Dreamcast Architecture

Anti-Piracy

• darc, A history of media and booting on the sega dreamcast.
• Dream On Magazine., History of independent dreamcast development.
• dreamcast wiki, Scrambling (accessed 22-July-2026).
• Marcus Comstedt, Scramble.c (Archived).

CPU

• Sega Enterprises Development Department, Dreamcast hardware specification outline. 1999.
• Eiichiro Akiba, Dreamcast/dev.box system architecture. 1999.
• Marcus Comstedt, Dreamcast programming - memory map.
• Renesas, SH-4 - user’s manual - software manual.
• Hitachi, Hitachi SuperH RISC engine SH7750 series SH7750, SH7750S, SH7750R.
• Hitachi, CPU core architecture - volume 1 system.
• J-core project, J-core open processor - J2 open processor.
• Nathan Willis, Resurrecting the SuperH architecture.
• bogglez, Efficient usage of the dreamcast RAM (accessed 01-July-2026).

Games

• Sebastian Wloch of Kalisto Entertainment, Optimizing dreamcast microsoft Direct3D performance. Microsoft, 1999.
• Redream, Syscalls.c. Github.
• Retro Reversing, Sega dreamcast microsoft windows CE SDK.
• Sega, Dreamcast VMU programming manual.
• Xiaopang333, Dreamcast myth: GD-ROM storage capacity.
• IGN, First MIL CDs released in japan (Archived).
• BBC One, Watchdog - 17 february 2000. 2000.
• flyinghead, DCNet. 2025.
• Kazade, DreamPi. 2025.
• Tom Charnock, A quick look at free-DC (accessed 26-July-2026).
• Sega, Peripherals & accessories (JP) (accessed 26-July-2026).
• Shane Satterfield, SegaNet launches (Archived). GameSpot.
• Dreamcast Magazine authors, The official dreamcast magazine - issue 12. Dennis Publishing, 2000.

Graphics

• Kristof Beets, A look at the PowerVR graphics architecture: Tile-based rendering. Imagination Technologies.
• dreamcast.wiki, Efficient usage of the dreamcast RAM (accessed 02-July-2026).
• Marcus Comstedt, Dreamcast programming - PowerVR.
• Imagination Technologies, Hidden surface removal efficiency.
• Imagination Technologies, PowerVR hardware architecture overview for developers.
• Andrew C. Beers, Maneesh Agrawala, Navin Chaddha, Rendering from compressed textures. 1996.
• dreamcast.wiki, Texture formats (accessed 03-July-2026).
• KallistiOS authors, KallistiOS - types (accessed 02-August-2026).

Operating System

• Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft, sega collaborate on dreamcast: The ultimate home video game system (accessed 08-July-2026). 1998.
• HPC:Factor, The history of microsoft windows CE - windows CE 1.0x.
• Microsoft, Windows CE version 2.12 supported processors (Archived).
• hitmen, Memory layout (accessed 22-July-2026).
• Marcus Comstedt, IP.BIN and 1ST_READ.BIN (accessed 22-July-2026).
• dreamcast.wiki, MR image (accessed 23-July-2026).
• dreamcast.wiki, IP.BIN (accessed 23-July-2026).
• dreamcast.wiki, BIOS (accessed 30-July-2026).

Photography

• Evan Amos, The vanamo online game museum.
• Rodrigo Copetti (Me), Diagrams, motherboard, slim model photos, screenshots and videos.