best time of my life this, 1999. Passed my driving test, got my car, got a job, brought a dreamcast! The last truly great console before things started to go "online". Something so special about that 1999-2000 era.
To be honest the GameCube was not that much 'Online' compared to the Dreamcast. So, I would say GameCube would be the last great 'offline' console. The only true online game was phantasy star online ported from the Dreamcast. We don't talk about the CARD series
@@KenKaniff-dw4jw dreamcast was an arcade system for at home. for me as an arcade fan first choice. as an classic home console was the better system with much more games.
While I waited for the GameCube to release the Dreamcast was on its way out. I decided to buy the Dreamcast to hold me over and found it on sale for $99. Bought Powerstone 2 and Marvel vs Capcom 2 to go with it. WONDERFUL decision. I loved the Dreamcast.
I still remember passing up a Dreamcast with like 20 games, on sale for $200 at my dentist office. The dental assistant's son was selling it. WHY OH WHY DID I NOT BUY IT?!?!?! DANG IT!!!
The irony of this is I needed to tide myself over before the PS3 came out, and picked up a Gamecube for about $90 bucks and fell in love with it. But the DC is still one of my favorite consoles of all time.
DC was one of the most underrated and unappreciated consoles ever!! Sega knew gaming, they were experts in the field.. now if only they had opted for the DVD format.. Our gaming landscape would have looked way different today 😉
And a second joystick... And 32mb of ram instead of 16mb. That really crippled the console because without the additional ram, it wasn't capable of loading/caching large open world 3D games that were next Gen a la grand theft auto 3. Rockstar actually supported the Dreamcast somewhat and if they would have brought over grand theft auto 3, that would have been a game changer. Dreamcast would have gone on to sell 30 million consoles at least. A port of GTA could have been possible but it would have been plagued with random loading screens when moving across the map.
@@7shocker the PS2 version of GTA3 was also plagued with frequent loading screens and slowdown issues, so it's not like bringing the Dreamcast up to parity would have prevented that from being the case. To be completely honest with you, I feel like GTA3 was overhyped and was pretty mediocre as a game once you look past the spectacle of it having big levels. I'd much rather have had a console that was incapable of running it because the entire genre that spun off from people imitating GTA3 didn't hit its stride until much later and I don't think that open world games really stack up compared to more focused experiences, even today. I do agree that a second analogue stick and some more buttons on the controller would have been welcome, but the Dreamcast didn't fail because of weak hardware or because it didn't have the right software: it was because of MILCDs. If they hadn't decided to make the console compatible with MILCDs, it would have been close to impossible to pirate software because it would never boot a game that wasn't pressed to a GDROM. DVD playback could have been handled by a peripheral and the storage issues from not using DVD for games would probably not be all that significant, considering that most games on PS2 and XBOX used less than half of the disc space of a single layer DVD. GDROM wasn't that far from the capacity of a Gamecube disc, so if a Gamecube could run the game it would most likely be able to fit on a single GDROM.
I don’t think this what if scenario would have made a difference… we all know SEGA was taking a lot of risks and that’s what set them apart from competition… I mean MEGA CD, 32X, Saturn with its messy hardware and last minute changes and then the Dreamcast… the only thing that could’ve saved them is having a bigger amount of cash to endure these failures… I still remember people saying that Nintendo could have taken at least 7 Sega Saturn’s failure until bankruptcy… well this is another “What if” scenario, but it all comes down to this: Ca$h money.
The Dreamcast was my very first console where I was able to connect online gaming for the very first time. I remember that night like it was yesterday and I'm 49 now. It was a magical. I was so excited when I first connect and saw other players online. Dreamcast was a very special console.
YES it definitely was. I remember downloading mini videos on my VMU. Dragonball was getting popular and I remember someone had a Vegeta one powering up. It was just a crazy time!
I remember back in 2002, we had a big sleep over with many of our gamer friends. There were like 14 of us in one of our rich friend's mansion. We all brought our own games and consoles. I vividly remember one guy had PS2 in a specialized suit traveling suit case. And one of those ridiculous gaming rocking chairs with speaker on both sides. During the course of gaming, we gradually gravitated towards where Dreamcast was being played. We had all the great games like power stone, soul calibur, psychic force, space channel five, and etc. I have to admit, we had more fun playing on Dreamcast more than PS2 or Xbox at the time. It really did feel like the very last true gaming console.
