Hi,

Something interesting from Wikipedia... and I thought the Dreamcast
was official dead this year!!



The Return of the Dreamcast

On February 16, 2006, Sega once again began selling Dreamcast consoles
through its online store, Sega Direct of Japan. The package deal
included a refurbished Dreamcast, a cell phone card, and Radilgy — a
new 2D shooter game by developer Milestone. A short time later,
developer G.rev followed that game with a second new 2D shooter game
called Under Defeat in March. Both releases were for the Japanese
market alone. While the refurbished package has been discontinued,
Sega Direct does still sell several Dreamcast software titles.[5]

On May 20, 2006, Sega of Japan went live with free Phantasy Star
Online servers.[6] A translated excerpt from the article reads, "I
would like "Phantasy Star Online" to play forever in users. [...]
Please continue your favors toward the degree in which 'Phantasy Star
Online' is patronized."

On May 30, 2006, the gaming website IGN officially relaunched IGN
Dreamcast with the goal of revisiting the 243 North American-released
Dreamcast games and give "new impressions, screens and videos" and
compare them to the gaming experience provided by PlayStation 3, Xbox
360, and Wii games.


On January 31, 2007, a port of the Neo Geo game Last Hope, developed
by NG:DEV.TEAM was published by redspotgames via Play-Asia.com and
various other stores. The GOAT store has planned other games which
will be released in the 2007.

On February 22, 2007, a port of the Naomi powered 2D shooter Trigger
Heart Exelica, developed by Warashi, was released on Dreamcast for the
Japanese market with both a current and a limited edition release.
Despite rumors that went around the internet, the game was not
retitled to Trigger Heart Extension for the Dreamcast release.

Milestone announced that Karous, their new NAOMI vertical shooter,
would be making its way to Dreamcast on March 8, 2007.

On April 1, 2007, the official servers for Phantasy Star Online were
closed. Later a campaign via paper petition to Sega Europe started,
but Sega Europe finally said they will not support Phantasy Star
online for Dreamcast or give the software to a third-party.


Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Dreamcast


Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk@...

Hello. Where is the tilde key in DPP3 ? I finally got my dreamcast working over
a LAN to my
Mac but can't properly enter address w/o tilde.
Thanx
  Zoot.

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@...

Dear members,


A few months ago I acquired the japanese version of CART (aka Super Speed
Racing), a japanese version of PSO and a Hong Kong Dreamcast (I can tell, as it
has no modem - just the plastic bit with no modem cable slot!).

Anyway, I haven't played any of the other Dreamcast racers in ages (I have
pretty much all the Sega ones) and loved it. It does, however, have appalling
graphics (it was made in 1999), awful music (well, it's not to my taste),
non-existant AI and plenty of slowdown (despite clipping in the distance!). I
was wondering if anyone could recommend any Indy Car/CART style racers. I don't
mind if they are US only as I can play NTSC games ;)

I also got the Japanese version of PSO, as mentioned earlier, and was wondering
if it has anything that the western (US or European) releases didn't have. It
does have the Sonic Adventure 2 Trial Demo, but I'm sure we had that in the west
(not sure if it came with PSO or some other game).


Regards,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk@...

PS. I forgot to mention in my "messages are now moderated" message that you
should now change your group settings to individual messages, unless you prefer
otherwise.

Hi folks,

I finally got around to switching over to moderating the groups messages about a
week or so ago, hence no more spam ;)

Anyone can join the group at present and I will keep a close eye on any new
links and images added to the group.


Long live the Dreamcast


Regards,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk@...

DK&DP lock the Settings File to the DC's Internal
Serial Number.

> I had to switch from a UK (PAL) Dreamcast to a
> Japanese (NTSC) one. However, despite my memory
> cards being present at boot (I had to use a
> boot-disk) when going online DK3 did not
> recognise the presence of the "DREAMKEY.SY3"
> settings file.
> I had to delete the original and change the
> settings to my liking and then resave (after
> deleting the original file - it would not let
> me over-write, unlike on my PAL DC).
>
> Are all these problems related to using a
> boot-disk so I could use DK3 on my Japanese DC?
> Also, is there any way to "force" a 60Hz
> display? On my UK DC the up/down scrolling was
> super smooth, but on my Jap DC it is slightly
> jerky and the image is now full screen (as
> opposed to bordered PAL).


