Hi all,

Just been searching through the Japanese manual of Phantasy Star ONline which I
recently acquired. I found adverts in the back for several Sega and Dreamcast
related sites.

I believe we have all heard of ISAO ( http://www.isao.net ). They have stored
all the Dreamcast Japanese games online sites, including the PSO VBBS (huge
online PSO photo album, by PSO fans). Anyway, I discovered that ISAO stands for
Interactive Services for Amusement Online. I didn't know that.


Also, how many of you know what CRI is short for? I didn't know until now, but
it stands for CSK (Sega's parent company) Research Institute. Remember, CRI
created MPEG Sofdec and ADX (sound) which are used on all of the Dreamcast
games. ADX sound is still used today on some Gamecube (and other platforms?)
games.


Lastly, Dreamcast Direct ( http://www.d-direct.ne.jp ) is no more - I'm not sure
when it closed, so it ay have been closed for years! You are now redirected to
Sega's Japanese online shop ( http://segadirect.co.jp ). This is where I found
some info on some of the new Dreamcast games coming out in Japan this year
(2007), but more on those tomorrow.


Regards,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk@...