Tomb Raider Last Revelation (NTSC-U)

Dreamcast Ressurrection - 2009 (since 2008)

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I got the Kalisto original RARset (rare) and the GD dump of this game. Comparing the files using SFV, only bootfile and movie files were different. Boot file for obvious reason (it needs to me modified for booting). SFD files were downsampled to make the game fit on a 80 minute CD. So I only needed to make the game selfboot with correct file order right? Wrong. Kalisto's release was not selfboot and had almost 700mb, so there was no enough space for selfboot session. Then I found out how to downsample video files (believe me, finding the software for that is really difficult), got the GD dump movies (original quality), made some tests, some math and there it were all videos downsampled. I made it with the best quality possible, precision got so cool that only 8 megabytes of free space was left on disc. Quality got good enough for me, of course it's worse than GD but it's the only way to make it fit on disc. I'm sure it won't affect your gameplay. After that, I got original GD file order, optimized it a little (put videos on inner part of disc), put the extras files (as usual in my releases), dummied for 700mb disc and there it is, my best release until now.

Features of my release:
- Not corrupted files at all, it was made with Kalisto's release and GD dump files.
- Used corrected file order and then optimized that (put videos on inner part just after dummy), what means faster loadings and less noise of Dreamcast reader.
- Selfboot.
- Dummied for 700mb CDs. Extras files of course were put in dummy area. Note that dummy file is very small, so it won't make a big difference on loading times.

About the game:
- It has VGA Box support.

Other comments:
- All videos were downsampled to fit CD (see introduction text above). The original files (not downsampled) from the videos are in a separated folder in this release. I don't know what you would want to do with them, but I like to make complete releases so there they are.
- CD part of GD had some extra .txt files. They were put in "EXTRAS" folder of each disc, together with the audio warning track. Another useless thing, but made only to make release complete.
- Release comes with manual and covers (bad quality, but the only I could find).

Our releases are for Dreamcast console, you'll notice a nice improvement in this release compared to others. It's a WinCE game, and as far I know no emulator is able to run it yet.