I've used DK3 too on my US DC, it's Full Screen
for me too when I set it's screen size to Large.
Jerky scrolling sounds like you need to set the
Scrolling option to a diffrent number to achive a
smoother scroll.


> PS. I'm thinking of altering the groups
> settings to moderated as I'm fed up of all this
> spam (the spam option on groups hasn't worked
> in weeks). Is there anything I need to do,
> other than copy the vids links to the
> DCBG-Dreameye group?

Indeed. I haven't hardly had any time to delete
the junk usually since I'm so busy now-a-days.


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Hi folks,

I hope everyone had a good Christmas and a Happy New Year.


I had to switch from a UK (PAL) Dreamcast to a Japanese (NTSC) one. However,
despite my memory cards being present at boot (I had to use a boot-disk) when
going online DK3 did not recognise the presence of the "DREAMKEY.SY3" settings
file.
I had to delete the original and change the settings to my liking and then
resave (after deleting the original file - it would not let me over-write,
unlike on my PAL DC).

Are all these problems related to using a boot-disk so I could use DK3 on my
Japanese DC? Also, is there any way to "force" a 60Hz display? On my UK DC the
up/down scrolling was super smooth, but on my Jap DC it is slightly jerky and
the image is now full screen (as opposed to bordered PAL).


Any comments/suggestions welcome.

Regards,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk@...

PS. I'm thinking of altering the groups settings to moderated as I'm fed up of
all this spam (the spam option on groups hasn't worked in weeks). Is there
anything I need to do, other than copy the vids links to the DCBG-Dreameye
group?

Hi all,

A new game heading for the Dreamcast...



Developer(s) Warashi
Publisher(s) Sega
Release date(s) March 2003, Febuary 22 2007
Genre(s) Rail shooter
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer
Platform(s) Arcade
Media GD-ROM
Input Light gun
Arcade cabinet Upright
Arcade system(s) Sega NAOMI, Sega Dreamcast

Trigger Heart Exelica is a shooter by Warashi, makers of the Saturn shooting
game Shienryu. It was released in Japanese arcades in early 2006. The game runs
on Sega's Naomi hardware.

The game involves playing 1 of 2 anthropomorphic fighters to battle against 5
stages of enemy ships. Exelica specialized in wide area attacks, while Crueltear
uses concentrated front shots. Player can fire anchor to catch enemy ships, then
use the caught unit as shield or throw it to inflict more damage. Like Zanac,
this game dynamic adjusts difficuly based on player's in-game performance.


Dreamcast Version
------------------
Warashi has announced that they will be porting the game to Dreamcast. The
tentative release date for this port is February 22, 2007.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_Heart_Exelica


Happy New Year,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk@...

Hi all,

Just wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

I just got nearly all the official (US) Dreamcast Magazine demo discs arrive in
the post, after winning them on ebay. I am missing Vol. 2 Dec 1999 and if anyone
has that I would love to buy it off you. I also have Generator Vol. 1 & 2 :)

Most of the discs have various versions of a web browser (Planetweb? - I haven't
got far enough through them to know yet) and I was wondering if they are fully
usable versions online and which version/s I should perhaps avoid, or look out
for.
Going by the cardboard disc covers they are versions 1.1 (Vol. 4, Mar 2000), 2.0
(Vol. 6, July 2000), 2.0 with SegaNet (Vols. 7, Sept 2000; 8, Nov 2000; 9, Dec
2000; 10, Jan 2001) and 2.6 (Vol. 11, Feb 2001).


Regards,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk@...

hmmm I never had a key for that game although I've always died to play
it online.


--- In DreamcastBrowsers@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew D. Burton"
<aliensrcooluk@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> According to a Sega announcement which can be found at:
>
> http://www.pso-world.com
>
>
> Dreamcast & Gamecube PSO servers are closing on 1st April 2007.
>
> Get back on for one last play. I will be there.
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrew B
> aliensrcooluk@...
>

--- In DreamcastBrowsers@yahoogroups.com, "coffeepro" <coffeepro@...>
wrote:
>
> >Well, the European DC PSO servers are still up.
> >The USA ones closed in 2005?
>
> Actually it was September 30th, 2003
> To have PSO on DC to 2007 is quite fortunate...
>

And to think since early 2002 I've had a sealed unopened(still to
this day unopened) copy PSO v.2 in a bag unplayed...

