Retro Sonic Engine For Dreamcast

[DcSteve]

This DC test release version featuring 3 levels works great. It looks to currently be the best way to play all new sonic on your dreamcast until genesis emulation is improved.



http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=28620

[mink03]

siiiiiiick

[jessman]

Sweet! Nice find! So, is this brand new? I'm downloading now, but is this currently being worked on? Sonic is so awsome, and I'd love to see a fan's take on the series. Thanks for posting this!

[Strapping Scherzo]

Someone mentioned at DCEmu that it uses WinCE libs ripped from a Midway game. Too bad.

[DaMadFiddler]

Sonic is so awsome, and I'd love to see a fan's take on the series.

http://sfghq.emulationzone.org/

http://stealth.emulationzone.org/Games/Mettrix/

http://www.srb2.org

[DcSteve]

There must be homebrew (legal) libs that match or better the quality of those wince libs that someone can easily recompile with. (when the source is released)

[Maximo2703]

this is what i like to see happening in the DC scene. Now hopefully this doesn't become a forgotten dead project in a few months to years.

[DcSteve]

This is like the sonic 4 we have all been waiting for. This is also the best homebrew ive tried for dreamcast. Even for a "test build" this plays perfectly. When they start using the legal libs, i most likely will start a site/scene devoted to this and its mods.

[Maximo2703]

it'd be kewl to see a Mario mod hehe ,or maybe even a crash bandicoot

[BlackAura]

There must be homebrew (legal) libs that match or better the quality of those wince libs that someone can easily recompile with. (when the source is released)

Half right. It wouldn't be a simple recompile. It would be a completely separate port, the hardest part of which would be the renderer.

[Strapping Scherzo]

Yeah, I'm guessing that the windows port uses DirectX which probably made the Dreamcast port a piece of cake using the WinCE Dev Kit for Dreamcast. Depending on how he designed the graphics renderer, a legal Dreamcast port could constitute a fair amount of work.

[BlackAura]

It sounds like he wrote a hardware-based renderer for the Dreamcast version, which would rule out the WinCE port being a piece of cake. That must have been a substantial bit of work, in fact,

[Strapping Scherzo]

Good, that makes translating it to KOS API version easier.

[Darksaviour69]

i havent been able to burn this or even mount the cd image to get the binary files... so what do you guys think, should the download be taken down?

[DcSteve]

The image worked perfect for me. Just double click on it to open in nero. Then finalize burn and thats it.

[Quzar]

the download links should be removed

[Sonic-NKT]

hmm, i dont think they should be removed...

really who cares... dont get me wrong, im against pirating dreamcast games, and beside some games that were never official released i have only originals. But lets just have fun with this awesome piece of software, this harms nobody...

[DcSteve]

exactly- lets treat this like sintendo and boobboy!

[BlueCrab]

the download links should be removed

I have to say that I agree. Whether or not this "hurts anybody" can be debated, and since it is using libraries ripped from a game (and that the authors have no legal right to distribute), the entire thing is illegal. While this may be an interesting project, I think that until it is rewritten with KOS, the downloads should NOT be linked to.

If I had moderator powers in this forum, I would take the links away.

[Nico0020]

image burns but wont boot for me. hmmmm. its selfboot yes? burnt it with nero.