Dreamcast Game Finally Gets Its DLC Unlocked

Over 15 years after the game released, several Visual Concepts developers help unlock the long-lost downloadable content for the Sega Dreamcast Game Floigan Bros.

Back in 2001, the Dreamcast console which many agree was far ahead of its time, was officially discontinued. The badly timed stoppage of the console's production by Sega had an effect on many game developers who had ties t o the console, and it's hard to find a better example of this than Floigan Bros., a game which was being developed by Visual Concepts before it got cancelled. The game launched 4 months since the console was officially discontinued, and planned DLC for the game was never appropriately unlocked after this until now.

Similar to the Dreamcast, Visual Concepts had hooked on to some ideas which came ahead of their rise in prominence: namely, on-disc DLC. Although this method of delivering content is now often despised by gamers, back then it was a mostly unheard-of concept. Floigan Bros. had a year's worth of monthly scheduled on-disc content to deploy, as well as new outfits, characters, in-game items, and even brand new mini-game. Unfortunately, all of these DLC items haven't been available in an online archive for the game, after some of the original Floigan Bros. development team gathered this year to help everyone experience the game's complete content via digital download.

Those interested can have a look at the Floigan Bros. downloadable content below, which were called Fun Moigle Things at the time.

Interestingly enough, some of the Visual Concepts developers had to beat some of their own anti-tampering security measures so that they can unlock the full game for the masses: by altering a January DLC file, they managed to unlock each month of subsequently scheduled content. A big thanks goes to the original Floigan Bros development team (Tim Meekins, Nick Jones, and John Elliot) for putting in much of the hard work here to make it happen, and allowing gamers to enjoy some gaming history.

Gamers can find the newly unlocked content here.