Anyone know if the USA free isp type stuff still works with the dc? I
had a juno freebie account kicking around that I made back in
2004,but it seems for the past year whenever I've had the chance
to "try" to get my dreamcast online to simply look for saves
(thankfully I don't dare delete any vmu saves first...) or anything I
always get some sort of error =/


~!Long Live the Dreamcast!~

--- In DreamcastBrowsers@yahoogroups.com, NadineK <rkpellagirl@...> wrote:
>
> Woah.....
>
> Dreamcast players have been able to play PSO still all this time?!
> Lucky.....  I miss being able to play Bomberman Online. I think I was only
> able to play it twice before they took the servers down >.<

Well, the European DC PSO servers are still up. The USA ones closed in 2005?

I was fortunate enough to play Bomberman Online (after I got it from the USA)
for a couple of months before it closed. Despite the 1 second lag (servers in
USA and me here in UK) it was great fun.


>
> I wonder if there is some sort of way for fans to create their own servers
> for the games to connect to?  I heard of this being done for Jazz Jackrabbit
> 2 on the PC after it was abandoned long ago by the company. People can still
> play it!
>

Yes, there are (were?) private Gamecube PSO servers which have been running
since 2004/5.

> This is always what happens to me, I'm not much of an online gamer, but by
> the time I try to really get into playing online, people aren't in servers
> anymore and they take it down. I guess freakin World of Warcraft fans never
> have to worry about that as long as new people get brainwashed into it.  But
> as for Dreamcast, they took down their game servers in 2002 I think, so PSO
> fans, consider yourselves very lucky!
>
> -Nadine
>

Yeah, most of the game servers went in 2002.

Ferrari 355: Passione Rossa went earlier this year (Feb 2006).


Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk@...

Woah.....

Dreamcast players have been able to play PSO still all this time?!
Lucky.....  I miss being able to play Bomberman Online. I think I was only
able to play it twice before they took the servers down >.<

I wonder if there is some sort of way for fans to create their own servers
for the games to connect to?  I heard of this being done for Jazz Jackrabbit
2 on the PC after it was abandoned long ago by the company. People can still
play it!

This is always what happens to me, I'm not much of an online gamer, but by
the time I try to really get into playing online, people aren't in servers
anymore and they take it down. I guess freakin World of Warcraft fans never
have to worry about that as long as new people get brainwashed into it.  But
as for Dreamcast, they took down their game servers in 2002 I think, so PSO
fans, consider yourselves very lucky!

-Nadine

Hi all,

According to a Sega announcement which can be found at:

http://www.pso-world.com


Dreamcast & Gamecube PSO servers are closing on 1st April 2007.

Get back on for one last play. I will be there.


Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk@...

been playing star trek armada 2 a whole lot recently while waiting on
my copy of star trek legacy to come in and decided to do some
upgrading of the games online models and textures for the ships,etc..


figured if anyone here still played the game they may want these
upgrades..

http://armada2.filefront.com/file/Online_Texture_Pack;73033

theres a ton more by me if you look to your right where it says other
files created by Curtis_R

only the ones titled for online replacements are compatible with
online play.all others are for modding offline,etc..

i know its off dc topic but there are a few pc gamers in the group who
might wanna try em out.

later

curtis

Hi,

Yes, I have found a totally unique Dreamcast item!

This time it's erm... a neon sign!


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Light-Sign-Sega-Dreamcast-Video-TV-Games-Bar-Beer-1008_W0Q\
QitemZ300057958217QQihZ020QQcategoryZ3201QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


Not joking, either. I have no use for it, sadly.

Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk@...

It was a DC made for Arcades, the name was probably the name of the arcade
branch that Sega supplied them to but I'm unsure. Also it comes with a Black BBA
enstead of Modem, from what I know.

Hi,


Has anyone seen this Dreamcast before?


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8758218255&ssPageName=ADME:\
B:WNA:UK:72&isfrommerc=1&refitem=290048391953&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=watch_rem\
inder_email&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX


Regulation No. 7 (what's that? a game?) branded Dreamcast.


I have a few questions too...

Was the extension (ext.) port on the back of the Dreamcast used for anything?

I have (somewhere) a Japanese music making program for the Dreamcast I am going
to try and dig up this weekend. I was wondering if anyone knew it's title, as I
haven't used it in 6 years?


Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk@...

