This is a topic for everyone to introduce themselves.  If you'd like to share a little about your own life, how you became involved in the DC community, what you do for fun, etc. go right ahead and do so.  I'll start off.

I live in West Virginia, in the US. I'm 26 years old, married, and have three kids (one of them is mine, the other two are twins that were born to my wife and her ex, but I love them all as my own). I work as an office manager/jack-of-all-trades for a septic service company. I went to college for four years, but started to lose interest near the end, and ended up dropping out with failing grades in the last semester. I went back part-time to try to finish up, but when we found out my wife was pregnant, I decided to work full-time to provide for my family, and have not yet finished school.

I pre-ordered my Dreamcast, and picked it up the day it was released here in the states.  I played with it on and off for about three or four years before I ever found out there was an online Dreamcast community.  A friend of mine mentioned that I could put emulators on my Dreamcast, so I decided to search the web for some info.  I came across DCEmulation when I searched Google.  I quickly became enthralled by the whole idea.  I burned quite a few different emulators, and made quite a few coasters, and I was in heaven.

I then discovered Selfboot Inducer, and it was all over.  I quickly started downloading everything that was available from Sbiffy, and burned it all onto discs.  I found the homebrew games so much more intriguing than the emulators, as I still have a Genesis and an NES if I really want to play classic games.

I then figured out how to make my own SBI's and SBT's, and began working on them.  Whenever a request was made at Sbiffy for a new SBI, I would make one.  I created my own site to host the SBI's while I waited for someone to upload them to Sbiffy for me.  At that time, the site was called Ten-321 DC Stuff (as it was simply an off-shoot of my site for Ten-321 Enterprises; my web-design business).  I then decided to start making some SBT's as well, and put out somewhere between 25 and 50 new themes (before I came along, there were only a handful of themes available from Sbiffy).  I hosted them on my site as well.

I started putting together tutorials on how to make your own SBI's, SBT's, etc. and posted them in various forums, where they were quickly stickied.  A few months later, I decided to put them in the form of web pages, and put them up on my site.  At that point, it simply became DCStuff, and began to take on a life of its own.

I continued to work on tutorials, etc. for a while, and found that quite a few people were visiting my site.  I then decided to open up some forums on the site, and let people ask for help right here.  The forums were pretty dead, but it didn't bother me.

Later, I started a site to host BOR mods (basically the first of its kind).  At that point, there was only one complete mod, and there were a handful of demos.  I decided that there should be one reliable site where people could download all of the existing mods.  In addition, there were a lot of modders that simply couldn't find a place to host their mods, so we offered them the space, free-of-charge.  kungpow12345, vicviper74 and myself set out to locate all of the available mods, put each of them in CDI format, and get them up onto one server.  Mods of Rage was born.  I set up a web site where modders could post news, and started trying to figure out how to let them upload their files.  Senile posted a link to our site, and made it known to all modders that they could host their mods on our site.

Soon after starting, the server began to have issues (it was a reliable server, but it was dreadfully slow), and Gamikaze contacted me, offering their space for my site.  After some growing pains, Mods of Rage successfully merged with Gamikaze, and became a great community for modders.

Around that time, I suggested to the DC Evo team that they should put together a Beats of Rage collection somehow.  They offered to let me help, and made me a contributor.

While working on the first BOR Collection, I mentioned something about how great I thought the DCKB was, but how much of a shame it was that it was so rarely updated.  Captain Skyhawk came up with the idea to merge the DCKB with DCStuff, and host it here at DC Evo.  I worked for a while on the design, and we finally re-emerged as DCHelp.

Just recently, I decided to re-design the site one more time, making it completely PHP/SQL based, allowing contributors to post their own tutorials, etc.  Around the same time, we decided to merge the DCHelp forums with the DC Evo forums, and scrap the old phpBB DC Evo boards.  We upgraded to YaBB2, and DreamZone was born.

That's pretty much my life, and the history of my time in the DC community in a nutshell.

I'm new to the site (found it like 2 weeks ago) and thanks to this site I have cleaned the dust off my DC and started playing it again. I live in Illinois (US), I'm 30, single with no kids I'm aware of. My Dreamcast is no longer online as I have DSL and I'm not paying the amount of cash they want for a BBA on ebay (a BBA sold last week for $200 USD). I tried that whole DC-PC server but could not get it to work with XP. At one time I had it working with Windows 98 but XP is not as easy to setup.

I own 7 different consoles which are all hooked up but I have more then one of some consoles. My console collection is as follows: Xbox (1), Playstation 2 (1), Gamecube (1), Dreamcast (2), Saturn (1), Playstation (3), Genesis (9), Sega CD (3), 32X Adapter (1). I also own a GBA (modified with afterburner backlight kit) and a Game Gear. In the last 2 weeks or so my DC as been getting all the play time. Between the homebrew games that I found on this site and dusting off the games that I've owned for years, my DC is fun to play once again.

Hello.My name is Robert,and I'm 21.I currently live in central Florida;just moved from Baton Rouge.Not married,no kids yet.I do electrical work,residential and commercial,mostly new construction.I'm leaving to join the navy in a couple of months,so I figured I'd do something with the lone piece of gaming equipment I dragged here from LA: my Dreamcast!In fact,like alienbil,I'm a impulsive collector of video games and systems,and have been for a questionably long time.So many people get into collecting the standard fare type games,but homebrew gaming,mods,and emulation are huge intrests of mine as I discovered them each,respectively.I have an engineer's spirit,and really enjoy solid creation,both artisitically and electronically.So,I'm here as a newbie,trying to pick up enough knowledge to keep me occupied with mods and such when I'm out at sea for months on end.Good to have a say,have a nice day,and happy new year!

im dave. 21 yrs old, from nothern NJ and just started really doing all this about 3 weeks ago. ive got a genesis 3 that i play all the time, and a ps2 and of course a dreamcast.  i like to drink and i have a 3 ft iguana. yep thats me

yeah he's big, more like 3.5 ft in about 5 years or so he should hit 6 ft. at that point he's gonna need his own room i hope he stays the size he is for as long as possible.

oh and is there a classifieds on this site? im looking for vmu's and stuff. does that kind of stuff fly on this forum?

Hi! Sman here.

Not a hacker or anything. Just a game fan and artist saying hello.

Nige, I invited Sman to DCEvo to create a cover for Rage of the Streets.

At SoR Online Sman posted some examples of his previous work. I hope he don't mind me linking to it here:
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Gotta love these communist bears  

That's some really great artwork you've made there Sman, I like your style, Can you create a similar style from a photograph?. I have a friend who's an ex-Kickboxing regional champion, she's back in training and wants her title back after 6 years in retirement, she's looking for some promotional material and your style might suit what she's after.