The Dreamcast Junkyard DreamPod

We said 2025 might be the year of the port, but 2026 is shaping up to steal that title. Tom, Lewis and Jaz are rounding up the latest news on the usual new indies, fan translations and online revivals, but the current star is undoubtedly the abundance of new and upcoming fan ports making their way to the console. We've got Nintendo favourites like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Wave Race 64, Sega all-stars such as Sonic R and Panzer Dragoon, and the first examples of fan-made NAOMI ports coming to the Dreamcast. And that's only scratching the surface! 

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(This episode was recorded on the 7th of September, since then some of the projects discussed have since been completed or made public)

Links to (some of) the news discussed in this episode:

• White Creek
• VGNYsoft Dreamcast reissues in GameStop
• Noah and the Poohloudies
• HyperSolar
• Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen
• Premier Eleven
• Cleopatra Fortune Plus NAOMI port
• Dance of Light: Round Dance Special NAOMI port
• Monkey Ball Port (Memorix101)
• Monkey Ball Port (HollowOwl)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Sonic R port
• Panzer Dragoon port
• Sonic CD port
• Star Wars Trilogy Arcade port
• Balatro port
• Dragon's Lair and Space Ace ports
• Triggerheart Exelica English fan translation
• Magic: The Gathering English fan translation
• Magic: The Gathering SHIRO! Showcase
• deSPIRIA English fan translation
• Online Dreamcast updates
• Pro Yakyuu Team de Asobou Net! online

Featuring music from: Sega Marine Fishing, Cleopatra Fortune, Super Monkey Ball, Black/Matrix AD, Nettou Golf

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The outro music from episode 114 onwards was created by our friend Pizza Hotline! You can stream or purchase Pizza Hotline's latest release "Hot-N-Ready Remixes" on all major music platforms by clicking here.

The modding insanity continues, as Lewis, Harvey and returning guest Derek Pascarella return to cover new power supply units, video/upscaler solutions, devices to get your Dreamcast online, various quality of life mods, and more.

Obvious disclaimer: Attempt mods on your Dreamcast at your own risk! We accept no responsibility for broken consoles or upset spouses...

What's Discussed:

• The 12v rail removal mods to fix stock power supply unit heat issues when used with GDEMU. 
• Aftermarket PSUs: ThunderDream by Thundertronics, USBC Power Supply by robot_retro, PicoPSU, ReDream. Avoid cheap ones!
• Video/upscaler solutions, including Retro GEM by PixelFX (previously DCHDMI, DCDigital), RetroTink, OSSC, etc.
• Quality of life Mods: clock battery mods, Noctua fan mod, replacing capacitors, 
• Mods for maniacs: Brass gear mod, overclocking
• Dreamcast shell restoration: retrobrighting and aftermarket shells
• Getting your Dreamcast online with DreamPi

Featuring music from: Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike and Karous

Looking for more Dreamcast Junkyard goodness? You can check out our blog, join our community on Discord, follow us on Twitter, like our Facebook page, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

The outro music from episode 114 onwards was created by our friend Pizza Hotline! You can stream or purchase Pizza Hotline's latest release "Hot-N-Ready Remixes" on all major music platforms by clicking here.

Our Sega Dreamcasts may be showing their age, but thankfully, there are more ways than ever in 2026 to breathe new life into the console and enhance your play experience. In this new episode of the DreamPod, Lewis, Harvey (Pizza Hotline) and returning guest Derek Pascarella have got together to cover as many Dreamcast mods as they can, from upgrades that help keep your console running reliably, to new ways to play your favourite games and homebrew. They also take a look at modern Dreamcast accessories, including wireless controller solutions and upgraded VMUs.

This ended up being an absolute mammoth of an episode so it's been split into two parts. Part 2 will release on the 31st of August 2026 and will cover new power supply units, video/upscaler solutions, other quality-of-life mods, and more.

Obvious disclaimer: Attempt mods on your Dreamcast at your own risk! We accept no responsibility for broken consoles or burnt down houses...

What's Discussed:

• Burning CD-Rs and Region/BIOS Mods
• Serial Port Adapters 
• Optical Drive Emulators: GDEMU, USB-GDROM, MODE
• openMenu Virtual Folder Bundle
• Compact Flash Mod
• Controllers: DreamConn and LightConn from DreamMods, StrikerDC Wireless and D6 from RetroFighters, Bitlink by 8BitMods, Dream Color Plus
• Controller Adapters: Brook Wingman SD, Blue Retro, USB4MAPLE, Pico2Maple
• Modern VMUs: VM2 by DreamMods and VMUPro by 8BitMods

Featuring music from: Radirgy and Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike

Looking for more Dreamcast Junkyard goodness? You can check out our blog, join our community on Discord, follow us on Twitter, like our Facebook page, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

The outro music from episode 114 onwards was created by our friend Pizza Hotline! You can stream or purchase Pizza Hotline's latest release "Hot-N-Ready Remixes" on all major music platforms by clicking here.