I bought my Dreamcast on the day of release, it was probably my favourite console in terms of truly groundbreaking experiences. Games like Power Stone, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio , Shenmue, they were all so different from anything else available before or since. Such a pity that it was Sega's final console.
Yes, shenmue set the standard for next level rpg. Rush 2049 was insane for us and a sleeper if it's not on this list 🤷 loved how we could get cheap Demos like Tony Hawk etc to just sit around and beat each other's scores lol
I was blown away by Phantasy Star Online. I still play it today as if it just came out. It's my favourite game of all time, and running it in higher res now looks incredible.
It was crazy how much more advanced it was than other hardware when it launched in Japan in 1998. Shame they didn’t manage to make it a world wide launch as early as then
Dreamcast is a great console. I Always remember how futuristic it felt. I was astonished playing F1 World Grand Prix on a dreamcast of a friend. For me it's a core memory. Years after I asked this friend what he had done with the console.... He sold with a lot of games for dirt cheap. If I knew... Awesome video as always!
I remember Christmas of 2000 and my grandparents bought me and my sister a Dreamcast, that Generator Demo Disk with Sonic Adventure 1 on it... that game felt like a complete revolution to what I was playing before then,, agree with you fully that it felt like a futuristic space-tech machine.
It'll always be special to me for being the first SEGA console to grace our home. Well, not exactly. My mom and brother briefly had a Master System before I was around, but they hated it and so returned it, opting for an NES, instead. This was the grounds for denying me the SEGA systems I wanted - Genesis, Game Gear, Saturn - but one fateful day, that same brother would trade in all our N64 stuff for a Dreamcast plus a few games, which really was a dream come true, for me.
Dreamcast made my HS days memorable. One of the best 4 year stretches in my gaming history. 2K sports, Resident Evils, Marvel vs Capcoms, Shenmue... what a time to be alive.
Your knowledge and analysis on legacy games and audio-visual electronics always impresses me. I had a Dreamcast that I loved, but I lived in an area where it seemed like games for the Dreamcast were almost never available. Even the rental places rarely got titles in. It was an absolute shame because the games that did get released looked awesome back in the day. I hope that everything is going well. I have been watching some of your lives with Elder Ring. When you were over three hours into the battle with Malenia and your wife was watching and wanting to start her Friday night, I was empathizing with you. lol We've all been there.
I really enjoyed this video, great work. I wanted a Dreamcast so bad. I was a sega kid. I got a genesis in 1993 but missed out on the Saturn. I had a PS1 in 97. I used to ride my bike to wal mart to play the Dreamcast kiosk. Then my buddy got one and we loved the ports of quake 3 and unreal tournament. We played quake 3 online too. I later ended up getting a ps2 in 2001 followed by an Xbox in 2003. I went full Xbox after that.
WOW, I was also a Sega fan and had a MegaDrive and then got my PS1 in 1997 too!! I remember playing Tekken and Tomb Raider the first time - blown away!!
Dreamcast was my favorite console ever. My bday is 9/8, so the next day on '99 was an extremely special bday gift to me, especially after a rough period then (since my family had just moved, I was going to a new school). That era was really special, I think -- I kinda equate the games as a predecessor of the indie boom a decade later of the early 2010s, because there were a lot of extremely unique and ambitious games on the DC, as well as really freakin' weird, quirky ones (in a good way). Devs were taking creative risks on the console, that they weren't as much even on PS2, GC, and XBox.
I was a teenager and had been following it in the magazines and saving up my own money from mowing lawns in the neighborhood. Had the pre-order locked in and I remember going to Toys R Us on 9/9/99, and there didn't seem to be much fanfare. I just walked through quietly and picked up my machine, along with Soul Calibur. That game had such a spectacular run among my friends and I. My dad was always quoting the announcer! 😆 In short order, I would pick up Sonic, Crazy Taxi and Ready 2 Rumble boxing. After a couple of years, I was old enough for a regular job and eventually picked up a PS2. But the DC would always be my favorite, with titles like MvC2, Capcom vs SNK, and weird little gems like Armada and JGR. Over the last year, I have lost both of my parents and find myself unexpectedly emotional recalling a happier time. Thanks for this. 🤙
Conheço essa voz.... Kkkkkkk Muito bom o conteúdo, meu amigo! Eu simplesmente AMO o Dreamcast e me lamento até hoje por ter vendido o meu em 2013... 😢 Forte abraço! Deus te abençoe!
Good to see the pixels. There are several Sega fanboys showing bullshots (with 8xAA or more) claiming that they were real time, but in fact it's an 480p image and has a lot of aliasing. Nothing wrong with that.
