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Time for a status update and direct hardware capture of another high-profile AAA title coming to the Sega Dreamcast... jnmartin's eagerly anticipated port of Sonic R! As you can see from the footage, the game looks and runs phenomenally on the DC, with all of the fancy lighting from...

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Sooo... How's our port of Sonic Mania to the Sega Dreamcast coming along!? SHE'S ALMOST DONE! We're getting ready for release!!! As you can see from these direct hardware captures, the game looks and runs amazingly on the DC! Multiple beta testers have now cleared the game on both Mania and Encore modes! Jnmartin worked his butt off finishing up the remaining effects, Michael Fadely is working on the final bit of polish, such as making sure the menu button icons show Dreamcast controller graphics, and I just opened a PR to put the gameplay code on the latest SH4ZAM commit... STAND BY FOR THE BLUE BLUR'S EPIC RETURN TO THE SEGA DREAMCAST!
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Sooo... How's our port of Sonic Mania to the Sega Dreamcast coming along!? SHE'S ALMOST DONE! We're getting ready for release!!! As you can see from these direct hardware captures, the game looks and runs amazingly on the DC! Multiple beta testers have now cleared the game on both Mania and Encore modes! Jnmartin worked his butt off finishing up the remaining effects, Michael Fadely is working on the final bit of polish, such as making sure the menu button icons show Dreamcast controller graphics, and I just opened a PR to put the gameplay code on the latest SH4ZAM commit... STAND BY FOR THE BLUE BLUR'S EPIC RETURN TO THE SEGA DREAMCAST!

Falco Girgis

141,955 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

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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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!

Falco Girgis

119,994 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

Holy CRAP! jnmartin gave me access to his private Sonic R decompilation repo, which will serve as the basis for the Sega Dreamcast port. I was able to build Sonic R NATIVELY for my x86_64 desktop, running Ubuntu 24.04, and immediately begin playing after just typing "make" and then passing the binary the location of my ripped (yet legally purchased) PC assets. ...but while he's at it, jnmartin has decided to make the base decompilation codebase platform-independent, so this should theoretically work on any platform that supports SDL2 and very basic OpenGL--no shaders required--with very low system requirements. jnmartin already has it running fine on the latest MacOS version on Apple silicon, and now we can confirm it works fine on Debian Linux distros, no problem. Next up we'll test for Windows. Oh, and by the way, to everyone freaking out over the fact that the decomp is starting from the PC version and not the Saturn version, lamenting the less vibrant coloring... Your voices have been heard! CHECK IT OUT NOW!!! ...just imagine 4p netplay between Windows, Mac, Linux, and the Sega Dreamcast! 🤯
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Holy CRAP! jnmartin gave me access to his private Sonic R decompilation repo, which will serve as the basis for the Sega Dreamcast port. I was able to build Sonic R NATIVELY for my x86_64 desktop, running Ubuntu 24.04, and immediately begin playing after just typing "make" and then passing the binary the location of my ripped (yet legally purchased) PC assets. ...but while he's at it, jnmartin has decided to make the base decompilation codebase platform-independent, so this should theoretically work on any platform that supports SDL2 and very basic OpenGL--no shaders required--with very low system requirements. jnmartin already has it running fine on the latest MacOS version on Apple silicon, and now we can confirm it works fine on Debian Linux distros, no problem. Next up we'll test for Windows. Oh, and by the way, to everyone freaking out over the fact that the decomp is starting from the PC version and not the Saturn version, lamenting the less vibrant coloring... Your voices have been heard! CHECK IT OUT NOW!!! ...just imagine 4p netplay between Windows, Mac, Linux, and the Sega Dreamcast! 🤯