Get the DCJY x VGNY merch collab while you still can! VMU shells, console shells, pins, keyrings and more celebrating 20 years of The Dreamcast Junkyard. Pre-orders end on the 8th or July.

> https://www.vgnysoft.com/dcjy20

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup in full swing, Tom, Kev and Brian decided it was high time to take a look back at the Sega Dreamcast's own digital representations of "the beautiful game" that is football (or soccer, for you 'Mericans).

The lads rank the nine officially released football-related titles for the system, along with Premier Eleven, the long-thought-lost Atomiswave arcade title that was recently preserved and ported to the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast football games are a weird bunch, occasionally showing flashes of brilliance, while just as often scoring spectacular own goals. But which game takes home the trophy?

Related links:

• Premier Eleven Preserved and Ported to Dreamcast
• Kev's Giant Killers Let's Play
• Masio-Ball

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The outro music from episode 114 onwards was created by our friend Pizza Hotline! You can stream or purchase Pizza Hotline's latest release "Hot-N-Ready Remixes" on all major music platforms by clicking here.

We had to do something special for the 150th episode of the DreamPod. Well, turns out that Tom is good friends with gaming industry veteran and design director of indie powerhouse Bitmap Bureau, Mike Tucker, and getting him on the DreamPod was long overdue.

Joined by the foremost expert on Giant Killers in the Western world™, Kev, we look back at Mike's career in the games industry — from playtesting classics like Carmageddon at SCi Games, to his time at io Productions working on the cancelled Dreamcast sheep-herding title Stampede and spending many gruelling hours trying to break Giant Killers (spoiler: it broke him), right through to his present-day work at Bitmap Bureau creating critically acclaimed titles such as Terminator 2D: No Fate, and Xeno Crisis, the latter of which placed third in our 2024 Top 25 Dreamcast Indie Games community vote.

Check out:

• Bitmap Bureau
• Kev's Giant Killers Let's Play
• Tom's article on Stampede
• The Top 25 Dreamcast Indie Games (2024)
• Kev's Masio-Ball YouTube channel

Featuring music from: Xeno Crisis and Giant Killers (thanks Derek Pascarella for ripping the GK track)

Looking for more Dreamcast Junkyard goodness? You can check out our blog, join our community on Discord, follow us on Twitter, like our Facebook page, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

The outro music from episode 114 onwards was created by our friend Pizza Hotline! You can stream or purchase Pizza Hotline's latest release "Hot-N-Ready Remixes" on all major music platforms by clicking here.

The Dreamcast just refuses to die! Jaz, Tom, and Lewis return for DreamPod 149 with a packed news roundup of another very busy period for the Dreamcast scene — we're talking ambitious new controller mods, more mind-blowing ports, exciting indie releases, major fan translation breakthroughs, and Dreamcast classics coming back online.

Dreamcast Junkyard articles on News Discussed:

• Dream Color Plus
• BitLink DC Kit
• N64 Ports
• Alone in the Dark ports
• Dream Table Poker
• Verdict Guilty Clash
• Bang Bang Busters 2
• New Survival Horror for DC
• Segagaga English Translation
• Di Gi Charat Translation
• Macross M3 and Hello Kitty Translations
• Project Justice Board Game Translation
• Virtua Tennis Online

Featuring music from: 90 Minutes, Sega Bass Fishing, Tsuushin Taisen Logic Battle Daisessen 

Looking for more Dreamcast Junkyard goodness? You can check out our blog, join our community on Discord, follow us on Twitter, like our Facebook page, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

The outro music from episode 114 onwards was created by our friend Pizza Hotline! You can stream or purchase Pizza Hotline's latest release "Hot-N-Ready Remixes" on all major music platforms by clicking here.

The Dreamcast Junkyard kicks off the year in style with the first DreamPod of 2026 – and we're diving into a subject we know is close to many Dreamcast fans' hearts: the magazines.

Join Brian, Tom, James, Lozz and Lewis for a nostalgic deep dive into the world of Dreamcast mags. On the UK side, we explore the unique style and personalities of titles such as Official Dreamcast Magazine, DC-UK, Dreamcast Magazine (the unofficial one), Dreamcast Monthly, and the odd but fascinating kids mag Mr. Dreamcast. We also revisit Official Sega Saturn Magazine, which evolved into something of a proto-Dreamcast mag in its final issues.

