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Finally, here are the results of the SEGA Saturn Coding Contest (C4 - 2006)!
The judges have had the pleasure to evaluate six really great entries. Half of them even feature 3d graphics. I guess Zaksund surprised us all with his entry. Also, especially Tassians comments on his rating are worth reading.

I have to thank so many people for their help and - recently - for their patience because my limited time delayed the publishing of results and downloads a bit.

The contestants spent at least hundreds, if not thousands of hours in total to create these entries. Special thanks to VBT, he always kept me up to date and even made a second entry. Thanks to Zaksund for surprising us with the professionalism of his entry. Thanks to Charles MacDonalds, it's an honour to have someone taking part in the contest, who is that experienced in programming videogame systems. Also thanks to Vreuzon, whose multiplayer games are no longer only the best homebrew on SEGA Saturn, but I'm absolutely sure: the best multiplayer homebrew videogames, in general.

The judges invested quite a lot of time and CD-Rs to evaluate the them. At this point, special thanks to Tassian, who supported the contest with both, prizes and (the best) judging.

A lot of private and commercial sponsors helped supporting the contestants with prizes. I want to thank last years winner cafe-alpha, as he just added four japanese SEGA Saturn games and a soundtrack to the list of prizes. This comes exactly at the right time, because unfortunately, I had to remove one of the many of our sponsors, because over the last 9 months, they didn't manage to sent me the items or to respond to my e-mails (well, with a one-month delay, sometimes). So I'm of course a bit annoyed because of that, but you don't need to be, as cafe-alpha, the SEGA On magazin crew and me added some nice new prizes to the list. So we have as much items on it, as before. Plus the newcomer award, as there are no newcomers this year.

Another note on the item selection method: I've been told by a donator and by a contestant, that the current system (1st selects 11 of 31, then 2nd selects 10 of 20, then 3rd takes 10 of 10) is not perfect, as last one might get only crap or double items (2x SEGA Rally or 2x Virtua Fighter 2).
So it would make sense to improve this method. But my girlfriend told me, that I can't just change the rules (that the contestants agreed to) like I want. And she's right.
So I will ask all three winners if they would like to select items in rounds, selecting maybe three items per round. Only if all of them agree, this new method will be used.

Thanks everyone, I hope to see you in the next SEGA Saturn Coding Contest (C4 - 2007), again.
Rockin'-B

Hello dear SEGA Saturn fans, sorry for the long lack of news, I'm very busy at the moment. The contest did end successfully at the extended deadline on december 31st 2006. I've received about as much entries, as the year before, which was more than I could expect. Among the contestants, there are old friends from last years contest, as well as two new contestants, which are everything else but newbies, they are experienced Saturn programmers. Due to the fact that we have no real Saturn homebrew newcomers this year, I will put the newcomer award (the ModChip) to the list of items to choose from.

Okay, tomorrow evening starts the judging. I have found a couple of good judges all over the world (hehe). Judging will take up to one week. Then the ranking and the entries will be published and the winners can choose their prizes from the list.

From what I've seen from the entries, I have to say that some of them really impressed me, I didn't expect to see that. Have I already said that there are even 2-3 entries having 3d graphics? No? Well, that was what I had it mind when I started the contest. The entries are really good, you shouldn't miss them!

Due to numerous requests, the contest has been extended for one month. The new deadline is december, 31st 2006 23:59 CET. I hope you guys will use the extra time for some extra good looking visuals. Prepare for hard competition. I will join, too, this time with a 3d tunnel racing game. Good luck everyone!

New prize added:
A new copy of the soundtrack of the favourite Saturn shooter Radiant Silvergun has been added to the item list by cafe-alpha. Now we have a total of 30 items to win, in addition to all the other stuff. This implies that the 2nd winner gets 10 instead of 9 items.

Small website changes:
Cleared up that meeting the objective is the most importand fact that influences judging, also cleared up the role of the judging categories as well as that the type of an entry is your choice and that of course not every type is suited to meet the objective perfectly.
I also added a link to SX Saturn Dev section.

Three great SEGA Saturn games added to the prize list!
They are: Virtua Fighter 2, SEGA Rally and NBA Live '98, all for SEGA Saturn, all pal region, all in good condition. Thanks to Tassian for giving these must have games!
Now there are a total of 29 videogame items on the prize list, in addition to all the money, coupons and merchandising. The number of choosable items per rank has been increased from 10 to 11 for 1st place and from 8 to 9 for 2nd and 3rd place!

SEGA Saturn general info added.
Have a look at the top of the page for some pictures of various types of the videogame system. Links to a comprehensive wikipedia website about SEGA Saturn have been added in the info section, too.

New Sponsors and lot's of new prizes added!
New prizes are:
The number of choosable items per rank has been increased from 7 to 10 for 1st place and from 6 to 8 for 2nd and 3rd place! Furthermore, the 1st prize got added some merchandising items from www.dreamcast-scene.com.

C4 - 2006 website is online, two days too late, because I've been busy at my birthday. The C4 - 2006 has begun, everybody start your project as soon as you can. The earlier you start, the better it'll get and the more prizes will be yours.