Falco Girgis

71,472 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

The time has finally come! Here's an actual hardware capture of me cruising through Corneria in jnmartin's port of Star Fox 64 running on the Sega Dreamcast! As you can see, the port has been progressing PHENOMENALLY over the last couple months. Everything plays super smoothly and is as responsive as lightning! The visuals also look clean and crisp rendered at 480p with the DC's PowerVR GPU. We're estimating that the port is about 95% completed, with the majority of the last few weeks being spent implementing the lighting and other special effects for certain areas (which you will soon be seeing as well). Finally, he's been working daily on JIT compiling the N64 display list code into SH4 assembly in real-time in addition to using my SH4ZAM library for what he hopes will be a final round of additional performance gainz! TL;DR: We have another AAA-quality Nintendo 64-to-Sega Dreamcast jnmartin port on our hands here! Stay tuned for the upcoming release!
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The time has finally come! Here's an actual hardware capture of me cruising through Corneria in jnmartin's port of Star Fox 64 running on the Sega Dreamcast! As you can see, the port has been progressing PHENOMENALLY over the last couple months. Everything plays super smoothly and is as responsive as lightning! The visuals also look clean and crisp rendered at 480p with the DC's PowerVR GPU. We're estimating that the port is about 95% completed, with the majority of the last few weeks being spent implementing the lighting and other special effects for certain areas (which you will soon be seeing as well). Finally, he's been working daily on JIT compiling the N64 display list code into SH4 assembly in real-time in addition to using my SH4ZAM library for what he hopes will be a final round of additional performance gainz! TL;DR: We have another AAA-quality Nintendo 64-to-Sega Dreamcast jnmartin port on our hands here! Stay tuned for the upcoming release!

Falco Girgis

35,283 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

jnmartin has been putting the finishing touches on his Star Fox 64 port to the Sega Dreamcast! To hype up its upcoming release, here's a direct hardware capture of the intro scene! Notice how crisp and sharp the textures look now? ...can you spot the blasphemous texture swap?🤣
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jnmartin has been putting the finishing touches on his Star Fox 64 port to the Sega Dreamcast! To hype up its upcoming release, here's a direct hardware capture of the intro scene! Notice how crisp and sharp the textures look now? ...can you spot the blasphemous texture swap?🤣

Falco Girgis

18,501 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce

With all of the excitement from Mario Kart 64 coming to the Sega Dreamcast, I've been getting bombarded with questions about whether any more progress has been made on our Mario 64 port... so here's a direct hardware capture of the latest build running on DC! The answer: HELL YES! Last time most people saw or played this port, it was plagued with performance, audio, and graphical issues... but as you can see from this footage, almost all of them have been resolved, and she's playing like a dream on the DC now! Wtf happened? Well, first of all, in the 5 years since the port initially started, I, along with others, such as UnknownShadow, have made progress optimizing and improving upon our OpenGL 1.2 driver, "GLdc," which drastically improved the overall performance of the port by decreasing the amount of time the Dreamcast's SH4 CPU spent on T&L, processing polygons. Next, chad developer, Bruce (or Bruck or Brucilicious, depending on who you are), went through and applied a bunch of bugfix patches from the upstream repo to the game to fix the majority of the graphical glitches such as clipping issues and Mario's iconic biker mustache from the previous releases (despite me trying to convince him to keep that one, as it's become a Dreamcast trademark). Finally, the original developer behind both the Sega Dreamcast and Sony PSP ports, MrNeo, has returned from hiatus and has begun redoing the audio engine to fix the artifacting and stuttering! Stay tuned for further updates and the inevitable rerelease of this N64 classic on Sega's finest little white box that still refuses to die!
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With all of the excitement from Mario Kart 64 coming to the Sega Dreamcast, I've been getting bombarded with questions about whether any more progress has been made on our Mario 64 port... so here's a direct hardware capture of the latest build running on DC! The answer: HELL YES! Last time most people saw or played this port, it was plagued with performance, audio, and graphical issues... but as you can see from this footage, almost all of them have been resolved, and she's playing like a dream on the DC now! Wtf happened? Well, first of all, in the 5 years since the port initially started, I, along with others, such as UnknownShadow, have made progress optimizing and improving upon our OpenGL 1.2 driver, "GLdc," which drastically improved the overall performance of the port by decreasing the amount of time the Dreamcast's SH4 CPU spent on T&L, processing polygons. Next, chad developer, Bruce (or Bruck or Brucilicious, depending on who you are), went through and applied a bunch of bugfix patches from the upstream repo to the game to fix the majority of the graphical glitches such as clipping issues and Mario's iconic biker mustache from the previous releases (despite me trying to convince him to keep that one, as it's become a Dreamcast trademark). Finally, the original developer behind both the Sega Dreamcast and Sony PSP ports, MrNeo, has returned from hiatus and has begun redoing the audio engine to fix the artifacting and stuttering! Stay tuned for further updates and the inevitable rerelease of this N64 classic on Sega's finest little white box that still refuses to die!

