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The other day we made it easier to import custom assets into the build process when creating the final image of GTA3 for the Sega #Dreamcast... So what does our team's mad modder, Esppiral, do with it? LOADS THE XBOX MODELS AND TEXTURES ONTO A FREAKING DREAMCAST. Here's an...

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Yoga Budi Widiantorovor 1 Jahr

GPU, RAM, and VRAM of Sega Dreamcast:

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RedDeer.Gamesvor 2 Jahren

New is better Together with @mgpstudios we present you... 🟥 NECKBREAK 🟥 Stylish, #cyberpunk, #retro first-person shooter is available now! 🔥 Play it on ⤵️ #NintendoSwitch => #Xbox => #indiegames #release

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zombiphoenix.bsky.socialvor 1 Jahr

Having "Push it to the limit" playing was fucking *chefs kiss*

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Thewvor 1 Jahr

You guys are blowing my mind on a daily basis with this whole project

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Jilted Valkyrievor 1 Jahr

Wtf it runs like BUTTER!

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ChronicHedgehogvor 1 Jahr

When are you guys porting Manhunt? 😛

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Doonishsan 🇵🇸vor 1 Jahr

Push it to the limit playing... Sounds fitting enough.

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𝙆𝙀𝙑𝘉𝘖𝘈𝘙𝘋vor 1 Jahr

I mean without 5 fully modelled fingers on each hand, without the 3D car underbodies and without 3D rims it's literally unplayable I'd say. he did the right thing! 🤣

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Antonio Santosvor 1 Jahr

Congratulations on the incredible work on this port of GTA 3. Would it be possible to port GTA Vice CITY to the Dreamcast in the future?

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Lee Wilsonvor 1 Jahr

How is this possible!!! More ram? This is with 16 my head will explode!! 😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😅😂😂

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The next Nintendo 64 classic has just hit the Sega Dreamcast, thanks, once again, to the efforts of jnmartin! Here's over a minute of Super Mario 64 gameplay, captured directly from my DC! As is usual with jnmartin's work, the port plays like a AAA native release, with everything SH4ZAMed up, running fullspeed, and looking as crisp and vibrant as ever with the Dreamcast's sharp 480p video output! To convert your N64 ROM into a bootable Dreamcast image, follow the link to the automated builder on the GitHub repository: Let us know what you think and remember to keep Dreaming!

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Today we have a direct hardware capture of an upcoming Sega Dreamcast homebrew title, tentatively known as "DemoTek," from developer, ac3t1ne, whose goal is to create a Crash Bandicoot-style platformer. The game uses our GLdc implementation of OpenGL 1.2 for rendering, libADX for music, and with my own SH4ZAM library for vector math, all of which are first-party ports provided within the KallistiOS indie DC SDK. The engine already features a renderer with some fairly aggressive batching and pre-submission culling, some clever LOD tricks and frame blending (notice the lava animates at twice the FPS when the player is close to it), as well as a particle system, which drives the smoke and bubbles. Something that I find quite interesting and exciting is that ac3t1ne has also managed to create a kind of update manager which can check for newer versions of the game (or any other Dreamcast binary), then download it via dial-up modem or broadband adapter, and install it onto an SD card! Be sure to check out ac3t1ne's YouTube channel for more updates:
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Today we have a direct hardware capture of an upcoming Sega Dreamcast homebrew title, tentatively known as "DemoTek," from developer, ac3t1ne, whose goal is to create a Crash Bandicoot-style platformer. The game uses our GLdc implementation of OpenGL 1.2 for rendering, libADX for music, and with my own SH4ZAM library for vector math, all of which are first-party ports provided within the KallistiOS indie DC SDK. The engine already features a renderer with some fairly aggressive batching and pre-submission culling, some clever LOD tricks and frame blending (notice the lava animates at twice the FPS when the player is close to it), as well as a particle system, which drives the smoke and bubbles. Something that I find quite interesting and exciting is that ac3t1ne has also managed to create a kind of update manager which can check for newer versions of the game (or any other Dreamcast binary), then download it via dial-up modem or broadband adapter, and install it onto an SD card! Be sure to check out ac3t1ne's YouTube channel for more updates:

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