You can get close results with much less! RetroTink 5X with a 1080p capture card, for example! Analog cables are always super relevant for high quality though.
Dreamcast is my favorite console of all time. Got it on launch day. I wouldn’t say it was under appreciated though. Dreamcast fans are die hard in a way no other console can claim. And we can name 100 reasons why but really, it’s just one of those intangible things. DC was magic.
I played Soulcalibur at the Toysrus and was blown away. It was better than arcade perfect. Such a shame the DC didn't succeed. I remember the visuals being so vibrant and sharp compared to the fuzzier PS2.
Man what time to alive. We, as the consumer, benefited the most from the competition between Sega, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. they were all firing from all calibers.
I worked at a gaming store called Babbages in Cherry Hill Mall in NJ (which is known as GameStop today) and that day i was off therefore i went to the store to pick up my Dreamcast 9/9/99. I bought the Dreamcast,an extra controller and a VMU with Blue Stinger as my game and also picked up Final Fantasy 8 for the ps1. That was a great year. The good old days of gaming were the best they were magical man.
This video format is fantastic brother. Excellent execution. You can tell that your passion is the native the real what it actually looks like. Your workflow is nice and surely a lot of work went into its production.
The Dreamcast was amazing! Still one of my favorite systems. This system brought so much to the console race. Phantasy Star Online is my favorite game on the system.
I never play one game I'm Dreamcast, with this video i became more interested in the console, the content of this channel is incredible, may there be more videos, congratulations on the production, hugs!!!
Never grew up around DC and I don’t have that much interest in going back to revisit it and play the games from it but I do enjoy learning about it… but I really enjoyed this video simply for its editing and production quality. You really capture the aesthetic of this era of gaming with your editing.
I don't know how, maybe it was your presentation, but you captured what it was like to turn on the Dreamcast for the first time in 1999. Bravo! Insta-subbed
I remember playing Soul Calibur with my brother when it first dropped for an entire Christmas break and just being in AWE of how insane the graphics were at the time. MVC2 is the best fighting game (in that genre) imo.
My favorite console ever, at the time it blew me away coming from the n64. I was nervous buying it initallly, in the end it gave me years of joy. Great game after great game throughout the years. I still have mine. Thank you sega.
This was the very first console I ever purchased with my own money. I remember being overseas and going to a video game store and seeing a TV with a football game on in the window. Then I realized it wasn't a television game, it was NFL 2K. I had never seen a game that looks so realistic. Then I saw footage of Soul Calibur and it was the first time a video game Home console looks better than the arcade version. I thought I would never own a Sega since I was such a Nintendo guy, but the Dreamcast want me over and became my second favorite console of all time behind my Nintendo Entertainment System
I loved the Dreamcast! It wasn't the first console I got on release day, but it was the first console I lined up to pick up on release day. It came out on a work day so I went straight from the store to the office and had to look at the bag sitting by my desk all day. It was brutal! My coworkers who were into video games as well were all super envious and had to look at the box and the games I got with it (Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure). It was such a shame that it was a failure and Sega pulled the plug so quickly into its life.
I still have mine (but it sorta turned into a cream color now haha). Still works! I clean it inside out every year or two. Man, I remember the first time we got Soul Calibur back when it first came out. I was blown away by the super smooth animations and the anatomy details of each character. It's true, back then this was a total aberration. The Dreamcast had some real gems.
NEC’s PowerVR GPU is famous for it’s internal and external 32-bit color when most everything at the time were 16-bit, that’s how the system can have enough colors for gradients, shadings, and color operations, and that’s how the graphics are so clean. And the design of DreamCast also look a whole lot like NEC’s PC Engine.. I always secretly consider Dreamcast a what-if 3D PC Engine 😂
The Dreamcast is my favorite console of all time. I had a couple consoles afterwards, but I'm just a PC guy now. But in 1999 when I was 22, Dreamcast was it.