Falco Girgis

34,186 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Every day is a fantastic day to be playing Counterstrike... ON THE SEGA DREAMCAST! What you are seeing is a couple minutes of video featuring online play captured directly from the real hardware! This monumental feat of engineering is to be credited to developer, maximqad, who has successfully ported the Xash3D engine, which is Half-Life compatible, to the little white box, with its 200Mhz SH4 CPU and whopping 16MB of system memory. With the engine has come Half-Life, Counterstrike, and the possibility of many others on DC. Unlike the last time you saw these games, though, they're now glitch-free and are fully playable, with plenty of room for further optimizations left! Speaking of gainz, one of the most interesting battle stories from this project has got to be maximqad offloading some of the engine's allocations for its BSP from system memory onto video memory, which the Dreamcast tends to have an abundance of, at 8MB, with support for a fantastic VQ hardware compression format. For more footage from this play session, check out SWAT's full capture here:
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Every day is a fantastic day to be playing Counterstrike... ON THE SEGA DREAMCAST! What you are seeing is a couple minutes of video featuring online play captured directly from the real hardware! This monumental feat of engineering is to be credited to developer, maximqad, who has successfully ported the Xash3D engine, which is Half-Life compatible, to the little white box, with its 200Mhz SH4 CPU and whopping 16MB of system memory. With the engine has come Half-Life, Counterstrike, and the possibility of many others on DC. Unlike the last time you saw these games, though, they're now glitch-free and are fully playable, with plenty of room for further optimizations left! Speaking of gainz, one of the most interesting battle stories from this project has got to be maximqad offloading some of the engine's allocations for its BSP from system memory onto video memory, which the Dreamcast tends to have an abundance of, at 8MB, with support for a fantastic VQ hardware compression format. For more footage from this play session, check out SWAT's full capture here:

Falco Girgis

36,750 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

I have something very special to share today! This is a hardware capture of maximqad's port of the Xash3D engine--which is compatible with the Half-Life engine--running on the Sega Dreamcast... ONLINE! Keep in mind this is EXTREMELY early in the days of the port, with no DC-specific graphics optimizations or hardware accelerated math routines yet, so performance still has a lot of room to drastically improve. Audio was literally just barely moved to the SPU for the first time just the other day too, so this is still all very incredibly new... ...but here it is! The engine that wouldn't even run without being on an emulator that also needed to emulate the extended 32MB RAM modification... now running on a stock Sega Dreamcast with online multiplayer connectivity and mouse and keyboard support! Fantastic work from maximqad! I really believe as this engine matures, it will be an incredibly powerful tool for Dreamcast developers and will potentially bring a lot of new software to the platform in the form of Half-Life engine mods!
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I have something very special to share today! This is a hardware capture of maximqad's port of the Xash3D engine--which is compatible with the Half-Life engine--running on the Sega Dreamcast... ONLINE! Keep in mind this is EXTREMELY early in the days of the port, with no DC-specific graphics optimizations or hardware accelerated math routines yet, so performance still has a lot of room to drastically improve. Audio was literally just barely moved to the SPU for the first time just the other day too, so this is still all very incredibly new... ...but here it is! The engine that wouldn't even run without being on an emulator that also needed to emulate the extended 32MB RAM modification... now running on a stock Sega Dreamcast with online multiplayer connectivity and mouse and keyboard support! Fantastic work from maximqad! I really believe as this engine matures, it will be an incredibly powerful tool for Dreamcast developers and will potentially bring a lot of new software to the platform in the form of Half-Life engine mods!

