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Porting Dreamcast Ikaruga to Atomiswave

Chrone

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Seeing the AW->DC porting work over at the dreamcast-talk forums, I was curious to see how it would work trying to go the other direction. Since Atomiswave never had any shooters I started with Ikaruga. Long story, short--it works great and Ikaruga is completely playable.

I used Sport Shooting USA as the base rom to make it drop-in playable on the aje_fr multi.


 
Couple questions.

Does this still allow you to get to options menu and save options to the cart?

There are several other excellent shmups on the DC...any plans for those?
 
Crazy to think the shmups Dreamcast library can be ported to the Atomiswave
Thats pretty cool
 
bagheera369 said:
Couple questions.

Does this still allow you to get to options menu and save options to the cart?

There are several other excellent shmups on the DC...any plans for those?
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You can still access options but there's no persistence. The Dreamcast flash shim lives in regular RAM.

No plans for any other games as of now. Mars Matrix was my real target but I started with Ikaruga since I thought that would be the easiest one for a first attempt. I also did Power Stone which feels right at home on the AW.

My next project is flashing MM to an actual standalone cart. Booting it on the multi is great but a custom Mars Matrix cartridge would be awesome.
 
Considering theres also AW-> Naomi conversions, would be possible Naomi->AW? Nothing heavy… just some shmups like Under Defeat or Psyvariar2. Having those games in a tiny Atomiswave would be great
 
jandrogo said:
Considering theres also AW-> Naomi conversions, would be possible Naomi->AW? Nothing heavy… just some shmups like Under Defeat or Psyvariar2. Having those games in a tiny Atomiswave would be great
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Those two in particular would be straightforward since you could port their respective Dreamcast GDIs.
 
FastStriker, Gunlord, Neo XYX would be very nice to see on AW!
Great work, when will Ikaruga be released ?
 
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