I remember Nintendo 64 being a huge jump, but when my bro bought a Dreamcast it blew my mind. It also just seemed more user friendly for most games being more fluent than anything I'd ever played before! We had Demos then too as a bunch of broke-ish college students. Tony Hawk Demo scores got ridiculous between all of us friends on the one warehouse level we had. lol Also, Rush 2049 was insane for us then! Can't believe it's not on your list. Jet set radio was also so impressive especially after a bong rip 🤣
14:35 SEGA Rally 2 has two graphics modes actually It has a performance mode as well which takes some things away and some effects away to maintain a more stable Frame-rate It's a combination of button presses at the start screen, after ya do them, you will hear a chime and then hit start and the graphics should be a bit lowered to maintain a higher Frame-rate 😅
Dreamcast was ahead of the curve. So much so the consumer market didn't actually understand that they had a gem and wasted it. I didn't own one myself, but my best friend had one and we played THPS and Sonic adenture 1 and 2 non stop. We did crazy taxi runs and jet set. The console was sick and had internet/dlc capabilities in the 90's! The one gamer regret is that I never got to play Phantasy Star Online on the dreamcast. Friend didn't get it and when they put it on gamecube finding it in my area was impossible.
Soul Calibur is the first perfect 3D fighting game. Also I'm surprised you didn't put Hydro Thunder on here. I love that game. NBA/NFL 2K were both great launch titles as well.
Wth until you talked about a casa do videogame it didn't even occur to me that you are Brksedu, and when you talked it mindblowed me. I was legitimately thinking you were another totally different UA-camr. Parabéns pelo seu ótimo inglês.
Great video! Did you ever play Power Stone? That was one of my favorite games on Dreamcast. Jet Set Radio or whatever that version was called. I still have the DC and my games but I haven’t fired it up in at least a decade. I hope they still work. You’ve inspired me to hook it up.
I'm the future, intend to bring a video similar to this one about the PlayStation 1, one of the most beloved consoles in my view, congratulations on the video!!!
I remember using the VGA mod to output in 480p, which prior to the Xbox was a big deal. On an HDTV, it looked so much better than the competition, it wasn't worth comparing.
As a hard-core gamer many years ago, I was disgusted how many supposed "gamers" snubbed the Dreamcast waiting for the PS2. The one thing that upset me was that SEGA didn't produce new Dreamcast versions of their deep gaming library from the past like: Power Drift, After Burner, Alien Syndrome, Golden Axe, Space Harrier, Shinobi, Outrun, Thunder Blade.
I loved my dreamcast! Wish it was a bigger success. Couldnt tell you how many soul calibur matches where played, how many hours phantasy star online was played even the card game! Alien front online, blue stinger, evolution 1 and 2, shenmue, marvel vs capcom, who could forget about skies of arcadia!! Powerstones and much much more. Happy gaming all.
I had a Dreamcast from Hollywood movies in green bay in the August before release for a week. I wasn't even allowed to take a picture of it. I wish I did
I’ve still got my original Dreamcast in box plus Soul Calibur, Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Capcom vs SNK and a bunch of other games including Shenmue and Skies of Arcadia. It’s a shame it didn’t have a longer life but I enjoyed the time I got with it
Genesis was by far my favorite console. It was super special. But I'd say my second favorite was Dreamcast. So many great games. 4 players out of the box! So many great fighting games! PS2 had tons of great games, but it didnt have personality. So many great memories.
I think the best thing you can do for a Dreamcast, these days, is install an optical drive emulator. You may not want to do this with your childhood Dreamcast, for sentimental reasons, but the Dreamcast isn't as insanely priced in the collector market as the PS2. You should be able to acquire a second hand Dreamcast to mod. All that said, of course, emulation is a thing, and we live in a world where the NVidia Shield TV exists. Probably the perfect Dreamcast emulation device. If you don't want to perform surgery on a Dreamcast, emulating it on the Shield TV is perfectly acceptable.
Ready to Rumble sold me on the Dreamcast. They used to use it in the display stands in shops and it alays had a crowd of people waiting to have a go of the game.
Like many folks on here I agree the DC was underrated and was by far superior to its competitors. When he got to the part of Soul Calibur, the memories that struck of playing with my lil brother and friends, We'd stay up late playing that game for hours. So many times our grandmother would bust open the door and told us to get our arses to bed LOL! Good times, great vid, thanks!
Love it. Only thing for me the title "this is how Dreamcast really looks on modern displays" Would love if it possible for you to make another video where you put the result some CRT emulation / or filming an actual time representative CRT with same output you use here. Would love to see this proper DC video output shown both "sharp - LED" look and then "smoothed CRT look" Ideally showing first both and then a side by side comparsion. Reason is just what you shown in the picture. so more is "This is really how Dreamcast games are supposed to look" as for sure most of them look better on a CRT due to the reasons you mentioned in this video
The big issue with showing games with a CRT filter is that usually UA-cam destroys the image quality, it really doesn't handle CRT filters well. Sometimes it ends up ok with games with static backgrounds, but for a full 3D experience it's awful unfortunately! Thanks a lot for the comment!
