anyone remember #dcdev, dcemu, consolevison?

I still have backups of my sub-site on consolevision and a lot of my code.

As far as people from the old site/irc channel, I still keep in touch with "Sayten" on a fairly regular basis. Haven't been able to figure out how to track down anyone else until now.

This is awesome.

 

Near the end of college I got sidetracked from my personal development efforts/hobby by trying to fulfill my degree requirements, hold down a job and playing in a band for a few years. Started as an intern for an interesting employer while working on my degree and I've been there ever since. 10 years this month. I've been messing with Nintendo 64 homebrew the last few months. Finally got a Doom port working on Nintendo 64, which is the project that started me down the homebrew path almost 15 years ago.

 

Hello darcagn

 

I used to frequent dcemulation.com, boob.co.uk, and consolevision back circa 2001-2004ish. I saw KOS get released, experienced the almost weekly updates of new emulators and homebrew for the system, all kinds of drama in the forums, ill conceived hardware modifications, the opening (and archiving) of the bleemcast forum. It was a fun and exciting time, especially from 2001-2003 when the DC still felt relatively fresh and current gen.

 

I fondly remember trying out DoomDC, though I also remember HyperGamer's annoying ass ruining that for everyone by leaking your betas

 

regex here... author of FrNES for the DC and have many many memories of #dcdev, DcEmulation and the scene around it.

I totally don't post here, but it is one of my favourite places to read about interesting console hardware and mods.

 

Nice to see you around, regex. I always used FrNES over NesterDC for some reason

I also remember when we set up the #dcemu channel to have that massive Q&A/interview session with John Henderson, the "author" of the fake N64 emulator, and you kept coming up with complicated technical questions that he could not answer, pretty much exposing him. Hard to believe that was over a decade ago...

 

Hey darcagn, great to see you! I'm really happy that some people ultimately enjoyed using FrNES, including you.

Yeah that incident in particular was big drama. If I remember correctly the whole fake N64 emu was cooked up by 007 + some friends to drive traffic and interest. Still quite entertaining now even if the level of immaturity displayed is a little cringe inducing (my own included).

Yeah it kind of blows my mind how fast the time has gone by and how much has changed. I've been contemplating doing some DC hardware mods or possibly updating FrNES to run inside DreamShell using modern KOS, improving it further etc., but my free time is pretty much nonexistent. I'm super stoked to see the renewed interest in the console and the ODE projects starting to become finished products.

 

Wow would you look at that... Hello old friends. I designed (and subsequently redesigned) the Consolevision website when it first got started. Also ran a DC coding sub-site there with crt0 and another guy I forgot the nick of called "DC Noobs Anonymous/DNA) or something like that. Later turned to GBA dev and lost contact with the DC guys. You guys learned me a lot of useful things as well as a lot of really dumb things (71k3 t4lk1ng 71k3 th15). Oh and I also fed the tr0ll a mighty number of metal records back then. Am I to assume that the band you played in was of the headbanging sort?

 

I know this thread is over a year old, but wow...This whole thread is a blast from the past! I'd nearly forgotten all the drama that happened in such a short span of time on dcemulation.com and the IRC channels. I used to post frequently there and on Assembler games(somehow lost my old forum account during the transition) back then up until a bit after Propeller Arena was leaked. Like others my postings slowed/died when I went to college, found other hobbies, and then got a job. I too have have become more interested in playing games on actual hardware and using flash carts/optical drive replacements instead along with finding the "best" A/V output from the classic consoles. Great to see that most people are still around in some form or another.

 

I wrote dc_land with a friend, which was pretty shite but used in a few homebrew projects, emulators I think. Didn't hang out much in chat though.