Falco Girgis

17,012 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Actual hardware capture of the latest build of jnmartin's #Doom 64 port to the Sega #Dreamcast, which has now become the definitive, prettiest way to enjoy the title, with its dynamic lighting and bump mapping. SO MUCH NEW SHIT TO TALK ABOUT: First of all, this is the very first game to utilize the brand new "hybrid" vertex submission mechanism we just added to KallistiOS. It was a long, cruel week to get all of the issues there sorted out, but they have been, and it has further boosted the game's performance while under load and is now something the rest of the DC community can utilize in their homebrew. This scene in particular used to lag using the traditional, DMA-based vertex submission mechanism with all of the lights and its higher geometric complexity, but notice it's not even dropping a frame now! Next, support for the Dreamcast's MOUSE and KEYBOARD have been added. These controls play EXTREMELY well and feel like a very smooth, natural way to play the game, if you want the Steam/PC control scheme. Finally... if there is any doubt as to whether the Dreamcast version is actually the definitive way to the play the game, jnmartin now allows you to export the assets from the (LEGALLY PURCHASED, DAMNIT!!!) Steam version, and import them into the Dreamcast version, where you can enjoy the extra bonus levels and campaign with the new and improved graphics! THIS IS NOW PUBLICLY AVAILABLE! The project repository, along with the README with build instructions can be found here: #gamedev #retrogaming #n64
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Actual hardware capture of the latest build of jnmartin's #Doom 64 port to the Sega #Dreamcast, which has now become the definitive, prettiest way to enjoy the title, with its dynamic lighting and bump mapping. SO MUCH NEW SHIT TO TALK ABOUT: First of all, this is the very first game to utilize the brand new "hybrid" vertex submission mechanism we just added to KallistiOS. It was a long, cruel week to get all of the issues there sorted out, but they have been, and it has further boosted the game's performance while under load and is now something the rest of the DC community can utilize in their homebrew. This scene in particular used to lag using the traditional, DMA-based vertex submission mechanism with all of the lights and its higher geometric complexity, but notice it's not even dropping a frame now! Next, support for the Dreamcast's MOUSE and KEYBOARD have been added. These controls play EXTREMELY well and feel like a very smooth, natural way to play the game, if you want the Steam/PC control scheme. Finally... if there is any doubt as to whether the Dreamcast version is actually the definitive way to the play the game, jnmartin now allows you to export the assets from the (LEGALLY PURCHASED, DAMNIT!!!) Steam version, and import them into the Dreamcast version, where you can enjoy the extra bonus levels and campaign with the new and improved graphics! THIS IS NOW PUBLICLY AVAILABLE! The project repository, along with the README with build instructions can be found here: #gamedev #retrogaming #n64

Falco Girgis

39,726 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

WHOOO! After another week of intense bugfixing and performance gainz, jnmartin is preparing for the initial public release of Mario Kart 64 for the Sega Dreamcast! Here's your very first look at the state of the game now with fully implemented audio, directly captured from my DC!
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WHOOO! After another week of intense bugfixing and performance gainz, jnmartin is preparing for the initial public release of Mario Kart 64 for the Sega Dreamcast! Here's your very first look at the state of the game now with fully implemented audio, directly captured from my DC!

Falco Girgis

27,790 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

FINALLY time for the big announcement everyone has been begging and waiting for... Here's a VERY EARLY direct hardware capture of Mario Kart 64... RUNNING ON THE SEGA DREAMCAST, of course! This game was literally just BARELY decompiled the other day, with a codebase that is still quite married to the Nintendo 64 platform... but this didn't stop jnmartin: the dark coding wizard who brought us a dynamically lit and bump mapped Doom 64 and Wipeout running at >100FPS on the DC! What you're seeing is the insane progress made by one man in just 3 weeks. As is to be expected, there are all kinds of visual glitches and rendering artifacts, the framerate is all over the place, and there's no audio yet... which is totally typical of any ambitious DC port in the early stages. The DC build wouldn't even get past the menu screen without crashing or running out of RAM until just a few DAYS ago, yet here it is, every level playable WITH multiplayer support already on the DC! Even in this early stage, you can already see the game benefiting from the PVR's crisp 480p output... Each players' little viewport window in 4 player mode is the same resolution as the entire screen was on the N64! Stay tuned for future updates as jnmartin continues his work to bring this classic to our little white box of Dreams!
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FINALLY time for the big announcement everyone has been begging and waiting for... Here's a VERY EARLY direct hardware capture of Mario Kart 64... RUNNING ON THE SEGA DREAMCAST, of course! This game was literally just BARELY decompiled the other day, with a codebase that is still quite married to the Nintendo 64 platform... but this didn't stop jnmartin: the dark coding wizard who brought us a dynamically lit and bump mapped Doom 64 and Wipeout running at >100FPS on the DC! What you're seeing is the insane progress made by one man in just 3 weeks. As is to be expected, there are all kinds of visual glitches and rendering artifacts, the framerate is all over the place, and there's no audio yet... which is totally typical of any ambitious DC port in the early stages. The DC build wouldn't even get past the menu screen without crashing or running out of RAM until just a few DAYS ago, yet here it is, every level playable WITH multiplayer support already on the DC! Even in this early stage, you can already see the game benefiting from the PVR's crisp 480p output... Each players' little viewport window in 4 player mode is the same resolution as the entire screen was on the N64! Stay tuned for future updates as jnmartin continues his work to bring this classic to our little white box of Dreams!