@@VideoGameShowcase ah even if you upload it in 4K? That’s a shame. But I get what you mean. I would love if someone did a program that could fetch a UA-cam screen and then apply a realtime shader to simulate older displays. Like retrotink 4K well not the same but you get what I mean. Thanks for the nice content btw.
My BIGGEST regret was selling my dreamcast, that i got used for 220cad with a bunch of games and two controllers. And most of the games i had are going for 120+ on ebay.
The Dreamcast was also the first console I was able to pick up on release. I saved up all my hard-earned money as a teenager to get it, and there were only a few games available at the time. It was a truly special system. Nothing came close, and even when the PS2 came out, DC games still looked better.
@@HankBaxter I had the dreamcast too , not my first system because I was born in 1981 but yes I loved the system because I was a Sega fan , my first system was nes that my grandpa bought me in 1986 but besides that we was very poor , got super Nintendo in 1994 and Sega Saturn in 1996 , got dream cast in 2000 , wanted to get it at launch but I couldn't afford it.
@@jeremymardis5590 Yeah, I was also a Sega fan. First system I had was a Genesis/Mega Drive in the mid 90s. Then people we lived with got a Saturn. One of my friends at the time was a huge Nintendo fan, so we'd always be comparing the console versions of various games. But Dreamcast felt like such a generational leap.
Man, I love that golden era of 3D fighting games, Tekken, Toshinden, Bloody Roar, Soul Calibur, etc... Fighting games now rely too much on "How can we keep this game alive through paid online content and big ass tournaments?" Rather than making something that can hold on it own on release day with some cool 1P content as well as some fun side-modes like Tekken 3's beat-em up, volleyball, Soul Calibur 2's Weapon Master, etc...
Dreamcast to me is the best home console ever , it gave you that real japanese arcade feeling , i never had one but it was on top of my list i owned a Game Boy , NES , SNES , but wanted a Dreamcast so bad sad it failured🎉
Blue stinger was the shit, I have huge nostalgia for it and even played it on an emulator on PC a few years back. Never finished it though, I need to some time.
I'm also very nostalgic for the Dreamcast. I assume you're also Brazilian, so you'll understand my story. I bought my Dreamcast in Santo Amaro, São Paulo, when I worked as an office boy, exchanging it for meal tickets. I went a whole month without lunch🤣
best time of my life this, 1999. Passed my driving test, got my car, got a job, brought a dreamcast! The last truly great console before things started to go "online". Something so special about that 1999-2000 era.
The Dreamcast seemed like the future in that era 😢
To be honest the GameCube was not that much 'Online' compared to the Dreamcast. So, I would say GameCube would be the last great 'offline' console. The only true online game was phantasy star online ported from the Dreamcast. We don't talk about the CARD series
@@MrBendixxx ps2 is better than DC and last great console
@@KenKaniff-dw4jw dreamcast was an arcade system for at home. for me as an arcade fan first choice. as an classic home console was the better system with much more games.
@@KenKaniff-dw4jwPS2 is average at best most of the games are dark and muddy hardware also is trash and breaks regularly but to each their own
While I waited for the GameCube to release the Dreamcast was on its way out. I decided to buy the Dreamcast to hold me over and found it on sale for $99. Bought Powerstone 2 and Marvel vs Capcom 2 to go with it. WONDERFUL decision. I loved the Dreamcast.
I still remember passing up a Dreamcast with like 20 games, on sale for $200 at my dentist office. The dental assistant's son was selling it.
WHY OH WHY DID I NOT BUY IT?!?!?! DANG IT!!!
The irony of this is I needed to tide myself over before the PS3 came out, and picked up a Gamecube for about $90 bucks and fell in love with it.
But the DC is still one of my favorite consoles of all time.
@@wayofthekodiak3118 same here .. I had ignored the dreamCast and it was on the way out, games cheap as anything so it was wonderful for me !
Powerstone 2 is great!
For $99 you wish you’d of bought a few and kept them boxed. Would be worth a mint now 😮
DC was one of the most underrated and unappreciated consoles ever!! Sega knew gaming, they were experts in the field.. now if only they had opted for the DVD format.. Our gaming landscape would have looked way different today 😉
And a second joystick... And 32mb of ram instead of 16mb. That really crippled the console because without the additional ram, it wasn't capable of loading/caching large open world 3D games that were next Gen a la grand theft auto 3. Rockstar actually supported the Dreamcast somewhat and if they would have brought over grand theft auto 3, that would have been a game changer. Dreamcast would have gone on to sell 30 million consoles at least. A port of GTA could have been possible but it would have been plagued with random loading screens when moving across the map.
