No.2952 [View All]
So, our threads kept getting deleted over there, at first because of magnet links being posed in the threads, but now I really don't know what the fuck for, so I'm personally moving my shit over here.
Release google spreadsheet link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14fCQ3NXIlW1ZC_gjIejpQVPG34fLWmSoXYgSTyxdRWM/edit
That spreadsheet has most, if not all, of the releases from various high-quality DC release groups around.
So… yeah. What are your favorite games for this thing?
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No.6845
>>6841
Sounds good! I’m surprised I hadn’t done those for NoBS yet actually. I think I may have done the NTSC-U version as a later RDC release maybe.
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No.6855
>>6840
Not sure if it counts as simple, but I'd love to see a NoBS release of UEFA Dream Soccer. From what I know the only selfboot release out there is the old Echelon one that comes with a cracktro.
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No.6857
>>6841
Well, I know why I was confused about ChuChu Rocket. I actually did that as a NoBS-DC release, but it was one of the ones I never put out. I need to re-compress all these and release them since the dates are wrong now.
>>6855
Sure, I'll take a look at it.
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No.6861
>>6855
This does not seem to be very easy, no. But not impossible either. I’m going to keep this in my to-do folder. A nice combo of a few CDDA tracks along with a good amount of game data being juuust the right type of game that takes more than a casual pass at but not quite a full blown head scratcher. So annoying, basically.
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No.6867
Snarky, I have a small list for you if you'd like to give it a look, alot of these games either haven't been done yet, ripped poorly, or the only known rip is a scene rip which nobody should be using anymore, or in some odd circumstances, rips were done by someone, but can no longer be found anywhere.
Armada (USA)
Atari Anniversary Edition (USA)
Cool Cool Toon
Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram M.S.B.S. Ver. 5.4
Densha de Go! 2: Kousoku-hen 3000 Bandai
Eisei Meijin III: Game Creator Yoshimura Nobuhiro no Zunou
Floigan Bros. Episode 1 (USA)
Fur Fighters (USA)
Gaia Master Kessen! Seikiou Densetsu
GigaWing (USA)
Golem No Maigo
Gunbird 2 (USA)
Jet Coaster Dream 2
Jissen Pachi-Slot Hisshouhou! @VPACHI Kingdom
Kidou Senshi Gundam: Giren no Yabou - Zeon no Keifu
L.O.L.: Lack of Love
Looney Tunes Space Race (USA)
Morita no Saikyou Shougi
Net De Tennis
Plasma Sword - Nightmare of Bilstein (USA)
Segagaga (SGGG)
Super Runabout: San Francisco Edition (USA)
Tanaka Torahiko no Uru Toraryuu Shogi: Ibisha Anaguma-hen
Tech Romancer (USA)
Tokyo Bus Guide
Now I realize some of these might be tough jobs, and be put on the backburner, which is fine, I know Tech Romancer in particular is a tough one, though if anyone can do it justice, it's going to be you, MILF, or YZB, or all three of you together. Still, I hope some of what I've requested. If needed, I do believe TOSEC put out a new Dreamcast set, so I can get GDIs. I hope there are a few easy ones in there. Welcome back to the Dreamcast! NBS-DC is the best of the best, the more untouched rips we have, the better!
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No.6868
>>4506
Seconding this. Or maybe I was the person that asked to begin with and I just forgot I was ever here.
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No.6869
>>6857
>I actually did that as a NoBS-DC release, but it was one of the ones I never put out. I need to re-compress all these and release them
Thank you! For some reason, every release I've tried is missing the music.
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No.6870
>>6867
No worries about the GDIs, I’ve got the TOSEC sets stashed and a source for the most recent redump set for whatever is missing. A fair amount of your list is things I’m wanting to get to. Thanks for your encouragement/support. I’m kind of coming at it with a different approach this time. Life has changed a lot since I was last around. Better attitude, etc.
>>6868
I believe I still have the raw files for sonic Adventure 2 backed up since it was so much fucking work. I’ll look and see if I have them, I should be able to just swap the English voice file with the Japanese one and be good to go.