Falco Girgis

55,523 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

Today, I present to you a direct hardware capture of Sonic Advance 2... RUNNING ON A SEGA DREAMCAST! Turns out developer, bezet, has been hard at work porting the Gameboy Advance classic to the little white box of dreams... where it belongs! It's still extremely early, and there are plenty of visual glitches, performance issues, as well as no audio implemented yet, but as you can see, progress at this early stage is still extremely promising, and much of the game is very playable! Stay tuned for more footage and news as developer bezet continues to progress!
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Today, I present to you a direct hardware capture of Sonic Advance 2... RUNNING ON A SEGA DREAMCAST! Turns out developer, bezet, has been hard at work porting the Gameboy Advance classic to the little white box of dreams... where it belongs! It's still extremely early, and there are plenty of visual glitches, performance issues, as well as no audio implemented yet, but as you can see, progress at this early stage is still extremely promising, and much of the game is very playable! Stay tuned for more footage and news as developer bezet continues to progress!

Falco Girgis

60,141 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce

Sonic Mania Plus for the Sega Dreamcast finally has audio! Here's a 2 minute direct hardware capture of me playing the latest build of Michael Fadely's port on my actual DC to hype up the Blue Blur's epic comeback to a Sega console... where he has always belonged!
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Sonic Mania Plus for the Sega Dreamcast finally has audio! Here's a 2 minute direct hardware capture of me playing the latest build of Michael Fadely's port on my actual DC to hype up the Blue Blur's epic comeback to a Sega console... where he has always belonged!

Falco Girgis

168,686 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce

What is this BLASPHEMY??? Oh, just a scene from Kingdom Hearts running on a SEGA DREAMCAST! The dynamic duo of Mad Modder Esppiral and DC homebrew veteran, PH3NOM, has once again given us a juicy glimpse into a version of gaming history where the little white box of dreams wound up winning against Sony's PS2. If you're into righting historical gaming wrongs and seeing the impossible made possible on the Sega Dreamcast, be sure to follow Esppiral for more blasphemy!
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What is this BLASPHEMY??? Oh, just a scene from Kingdom Hearts running on a SEGA DREAMCAST! The dynamic duo of Mad Modder Esppiral and DC homebrew veteran, PH3NOM, has once again given us a juicy glimpse into a version of gaming history where the little white box of dreams wound up winning against Sony's PS2. If you're into righting historical gaming wrongs and seeing the impossible made possible on the Sega Dreamcast, be sure to follow Esppiral for more blasphemy!