@@7shocker the PS2 version of GTA3 was also plagued with frequent loading screens and slowdown issues, so it's not like bringing the Dreamcast up to parity would have prevented that from being the case.
To be completely honest with you, I feel like GTA3 was overhyped and was pretty mediocre as a game once you look past the spectacle of it having big levels. I'd much rather have had a console that was incapable of running it because the entire genre that spun off from people imitating GTA3 didn't hit its stride until much later and I don't think that open world games really stack up compared to more focused experiences, even today.
I do agree that a second analogue stick and some more buttons on the controller would have been welcome, but the Dreamcast didn't fail because of weak hardware or because it didn't have the right software: it was because of MILCDs. If they hadn't decided to make the console compatible with MILCDs, it would have been close to impossible to pirate software because it would never boot a game that wasn't pressed to a GDROM.
DVD playback could have been handled by a peripheral and the storage issues from not using DVD for games would probably not be all that significant, considering that most games on PS2 and XBOX used less than half of the disc space of a single layer DVD. GDROM wasn't that far from the capacity of a Gamecube disc, so if a Gamecube could run the game it would most likely be able to fit on a single GDROM.
Nothing was going to stop the PS2, the hype was insane even if half of it wasn't true. I love my Dreamcast though.
@@deepblue8143 even the xbox with al the money in the world lost against the ps2.
I don’t think this what if scenario would have made a difference… we all know SEGA was taking a lot of risks and that’s what set them apart from competition… I mean MEGA CD, 32X, Saturn with its messy hardware and last minute changes and then the Dreamcast… the only thing that could’ve saved them is having a bigger amount of cash to endure these failures… I still remember people saying that Nintendo could have taken at least 7 Sega Saturn’s failure until bankruptcy… well this is another “What if” scenario, but it all comes down to this: Ca$h money.
The Dreamcast was my very first console where I was able to connect online gaming for the very first time. I remember that night like it was yesterday and I'm 49 now. It was a magical. I was so excited when I first connect and saw other players online. Dreamcast was a very special console.
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YES it definitely was. I remember downloading mini videos on my VMU. Dragonball was getting popular and I remember someone had a Vegeta one powering up. It was just a crazy time!
Agree. The ability to connect to the internet with a game system changed the game - literally.
Quake 3 arena on the Dreamcast was my first online game. And I’ve been chasing to repeat that feeling of fun it gave me ever since.
I remember back in 2002, we had a big sleep over with many of our gamer friends. There were like 14 of us in one of our rich friend's mansion. We all brought our own games and consoles. I vividly remember one guy had PS2 in a specialized suit traveling suit case. And one of those ridiculous gaming rocking chairs with speaker on both sides. During the course of gaming, we gradually gravitated towards where Dreamcast was being played. We had all the great games like power stone, soul calibur, psychic force, space channel five, and etc. I have to admit, we had more fun playing on Dreamcast more than PS2 or Xbox at the time. It really did feel like the very last true gaming console.
@@hkoizumi3134 how does it?
I bought my Dreamcast on the day of release, it was probably my favourite console in terms of truly groundbreaking experiences.
Games like Power Stone, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio , Shenmue, they were all so different from anything else available before or since.
Such a pity that it was Sega's final console.
Yes, shenmue set the standard for next level rpg. Rush 2049 was insane for us and a sleeper if it's not on this list 🤷 loved how we could get cheap Demos like Tony Hawk etc to just sit around and beat each other's scores lol
I adored my DC, was like having an arcade at home for the first time
I was blown away by Phantasy Star Online. I still play it today as if it just came out. It's my favourite game of all time, and running it in higher res now looks incredible.
It was crazy how much more advanced it was than other hardware when it launched in Japan in 1998. Shame they didn’t manage to make it a world wide launch as early as then
Same I feel things could have been different
Dreamcast is a great console. I Always remember how futuristic it felt. I was astonished playing F1 World Grand Prix on a dreamcast of a friend.
For me it's a core memory. Years after I asked this friend what he had done with the console.... He sold with a lot of games for dirt cheap. If I knew...
Awesome video as always!
I remember Christmas of 2000 and my grandparents bought me and my sister a Dreamcast, that Generator Demo Disk with Sonic Adventure 1 on it... that game felt like a complete revolution to what I was playing before then,, agree with you fully that it felt like a futuristic space-tech machine.
