By: pcwzrd13 | June 07, 2016
Exciting news for those of you that play Dreamcast online (which I assume is everyone that visits this site :-D). The very first online Dreamcast game, ChuChu Rocket!, is back online forever! The official server for the game went offline in November of 2003 so it's been almost 13 years since anyone's played it online. Thanks to the efforts of Jonas Karlsson (the same guy behind the Dreamarena server which allows you to play Toy Racer via dial-up), the server software has been reverse engineered. Jonas is hosting his own server which anyone can connect to by simply setting your DNS server to 46.101.91.123. This is the default DNS server for DreamPi users, so if that's your connection method of choice, you don't have to change anything. When asked for a username and password, enter anything (they aren't saved in the current implementation of the server). The server software and source code will be released to the public at some point so that it can be hosted by anyone and preserved. Keep in mind the server is still a proof-of-concept so expect bugs. Check out gameplay below of me and Jonas playing the game online.
Category: News
alexislight
Posted on : July 06, 2016son grandes!! good news! great work!
james
Posted on : June 09, 2016good stuff , good stuff
ZPFunk
Posted on : June 09, 2016Dooope!! I literally was just asking about this!!
luk24
Posted on : June 08, 2016awesome work!
Thiago
Posted on : June 08, 2016I keep dreaming with Speed Devils online again... Let's keep the hope!
Deny Mullen
Posted on : June 08, 2016Amazing! Good job!
Austin
Posted on : June 07, 2016This is awesome news! I'm getting the game right away :D
Treyldog
Posted on : June 07, 2016OMG! the first "modern style" online game is back! the game that set the way for every other basic server code, moving away from P2P phone calls on console! its back!