Dreamcast Guides : Planet Ring DNS Hack for Online Play

Pre-Made binary - https://www.box.com/files/0/f/0/1/f_8704586345
Pre-Made Selfbooting CDI from TOSEC verifed data - https://mega.co.nz/#!cxRV1aJS!XkgCFCFuozWYlS9QhI6BEyW9cBYGXcxFpKpxTNMXJAg

Planet Ring is Back Online!


Finally, after all this time, IberDC is proud to present you what most of you already knew. The revival of Planet Ring as a Dreamcast online game, what we call “The EarthCall Project” . It has taken time, effort, and countless hours of testing and trial/error but it sure is worth it. The server software we developed is open source so you can learn from it, modify it or improve it as you like. It was coded using SDL, SDLNet and SQlite.



Planet Ring is an online Dreamcast game which features 4 multiplayer minigames, a messenger and a simple HTML like website system (TEML) to show the user pages about anything the server admin could imagine, including images. This was the first console game that had multiplayer gaming while voice chatting people all over the world. It was given away by the Official Dreamcast Magazine number 15 in the UK, it was also sold in stores in Europe. Some other countries like Spain got it for free with the microphone upon getting a certain ISP services.



Check the project’s site here here And ready to burn in here

Check IberDc’s site here : www.dreamcast.es

Here's a video for one of the games, there will be more coming soon:


PLANET RING FEATURES

Minigames:

-Dorobo 2Players(voice chat) -> Treasure hunt, guide the other player through a maze with your voice
-Splash 2Players(voice chat) ->Battleship like game where you have to sink all of your opponent’s ships while chatting
-Ball Bubble 4Players -> Get as many bubbles as possible and boycott the rest of the players
-Soar 32Players! -> Different race types using an air pod/ship

Other:

-Messenger system
-TEML
-Online Rankings

Special Thanks to: Impulse, DCTM, BlueCrab, Fuzziqer, Brourke228, Chui, Mekanaizer, Eric and some more people…You know who you are!!!

This project was a joint effort between Dreamcast-Talk.com and Dreamcast.es Enjoy!

-Neoblast

Open the 1ST_READ.BIN in any hex editor (a pre-made CDI works as well) and look for the hex string below

6D 61 73 74 65 72 2E 72 69 6E 67 2E 64 72 65 61 6D 2D 6B 65 79 2E 63 6F 6D 00 00 00

Then copy that portion of the high lighted text and replace with the DNS server below

64 63 74 61 6C 6B 2E 6E 6F 2D 69 70 2E 69 6E 66 6F 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Then save the binary and selfboot as normal. Or if using a CDI just burn the newly created image after the program is done making it and backing up the old image file in case something were to go wrong. If you stick to this it will work i have tested personal with a Netopia 2020 and TLS2 with 56k modem and dialed in just fine. I hope you all enjoy the new online game for Dreamcast!!

Note to anyone building their own disc form scratch

A 580,750,000 byte dummy file will pad out the RAW data files from a GD dump to 79:59:63 at LBA 45000 if all files are done properly and using a true 1:! dump matching TOSEC/Trurip's database as a guide or simply one of their great already ready images.