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Top 15 dreamcast Open-Source Projects
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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KallistiOS
A homebrew SDK/pseudo-operating system for the Sega Dreamcast. This repository is a mirror of the official SourceForge repository for KOS.
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240pTestSuite
A homebrew software suite for video game consoles developed to help in the evaluation of upscalers, upscan converters, line doublers and of course TV processing of 240p video. The Wii and Dreamcast versions have modes for 480i and 480p evaluation as well.
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MaplePad
🍁 Dreamcast controller emulator using RP2040. Supports 8-page memory card, SPI/I2C OLED for VMU LCD, and rumble.
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libGimbal
C17-based extended standard library, cross-language type system, and unit testing framework targeting Sega Dreamcast, Sony PSP and PSVita, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and WebAssembly.
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RetroArch-174-and-above-Cheats
Cheats for CPS1 and CPS2 Games under FBA Core/s and any others Users would like. Unfortunately, Max Upload at a Time is only 100 Files.
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samba-de-amigo-2k_modding
Tools and information to help you mod "Samba de Amigo Ver. 2000" for the Dreamcast, with English translations and custom songs.
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DCSpeedBall2
SpeedBall 2 for Pocket PC/Dreamcast (WCE), with special thanks to Comby Laurent and LemonHaze
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Oneiric-Quest
Oneiric Quest is a Dreamcast emulator in VR that lets you play Samba de Amigo with virtual maracas! It is a fan project, not affiliated with Sega.
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Project mention: 8bitmods Blueretro N64 wireless adaptor is sold out - are the AliExpress ones similar? | /r/n64 | 2023-06-17
Project mention: DreamShell: Operating System for the Sega Dreamcast | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-09
Project mention: DreamShell: Operating System for the Sega Dreamcast | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-09FTA:
"DreamShell
The Dreamshell is the operating system for the Sega Dreamcast based on the KallistiOS[0] kernel. It has a dynamic loadable modular system and interface for creating applications with XML UI and both C/C++ and Lua script on. You can see examples in ready-made applications and modules, drivers for various devices, formats and interfaces. Examples for audio and video decoding, compression, packaging, binding, network, emulation, scripts and more. From hardcore low-level assembler to high-level applications. There are also large subproject is the ISO Loader, which contains emulation of BIOS system calls, CDDA playback and VMU, also it can hooking interrupts for various SDKs and more."
"KallistiOS is an unofficial development kit for the SEGA Dreamcast game console with some support for the NAOMI and NAOMI 2 arcade boards.
KOS was developed from scratch over the internet by a group of free software developers and has no relation to the official Sega Katana or Microsoft Windows CE Dreamcast development kits. This has allowed it to fuel a thriving Dreamcast homebrew scene, powering many commercial releases for the platform over the years. It supports a significant portion of the Dreamcast's hardware capabilities and a wide variety of peripherals, accessories, and add-ons for the console, including custom hardware modifications that have been created by the scene.
Despite the console's age, KOS offers an extremely modern, programmer-friendly development environment. Using the latest GCC toolchain, it supports the entirety of C17 and C++20 including their standard libraries, along with support for portions of C23, C++23, Objective-C, and various POSIX APIs. Additionally, KOS-ports offers a rich set of add-on libraries such as SDL, OpenGL, OpenAL, and Lua for the platform."[0]
[0] https://github.com/KallistiOS/KallistiOS
If I might add: using 240pTestSuite or something similar (there are specific hardwares to output a grid signal and the likes) is a good way to check for convergence issues or bad picture quality overall.
Project mention: MaplePad – RP2040 Dreamcast controller, VMU, and Purupuru (rumble pack) emulator | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-15https://github.com/mackieks/MaplePad/blob/main/src/maple.pio
The cycle accurate assembly language has enabled a number of timing sensitive FIFO data processes. What had to be done with FPGA's before has some limited support with PIO. I hope RPI increases the number of instructions and simultaneous running PIO machines in the future.
I'm a huge academic fan of what GTk has accomplished (thanks to their GObject type system), and as much as I know the C89 crowd who thinks macros are all evil probably abhor this kind of thing, I think GTk is one of the most epic, impressive, ambitious C codebases in existence. Witness as non-OO C matches, rivals, and quite often beats Qt on equivalent classes/features in plain C... It's even above "just C++ style C," as they have added features like a property and signal system...
Such a fanboy it inspired my own type system and massive core library, libgimbal, which uses a type system similar to GObject and targets game consoles like the Sega Dreamcast: https://github.com/gyrovorbis/libgimbal
Project mention: You can play the original Samba de Amigo Dreamcast games... in virtual reality! | /r/dreamcast | 2023-07-05I believe most of you already know that Sega will release the new Samba de Amigo for the Meta Quest - but I'm already playing Samba de Amigo in virtual reality, thanks to the Oneiric Quest - Virtual Reality Samba de Amigo Emulator! 🌟
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
dreamcast related posts
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DreamShell: Operating System for the Sega Dreamcast
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MaplePad – RP2040 Dreamcast controller, VMU, and Purupuru (rumble pack) emulator
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You can play the original Samba de Amigo Dreamcast games... in virtual reality!
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8bitmods Blueretro N64 wireless adaptor is sold out - are the AliExpress ones similar?
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Family room by day... Modded retro gaming cave by night
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Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C [pdf]
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The Dirty Cube - Hazardously Fun
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Index
What are some of the best open-source dreamcast projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BlueRetro | 1,180 |
| 2 | rom-properties | 435 |
| 3 | DreamShell | 405 |
| 4 | KallistiOS | 287 |
| 5 | 240pTestSuite | 201 |
| 6 | MaplePad | 186 |
| 7 | LMP3D | 100 |
| 8 | libGimbal | 63 |
| 9 | dreamcast-saves | 45 |
| 10 | Cuphead_Dreamcast | 44 |
| 11 | RetroArch-174-and-above-Cheats | 23 |
| 12 | samba-de-amigo-2k_modding | 14 |
| 13 | prism | 13 |
| 14 | DCSpeedBall2 | 7 |
| 15 | Oneiric-Quest | 3 |
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