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| Dream Sparkler is an arcade rail shooter and cover shooter for the Sega Dreamcast, for one or two players, on the sofa or online. Run into the screen, dodge everything, shoot everything, and pick your road through a tree of fifteen levels. |
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| > | A Dreamcast original
Written natively in C for the Sega Dreamcast on KallistiOS. Runs on the real console (and in emulators) at a locked frame rate.
| | > | Run, dodge, shoot
An into-the-screen rail shooter in the spirit of Space Harrier: your hero runs on his own, you strafe, jump and slide while aiming anywhere on the screen.
| | > | Cover fights
Twice a level the run stops at an arena: dive behind cover, pop out to shoot, roll between covers. You are only exposed when you choose to be.
| | > | 15 levels, 8 endings
Every run is four levels picked at the forks of a branching tree: Fantasy Zone, Emerald Coast, the Temple, Ice Hell... Four bosses wait at the end of each branch.
| | > | Coin route or enemy route
At every fork, pick the safe road full of coins or the fight for points.
| | > | The shop
Shoot Opa-Opa when he flies by to open his shop mid-run: new guns, upgrades, lives, repairs.
| | > | Two players
Local co-op on one console, with drop-in for player two, two wallets and shared credits.
| | > | Online co-op
Connect your Dreamcast (Broadband Adapter, or the modem through a DreamPi), create or join a game and play the whole run with a friend over the internet.
| | > | Online leaderboards
The top 100 of every mode, right here and in the game.
| | > | Lots of unlockables
Secret characters, game modes, music, a model viewer, achievements... there is a lot to discover.
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A POWER UP ball flies in now and then: shoot it and you get three uses of its power. Pick one on the wheel, fire it when it hurts.
| BOMB | Everything on screen explodes. Even a boss feels it. | | SLOW MOTION | For 10 seconds the world crawls while you keep full speed. | | HYPER SPEED | For 8 seconds: more than double speed, invincible, smash through everything. | | DOUBLE COINS | For 30 seconds every coin counts twice. Time for the shop! |
In co-op the power-ups are shared: one player calls it, the other has two seconds to confirm, and it goes off for both. |
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| ARCADE | The classic run: pick a difficulty, four levels, four bosses, beat the high score. | | ORIGINAL | Always hard. Coins buy upgrades that you keep from one run to the next. | | SURVIVAL | One credit. The levels keep coming and the heat keeps rising. How far can you go? |
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KAI
Ready from the start. | LUNA
Ready from the start. | ???
Unlockable character | ???
Unlockable character |
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| There are a lot of unlockables in Dream Sparkler: hidden characters, new game modes, music tracks, models and more. Play, earn points, explore the shop and the menus... and see what you can find. |
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PLAY ONLINE
In the game: PLAY > ONLINE. Server address: dreamsparkler.espouaisso.com |
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| DREAM SPARKLER - a Sega Dreamcast game by espouaisso - 2026 - dreamsparkler.espouaisso.com |
