So much has occurred lately. Twitter is contemplating including an edit button, NFTs appear to have retreated again into obscurity (phew), Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, and naturally, the Dreamcast scene continues to maintain our beloved (supposedly useless) console related. As the staff are busy counting the votes for the The Dreamcast Junkyard Top 200 Dreamcast Games 2022, I believed I’d give y’all a Dreamcast information spherical up. Hold on to your VMUs, as a result of I’m rounding up quite a bit of issues at the moment.

A tidal WAVE of Dreamcast indie exercise

You ought to all know WAVE Game Studios by now, however for those who do not, try our interview with them to get the inside track on why they’re the one to observe within the Dreamcast indie launch scene! Then, if studying all about all their earlier endeavours wasn’t proof sufficient, this is all of the stuff they’ve simply finished lately:

– The first Dreamcast demo disc in 21 Years!

This one’s actually rattling cool. If you are not within the know, SEGA Powered is a cracking Sega-focused journal that launched earlier this yr off the again of a profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign. Helmed by Sega gaming magazine veterans, each problem that has been launched up to now have been extensively praised by Sega followers all over the place. We had a take a look at the primary problem on the weblog some time again, so examine that out if you wish to be taught extra.

So we have a cool new Sega journal to sink our enamel into, however you already know one thing in regards to the previous gaming magazines that we actually want would come again? Cover discs stuffed to the brim with thrilling demos! Well, seeing because the Dreamcast is getting so many new video games launched for it nowadays (making it a contemporary gen console – will field anybody who disagrees), it is solely proper that a difficulty of this contemporary Sega magazine would finally come bundled with some form of free demo disc that includes tasters of the newest and best Dreamcast indie video games! The disc will completely function demos of WAVE titles, and might be launched with problem 5 of SEGA Powered, due June 2022. It might be be the primary Dreamcast demo disc to be launched in 21 years! We advocate following the journal’s Twitter account to be taught extra particulars as the discharge will get nearer.

– Shadow Gangs is getting a WAVE launch!

After a considerably rocky Kickstarter marketing campaign (that concerned the unique marketing campaign being cancelled to make manner for one more with a extra cheap aim), JKM Corp‘s Shadow Gangs was finally totally funded. As the sport was recognized to be just about close to completion, many scratched their heads and requested why Shadow Gangs could not simply work out a cope with a distributor like WAVE or JoshProd, and skip the Kickstarter all collectively, however the builders caught by their marketing campaign.

Well, seems like WAVE at the moment are going to be distributing the sport anyway, as introduced in a Twitter publish posted by WAVE on the 4th of April. This means WAVE might be manufacturing the Kickstarter copies and any future copies that might be bought by means of WAVE’s internet retailer. They’ve additionally confirmed that backers might be getting some “tremendous cool extras” with their video games, in order that’s one thing to sit up for!

– Postal could have native co-op!

WAVE are nonetheless on observe to launch the officially-sanctioned Dreamcast port of Postal on the 2nd of June, and you’ll nonetheless pre-order a replica on their internet retailer. Dan Redfield, the gent liable for porting the sport, revealed on the finish of March that he is efficiently carried out a 4-player co-op mode into the sport’s marketing campaign. It’s solely proper {that a} port of Postal to a console recognized for its glorious social gathering video games would have such a mode!

Translations

Other than the bustling indie scene, another excuse for the second wind the Dreamcast is experiencing (at the very least for us English audio system) are the various translations of Japanese video games which have beforehand been inaccessible to us because of the language barrier. Here’s some extra! 

– Former Managing Director Yukawa’s Treasure Hunt has been translated into English!