I have probably more than 1000 hours on the F1 game! It was amazing!
I love the Dreamcast, my first console purchased from my own, saved up hard work. It blew everything at the time out the water.
It'll always be special to me for being the first SEGA console to grace our home. Well, not exactly. My mom and brother briefly had a Master System before I was around, but they hated it and so returned it, opting for an NES, instead. This was the grounds for denying me the SEGA systems I wanted - Genesis, Game Gear, Saturn - but one fateful day, that same brother would trade in all our N64 stuff for a Dreamcast plus a few games, which really was a dream come true, for me.
I remember feeling the same way it was like having a actual arcade in my house it was amazing
I love this video so much. The games look just like they do in my memories. It feels like I've gone back in time. Thank you so much.
I agree Soul Calibur 1 is probably one of the best games there has ever been. It was ahead of it's time.
Soul Blade is better
@@SmartDumbNerdyCool soul blade was the first in the series but its certainly not the best one. Because it looks horrible.
@@choncis8318 It looks great
@@SmartDumbNerdyCoolIt looks horrific haha
Soul caliber on Dreamcast was and may still be the best fighting game ever
Dreamcast made my HS days memorable. One of the best 4 year stretches in my gaming history. 2K sports, Resident Evils, Marvel vs Capcoms, Shenmue... what a time to be alive.
Your knowledge and analysis on legacy games and audio-visual electronics always impresses me. I had a Dreamcast that I loved, but I lived in an area where it seemed like games for the Dreamcast were almost never available. Even the rental places rarely got titles in. It was an absolute shame because the games that did get released looked awesome back in the day.
I hope that everything is going well. I have been watching some of your lives with Elder Ring. When you were over three hours into the battle with Malenia and your wife was watching and wanting to start her Friday night, I was empathizing with you. lol We've all been there.
I really enjoyed this video, great work. I wanted a Dreamcast so bad. I was a sega kid. I got a genesis in 1993 but missed out on the Saturn. I had a PS1 in 97. I used to ride my bike to wal mart to play the Dreamcast kiosk. Then my buddy got one and we loved the ports of quake 3 and unreal tournament. We played quake 3 online too. I later ended up getting a ps2 in 2001 followed by an Xbox in 2003. I went full Xbox after that.
WOW, I was also a Sega fan and had a MegaDrive and then got my PS1 in 1997 too!! I remember playing Tekken and Tomb Raider the first time - blown away!!
Finally UA-cam recommended your new channel to me, amazing as always!
Dreamcast was my favorite console ever. My bday is 9/8, so the next day on '99 was an extremely special bday gift to me, especially after a rough period then (since my family had just moved, I was going to a new school).
That era was really special, I think -- I kinda equate the games as a predecessor of the indie boom a decade later of the early 2010s, because there were a lot of extremely unique and ambitious games on the DC, as well as really freakin' weird, quirky ones (in a good way). Devs were taking creative risks on the console, that they weren't as much even on PS2, GC, and XBox.
Shout-out from Brazil 🗣️ amazing channel, greatest videos that I've ever seen
I still have my dreamcast that I got new, just as things were winding down.
It's such a fun and underrated system!
I was a teenager and had been following it in the magazines and saving up my own money from mowing lawns in the neighborhood. Had the pre-order locked in and I remember going to Toys R Us on 9/9/99, and there didn't seem to be much fanfare. I just walked through quietly and picked up my machine, along with Soul Calibur. That game had such a spectacular run among my friends and I. My dad was always quoting the announcer! 😆 In short order, I would pick up Sonic, Crazy Taxi and Ready 2 Rumble boxing.
After a couple of years, I was old enough for a regular job and eventually picked up a PS2. But the DC would always be my favorite, with titles like MvC2, Capcom vs SNK, and weird little gems like Armada and JGR.
Over the last year, I have lost both of my parents and find myself unexpectedly emotional recalling a happier time. Thanks for this. 🤙
Another great video from a era that I have skipped. It's good to know more of consoles that I did not have the opportunity to play at the time.
Conheço essa voz.... Kkkkkkk
Muito bom o conteúdo, meu amigo!
Eu simplesmente AMO o Dreamcast e me lamento até hoje por ter vendido o meu em 2013... 😢
Forte abraço!
Deus te abençoe!
Good to see the pixels. There are several Sega fanboys showing bullshots (with 8xAA or more) claiming that they were real time, but in fact it's an 480p image and has a lot of aliasing. Nothing wrong with that.
