Last weekend, we spent a little bit of time adjusting the layout of our sister site, DC Evolution. After realizing that less than 2% of our visitors are using 800×600 screen resolutions, and noticing that our layout was starting to get extremely cluttered, we expanded the viewing area a bit. In addition, we moved some things around and made the header area a little more consistent with DCHelp and the theme we’re currently testing at the DreamZone Boards.

Please share your thoughts with us about the new layout. Some time in the near future, we’ll probably be making some similar changes to DCHelp.

Selfboot Inducer is a program developed by burnerO to make it easier to create a selfbooting compilation disc from many different applications, demos, emulators and games on the Dreamcast. Selfboot Inducer automatically creates a disc image using the DreamInducer loader.

One of the nice things about DreamInducer is the fact that it supports custom themes. Once you create a custom theme for DreamInducer, using the tutorial developed by Nyarlathotep, you can follow this tutorial to package it up as an SBT file, which are the archives that Selfboot Inducer uses to add the theme to your disc compilation. Read the rest of this entry »

This tutorial was initially written by Nyarlathotep and was hosted on DCHomebrew. Unfortunately, DCHomebrew has long since disappeared. This version of the tutorial was rescued from the Internet Archive and has been reposted by Curtiss Grymala for DCHelp. The layout of the tutorial has been edited slightly and some of the links were updated. However, none of the content was edited (except for a minor note about the DivX codec). Some of the images are missing from the tutorial. I am working on tracking down copies of those images.

So you have your perfect Dream Inducer disk thought out, you have all the programs you want laid out correctly, and you’re all ready to go: theres just one problem. Every theme you have found is either rubbish or fits really badly with your idea for what the perfect Dream Inducer Disk should be like.

Well this page is here to help you with that, by quickly and easily making your own Dream Inducer theme to your own hearts content.

We’re going to begin with a very simple ‘wallpaper’ style theme, so that you understand the basics, before moving on to some of the advanced features that Dream Inducer includes, such as a realtime clock updated from your DCs system memory, multiple graphical overlays (when done correctly will make your theme stand out from the crowd) and even intro movies. Read the rest of this entry »