The Dreamcast sport we by no means knew wanted an English translation has lastly been translated, due to the skills of SnowyAria (who beforehand translated Seven Mansions: Ghastly Smile). This easy promotional sport has you play as former Sega of Japan head Yukawa Hidekazu as he digs up numerous items of Dreamcast-related memorabilia, with the concept being that for a month in 1999, you can submit your victory on-line to be entered right into a raffle to win mentioned memorabilia in actual life. Obviously, you possibly can not win any prizes, however you possibly can at the very least expertise this odd morsel of Dreamcast historical past in English now. Go right here to get the interpretation patch, and for some additional studying, try Tom’s article on the sport right here.

Me after taking part in Spirit of Speed 1937 for 5 minutes

– New gameplay footage of the Nakoruru translation!

Derek Pascarella’s mission to translate the visible novel Nakoruru: The Gift She Gave Me into English began in August of final yr. I’m working as an editor on the mission and all I’ll say is that it has been a blast to work on up to now! Anyway, Derek has put collectively an awesome preview video showcasing a test-build of the interpretation, which yow will discover right here. You can discover out extra about all the things Derek does by visiting DreamcastEternally.com. Watch this area!

The odd stuff!

This is the a part of our information round-up the place we check out some issues that verge on the aspect of kooky or obscure. These are the Dreamcast equal of these lighthearted cutaway reviews on the true information that present you a Pug that may do a pop shove-it on a skateboard or one thing. Anyhow…

– The Mega Duck is now playable on the Dreamcast..?

Mega Duck… that is like Rubberduckzilla from that previous Oasis advert, proper? Nope. It was really a Game Boy rip off from Hong Kong. It was additionally launched in South America with the equally ludicrous title “Cougar Boy”… You cannot make this shit up.

Anyway, the Mega Duck had a not-so-mega library of video games (quantity-wise) and nearly all of them had been developed by Taiwanese firm Sachen. When the Mega Duck might not be stored afloat (geddit?), Sachen ported a load of its Mega Duck video games onto the Game Boy within the type of unlicensed multicarts, presumably to recoup a few of their losses. Well, veteran Dreamcast homebrew coder Ian Michael has stripped every particular person sport from their respective multicarts and packed all of them collectively as a bootable ISO (you’ll want to use DreamShell in addition it) that makes use of a Game Boy emulator Gnuboy to emulate them. The bundle comprises a complete of 21 playable titles. Sadly, Snake Roy just isn’t one in every of them… Maybe in the future.

That is sport artwork solely a Mother might love…

Go to this Dreamcast-Talk discussion board thread for extra data and a hyperlink to obtain the Mega Duck ISO. Edit: since I revealed this text, Derek Pascarella has transformed the ISO right into a .cdi picture, which means it might now be booted up on ODEs like GDEMU and MODE. The hyperlink for that is additionally within the Dreamcast-Talk discussion board thread. Thanks Derek! Now, go fourth and play some Mega Duck in your Dreamcast! Now there is a sentence I by no means thought I’d say…

– You can now forged goals from the consolation of your very personal Dreamcast mattress…

Yeah, some firm referred to as “MoonLambo” is promoting Dreamcast-themed bedding. The firm predominately sells clothes that includes plenty of cyberpunk and vaporwave designs, but it surely seems like they’ve additionally branched out into promoting residence items. Their trademark infringement-avoiding “Dreams Last” vary features a console cover cowl, VMU pillow circumstances, and a controller cushion. It’s all a bit dear, with the cover cowl starting from £73 all the way in which as much as £113 relying on the dimensions you need. I additionally don’t know if it could even be good high quality, as the location seems worryingly much like a type of dropshipping clothes shops you’d get marketed to you thru Instagram-ads, who steal folks’s designs and print them on crap shirts that shrink after one wash. But for those who’re a bachelor with plenty of disposable revenue who thinks a Dreamcast mattress would look cool in your pad, then buy at your personal danger.

That’s all for now, people! Which of those information objects excites you probably the most? It’s the Mega Duck on Dreamcast, is not it? Fair sufficient. Anyway, tell us your second favorite within the feedback under!this Dreamcast-Talk discussion board thread