure..

Hm, somewhere I've read that before...

[VampDude]

Dreamcast is dead now that's for sure..

Are you 100% positively sure? Because the Dreamcast will never die, and that's a known fact!

[Cokemusic]

Are you 100% positively sure? Because the Dreamcast will never die, and that's a known fact!

That's opinion , trust me it's pretty much in the decomposition stages.

[quzar]

That's opinion , trust me it's pretty much in the decomposition stages.

Oh, well if YOU say so, then it must be true. What were we all thinking. Alright boys, lets delete all these WIP things we have going, cause Cokemusic said the DC was dead and decomposing.

Good thing we have you to keep us in line.

Anyways, I think it was irresponsible for whoever first said this would be homebrew (especially "legal" homebrew) for the wii, since it's not by any means. Shame.