Jaseman wrote:Ooh, those indie games look great! Might have to snag one of them, not sure yet which one. Did DCres kick the bucket? I can't get the Sonic Adventure 2 split release
I think I'll probably snag an SD card reader; considering using dc-sd.com or something, as it's USA based.
I'll be getting my USB 56k modem and, following one of the guides on this site, set up my Dreamcast to play some PSO
DCRes is done. I don't know if he made any formal announcement, but he hasn't been around for about a year and I don't think he's done a game for longer than that. In doing the ReviveDC games, we were curious why some of his games were downsampled when they didn't need to be and it actually turns out that he just straight up stole the binaries from a lot of scene games. Not too sure why, Lodoss War was one of the worst offenders. He claimed the PAL version lacked the protection of the US one, which is a load of crap since the files are identical save for audio I think it was. He had just taken the binaries from another scene group that had beat the protection. His later releases tended to be mostly his own work, though. It's kind of odd since he did so many guides and whatnot… I don't get why he wouldn't just always do his own work.
Anyways, ReviveDC uses the data/data selfboot format, which is more reliable anyways, and we always source from GDIs and atreyu187 rips his own GD-ROMs if he has the game. No stolen binaries here. You may be able to get the Sonic Adventure 2 split release from the ISO Zone, I'm not sure though; a lot of DCRes games are still there uploaded by others. I don't think we'll ever do any split releases. If we get to Sonic Adventure 2 it would probably be a full 99 minute alongside an 80 minute downsample.