fishsandwich
03-06-2007, 02:12 PM
Karous (aka Crow) is a port of the Naomi arcade shmup and is shipping TODAY. There is a possibility that this will be the last OFFICIAL release on GD-rom as Sega has plans to discontinue the GD-rom format.
Trigger Heart Exelica is another Naomi-to-DC shmup that shipped a few weeks ago.
Last Hope (an unoffical game pressed on CD that was ported from a homebrew Neo-Geo shmup) was released a few months ago.
There is a rumor of a sequel to Trizeal. Anyone heard anything on that? There's certainly more Naomi games that could be ported to Dreamcast if Sega keeps the GD-rom format alive.
The Dreamcast has been kept afloat almost entirely by shmups the last few years. I read somewhere that publishers are almost guaranteed to sell a certain amount of any game in the shooter genre, usually to the same group of buyers. A developer can take a Naomi-based arcade shmup and convert it to Dreamcast fairly easily, then print a few thousand copies and be assured of a sell-out.
Here's a description of Karous /Crow...
Karou comes from the young Japanese developer MileStone. Milestone has been responsible for two other recently released Dreamcast™ shooters -- Chaos Field and Radilgy.
Karous - which translates to 'Crow' in English - looks similar to Chaos Field and especially Radilgy, using many of the same gameplay mechanics of both games and featuring some of the cell-shading style used in Radilgy. The game is about a girl born of a union between an angel and a human. She gets firepower by gaining equipments like a sword, shield and guns. The graphics stick to the basics black and white palette of colours to give the game a gothic feel.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-x-49-en-70-1s2a.html has action pics
Trigger Heart Exelica is another Naomi-to-DC shmup that shipped a few weeks ago.
Last Hope (an unoffical game pressed on CD that was ported from a homebrew Neo-Geo shmup) was released a few months ago.
There is a rumor of a sequel to Trizeal. Anyone heard anything on that? There's certainly more Naomi games that could be ported to Dreamcast if Sega keeps the GD-rom format alive.
The Dreamcast has been kept afloat almost entirely by shmups the last few years. I read somewhere that publishers are almost guaranteed to sell a certain amount of any game in the shooter genre, usually to the same group of buyers. A developer can take a Naomi-based arcade shmup and convert it to Dreamcast fairly easily, then print a few thousand copies and be assured of a sell-out.
Here's a description of Karous /Crow...
Karou comes from the young Japanese developer MileStone. Milestone has been responsible for two other recently released Dreamcast™ shooters -- Chaos Field and Radilgy.
Karous - which translates to 'Crow' in English - looks similar to Chaos Field and especially Radilgy, using many of the same gameplay mechanics of both games and featuring some of the cell-shading style used in Radilgy. The game is about a girl born of a union between an angel and a human. She gets firepower by gaining equipments like a sword, shield and guns. The graphics stick to the basics black and white palette of colours to give the game a gothic feel.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-x-49-en-70-1s2a.html has action pics