Falco Girgis

104,680 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

It's finally time for the massive update I know EVERYONE has been eagerly waiting for... Presenting to you over 6 straight minutes of spliced footage directly captured from my actual physical Sega Dreamcast... RUNNING THE LATEST BUILD OF OUR SONIC MANIA PORT!!! I can't even begin to describe to you how polished and fantastic it's starting to feel... as though it belonged on the Dreamcast all-along... Thanks to the hard work of jnmartin, sonicfreak94, and a few others, not only is the Dreamcast port nearing completion, but... wait for it... THE 3D STAGES THAT STRUGGLED ON EVERY UNOFFICIAL PORT ARE NOW ALL RUNNING FULLSPEED!!!! Trust me when I say that this took an absolutely ENORMOUS amount of effort from jnmartin and the crew to pull off, considering the low-end for this game was the original Nintendo Switch, and ports running on consoles with twice our processing power struggled to run these levels fullspeed. The first and most obvious thing is that the 3D software renderer was ditched and all rendering was done natively with our PowerVR GPU... which actually wasn't as simple as it sounds. The tilemaps for these levels have had to be tessellated into a bajillion PVR quads and transformed and rendered as individual polygons to look correct and run faster than a slideshow. Mr anonymous Ocarina of Time chad developer came up with a pretty slick LoD scheme for drawing tiles closest to the player at 1x1 pixel sizes with sizes increasing with distance up to 2x2 and 4x4 pixels, allowing them to reduce the overall number of tile vertices that have to be transformed by the SH4 CPU and submitted to the PVR GPU, by strategically keeping the majority of the polygon detail closest to the camera, with detail decreasing as the tiles get further away. Next, the 3D geometry was preprocessed and converted from being triangle-based to being triangle-strip based, drastically reducing the number of vertices per model that our 200Mhz SH4 CPU had to transform (with plain integer arithmetic and no FPU vectorization, since this is all slow-ass fixed-point integer math)! Finally, it was discovered that the lighting was a disproportionately significant contributor to the TnL load on the SH4 for processing vertices. Jnmartin came to the realization that 99% of the time only the Y axis direction is considered for lighting equation intensity with just a white color. So this simplified lighting model got baked into the renderer, which gave another round of gainz. So in the end, after all of this work came together, a draw distance of 75% the distance of the retail Sonic Mania versions was achieved for the decorations, plus the character models have their full geometry count and have not been simplified on a freaking Sega Dreamcast with a 200Mhz SH4 CPU and only 16MB of RAM! 🔥
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It's finally time for the massive update I know EVERYONE has been eagerly waiting for... Presenting to you over 6 straight minutes of spliced footage directly captured from my actual physical Sega Dreamcast... RUNNING THE LATEST BUILD OF OUR SONIC MANIA PORT!!! I can't even begin to describe to you how polished and fantastic it's starting to feel... as though it belonged on the Dreamcast all-along... Thanks to the hard work of jnmartin, sonicfreak94, and a few others, not only is the Dreamcast port nearing completion, but... wait for it... THE 3D STAGES THAT STRUGGLED ON EVERY UNOFFICIAL PORT ARE NOW ALL RUNNING FULLSPEED!!!! Trust me when I say that this took an absolutely ENORMOUS amount of effort from jnmartin and the crew to pull off, considering the low-end for this game was the original Nintendo Switch, and ports running on consoles with twice our processing power struggled to run these levels fullspeed. The first and most obvious thing is that the 3D software renderer was ditched and all rendering was done natively with our PowerVR GPU... which actually wasn't as simple as it sounds. The tilemaps for these levels have had to be tessellated into a bajillion PVR quads and transformed and rendered as individual polygons to look correct and run faster than a slideshow. Mr anonymous Ocarina of Time chad developer came up with a pretty slick LoD scheme for drawing tiles closest to the player at 1x1 pixel sizes with sizes increasing with distance up to 2x2 and 4x4 pixels, allowing them to reduce the overall number of tile vertices that have to be transformed by the SH4 CPU and submitted to the PVR GPU, by strategically keeping the majority of the polygon detail closest to the camera, with detail decreasing as the tiles get further away. Next, the 3D geometry was preprocessed and converted from being triangle-based to being triangle-strip based, drastically reducing the number of vertices per model that our 200Mhz SH4 CPU had to transform (with plain integer arithmetic and no FPU vectorization, since this is all slow-ass fixed-point integer math)! Finally, it was discovered that the lighting was a disproportionately significant contributor to the TnL load on the SH4 for processing vertices. Jnmartin came to the realization that 99% of the time only the Y axis direction is considered for lighting equation intensity with just a white color. So this simplified lighting model got baked into the renderer, which gave another round of gainz. So in the end, after all of this work came together, a draw distance of 75% the distance of the retail Sonic Mania versions was achieved for the decorations, plus the character models have their full geometry count and have not been simplified on a freaking Sega Dreamcast with a 200Mhz SH4 CPU and only 16MB of RAM! 🔥

