Case study

NGPC–Dreamcast link cable: reconstructing retail game uploads

The NGPC–Dreamcast link-cable project reconstructs serial exchanges between SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium and Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000. A beetle-ngp patch and Python bridge connect RetroArch to Flycast's BattleCable interface; protocol notes and byte logs document the upload sequence. The author reports successful retail transfers in emulation and a prototype transfer to a homebrew responder on a real Dreamcast.

Targets: Game · Protocol
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07

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Last commit: 2026-11-05
Language: Python

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Retail reproduction requires the user's own game dumps, RetroArch, Flycast, MSYS2 mingw64 gcc and Python 3.8 or newer.
Prerequisites: The NGPC TCP backend works on Windows; a real Dreamcast test additionally needs a 3.3 V USB-UART adapter.
Testing evidence: Retail MF2K has not been tried on real Dreamcast hardware.
License: MIT License.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{ngpc-dreamcast-link-cable-case,
  title = {{NGPC–Dreamcast link cable: reconstructing retail game uploads}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/ngpc-dreamcast-link-cable}},
  url = {https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/ngpc-dreamcast-link-cable},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/ngpc-dreamcast-link-cable-case/}}
}

Plain text

NGPC–Dreamcast link cable: reconstructing retail game uploads. https://github.com/vs-sr-dev/ngpc-dreamcast-link-cable (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/ngpc-dreamcast-link-cable-case/

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README.md GitHub · vs-sr-dev/ngpc-dreamcast-link-cable · Revision 62532a4
docs/PROTOCOL.md GitHub · vs-sr-dev/ngpc-dreamcast-link-cable · Revision 62532a4