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Dreamcast~NAOMI to finally die - SEGA will stop GD-ROM Production in February 2007
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| AirRaid 2007-01-30, 7:48 pm |
| http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/inde...ductionpetition
It is certain that Sega of Japan plans to discontinue production of
GD-ROM media in February, 2007. This media is used almost exclusively
by the Sega Dreamcast home console, and the NAOMI arcade system. By
stopping production, future official games (licensed by Sega) on the
Dreamcast or NAOMI will not be possible.
(The NAOMI is important, because games such as Ikaruga, Border Down,
Puyo Puyo Fever, and nearly all official import DC games from 2004-2007
originated on NAOMI.)
If GD-ROM production is discontinued, this means:
* No more NAOMI arcade games.
* No more NAOMI ports to Dreamcast (Recent NAOMI ports include Under
Defeat and Radirgy).
* Trigger Heart Exelica (February 2007) and Karous (March 2007) will
unexpectedly be the final official Dreamcast games.
* The NAOMI 2 will no longer be supported.
* The Chihiro arcade board will no longer be supported.
* GD-ROM capabilities of the Triforce arcade board will no longer be
supported.
This doesn't need to happen, as developers are fond of the NAOMI for
its relative low cost, ease of production and accessibility, and
straightforward ports to the Dreamcast home console. Warashi returned
to the scroll shooting genre with Trigger Heart Exelica on NAOMI, and
Milestone would likely gladly continue to produce further games
following Karous on the system as well.
Sega themselves have recently presented Dynamite Deka EX running on
NAOMI. If GD-ROM production continues, there is a much greater chance
that we'll see a home console port of this game on DC within a year.
Please speak up now, and help us to ensure the continuation of GD-ROM
production.
In order to show your opposition for the ceasing of production of
GD-ROM media, please click on the image below, save and print, sign and
date it, and then mail it to Sega of Japan, located at the following
address:
Sega of Japan
1-2-12 Haneda
Ohta-ku, Tokyo, 144-8531
Japan
Because of the urgency of this matter, we, as Dreamcast-Scene, do not
have time to compile collected signatures and send them in a large
package as usual. These letters will need to be sent straight to the
source. If you bring the sealed and addressed envelope to your local
post office, they will be able to affix the exact amount of postage.
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| 8bitwizard 2007-01-30, 7:48 pm |
| In article <1169075260.739098.239920@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>,
"AirRaid" <AirRaid1500@gmail.com> wrote:
quote:
> http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/inde...ductionpetition
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> It is certain that Sega of Japan plans to discontinue production of
> GD-ROM media in February, 2007. This media is used almost exclusively
> by the Sega Dreamcast home console, and the NAOMI arcade system. By
> stopping production, future official games (licensed by Sega) on the
> Dreamcast or NAOMI will not be possible.
Most (all?) Dreamcasts can boot from CD-ROM via the multi-session
loophole. Is this true for the NAOMI hardware as well? The only thing
you lose is a few hundred megabytes, but CD-ROM does (as I understand
it) have better error correction than GD-ROM.
CD-ROM boot for Dreamcast also has the advantage of not needing to be
licensed by Sega. Yes, I know there are supposed to be reliability
problems with reading CD-R, but a homebrew developer can always get a
run of CD-ROM discs pressed.
I was surprised to hear that they are still pressing Dreamcast GD-ROM
games, even if they are Japan-only.
quote:
> This doesn't need to happen, as developers are fond of the NAOMI for
> its relative low cost, ease of production and accessibility, and
> straightforward ports to the Dreamcast home console.
Straightforward ports to what is esentially a dead system? (and long
dead outside of Japan) I can't see how that can be useful in 2007.
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| Ken Arromdee 2007-01-30, 7:48 pm |
| In article <1169075260.739098.239920@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com>,
AirRaid <AirRaid1500@gmail.com> wrote:
quote:
>It is certain that Sega of Japan plans to discontinue production of
>GD-ROM media in February, 2007.
No, it is not certain, because all the "sources" for this information come
down to the single site saying it's "certain" without any actual quotes from
Sega.
--
Ken Arromdee / arromdee_AT_rahul.net / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee
"You know, you blow up one sun and suddenly everyone expects you to walk
on water." --Samantha Carter, Stargate SG-1
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