Falco Girgis

87,939 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

WHOO!! Got a very special surprise for everyone today in the Sega Dreamcast community! From the same dark wizard, jnmartin84, who brought you Doom64 fully bump mapped at 60FPS on the console, comes the first official release of Wipeout DC, clocking in at a paltry 61-256FPS! This footage is a series of direct HW captures from me playing it on my DC (which is why the player is always in 8th place, lol). As you can see, jnmartin's signature attention to every minute detail, from audio to graphics, and especially performance, is as present as ever. We DC devs have always laughed our asses off watching this man cook in our dev Discord server, as his combination of humility and swearing every time the FPS drops to 59 is not only absolutely hilarious, but is truly an inspiration to the rest of us to aspire to polish and fine-tune our work to only the highest quality for the Sega Dreamcast. For a full, detailed look at the release, check out The Sega Guru/Alex ➡️ NottsVGE/……..?!'s YouTube coverage of it here: To grab the prebuilt binary and start playing or to build the beautiful DC coedz yourself, check out the README on jnmartin's GitHub repository here: Finally, as always with jnmartin, remember this first release, as epic as it is, is only just the beginning. Stay tuned!
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WHOO!! Got a very special surprise for everyone today in the Sega Dreamcast community! From the same dark wizard, jnmartin84, who brought you Doom64 fully bump mapped at 60FPS on the console, comes the first official release of Wipeout DC, clocking in at a paltry 61-256FPS! This footage is a series of direct HW captures from me playing it on my DC (which is why the player is always in 8th place, lol). As you can see, jnmartin's signature attention to every minute detail, from audio to graphics, and especially performance, is as present as ever. We DC devs have always laughed our asses off watching this man cook in our dev Discord server, as his combination of humility and swearing every time the FPS drops to 59 is not only absolutely hilarious, but is truly an inspiration to the rest of us to aspire to polish and fine-tune our work to only the highest quality for the Sega Dreamcast. For a full, detailed look at the release, check out The Sega Guru/Alex ➡️ NottsVGE/……..?!'s YouTube coverage of it here: To grab the prebuilt binary and start playing or to build the beautiful DC coedz yourself, check out the README on jnmartin's GitHub repository here: Finally, as always with jnmartin, remember this first release, as epic as it is, is only just the beginning. Stay tuned!

Falco Girgis

62,067 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

So how is the Sega Dreamcast's very own native port of Mario Kart 64 coming along? Well, lets take a look at some footage I just captured directly from my DC of jnmartin's latest build! Minor texture corruption is still present on some of the sprites here and there, plus there's no audio yet, BUT MY OH MY! She's running like a dream and looks SHARP as hell at with progressive scan at twice the resolution! You'll immediately notice virtually all of the texture corruption on the text and UI sprites have been fixed. You can now actually see your item box, and clouds are drawn properly in the background, rather than over the top of the scene in the foreground. Somehow, along with fixing all of this in the past few days, jnmartin has also found the time to get the monitors in the backgrounds of Luigi's Raceway and Wario Stadium correctly projecting a view of the scene onto their screens. This somewhat-advanced effect (for the time) was actually done on the N64 (in this game) WITHOUT doing a secondary render-to-texture pass, which requires submitting the scene a second time to the GPU. Instead, the framebuffer was divided into small, tiled chunks (1/6 of its total size), with only a single small chunk getting updated per frame. This way, the amount of direct VRAM access from the CPU (which is typically slow as hell) is kept to a minimum within the duration of a particular frame, with multiple frames being required to update the entire screen. But anyway, she's starting to look and play incredibly well, and those of us with early access to the builds have been thoroughly enjoying revisiting this title on our favorite platform!
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So how is the Sega Dreamcast's very own native port of Mario Kart 64 coming along? Well, lets take a look at some footage I just captured directly from my DC of jnmartin's latest build! Minor texture corruption is still present on some of the sprites here and there, plus there's no audio yet, BUT MY OH MY! She's running like a dream and looks SHARP as hell at with progressive scan at twice the resolution! You'll immediately notice virtually all of the texture corruption on the text and UI sprites have been fixed. You can now actually see your item box, and clouds are drawn properly in the background, rather than over the top of the scene in the foreground. Somehow, along with fixing all of this in the past few days, jnmartin has also found the time to get the monitors in the backgrounds of Luigi's Raceway and Wario Stadium correctly projecting a view of the scene onto their screens. This somewhat-advanced effect (for the time) was actually done on the N64 (in this game) WITHOUT doing a secondary render-to-texture pass, which requires submitting the scene a second time to the GPU. Instead, the framebuffer was divided into small, tiled chunks (1/6 of its total size), with only a single small chunk getting updated per frame. This way, the amount of direct VRAM access from the CPU (which is typically slow as hell) is kept to a minimum within the duration of a particular frame, with multiple frames being required to update the entire screen. But anyway, she's starting to look and play incredibly well, and those of us with early access to the builds have been thoroughly enjoying revisiting this title on our favorite platform!

