The only way we can have every game go directly to the game website right now is through modifying the disc with hex edit.brourke228 wrote:Currently we have Confidential Mission and Sonic Adventure 2 backed up. In addition, we have set up a web portal to access these websites on DC. Having a single site which links to all the rest makes it easier for redirecting the games. Because after they are redirected via DNS they will be trying to access the server by ip address and if there are multiple websites with same file name for the html file at the top of the website's structure they will be accessing the same file. Like sonic adventure and confidential mission could both have an index.html at the top of their website and this would cause problems when hosting them both on a single server.
Anyway having a web portal to direct to the other game websites gives us the opportunity to do some other things. If you'd like to view what we have so far you can see it here: http://dctalk.no-ip.info. There are still a few pages which are incomplete. We've been designing this website around the planetweb browser. If you'd like to see how it looks on Dreamcast just load up the site on your DC browser. The chat button the left frame will open up planetweb's irc client to our irc channel. We plan to put a database of vmu files in the download section so people can easily acquire vmu games, game saves, etc as well.
The plan is to direct all the games' website buttons to that web portal where you can then click the game sites button to select which site you'd like to view. It's a couple extra links to go through but this makes it easier for us.
Reviving the DC game websites
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No, that is how it's supposed to behave. The page you see to select which region is probably stored on the disc. Trying to redirect all these games via DNS using only one server causes issues which is why we made the Web Portal originally. That is what I was explaining this post...
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Ah gotcha. I completely missed that! Well, I managed to find the archived website for Virtua Athlete 2k:
http://web.archive.org/web/200607211632 ... cas.ne.jp/
http://web.archive.org/web/200607211632 ... cas.ne.jp/
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Re: Reviving the DC game websites
Looked liked someone else archived the US Sonic Adventure 1 site.
http://www.goodcowfilms.com/farm/games/ ... /index.htm
Remains of US Chu Chu Rocket & Samba De Amigo pages also present.
http://www.goodcowfilms.com/farm/games/ ... /index.htm
Remains of US Chu Chu Rocket & Samba De Amigo pages also present.
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Awesome nice find! It looks like the links are broken on some of the pages. I can probably fix that.
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Perfect, thanks rjay. I'm sure we can fix it with some time.
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Sega Rally 2:
http://web.archive.org/web/200211250500 ... rally.com/
**(Don't go any later on archive.org or you'll get the GBA and PS2 Sega Rally games)**
Items of note are a player's guide and the rankings on the Japanese language side.
Toy Racer: http://toyracer.dream-key.com Not archived as site banned crawlers.
http://web.archive.org/web/200211250500 ... rally.com/
**(Don't go any later on archive.org or you'll get the GBA and PS2 Sega Rally games)**
Items of note are a player's guide and the rankings on the Japanese language side.
Toy Racer: http://toyracer.dream-key.com Not archived as site banned crawlers.
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I added those two. Also the sites that were on goodcowfilms are now backed up. I was able to fix them for the most part...
http://sa1.dreamcast-talk.com
http://samba.dreamcast-talk.com
http://chuchu.dreamcast-talk.com
http://sa1.dreamcast-talk.com
http://samba.dreamcast-talk.com
http://chuchu.dreamcast-talk.com
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Non-archived URL's as sites banned crawlers.
Dreamkey 1.0 & Dreamkey 1.5: portal.dream-key.com
UEFA Dream Soccer: dreamsoccer.dream-key.com
SFA3 EU page: zero3-eu.dricas.ne.jp
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Power Smash (Virtua Tennis JPN): http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://pow ... as.ne.jp/*
Broken homepage but rankings available
Virtua On Oratorio Tangram
http://web.archive.org/web/200704020312 ... jp/oratan/
Rankings available but no VMS files archived so downloads gone
Dreamkey 1.0 & Dreamkey 1.5: portal.dream-key.com
UEFA Dream Soccer: dreamsoccer.dream-key.com
SFA3 EU page: zero3-eu.dricas.ne.jp
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Power Smash (Virtua Tennis JPN): http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://pow ... as.ne.jp/*
Broken homepage but rankings available
Virtua On Oratorio Tangram
http://web.archive.org/web/200704020312 ... jp/oratan/
Rankings available but no VMS files archived so downloads gone
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