------------------------------------------------
Search the web by email! mailto:www@...
adding your search to the subject line like this:
search summer vacations
------------------------------------------------


--- In DreamcastBrowsers@yahoogroups.com, "coffeepro" <coffeepro@...> wrote:

>Another good example

>http://web.archive.org/web/20030213203059/home.earthlink.net/~dcbrowsers/bookma\
rklets/
>Somebody should host these. There are some good bookmarklets for dreamcast and
pc users.

Some brazil dude saved it in vmfile.
http://www.angelfire.com/dc2/fer/vmu/passs74.VMS

--- In DreamcastBrowsers@yahoogroups.com, "coffeepro" <coffeepro@...> wrote:
>
> Hi folks...
>
> Just cruised over to one of my favorite
> import sites (lik-sang.com) only to be
> greeted with the following.....
>
> Recent headlines:  Important Notice: Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to
Multiple Sony Lawsuits
>
>
> I have done business there multible times for
> hard to find items and must admit I was a bit
> startled to see they are not accepting ANY orders
>
> Another end-of-an-era I guess.......
>

Yeah, all thanks to Sony Europe. They repeatedly got Liksang involved in
lawsuits over the importing of the PSP into UK/Europe. It didn't come to light
until afterwards that several execs from Sony Euroe regularly used liksang to
import stuff!

Liksang was where I got the last Dreamcast games from.


Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk@...

Very sad news indeed. Play-Asia was also "threatened" by sony and
they stopped shipping sony products to the EU months ago. Many
customs agents (in the EU again) have orders to report about packages
with the name "sony" or "playstation" on it, making import shops'
life impossible. I know the owner of one of these shops and he
doesn't import any psp related articles anymore.

But again I think sony is carving their own tomb. The only thing they
have left are a few exclusive games for the ps3, but titles don't
remain "exclusive" for too long these days...

--- In DreamcastBrowsers@yahoogroups.com, "coffeepro" <coffeepro@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi folks...
>
> Just cruised over to one of my favorite
> import sites (lik-sang.com) only to be
> greeted with the following.....
>
> Recent headlines:  Important Notice: Lik-Sang.com Out of Business
due to Multiple Sony Lawsuits
>
>
> I have done business there multible times for
> hard to find items and must admit I was a bit
> startled to see they are not accepting ANY orders
>
> Another end-of-an-era I guess.......
>

Hi folks...

Just cruised over to one of my favorite
import sites (lik-sang.com) only to be
greeted with the following.....

Recent headlines:  Important Notice: Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to
Multiple Sony Lawsuits


I have done business there multible times for
hard to find items and must admit I was a bit
startled to see they are not accepting ANY orders

Another end-of-an-era I guess.......

------------------------------------------------
Browse the web by email! mailto:www@...
adding the web page you want as the subject line
e.g. get CNN headlines with the subject: cnn.com
------------------------------------------------

Hello everyone,
This Bookmark maker is very similar like japanese hyperbookmark maker, Just
enter Title and URL in big textarea (line by line)
  Preview it until you happy with the look and download  to VMU, also detect
useragent, Because i dont use frame, all preview, and the result are on the
bottom.

  Cool thing is you will able to load your old superbookmark vmfile back and it
will extract all your links so you can add new link, compatible with japanese
hyperbookmark if you still have it and blueswirl compress bookmark file, load
those file and you will see. Currently it will NOT work with individual
bookmark, the one contain 2 blocks. I have a problem with entity characters.
3 styles of html to download
Easy links - Contain 3 favorite links on per lines. rarely have to scroll up and
down, very easy to use. (recommended use this)
Bookmarklet style - Very easy to C/C/P, just click the button on left side.
History style- Just like your DP/DK visited page.

Click "Sample" button, it has 3 links for testing and click Preview. (you will
see zip extractor tool here)
http://m30.hostrocket.com/Vm_bookmark

Thank to Thomazo for the S file maker, And some japanese script.
this is thomazo version of bookmark maker.
http://programadores-sp.freehostia.com/dreamcast/bookmaker.html
His vmfile is not compatible with my page.

If the page doesnt load, most likely my server is down again.
Bookmarklet for this script coming soon.
enter url:x-avfront://---.dream  etc in jumpbox so it allow you to load.
(BTW, i havent really test with DREAMKEY 3 browser, please test it and let me
know if it work.)