Falco Girgis

45,600 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!!!! While I've been working on fixing the last couple of bugs in the Mario Kart 64 DC port, getting us ready for the alpha release, jnmartin has gotten STAR FOX 64 up and running on the Sega Dreamcast in just two freaking days!?!? Sure, there are plenty of graphical glitches, and there's no audio yet... but W T F, it even runs well already!?! Freaking INSANE!! Anyway, surprise! The next N64-to-DC port has been chosen! Practice your barrel rolling, Dreamcast fans!
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UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!!!! While I've been working on fixing the last couple of bugs in the Mario Kart 64 DC port, getting us ready for the alpha release, jnmartin has gotten STAR FOX 64 up and running on the Sega Dreamcast in just two freaking days!?!? Sure, there are plenty of graphical glitches, and there's no audio yet... but W T F, it even runs well already!?! Freaking INSANE!! Anyway, surprise! The next N64-to-DC port has been chosen! Practice your barrel rolling, Dreamcast fans!

Falco Girgis

44,070 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce

Jesus Christ, jnmartin has officially implemented his first big improvement over the N64 original for the Sega Dreamcast port of Mario Kart 64! Now the jumpotron monitor screens in Wario Stadium and and Luigi Raceway are updating at a full 30FPS, or 6x the framerate of the N64! ...and he's doing this entirely in software with the DC's SH4 CPU performing slow, direct VRAM reads from the framebuffer into a temporary buffer in system RAM which is later passed to OpenGL which transfers it back into VRAM to update the jumpotron texture with... and the freaking Dreamcast doesn't drop a frame doing all this shit! Might want to keep that in mind, as a community... That accessing texture memory or the framebuffer directly from the SH4 via the "uint16_t vram_s[]" symbol that the video API within KallistiOS exposes, while comparatively slow, is not actually so slow as to be unrealistic for a well-optimized game to do anything useful with... very interesting!
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Jesus Christ, jnmartin has officially implemented his first big improvement over the N64 original for the Sega Dreamcast port of Mario Kart 64! Now the jumpotron monitor screens in Wario Stadium and and Luigi Raceway are updating at a full 30FPS, or 6x the framerate of the N64! ...and he's doing this entirely in software with the DC's SH4 CPU performing slow, direct VRAM reads from the framebuffer into a temporary buffer in system RAM which is later passed to OpenGL which transfers it back into VRAM to update the jumpotron texture with... and the freaking Dreamcast doesn't drop a frame doing all this shit! Might want to keep that in mind, as a community... That accessing texture memory or the framebuffer directly from the SH4 via the "uint16_t vram_s[]" symbol that the video API within KallistiOS exposes, while comparatively slow, is not actually so slow as to be unrealistic for a well-optimized game to do anything useful with... very interesting!

Falco Girgis

24,032 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

While reading the responses to jnmartin's #Doom 64 port to the Sega #Dreamcast, I stumbled upon the comments of a few haters who were stating that the DC version had absolutely NOTHING to offer over the Steam and Switch versions, claiming that we're just a community of wishful thinkers living in the past... OH. REALLY, NOW!? Actual hardware capture on the left of me playing the Steam-exclusive map, "Wretched Vats," on my DC, while the right is a recording of the same area from the Steam version... The Dreamcast version only offers up to 16 simultaneous dynamic lights onscreen, bump mapping on environments and weapons, controller (with dual analog) + mouse + keyboard support, VMU icons showing damage, quicker startup times, no forced online registration, supports all of the new Steam-exclusive levels, and now, for the first time ever, also runs mostly at 60fps... I do believe you've been Dreamcasted, haters. PS: When the algorithm inevitably destroys the footage due to compression, here's where you can download the original: #gamedev #retrogaming
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While reading the responses to jnmartin's #Doom 64 port to the Sega #Dreamcast, I stumbled upon the comments of a few haters who were stating that the DC version had absolutely NOTHING to offer over the Steam and Switch versions, claiming that we're just a community of wishful thinkers living in the past... OH. REALLY, NOW!? Actual hardware capture on the left of me playing the Steam-exclusive map, "Wretched Vats," on my DC, while the right is a recording of the same area from the Steam version... The Dreamcast version only offers up to 16 simultaneous dynamic lights onscreen, bump mapping on environments and weapons, controller (with dual analog) + mouse + keyboard support, VMU icons showing damage, quicker startup times, no forced online registration, supports all of the new Steam-exclusive levels, and now, for the first time ever, also runs mostly at 60fps... I do believe you've been Dreamcasted, haters. PS: When the algorithm inevitably destroys the footage due to compression, here's where you can download the original: #gamedev #retrogaming

Falco Girgis

13,720 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce