@DreamcastNostalgia

Today is a HUGE day for the Sega Dreamcast homebrew community! The next release of DreamSDK, our all-inclusive, powerful, user-friendly, bleeding-edge, ready-to-go DC development environment for Windows is finally getting a MASSIVE update, after two long years! Everything that you ever needed to begin developing for the Sega Dreamcast and get set up with the KallistiOS SDK, its tools, its examples, and a a bleeding-edge GCC15 toolchain with C23 and C++23 support for the SuperH architecture is right here, ready to go! I just wanted to take a moment to personally thank @sizious for all of his hard work. It's not easy to get all of these Linux-y tools building under Windows, and it's especially not easy to create user-friendly UIs and tools around them in a ready-to-go installable package. The truth is that Dreamcast homebrew SUCKED for Windows developers for many, many years before his hard work and dedication fixed it all... I grew up having to install Cygwin and go through hell to manually compile my own toolchains from scratch... It was a total PITA, but thanks to DreamSDK, Windows is now a first-party platform that we can support with KOS, allowing developers to focus on developing games and apps for Dreamcast, without having to build toolchains from scratch and get lost in the weeds. Thank you so much for your hard work, my friend. Congratulations!

SHE'S DONE!!! Mario Kart 64 for the Sega Dreamcast is officially ready for public consumption, so here's a full 6+ minute video of gameplay, captured straight from my actual DC! Jnmartin has done it again! The footage you are watching shows every GP course in the game, including multiplayer footage as well. Yes, you can also save and load ghost files from the VMU! As this is our first release, I'm sure you will run into a minor bug here or there, especially given neither one of us could stress test 4 player very effectively using our hands and feet to drive... So be sure to open tickets for any minor issues you find... assuming you're playing on REAL HARDWARE. I can already tell you right now, emulators are having issues with this one! This was my first time getting to directly contribute to a jnmartin N64 port, and it was an absolute honor for me to be involved with his incredible work. There is nobody else who I have ever met with the cross-architecture knowledge of BOTH the Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo 64, combined with the raw grit, tenacity, and attention to detail required to pull this off and do the source material justice. Not only did I get to take my SH4ZAM library for DC math gainz out for a ride with MK64, but I also brought some new routines back from MK64 so everyone can use them! Finally, I got to be involved in laying the foundation for future jnmartin N64 ports, now that we have an optimized, accelerated audio and video back-end for various libultra functionality, including Fast3D. You can already see how much this has benefited future work based on how quickly jnmartin was able to get StarFox 64 up and running on DC... The man doesn't sleep, no. lol. I just wanted to thank everyone so much for the continued enthusiasm and support behind these ports. The support for our work and the Sega Dreamcast means the world to us! Thanks for helping to keep the dream alive! For instructions on how to build yourself a burnable CDI image or a DreamShell ISO for either your DC's SD card or IDE drive, please follow the README on the repository: github.com/jnmartin84/mk64-d…. NOTE: Windows users will need DreamSDK to build. My last-minute build fixes for DreamSDK are in this WIP branch here, which will probably be merged into the main branch tomorrow when jnmartin wakes up: github.com/jnmartin84/mk64-d…

Hardware capture of just another day in Grand Theft Auto 3's Liberty City running on the Sega Dreamcast, now with glorious horizontal 2xFSAA! ...and... uh... wait, was that texture there before!?