Absolutely. That's why I'm back in the scene trying to give back. I've been bleeding for the Dreamcast community and scene lately working on all of the stuff for EVMU, KallistiOS contributions, Dreamcast.wiki guides, and will soon be returning back to the game and engine full-time. I'm trying to release my work open-source as I go so that I'm giving back value to the community and am making contributions to the scene even before the game is done.DCGX wrote:Are your motives pure? Are you willing to finish Elysian Shadows and deliver it to Kickstarter backers?Falco Girgis wrote:Thank you, that would be really awesome. I'm willing to pay a decent, fair price for it, but some of the auctions I see on Ebay in the $300+ range are just so expensive my wife would kill me.
My motives are pure here. I'm really just wanting to make damn sure that now that the Dreamcast is getting back online in the homebrew scene, that we aren't forgetting about this more obscure adapter, and that it's getting the testing and driver work it needs from someone autistic enough and far enough into developing with niche things to give it the love it needs. lmao
I've chatted with Kazade, the lead developer behind Driving Strikers, for example, and all he knows is it should work with the LAN adapter, but it has never once been tested, and if some problem was there, he wouldn't have the resources to debug with it... My intention was to keep it permanently on my second dev DC, so I can be keeping an eye on it and testing with it. I already need to have a second dev DC for testing (one is 16MB RAM, one is 32MB, one is GD-ROM + IDE, one is GDemu), and I felt like I could give more back to the community if I opted for the LAN adapter for it rather than a second BBA.
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Btw, is the RPI3 online-ready? I'm not sure what all DreamPi entails and getting online with it, but that's something else I've been wanting to look into for modem testing a well.
I'm most likely also going to be releasing our engine and toolkit far before ES itself is done too. I poured my heart and soul into those, and I really think they would be a damn fine general development platform that would bring new games and developers to the scene. I just wish I had had the foresight to release my finished work as I went along rather than falling into depression and letting everything go to shit because the game was late and people were pissed off at me.
The truth is that I grew up in this scene. I learned to code just for Dreamcast. My very first sprite I ever drew was with the PVR and KOS, not some PC stuff with SDL or OpenGL. This scene and platform have made me the developer who I am today, and I missed being here and being a part of it more than I can even tell you.
Anyway, people have every right to be pissed off at me. Shit, I'm pissed off at me...but yeah, I'm back to atone for my sins, and my commitment to the DC and this scene has never been stronger.