>>6869
I’ll try to get these files posted up this weekend. May be doing some yard work if the rain holds off.
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No.6875
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No.6888
>>6861
Thanks for taking a look at it, I really appreciate it
>>6875
>Tee-Off
Such a great game. A big shame nobody ever talks about it
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No.6955
Bought a dreamcast from japan. Plugged it in and i'm not getting any video output. Any ideas?
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No.6961
>>6955
I've been doing a bit of reading and it turns out that the video port on the back of the console is prone to shorting out the dac which takes video and audio with it. Console seems to power on fine and read discs, it's just that i'm not getting any video or audio. Oh well. Hopefully I can pick up a dreamcast with a broken laser and swap parts out.
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No.7095
>>2986
Seaman is great for a once through.
Lenard Nemoy as the narrator is worth the price of admission alone.
plus creepy fishman sex, tomagochi creature raising and playing God and lastly the whole game is like one giant personality test and psychologist appointment.
Buy Seaman you will not regreat it. lasty
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No.7123
>>6961
Update on this situation, I was initially using a Toro VGA box with this dreamcast, but I used the composite video cables that came with the console and now I'm getting video and audio so I don't know what's the deal. I'll have to try and hook the toro up to it and see if it outputs.
Not sure if I'm going to keep this one, I was thinking about giving it to a friend but he lives in a share house filled with drug users so I don't wan't pic related >>3947 happening (fun fact, I made that image).
Replaced the clock battery with a new holder and ML2032 so she's ready to go regardless. I like buying systems and refurbishing them even if it means that I sell them at what I originally paid for. I'm not reseller scum, I just want whoever pays for the thing to be able to get going and start enjoying that last console that was made specifically for gaming enthusiasts.
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No.7396
What's been going on with the Dreamcast scene these days? I've been out of the game for about a year and a half now, is ComradeSnarky still chugging away with NoBS-DC? Have new rippers come onto the scene to tackle some new games? I understand there was one ripper doing really obscure Japanese DC games prior to the shutdown of The ISO Zone, anyone else come along? What's new?
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No.7399
>>7396
>shutdown of The ISO Zone
In case anyone's looking for a mirror:
https://retrozone.co/downloads/dreamcast
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No.7504
Just discovered this thread, and boy howdy do I wish I had found it sooner. Is comradesnarky working on any new releases? I'm wondering if maybe he should teach some of us how to do his magic so we can work together to do more releases. I'm going to give the NoBS release of Crazy Taxi 2 a spin, see if it loads better than my current burned disc that makes the laser slide back and forth like crazy trying to load the game. I assume that anything not covered by a NoBS release just means I can fall back onto a ReviveDC release instead as the second best option?
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No.7505
>>7504
Hmm ok so not even ReviveDC has everything. I see only DCRes has Jet Grind Radio, but even that isn't actually showing a link in the spreadsheet. Just my luck.
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No.7506
>>7504
I'm still lurking around. I do have some games that I want to do. Simple truth of the situation is just that I work full time and there's other obligations and things that I want to work on as well. Obviously I don't release often anymore because there was a huge gap between the last release and the games I put out earlier this year, but I'd ask that people don't ever really think of NoBS-DC as being dead. Part of the perk of working alone is being able to just come back to it whenever I feel like and not have an obligation to it so that I can actually enjoy it. I know that blows for people who want games, but if I'm forcing myself to go into it and get things done like I did towards the end of ReviveDC then I will want to just say fuck it and quit.
I wouldn't be opposed to sharing some of my tools that I've accumulated over the years, but I couldn't promise anything in terms of documentation - mainly just for lack of time in explaining how everything works. As far as sharing knowledge, not opposed to that either but it's really difficult to lay things out in such a way that you'd have a logical linear path from start to finish just because of so many variations in games. There's a decent amount of info out there and if people start looking into it and have questions on more details then I'd be happy to give guidance.
