not a lot of it is exclusive but these ports are basically flawless on ODEs, they just feel like Dreamcast games. Some games I'm looking forward to are Rumble Fish 2 (never ported) Sushi Bar (unreleased but dumped, and I previewed it on insert credit), knights of valour, dolphin blue, faster than speed(lol), all the SNK games, hokuto no ken, and maybe we'll get hold of some more unreleased games like Kenju or force 5.

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Posted by exodus on November 11, 2020 at 23:33:59 EST in reply to I think Demolish Fist and Dolphin Blue wound be the big ones, right? What is Atomiswave exclusive? (n/t) from SignOfZeta.

not a lot of it is exclusive but these ports are basically flawless on ODEs, they just feel like Dreamcast games. Some games I'm looking forward to are Rumble Fish 2 (never ported) Sushi Bar (unreleased but dumped, and I previewed it on insert credit), knights of valour, dolphin blue, faster than speed(lol), all the SNK games, hokuto no ken, and maybe we'll get hold of some more unreleased games like Kenju or force 5.

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What is an ODE?

(SignOfZeta)

(10:13:07 11/12/20 EST)

it's an "optical drive emulator" - basically it replaces your disc drive with a solid state thing that you can run roms on (but not discs). It reduces or removes most load time which is why it was relevant here. The big difference between the Atomiswave and the Dreamcast was apparently just the way it read data, and once the hombrew folks figured that out, they found it was incredibly easy to port Atomiswave games flawlessly to Dreamcast as long as it had an ODE (which replicates the data loading environment of the Atomiswave cartridge). But once they had THAT figured out they were able to retroactively make disc images too, albeit images that have black loading screens here and there, and some odd incremental load-ins of data. But otherwise it works great even on disc now, when you consider how long it's been since this all came to light (maybe two weeks).

(exodus)

(13:29:07 11/12/20 EST)

...this sure makes all those PS2 ports look even more offensive.

(SignOfZeta)

(20:55:53 11/13/20 EST)

it's pretty cool. 24+ "new" dreamcast games coming in 2020/2021.

(exodus)