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Dee Kleven @50-leven.bsky.social · 9h

I'm developing a Super Mario 64 clone on the Dreamcast using KallistiOS and raylib (gldc). I plan on making it for the #DreamDisc 2025 competition, just a pre alpha.

So far, basic controls and camera movement has been figured out. What do ya think? :)
#Dreamcast #SEGA #Mario64 #homebrew

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Metal Game Solid @metalgamesolid.bsky.social · 11h

Check out episode 1 of #Retro168 on our brand new YouTube Channel. A great round up of things that happened over the last 7 days

❤️ and RT appreciated 👍

Right here: youtu.be/tzmY_ZwySsc?...

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I get you… because retro gamer has a loooooong history of being cool to indies and homebrew and has even covered some fan translations and work going on in the DC scene previously…. Was a HUGE honor, tbh. Also I was asked fantastic questions that were just fun to answer and show they get us.

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · 7d

Jeeesus. I’m going to have to post about this when I get back to my machine after my 3-day drive.

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · 7d

In case you haven’t already grabbed it, issue 277 of “Retro Gamer” has a full two-page interview featuring all of the epic ports that our #homebrew scene has brought to the Sega #Dreamcast lately, plus some exclusive screenshots of some hotly anticipated titles! 🔥

#gamedev #retrogaming #indiegame

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · 21d

Oh, this is just Esppiral loading and rendering a scene from the #PS2 title, "Dragon Quest 8," on a Sega #Dreamcast, no big deal...

...WAIT, WUT?! 🤯

#retrogaming #retrcomputing #gamdedev

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · 24d

"Mute Crimson" from @icedlizardgames.bsky.social, captured from my Sega #Dreamcast!

This is an action-packed, precision platformer running at a solid 60FPS, with extremely responsive controls and tight gameplay mechanics. Super polished and fun to play!

#gamedev #retrogaming #retrocomputing

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · 26d

It was pretty baller back in its day, in the year of our lord 2000. It's up there with the PS2, GC, and original Xbox in terms of specs, from the same console generation. 200Mhz CPU and 16MB RAM. Luckily this is a server which was written specifically for low-end systems: github.com/p2r3/bareiron

GitHub - p2r3/bareiron: Minimalist Minecraft server for memory-restrictive embedded systems

Minimalist Minecraft server for memory-restrictive embedded systems - p2r3/bareiron

github.com

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · 26d

Mephiles reports that he only had to remove 3 lines of optional network config code to get the "bareiron" embedded MC server built and running on the DC with our KallistiOS indie SDK (which has great API support for POSIX and networking). Here's the original repo: github.com/p2r3/bareiron.

GitHub - p2r3/bareiron: Minimalist Minecraft server for memory-restrictive embedded systems

Minimalist Minecraft server for memory-restrictive embedded systems - p2r3/bareiron

github.com

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · 26d

Can we get a HELL YEAH for developer, Mephiles, who was just able to host a #Minecraft server on his Sega #Dreamcast (right) and connect to it successfully using a PC client (left)!?

#retrogaming #gamedev #retrocomputing

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Iced Lizard Games - Wishlist Panic in Puzzle World! @icedlizardgames.bsky.social · Sep 6

Soon... #dreamcast

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Sep 6

Mad modder Esppiral has done it AGAIN by bringing the #Simpsons Hit and Run to the Sega #Dreamcast!

...okay, fine, you got me! This is Homer Simpson in a heavily modded Grand Theft Auto Vice City on the Sega Dreamcast! 😂

Follow him on YT for more:
www.youtube.com/@esppiral

#gamedev #retrogaming

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm only happy to do what little I can to spread awareness of the amazing work you guys are doing for the whole #retro #gaming community

It's you guys' efforts that push the envelope & help make development more accessible and less intimidating for newcomers too, helping the scene bloom
#dreamcast

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 31

I've been previewing it already, ensuring it could build Mario Kart 64, and it's amazing! It's hilarious how bleeding edge the GCC15 toolchain it has bundled with it for DC is, compared to what you can even get for your host machine on Windows. lmao.

Thanks so much for helping to spread the word!

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 31

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!

#retrogaming #gamedev #indiegame

𝚂𝚒𝚉𝚒𝙾𝚄𝚂 @sizious.bsky.social · Aug 30

📣 #DreamSDK R4 is out!

A modern, ready-to-use package for Sega #Dreamcast development on Windows.

If you’re on Windows and want to start coding for your Dreamcast right away, this is for you.

📥 Download: github.com/dreamsdk/dre...

Code::Blocks 25.03 x64 DreamSDK Edition in action

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ohoooo snap! What a badass paper! You got a link to the whole thing? I'm writing a whole matrix/linear algebra library for this FPU and am wondering if maybe there's other stuff I can do with it within the context of general math. lol.

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 29

But no, haven't gone through comparing every value and probably won't need to. It's going to be approximately equal with some size of absolute and relative FP error, which I will try to quantify programmatically.. But we abuse FSRRA for all kinds of approximations. It's more than accurate enough.

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 29

I totally agree with you. Problem is we're still trying to figure out EXACTLY wtf the absolute and relative errors are for FSRRA to begin with, considering I have demonstrated programmatically on the HW that what Sega said in the docs is total BS...

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just discovered a new way to calculate an approx sqrt of a floating point number 5 cycles faster than using the dedicated instruction on the Sega Dreamcast's SH4, by combining the fast inverse sqrt approximation instruction and a multiplication!

#gamedev #retrogaming #retrocomputing #optimization

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 22

Epic retro homebrew community cross-over with Elias's beautiful upcoming PS1 game running on the Sega Dreamcast via Paul Cercueil's hotly anticipated "Bloom" emulator!

Elias Daler @eliasdaler.bsky.social · Aug 22

My PS1 game running on Sega Dreamcast. 🤯

This is not a port, this is a PS1 emulator for Dreamcast called "Bloom" written by Paul Cercueil.

#ps1 #segadreamcast #dreamcast #gamedev #indiedev

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 11

Jnmartin's Sega #Dreamcast port of #MarioKart 64 is now available! Here's 6+ minutes of footage captured directly from an actual DC console to celebrate!

It was an absolute honor to get to be a part of this one!

Build Instructions:
github.com/jnmartin84/m...

#gamedev #indiegame #retrogaming

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks so much!! We've been loving watching people finally get to play it!

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · Aug 10

It's here!
Mario Kart 64 for #Sega #Dreamcast

Brought to you my the 2 mad geniuses,
"JNMartin" & @falcogirgis.bsky.social
who has meticulously ported the whole game to run natively on DC

all made possible by the recent decomp from just a couple of months back
#retro #gaming #romhack #homebrew #n64

ReCollect64 @recollect64.bsky.social · Aug 8

Mario Kart 64 DC Released!

Driving Dreamcast Ports! ~ Aug 8, 2025

defaultdnb.github.io/ReCollect64/...

#N64 #ReCollect64 Props @videogameesoterica.bsky.social

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 11

Esppiral has just released V.03 of his epic texture and model MOD for our Sega #Dreamcast port of Grand Theft Auto 3! Just look at Claude's jacket and that Xbox-level of detail on the foliage!

You can find it here:
gamebanana.com/mods/589485

#gta #retrogaming #gamedev

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Falco Girgis @falcogirgis.bsky.social · Aug 9

Grabbed some final moneyshots for the repo of our Mario Kart 64 port to the Sega #Dreamcast. Fixing the build system for Windows DreamSDK users before posting an alpha release trailer!

Linux and Mac users, you can already build your images here: github.com/jnmartin84/m...

#gamedev #retrogaming

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