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No.7507
>>7506
All good man, I'm loving the NBS releases, and half the games I wanted to burn you've already done. ReviveDC has almost all of the other half covered and they seem perfectly competent as well. DCRes and DCCM also seem competent enough in their own right for the one or two games that still weren't covered. NBS Crazy Taxi 2 is wonderful, the laser hardly moves now, versus before when it was sliding around like there was no data to be found at all.
A few questions:
DCRes section has no link for Jet Grind Radio, can this be fixed?
I've been burning my games with DiscJuggler and the settings recommended on this site - http://www.dreamcastarena.com/how-to-burn-dreamcast-games-correctly - would you agree these are the best settings, or is there something better still?
The only issue I've had so far is with your NBS release of Hydro Thunder, over VGA the image flickers up and down, like it's attempting to bob de-interlace something that doesn't need to be de-interlaced. I'm using a Pound Technology VGA-to-HDMI cable, and it's worked perfectly for everything up to this. Any ideas about what can be done to fix this?
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No.7509
Server upgrade killed some recent posts, hopefully this post fixes it?
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No.7510
>>7509
Yes it worked, awesome.
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No.7524
I was hoping this game would be a bit more entertaining.
Here's Shinseiki Evangelion Ayanami Ikusei Keikaku
https://mega.nz/#!WHwVGCIb!COR66JQoKBLum64z-DIYXFb-_L2ahIMgNVOm9EmpdVU
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No.7525
New rippppp
Black/Matrix Advanced
This game didn't suck. However, I'm truly awful at SRPGs. I was at least able to fumble through menus and figure out how to play with my 2 year old level grasp of glorious nihongo. Couldn't make heads or tails of the story, but the aesthetic is delicious 90s edge.
https://mega.nz/#!vKIUlKhC!aRGxQfh5JWrNhi1gUicSa1uJcC0SSdQc3dOO7-Thg40
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No.7526
>>7525
Kick ass. This game has a really cool aesthetic, though I personally wish the combat had a little more depth for the dreamcast release.
You've been on a real japanese bond these last few months, haven't you? Tried Sengoku Turb?
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No.7531
>>7526
Haven't played Sengoku Turb but I did rip it and it is in my folder to burn and test.
Also - found my old Shenmue II scripts. This laptop I use now has enough RAM to process all the AHX downsampling without the script crashing and needing to be restarted to handle all 10k+ files. So, wow, I may actually fucking finish that rip finally. The timestamp on my disc 1 rip is from 3 years ago. Took about half an hour to process everything so it'll be way easier to make adjustments to the voice files to fit them to disc.
I'll probably want some people to test before I post that soo if anybody likes Shenmue II… I'll figure out a way we can get in touch when it comes to that point.
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No.7550
Just accidentally backtraced to this thread through other forums, figures the only useful spreadsheet and links for DC rips would be from a channer.
Anyway. I haven't burned any games for DC since 2005-2007. Whatever I used to know is lost to time. What's the main difference between the rips? DCRes/ReviveDC/NoBS, etc? Is it just who is doing the ripping and the quality? Which is generally the best?
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No.7555
>>7550
NoBS, then ReviveDC, then DCRes or DCCM, then the rest is whatever, IMO. For burning I use the guide in the site I linked here: >>7507
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No.7557
>>7555
Cool. Thanks. Just ordered a GDEMU knockoff, since my drive is dead.
Tempted to use one of my micro SD cards lying around to turn my pi 3 into a dreampi. Not that there's a shitload to do other than quake and PSO.
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No.7559
>>7555
Biased opinion obviously, but I'd go
1. NoBS
Applying what I learned working with everyone in ReviveDC and focusing more on the games
2. ReviveDC
Kind of a mixed bag honestly, we learned so much as we went on. Earlier rips can be rough around the edges. Some of the unique releases we did were cool though, I'm still really proud of the Street Fighter III all in one disc and the Capcom vs SNK one.
3. DCCM
These are really good but the arc compression lessens the appeal and I never really got why MILF stuck with the audio/data format. Not sure if MILF ever comes around here, but you know I love you buddy.
