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* Half Life: Blue Shift (BETA) was posted online. Date: 01/10/2003 (3D 1PS)

On February 16, 2006, Sega once again began selling Dreamcast consoles through its online store, Sega Direct of Japan. The package deal included a refurbished Dreamcast, a cell phone card, and Radilgy - a new 2D shooter game by developer Milestone. A short time later, developer G.rev followed that game with a second new 2D shooter game called Under Defeat in March. Both releases were for the Japanese market alone. While the refurbished package has been discontinued, Sega Direct does still sell several Dreamcast software titles. On May 20, 2006, Sega of Japan went live with free Phantasy Star Online servers. A translated excerpt from the article reads, "I would like "Phantasy Star Online" to play forever in users. [...] Please continue your favours toward the degree in which 'Phantasy Star Online' is patronized."

On May 30, 2006, the gaming website IGN officially relaunched IGN Dreamcast with the goal of revisiting the 243 North American-released Dreamcast games and give "new impressions, screens and videos" and compare them to the gaming experience provided by PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii games.

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On January 31, 2007, a port of the Neo Geo game Last Hope, developed by NG:DEV.TEAM was published by redspotgames via Play-Asia.com and various other stores. The GOAT store has planned other games which would be released in the year 2007.

On February 22, 2007, a port of the Naomi powered 2D shooter Trigger Heart Exelica, developed by Warashi, was released on Dreamcast for the Japanese market with both a current and a limited edition release. Despite rumours that went around the internet, the game was not retitled to Trigger Heart Extension for the Dreamcast release.

Milestone announced that Karous, their new NAOMI vertical shooter, would be making its way to Dreamcast on March 8, 2007.

* Fast Striker was released in 2011 (2D OT Shmup)

* GunLord was released in 2012 (2D Platform Side Scroll Shooter)

* Geist Force was finally released in 2012 (3D Rail Shooter)

In addition, Dreamcast continues to have a modest hacking enthusiast community. The availability of Windows CE software development kits on the Internet, as well as ports of Linux [1] and NetBSD/Dreamcast [2] operating systems, gave programmers a selection of familiar development tools to work with. A homebrew minimal operating system named KallistiOS offers good hardware support (though it does not provide multitasking, which is generally unimportant for games anyway). Many emulators and other tools such as MP3 and DivX players and image viewers have been ported to or written for the console, taking advantage of the relative ease with which a home user can burn a CD that can be booted by an unmodified Dreamcast. One of the unusual but interesting hack example is QNX Dreamcast Project [3].

Canceled AccessoriesToward the end of Dreamcast's lifespan, Sega created and displayed prototypes of a high-capacity VMU/MP3 player, DVD player, and Zip drive peripherals. None of these items became available to the public.

Piracy

The proprietary GD-ROM format was the only means of piracy protection and was quickly defeated. Using a combination of reverse-engineering and insecure firmware, one piracy method was made possible by the existence of regular-CD booting code in the Dreamcast BIOS to enable multimedia functions (called Mil-CD) for music CD releases on the Japanese market. This lead to the creation of the Utopia bootdisk. Mil-CD support was removed from the final Dreamcast revisions. It has been said upon discovery of this information and the addition of a boot-disc that over 100,000 additional Dreamcast units were sold within months.

Prior to the discovery of the swap file, many pirated games suffered from downgraded or missing audio and video streams. Some even denote a high degree of hardware and software knowledge, like the method used on the Echelon release of Skies of Arcadia. Because the game came on two GD-ROMs, featured no pre-rendered FMV, and all audio was chip generated, there was nothing to be ripped or downsampled from it. Therefore, the game was reprogrammed with a decompression program that actually handled data management on the fly .

One of the least successfully pirated games on the system was WARP's D2. Shipping on four GD-ROMs and each filling the 1.1 GB capacity, the game required the user to swap discs without saving to continue on. Swapping to a new disc initiated another disc security check by the system, which would then fail. Pirates eventually circumvented this by using 99 minute CD-R's, but because of the rarity of the discs, the method was not widespread. Other multi-disc games like Shenmue 2 let the user save before swapping discs, whereby they would then power down and load the next disc if it wasn't a legitimate copy.

Eventually with the dedication of multiple release groups, every game successfully implemented a swap file to bypass not only copy protection, but allowed the user to create a near perfect copy. The aforementioned problems with Shenmue 2 and D2 have since been corrected.
GamesEdit

As of September 2006, the Sega Dreamcast has more than 730 official games available in its library and is still growing.[1]

A refurbished version of Metal Gear Solid was rumoured to be released on the Dreamcast, but this was denied by Konami[2].

Dreamcast features games with the following ratings from the ESRB:

* Everyone: 151
* Teen: 93
* Mature: 32
* Adult: 2 [6]

In Popular Culture

* As part of Sega's promotions of the Dreamcast in Europe, the company sponsored four European football clubs: English team Arsenal F.C., French team AS Saint-Étienne, Italian team U.C. Sampdoria and Spanish club Deportivo de La Coruña.
* In episode 5 of Mission Hill, Kevin and his friends are seen playing a Dreamcast.
* In the television show London's Burning, the firefighters were occasionally seen browsing the internet on a Dreamcast during their free time.
* In the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the characters of Nick Stokes and Warrick Brown were hinted to be playing Dreamcast sports games, and Stokes was shown playing a Football game with a Dreamcast controller early in the first season.
* In an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, Dewy is seen playing a Dreamcast in a limousine with a wedding party.
* In an episode of television show South Park, the boys steal children's teeth and get money from the "tooth-fairy" to buy a Dreamcast.
* In the sitcom My Wife and Kids, a Dreamcast can be seen played by Michael and Junior in various episodes. The console was replaced with a PlayStation 2 in later episodes.
* In the English television show Dream Team, members of the Harchester United F.C. were often seen playing the Dreamcast.
* Lots of Dreamcast products can be seen in the movie Josie and the Pussycats: Consoles, Crazy Taxi and Space Channel 5, and the stage where the band is playing is called "Sega Mega Arena"
* In the popular webcomic Penny Arcade, the character John Gabriel once owned a Dreamcast which was destroyed when his apartment was set on fire.
* A Dreamcast is seen on The Drew Carey Show in Season 6 (previous seasons feature a Sega Saturn).
* Sega was a sponsor of the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. During the program, Ulala (of Space Channel 5 fame) announced the nominees for the Viewers' Choice category.
* A Dreamcast is visible in the episode Back of British sit-com Spaced.
* A Dreamcast is seen a few times in Sonic Unleashed ."

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* Half Life: Blue Shift (BETA) was posted online. Date: 01/10/2003 (3D 1PS)

* Fast Striker was released in 2011 (2D OT Shmup)

* GunLord was released in 2012 (2D Platform Side Scroll Shooter)

* Geist Force was finally released in 2012 (3D Rail Shooter)