Saw this on E-bay

I didn't know about this. Very interesting. Do you know about any other development kits? Oh yeah, and welcome to the forums.

 

Those are on Ebay occasionally. Not rare, but not common. I would buy it, but due to lack of funds, I can't.

 

I can remember someone questioning one of those in a magazine. They replied saying that it helped them to take pictures of any Dreamcast game they wanted. I'm sure it can do a lot more than that though.

 

I'd buy it, but I have no clue how to develop DC stuff, and I can't afford it. Cool though.

 

Funny, I thought the games were built on normal pcs, not pc specificly made for the creation of software for a game system. I mean, I watched a behind the scenes thing for LOTR the game and all they did was hook up the PS2 to the pc via USB2. Oh well, you learn something new everyday ^_^ Buy it.

 

how much would this be in American dollars? This is very interesting, if I could I would buy one.

 

156? =
roughly 220$

 

I can imagine that the processor isn't your average consumer jobbie.. The mobo is probably designed with quality as opposed to performance in mind ( to prevent data failure at any point for any reason).
Obviously, to be a DC dev.pc it would probably be able to run the games, so it probably has a dc emulator of kinds.. Coding software that's either been modified via plugin, or a specific software for DC coding.. 3d modeller possibly.. the list goes on, but for specific differences, hardware may be a little different, and you'd have software not normally availible, but other than that... PC :D

 

Ok then, from this point on, I shall refer to it not as the DC Dev. Kit, but the DCPC, a spectical of lights and sound!

 

I've seen a few of those around... someone at one of the boards I frequent bought one, apparently, they're real. I'd buy one myself, but I somply don't live in the UK.

 

Id buy, but im in the US and have no cash. As for the emulator software, it really depends on the OS. If the DCPC had its own OS, I would think the emulator would be built for that OS only, to prevent pirating games and shit like that. Now if they used Linux or Windows perhaps you might have a chance.

 

It would most definitely be tuned to that dev pc's specific hardware.

 

Wouldn't be suprised if it had a linux of freebsd distro on it.
Then again, actually... on the basis that the dreamcast uses windows ce.. it might use a form of windows... quite puzzling...

 

There is no way that thing is using Linux. I don't believe most of the game makers of today would want to put up with all the compiling and configuring needed to install the game developement software. I still believe it had its very own OS. As for it using windows, im open to that suggestion, its possible they used M$'s help.

 

If you look on a dreamcast, it says it runs with Windows CE, which is probably a developer's version of Windows.

EDIT: But of course magraimon already mentioned that, so my post was fairly pointless.