Dreamcast-like game launcher for windows

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Dreamcast-like game launcher for windows

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Hi, everyone.

I found this place looking for Dreamcast Forums to try to get some feedback for my new game launcher.
I'll post a little media below.
[Youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxSaNDYSvtY[/Youtube]

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So Yume IO is basically a game launcher for Windows PCs that has a retro feel of the Dreamcast. It's mainly for if you play a lot of controller games kind of far from your PC, and want to switch between then without getting up and clicking stuff.

So, I'm not going to lie - I could easily be seen as a spammer right now, but I think I could really use the feedback of the members here. People with enough love for the Dreamcast to still come to a Dreamcast forum in 2018. I want to make Yume IO the software answer to the question "What if I had a Dreamcast 2 right now?" and I' am hoping to become part of this community.

Anyway, I'll end this with a link. https://copen-08.itch.io/yume-io (It IS free, by the way- the $2 USD is a suggested donation to show a way to support the project if you do end up loving it, and can be skipped easily.)

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it's neat, if you're looking for more of a 'dreamcast' feel take a look at the 3D BIOS mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX8SyIriz4g

maybe you can get the 'water' thing at the bottom of the bios, and make it a 2x2 icon grid page that can scroll between pages

could play around with slowing down and pitch changing the bios sound and get a 'ocean' like background sound

those are just some ideas since you're looking for feedback on how to make it more dc-like

its nice nonetheless
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DR TEAMCAST wrote:it's neat, if you're looking for more of a 'dreamcast' feel take a look at the 3D BIOS mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX8SyIriz4g

maybe you can get the 'water' thing at the bottom of the bios, and make it a 2x2 icon grid page that can scroll between pages

could play around with slowing down and pitch changing the bios sound and get a 'ocean' like background sound

those are just some ideas since you're looking for feedback on how to make it more dc-like

its nice nonetheless
Thanks for the feedback. I was trying to keep the ground simple because Yume IO is theme-able, and I wanted to keep simple themes a thing, but I might add a setting in themes to use preset ground styles (like a infinity tiling ground, or water).

That video made me notice that the 3D icons are a big thing. I'm hoping I can get Unity3D to import .obj models at run time so I can let people make their own icons in themes too.

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I know this thread is from 2018 but this concept would be cool for gdemu

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dubcity wrote:I know this thread is from 2018 but this concept would be cool for gdemu
Yes, completely agreeuno online

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Edenali9810 wrote:
dubcity wrote:I know this thread is from 2018 but this concept would be cool for gdemu
Yes, completely agreeuno online
And we ended up with something that looked similar so shout out to mrneo240

https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/vi ... =5&t=14537