Heading over to the States, Brian compares the tone and editorial style of publications such as the US' own Official Dreamcast Magazine and Ziff Davis' quarterly DCM (Dreamcast Magazine), while Lozz takes us on a globe-trotting tour of international Dreamcast magazines, shining a light on lesser-known titles from beyond the UK and US.

This episode features music from Pizza Hotline from his brand new Hot-N-Ready Remixes Delivered by Pizza Hotline [In 20 Minutes or Less] and his forthcoming Demo Disc 1 EP!

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The outro music from episode 114 onwards was created by our friend Pizza Hotline! You can stream or purchase Pizza Hotline's latest release "Hot-N-Ready Remixes" on all major music platforms by clicking here.

In this very special episode of the DreamPod, we're celebrating 20 years of The Dreamcast Junkyard, which was established all the way back in 2005! Lewis reunites some of the people who helped spark and shape the site's journey — founder Tom Charnock, two of the earliest writers Aaron (aka Animated AF!) and Simon (aka Father K), and long-time contributor Mike Phelan — for a nostalgic saunter down memory lane.

Join us as we dive into the origins of The Dreamcast Junkyard, from its humble beginnings as Tom's personal game-collecting blog, to what it has become today: an unstoppable digital force for everything Dreamcast, driven by an undying passion to keep the love for Sega's iconic final console alive.

Incredible episode artwork by Animated AF. Voice at the end by Caleb-sorry, Jesse Ventura.

• Tom's 20th Anniversary post: https://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2025/12/20-years-of-dreamcast-junkyard.html
• Brand new 20th DCJY Merch: https://thedreamcastjunkyard-shop.fourthwall.com/

Looking for more Dreamcast Junkyard goodness? You can check out our blog, join our community on Discord, follow us on Twitter, like our Facebook page, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

The outro music from episode 114 onwards was created by our friend Pizza Hotline! You can stream or purchase Pizza Hotline's latest release "Hot-N-Ready Remixes" on all major music platforms by clicking here.

It’s been 25 years since Shenmue — the Sega Dreamcast's iconic killer app — first arrived in the West. To celebrate, Brian and Lewis are joined by special guests Matt Oliver of the Shenmue Dojo and KC from The Sega Lounge for a deep, heartfelt discussion about Yu Suzuki's magnum opus. They reflect on their personal histories with Shenmue, delve into Matt’s work with the Shenmue Dojo, explore Shenmue's lasting impact on the video game industry, and ponder what the future may hold for the franchise...

Links:

• Shenmue Dojo
• The Sega Lounge
• BAFTA's "The Most Influential Video Game of All Time" list
• 6 Games that Scratch the Shenmue Itch

The Shenmue remixes featured in this episode are from RyoX's "Shenwave Collection Vol. 1", which you can download here.

Looking for more Dreamcast Junkyard goodness? You can check out our blog, join our community on Discord, follow us on Twitter, like our Facebook page, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

The outro music from episode 114 onwards was created by our friend Pizza Hotline! You can stream or purchase Pizza Hotline's latest release "Hot-N-Ready Remixes" on all major music platforms by clicking here.

This month on the DreamPod, Lozz and Lewis are joined by freelance video game writer Andrew Fisher to discuss his career and everything Dreamcast homebrew.

With decades of experience in video game journalism, Andrew's work spans publications such as Wireframe, ZZAP! 64, ZZAP! Amiga, Commodore Force, Commodore Format, Fusion, and of course, Retro Gamer magazine — where he pens his monthly column, "The Homebrewer’s Kit." With the Sega Dreamcast having become such a prolific console for independent development in recent years, it's only natural that our scene has crossed Andrew's radar. In fact, in issue 277 of Retro Gamer, this year's biggest Dreamcast projects featured prominently in Andrew’s column.

You can read Andrew's personal homebrew blog here: https://andrewrfisher.wixsite.com/retro-gamer-homebrew

The music in this episode is from Pizza Hotline and Shirobon's EP "Shadow Cell", which you can listen to on all good streaming platforms by clicking here.

Other links:

• Ordering a Dominos pizza on a Dreamcast
• The Typing of the Dead’s Weird and Wonderful Ports

Looking for more Dreamcast Junkyard goodness? You can check out our blog, join our community on Discord, follow us on Twitter, like our Facebook page, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

The outro music from episode 114 onwards was created by our friend Pizza Hotline! You can stream or purchase Pizza Hotline's latest release "Hot-N-Ready Remixes" on all major music platforms by clicking here.