4. DCRes
Gotta hand it to him as the originator of a lot of the stuff we're concerned with now but there are too many issues with the various rips and him re-using assets that Echelon and the others had downsampled.
But..
>>7557
If you're using a GDEMU you should just use GDIs.
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No.7561
>>7559
>If you're using a GDEMU you should just use GDIs.
Yeah, for that most part that's my plan, aside from things like the Shenmue english dub, or things I can't find a GDI for.
Thanks for the run down. Excited to get this thing up and running.
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No.7564
>>7557
The dreampi is cool more for what could be possible with dreamcast-related online services than for actually playing the games online.
Related, I've been struggling to get kallistiOS to compile so I can play around with it and making some simple programs. It would be really nice to have a better way to manage files on the gd-rom, maybe over the network from another device even.
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No.7575
>>7564
>The dreampi is cool more for what could be possible with dreamcast-related online services than for actually playing the games online.
Would be cool if it served as a hub for other discontinued online console services. Don't know how feasible that is really.
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No.7579
Are there any CDI rips of Guilty Gear X floating around out there? I have the Echelon rip but two of the multilinked rar files give checksum errors. I have the GDI but I haven't converted a GDI into another format in such a long time and I can't find a good tutorial on how to do it.
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No.7582
>>7579
I have one basically done with a few extra minutes of audio vs Echelon but the CDDA keeps playing out of order. I’ll try to get back to it and figure it out.
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No.7654
>>7506
This is outstanding work. Are you aware of any other similar links and organization for other consoles? And PC stuff - there's a lot of really awkward, hard to find stuff from 1998 to 2007 era which is never on retro sites but also never got digital distribution or rereleases. Looking for them ever since isozone and emuparadise died. Anyway, keep up the outstanding work !
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No.7682
Just coming by to wish the neverending DC thread a happy chinese new year, 2019.
Hope everyone has a great year, even if not everything goes according to plan.
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No.7693
>>7506
https://github.com/esc0rtd3w/dreamcast-tools
Something like this would be cool. We can document things at a later time.
There are a ton of places that have tools and information float around in the world of dreamcast, but there aren't any really high quality all-in-one sources.
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No.7696
I made a new spreadsheet tinyurl. com/DCMASTERLIST
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No.7697
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No.7701
>>7697
Porting eventually. Thanks for the hard work.
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No.7712
>>7701
Hey man, good idea with the masterlist :)…. but you killed half the links on the main sheet moving the files around in your mega accounts lol :/
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No.7718
>>7712
You probably meant to quote >>7697 , but yeah, the original sheet is screwed six ways to Sunday and has been since pretty much forever. Without maintainers interested in putting in the time, it gets to be a mess pretty quickly.
Does anyone know a way to query the mega API (directly) for just the metadata about particular links? File names and file sizes in particular.
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No.7751
post links here ill mirror em on the spreadsheet. I can make a pastebin of every file i have. Does this look good? https://pastebin.com/raw/EQpX9E8W
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No.7806
>>7751
Looks like a few yzb games?
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No.7813
Did the NoBS links all get deleted from that Google Doc? What the hell are those retards doing? Good thing I downloaded the old version of the doc to my PC. Any new releases pop up lately?
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No.7814
>>7813
Actually wait, it seems all the NoBS links are shoved inside the "old version tab" mixed in with everything else. What a mess.
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No.7815
Karous - New English TL playable on DC or in emulator:
https://www.romhacking.net/translations/4664/
^ While you didn't need to know any Japanese to play Karous to start some of you may be interested in checking out the release notes.
>>7814
>>7813
Feel free to fix, and to also mirror games into your own cloud accounts (mega preferred). I've sort of left it to run wild as I don't have the time to maintain integrity myself.
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No.8031
What's a good place to get Dreamcast CDIs these days? Been out of the scene for years, and the spreadsheet is destroyed… How is ComradeSnarky? Is he still at it with NBS-DC?
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No.8032
>>8031
Archive.org has tosec/trurip collections, and a kind of musical audio format romance has a decent collection of CDI.
There's also probably using your eyes, but you can look that up to confirm.
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