- Dreamcast-Scene
Dreamcast-Scene (short: DCS) is a
Dreamcast advocacy organization. Dreamcast is a discontinuedvideo game console fromSega that has attracted a cult following over the years. Dreamcast-Scene collect signatures for various pro-Dreamcast petitions, and recently they've taken to developing and publishing their own Dreamcast games.Dreamcast-Petition
When
Ikaruga was released for the Dreamcast in2002 some Dreamcast gamers were motivated to fight for their beloved console. They looked for a means to call attention to the Dreamcast and it's fanbase, and found it in early2003 with anpetition at [http://Dreamcast-Petition.com Dreamcast-Petition.com] .Unlike most
online petition s, the petition on Dreamcast-Petition can't be signed online, it has to be printed out and physically mailed back like a regular petition. This gave the movement additional credibility and separated it from the masses of easily-ignored online petitions. Dreamcast-Petition collected hundreds of signatures for new Dreamcast games. Thanks toLik-Sang , aHong Kong videogame dealer, this new movement gained some measure of worldwide fame.The Games Convention
After the announcement of Border Down, Dreamcast-Petition and Lik-Sang decided to have a booth at the
2003 Games Convention inLeipzig to promote themselves and Dreamcast advocacy in general. The booth also featured theTreamcast , an unofficial portable Dreamcast and could play a number of Japanese imports.The booth saw over 100,000 visitors over the course of the convention, and went a long way to publicizing the movement. They collected nearly 1000 signatures.
Tina Sakowsky , the general manager of Sega Germany, was a special guest of honor and announced her support for Dreamcast-Petition.Dreamcast-Scene
A couple months after their appearance in Leipzig, Dreamcast-Petition decided to refocus themselves, and do more than simply collect signatures for petitions. They wanted become a central repository for Dreamcast news and information, and build an
online community around Dreamcast advocacy. Finally, and most ambitiously, they also decided to start developing and producing their own Dreamcast games.In light of this change of direction, they renamed themselves to Dreamcast-Scene. Soon after, they announced their first product, "Dreamcast Demo Disk #01," a collection of the best Dreamcast programs, demos and games.
Demoscene
After April
2004 , Dreamcast-Scene began to focus primarily on promoting Dreamcast-exclusive demos and gaining acceptance in the internationaldemoscene , at the expense of promoting their online community, which largely floundered.Dreamcast-Scene made their presence known at several demoscene meet-ups, including at tUM*03 (The Ultimate Meeting, December 2003,
Hemsbach ) and at the popularBreakpoint (April 2004,Bingen ). There they sold Dreamcast demos. They also handed out freeCD s that contained program samples,source code , and the free developer kitKallistiOS .RedSpotGames
On 31st January 2007, redspotgames, the publishing company of DCS, released their first game.
Using the free
KallistiOS SDK , a port of the Neo Geo Homebrew game "Last Hope", developed by "NG:DEV.TEAM" was sold via various online stores onJanuary 31 ,2007 .At the
Games Convention 2007, 2 new Games for the Dreamcast have been announced. The first one beingWind & Water Puzzle Battles , and the second one being Dalforce. Wind & Water Puzzle Battles is now scheduled for release in Summer 2008.In fall 2007, the redspotgames edition Dreamcast was given away in a contest held at Dreamcast-Scene.
External links
* [http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/ Dreamcast-Scene]
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