There is a new petition around to bring some new games to the Dreamcast:
Similar to the NAOMI arcade board (
Border Down,
Ikaruga), the ATOMISWAVE hardware by Sammy (
Guilty Gear X / Guilty Gear Isuka) is nothing less then a slightly modified Dreamcast so it would be very easy to port these games to our little white wonder.
The Atomiswave is pretty comparable to NAOMI 2 so it has more RAM, but it should be very easy to do a decent port to DC:
Atomiswave specs:
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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 MByte
Main Memory : 16 MByte
Graphic Memory : 16 MByte
Sound Memory : 8 MByte
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DC specs:
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16 MB main operating RAM
8 MB video RAM (VRAM)
2 MB sound RAM 128KB Flash RAM
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= adds to 24 MB MAIN RAM (excluding sound)
32 > 24 = The rest actually
is identical! It would be very easy to convert that down!
The official ATOMISWAVE website can be found
here
MVS 2 = Atomiswave (and that's offical!)
AES 2 = Dreamcast?
For SNK the Atomiswave is something like the official NEOGEO MVS 2, so let's convince SAMMY with this petition so it would be possible that the Dreamcast could be the a 2nd NEO GEO AES 2 for SNK!
...and beside that SEGA and SAMMY are like one company now:
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 the idea to bring Atomiswave games to DC you can write online a little message to Sammy using
this contact form!
If you've done it you'll recieve this letter one or two days later:
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Thank you for your inquiry about our product.
It is not scheduled to convert ATOMISWAVE titles into DREAMCAST at this moment. We will make good use of your idea in our future development.
Thank you.
Sammy Corporation
public relations dept.
23-2, Higashi-ikebukuro, 2-chome, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 170-8436, Japan
E-mail$B!'([email protected]$B!!(B
URL http://www.sammy.co.jp
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Max aka Freeze of
www.Dreamcast-Scene.com (he already initiated and organized a successful petition for
Border Down) still takes your contributions to the paper petition he runs and will send them to SAMMY!
Here's what he said:
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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 a 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.
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Just set up your own little petition and draw a little picture or drop SAMMY a few lines and pass them over to Max:
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Post contact
Dreamcast-Scene
Zeilerbergstrasse 52
85405 Nandlstadt
Germany / Europe
Mail contact
info (at) dreamcast-scene (dot) com
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An online petition can be signed
here. This new attempt to bring Atomiswave games to Dreamcast has been started by the Portoguese DC fan André Oliveira that I am currently in contact with to change the text of the petition. I've got reply from him as I send him a new text I wrote for his petition:
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Hi Chris,
I'm working to change the petition text...
Well, i'm portuguese and my native language is not the english... but i know
recognize my errors and off course i'll change the petition text....
There's no login or something to the petition site so there's no option to
change the text..... so i'll contact the owner of the site to change text if
it's possible...
[...]I did not get the reply of "petition on-line". but i'll wait some
hours and if i don't get a reply, i send the mail again.
sorry my bad english and thanks for the suport.
it's a good cause to the dreamcast all-world community 
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We will join forces with MAX aka Freeze from Dreamcast-Scene.com as he has contact to a JAPANESE translator so he can do a real good letter for a huge package of 'real' subscribers for it!
The official Dreamcast-Scene.com relaunch is planned in three or four weeks and ALL the petitions will be collected over there to send them as a printed paper petition to SEGA-SAMMY Co. in ONE huge package:
[img]http://dcrevival.********/images/dolphinblue.jpg[/img]
:P (by MaxiDCGamer - now sent to
www.dreamcast-scene.com)
I think SAMMY will think when they see how many people from all over the world do sign a paper petition too, do organize a letter in JAPANESE (Max of Dreamcast-Scene.com will do it), draw pictures and send this stuff together with the printed online petition to SEGA-SAMMY in ONE huge package 8)
PS: Greetings to speud.
Chris