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The Dreamcast development kit (Katana) from No Cliché

This page invites you to explore No Cliché’s development files containing data related to the Unreleased Dreamcast version of Agartha and its prototype. An online tool (Network Edit) and assets for Quake III Arena Dreamcast are also included. It is an appendix to [Dreamcast Development Kits (Katana) to Download], which lists the available Dreamcast (Katana) development kits on the site.

No Cliché is a French studio founded in 1997 by Frédérick Raynal and former members of Adeline Software. Following its acquisition by SEGA, it focused primarily on Dreamcast development. The studio released two games: Toy Commander in 1999 and Toy Racer in 2000. It also assisted Raster Productions with the European localization of Quake 3 Arena for Dreamcast, as well as certain technical and online aspects. When SEGA withdrew from the console manufacturing market, the survival-horror game Agartha was canceled. The restructuring of the Japanese company into a third-party publisher led to the closure of No Cliché in 2001/2002.

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Regarding Agartha for Dreamcast: A prototype of the game, essentially a rolling demo (a video running on the DC), is functional. This beta is available in GD-I and CD-I formats. Modifications to the build made it somewhat playable, though primarily explorable. Some files on the Dev Kit are related to Agartha, although a few are unfortunately corrupted: f1841089.iso – f1618113.iso – f1618241.iso (the latter starts with an identifier “CHCD”). Other text files pertain to animation scripts.

Article dedicated to the Agartha Dreamcast prototype and the making-of of the game:

Discovering the spiritual successor to Alone in the Dark – Agartha on Dreamcast

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Regarding the Flash Edit Dreamcast tool: A strange tool used by developers to configure the online component of Quake III Arena DC during its development is functional. It is available in GD-I format only.

You can test and download Flash Edit from the following page [Dreamcast SDKs, tools, technical demos, and development documentation available for download]

Regarding Quake III Arena for Dreamcast: 130 ZIP files, some unusable, relate to the port of Quake III Arena to Dreamcast. They contain approximately 3,000 textures in the “PVR” format (Physically Based Rendering), sound effects in “Yamaha ADPCM” (a lossy audio compression format), and models in the standard Quake 3 format.

You can download the No Cliché Dreamcast Dev Kit SET 5 below

No Cliché Dev Kit Katana SET 5

Special thanks to:

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  • James Kremer for sharing the Dev Kit hard drive image

  • Hidden Palace, Sifting, and Metallic for the analysis of the Development Kit’s contents

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