"Star Fox 64" unofficial port to the Dreamcast has been released
Despite its age, the last SEGA main console to release back in the late 90s, the SEGA Dreamcast, is still seeing massive usage throughout fan community support in the form of homebrew and modding, and most recently, in the form of decompilation games being ported over to it.
The Dreamcast has long been discontinued, being the very last mainstream console that SEGA released back in 1998, with SEGA announcing just a few years later that it will no longer be a hardware developer and instead focus on software going forwards, leading to many exclusive SEGA titles and franchises going to previously known competitors' consoles, like the Sony PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo GameCube.
Since then, the Dreamcast has been receiving homebrew support throughout the decades, and it wasn't until the last past years that the homebrew support for Dreamcast has gotten to the point where games made entirely for different consoles are now being ported to run natively on the Dreamcast, thanks to decompilations becoming more and more common these days.
Some of the most recently ported titles to the SEGA Dreamcast thanks to decompilations are Wipeout, Doom 64, and without a doubt the most impressive ports technically being made where both Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, brought over to the Dreamcast with a lot of optimizations being made to run on SEGA's last console.
Now, another title can be included in the library of decompiled titles ported over to the Dreamcast, with the most recent title being none other that one of the Nintendo 64's flagship game, Star Fox 64, made by jnmartin84, and being available right now on its own GitHub repository.
This Dreamcast port was based on the sf64 decompilation by sonicdcer, from which the PC port Starship was based on as well. One of the most notable features of this Dreamcast port is rumble support, which can be experience on real hardware thorugh the use of one of these devices:
- Sega Jump / Puru Pack
- Performance TremorPak
- Nyko DC Hyper Pak
- Retro Fighters Striker DC Wireless built-in
As with every other decompilation project or port of any officially released title, the Star Fox 64 Dreamcast port requires the user to provide their own ROM of Star Fox 64 in order to be able to compile a CDI image to play on real hardware. jnmartin84 also warns that running this port through a Dreamcast emulator is not supported, so there's no guarantee that the port might work with full compatibility on a Dreamcast emulator.
SF64-DC repository on GitHub
