Preserving the Dreamcast (with Ben Franks)

This week, we talk to Ben Franks, Dreamcast aficionado, and discuss the various ways its preservation has taken form. Your nice hosts also take a short trip down memory lane as we reminisce about our favorite video game hardware.

Here's a video Martha captured while we were recording the episode, as Ben open…
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Preserving the Dreamcast

Hardware

Preserving the Art of Play

Jacob Brogan

Slate

Here are the Xbox 360 and PS3 emulators Stephen mentioned. Less than 20% of their game libraries are fully playable.

This Facebook group wants Dreamcast GD ROM Drive Emulation to happen.

Clean room engineering uses formal methods and iteration in software developmen…

Wikipedia

The Dreamcast’s SH4 processor has an open source version called J-core.

Remember Game Gear?

Levi Buchanan

IGN

Elysian Shadows is being developed for Dreamcast, PC and...Ouya?

Here are the tidy insides of a Dreamcast:

More pictures of Ben’s Dreamcast stuff!
Windows CE did indeed run on Dreamcast. Here’s a list of games that used it.

KallistiOS, a prograde development system for Dreamcast.

Cryptic Allusion Game Dev

The Dreamcast’s Visual Memory Unit.

Wikipedia

Sonic Adventure had a pretty robust Chao raising minigame.

Sonic Retro

Sonic Shuffle, Sega’s attempt at a Mario Party-like game.

The creators of Elysian Shadows have created a VMU emulator called ElysianVMU.

The DreamCast Junkyard

How to burn a Dreamcast CDI.

The .ISO zone

A guide to replace a Dreamcast GD-ROM drive.

iFixit

Preserving the Dreamcast

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