Some time ago there's been an attempt started by Portoguese DC fans to bring ATOMISWAVE games to the SEGA Dreamcast. Similar to the NAOMI arcade board (
Border Down), the ATOMISWAVE board by Sammy (
Guilty Gear X) is nothing less then a slightly modified Dreamcast so it would be very easy to port these games to our little white wonder.
These screenshots were taken from the game
Dolphin Blue, a Metal Slug type 2 player and 2 dimensional action game with 3D polygon graphics.
If you'd like to support this idea you can sign
this petition or -even better- write online a little message to
Sammy! The official ATOMISWAVE website can be found
here
For those who don't know, SEGA and SAMMY are like one company now
-Additional info about the ATOMISWAVE hardware-
The Atomiswave is pretty comparable to NAOMI 2 so it has more RAM and stuff, but it should be very easy to do a decent port to DC:
Atomiswave specs:
CPU : Hitachi SH-4 64-bit RISC CPU (200 MHz 360 MIPS / 1.4 GFLOPS)
Graphic Engine : PowerVR 2 (PVR2DC)
Sound Engine : ARM7 Yamaha AICA 45 MHZ (with internal 32-bit RISC CPU, 64 channel ADPCM)
Main RAM : 32 megs
Main Memory : 16 MByte
Graphic Memory : 16 MByte
Sound Memory : 8 MByte
DC specs:
16 MB main operating RAM
8 MB video RAM (VRAM)
2 MB sound RAM 128KB Flash RAM
= adds to 24 MB MAIN RAM (excluding sound)
32 > 24 = The rest actually
is identical
It'd be pretty easy to port those games to DC...
-Additional info about the ATOMISWAVE games-
Thanks to Icepick who provided the links
Force Five
Game
Screens
The Rumble Fish
Screens and
Official Site
Dolphin Blue
Video on
this page (check out their forums, also!) and
Official Site
The King of Fighters NeoWave
Screens and
Official Site
Demolish Fist
Screens and info
(3D graphics, 2D-style fighter, I think)
There are also a few titles not listed here displayed at System16's AW page:
[url]http://www.system16.com/other/hrdw_atomiswave.html[/URL]
-Write a letter to Sammy-
As an
online petition such as the one started by Porto won't give us DC games, the link offered to send your opinions directly to Sammy should not be overlooked and I would appreciate if everyone who is interested in an ATOMISWAVE port to DC, actually uses the possibility to write a few lines to Sammy:
https://secure.sammy.co.jp/www/contact/index_e.jsp?form=300
Here's my letter:
Dear Sammy,
my question is, wouldn't it be a good idea to port available ATOMISWAVE games to the SEGA Dreamcast as it would be an easy task to do so due to the technical similarity of the SEGA Dreamcast and the ATOMISWAVE arcade board?
There is an installed base of 11 Million SEGA Dreamcasts and most users still have a huge interest in buying new games for it. Also there is a huge amateur programing scene and a highly developed SEGA Dreamcast news network all around the world. Recent releases such as ''Puyo Puyo Fever'' by SEGA show the still existant relevance of the SEGA Dreamcast in today's hardware market. In fact the SEGA Dreamcast fan base all around the world is starving for new releases for it - especially unique games like ''Dolphin Blue'' would be highly demanded.
A lot of Dreamcast users have always been fans of Sammy and SNK/Playmore games so they would welcome a new ''Guilty Gear'' or ''King of Fighters'' game with open arms too.
Yours sincerly,
CN
Here's the letter by Greatsaintlouis:
Greatsaintlouis said:
As many other videogame fans have no doubt been doing in the last few days, I am writing in an effort to make you aware of the gaming community's interest in home ports of current and upcoming Atomiswave games. Due to the Atomiswave's similarity to the Sega Dreamcast console, ports of popular Atomiswave games like Dolphin Blue, The Rumble Fish, Guilty Gear X 1.5 or even Guilty Gear Isuka (although it is already headed to the Playstation 2) would not take as much effort as porting to other systems. Despite the Dreamcast's technical discontinuation, recent releases such as King Of Fighters 2002, Ikaruga, BorderDown, Psyvriar 2 and Puyo Puyo Fever prove not only that the console still has some life in it, but that there are many dedicated fans worldwide who are willing to purchase games released on the system. I implore you, along with the Dreamcast gaming community, to consider bringing us ports of some of the more popular Atomiswave games.
I realize also that the Dreamcast might not be as appealing from a market standpoint, despite it's current fanbase, on account of it's discontinuation. I also wanted to inform you that there is indeed interest in the gaming community in a home version of the Atomiswave system. With the NeoGeo hardware now discontinued, and home NeoGeo systems being far beyond the price range of the average consumer, the market is ripe for a company to step in and bring gaming back to its roots, away from the flashy 3d and fancy production preferred by the likes of Sony and Microsoft, and back to arcade experiences that worked well with but never relied completely on the graphics. With Sammy's aquisition of Sega, you have a seasoned console manufacturer under your wing, and with the proper marketing (decidedly Sega's stumbling block in the past) a new console could be the Neo Geo of the next generation (hopefully without the exorbitant price tag) and would be immensely appealing to retro gamers and new gamers alike who are looking for solid gameplay and an enjoyably experience.
I realize that my one voice is not nearly enough to sway a company of this size, but I hope I will be heard and taken into consideration, as well as any other videogame fans who write to you with these same ideas. There is a petition currently making the rounds in messageboards asking for Atomiswave ports for Dreamcast, and I am sure that when it is finally submitted you will see that there is indeed demand and a market for these kinds of ports.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and take my request into consideration.
Sincerly,
-name-
Another letter by sYk0:
sYk0 said:
Hello Sammy,
I would like to say first that I really enjoy your products. I recently have been reading that the Atomiswave hardware is very close in comparison to the the Dreamcast hardware, just more RAM from what I have read. I would like to say that it would really please me and other Dreamcast users if you could possibly port some of your Atomiswave products to the Dreamcast, as it would not be that difficult to do. There is still a market for Dreamcast games in Japan and in the US. New games are still being released also, such as Chaos Field, and I have purchased them, because the Dreamcast is my favorite system. I would like to tell you that I would support your porting of Atomiswave products to Dreamcast by buying them. I also feel that a really good number of other Dreamcast users would also.
Sincerely,
Zachary Miscikoski
-Join Dreamcast-Scene.com's paper petition-
Max of
Dreamcast Scene still takes your contributions to the
paper petition he runs and will send them to SAMMY!
Here's what he said:
Actually, I had contact to Sammy once. Due my experiences with Playmore I noticed that Japanese-based developer are much more friendly to you if you write Japanese petitions.
Currently we have about 300 "real" and 2.000 online signatures and an Japanese translator guy. With the re-opening of DCS in a couple of weeks I also set up some professional petitions in English and Japanese and this will finally go out to Sammy my snail mail.
Huge thanx to Braze as he did a petition form that you could use to support this idea:
http://img38.photobucket.com/albums/v118/braze2032/sapetition.jpg
Please print it out, get your friends to sign it too and send it to:
Post contact
Dreamcast-Scene
Zeilerbergstrasse 52
85405 Nandlstadt
Germany / Europe
Mail contact
info (at) dreamcast-scene (dot) com
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