DC fan and coder looking to contribute

[nix]

Hello DC gang! After finding some tools and resources by googling, I found this site. I have plenty of spare compute power and I'm looking to contribute to the porting efforts. Ian's work on the NeoGeo front is a huge inspiration! Can anyone suggest where to start with this endeavor? What would be some good candidates for old school games for a beginner to attempt ports of? Im thinking of some freeware titles for practice, but ultimately Celeste or Spelunky classic would be goals. Any good advice is appreciated. I'm looking learn while expanding the dc library.

[Ryo_Hazuki]

Some of those DOS spaceship games.

[dubcity]

Welcome!
I second Ryo says. Maybe try your hand at raptor.

https://github.com/skynettx/dosraptor

[nix]

Great idea! Thank you both. I will get to work!

[DreamState]

Hello DC gang! After finding some tools and resources by googling, I found this site. I have plenty of spare compute power and I'm looking to contribute to the porting efforts. Ian's work on the NeoGeo front is a huge inspiration! Can anyone suggest where to start with this endeavor? What would be some good candidates for old school games for a beginner to attempt ports of? Im thinking of some freeware titles for practice, but ultimately Celeste or Spelunky classic would be goals. Any good advice is appreciated. I'm looking learn while expanding the dc library.

Any chance you might know how to deal with game files to get them made into CDIs? I’m having trouble with one certain game right now.

[dubcity]

Any chance you might know how to deal with game files to get them made into CDIs? I’m having trouble with one certain game right now.

Look up boot dreams.

[DreamState]

I am using Bootdreams already. Several games I’ve had zero trouble with except PSOv2.

[Ryo_Hazuki]

One game I would like to see running on the Dreamcast is Trespass: Jurassic Park. But I'm not sure if that's something that can be done.

https://github.com/OpenTrespasser/Juras ... Trespasser

[nix]

I've got DreamSDK up and running. I'm looking at source for a number of dos games currently. I'm trying to see if I can get anything to compile for dc, what errors i get, and how much is required to replace obsolete/incompatable linked libraries. I see someone ported spelunky classic to psp, so that gives me hope that maybe source can be compiled for dc. Dcemulation forum looks like it gets pretty technical so there may be some good answers there for anyone else interested in porting. I will update soon with any challenges or solutions that i find!