There were games running on WinCE? As a Dreamcast owner I'm blown away. I only knew the home screen and browser were built on top of Windows CE. I was under the impression games were developed closer to the metal for performance.
Windows CE was provided as a sort of alternative API for development. Part of the reason some developers stayed away from the Saturn was because it was difficult to develop for; another was that Windows CE could make it easier to port games to the system from PC. However, the 'standard' development toolset for Dreamcast was usable enough that few people bothered making games on top of Windows CE.
> I only knew the home screen and browser were built on top of Windows CE.
The homescreen wasn’t. Not sure about the browser (this was booted off a disk, not built in like modern consoles) off the top of my head. Pretty much everything that was you got a CE logo while booting it.