Damn, wasn't expecting you'd need this much equipment to record with this quality.
You can get close results with much less! RetroTink 5X with a 1080p capture card, for example! Analog cables are always super relevant for high quality though.
Thought that an S-Video output would be more than enough. Very interesting.
i'll never forget the day i got my Dreamcast back in 1999, this console changed my life
all thanks to the Demo CD comes with it.
1 year later for me, but same deal.
that Generator disk was one of the best demo-disks, period.
Great video and really appreciate the info on your signal chain.
Dreamcast is my favorite console of all time. Got it on launch day. I wouldn’t say it was under appreciated though. Dreamcast fans are die hard in a way no other console can claim. And we can name 100 reasons why but really, it’s just one of those intangible things. DC was magic.
I played Soulcalibur at the Toysrus and was blown away. It was better than arcade perfect. Such a shame the DC didn't succeed. I remember the visuals being so vibrant and sharp compared to the fuzzier PS2.
Man what time to alive. We, as the consumer, benefited the most from the competition between Sega, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. they were all firing from all calibers.
I worked at a gaming store called Babbages in Cherry Hill Mall in NJ (which is known as GameStop today) and that day i was off therefore i went to the store to pick up my Dreamcast 9/9/99. I bought the Dreamcast,an extra controller and a VMU with Blue Stinger as my game and also picked up Final Fantasy 8 for the ps1. That was a great year. The good old days of gaming were the best they were magical man.
Thanks for explaining how these games display differently on CRT screens. As a complete novice, I appreciated that
Edu's english voice is so calm compared with his portuguese loud and emotional speaking 😅 Nice work, bro!
This video format is fantastic brother. Excellent execution. You can tell that your passion is the native the real what it actually looks like. Your workflow is nice and surely a lot of work went into its production.
@5:30 Such a good point, that many of us forget. And to show the difference side by side 👌
The Dreamcast was amazing! Still one of my favorite systems. This system brought so much to the console race. Phantasy Star Online is my favorite game on the system.
Still after 25 years all of these titles are just amazing to look at with their own features and content.
Bought it on 9/9/99 with Sonic and Soul Calibur. Soul Cal is INCREDIBLE! One of the best videogames ever made
I never play one game I'm Dreamcast, with this video i became more interested in the console, the content of this channel is incredible, may there be more videos, congratulations on the production, hugs!!!
Never grew up around DC and I don’t have that much interest in going back to revisit it and play the games from it but I do enjoy learning about it… but I really enjoyed this video simply for its editing and production quality. You really capture the aesthetic of this era of gaming with your editing.
Thanks a lot for the nice comment
I don't know how, maybe it was your presentation, but you captured what it was like to turn on the Dreamcast for the first time in 1999. Bravo! Insta-subbed
I remember playing Soul Calibur with my brother when it first dropped for an entire Christmas break and just being in AWE of how insane the graphics were at the time. MVC2 is the best fighting game (in that genre) imo.
Sega Dreamcast was the absolute best era of peak gaming! What a time to be alive!
Still my favourite console. So many great games. Shenmue especially.
My favorite console ever, at the time it blew me away coming from the n64.
I was nervous buying it initallly, in the end it gave me years of joy. Great game after great game throughout the years. I still have mine.
Thank you sega.
This was the very first console I ever purchased with my own money. I remember being overseas and going to a video game store and seeing a TV with a football game on in the window. Then I realized it wasn't a television game, it was NFL 2K. I had never seen a game that looks so realistic. Then I saw footage of Soul Calibur and it was the first time a video game Home console looks better than the arcade version. I thought I would never own a Sega since I was such a Nintendo guy, but the Dreamcast want me over and became my second favorite console of all time behind my Nintendo Entertainment System
I loved the Dreamcast! It wasn't the first console I got on release day, but it was the first console I lined up to pick up on release day. It came out on a work day so I went straight from the store to the office and had to look at the bag sitting by my desk all day. It was brutal! My coworkers who were into video games as well were all super envious and had to look at the box and the games I got with it (Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure). It was such a shame that it was a failure and Sega pulled the plug so quickly into its life.
The Dreamcast was one of my favorite consoles, it deserved to have more life given to it.
I still have mine (but it sorta turned into a cream color now haha). Still works! I clean it inside out every year or two.
Man, I remember the first time we got Soul Calibur back when it first came out. I was blown away by the super smooth animations and the anatomy details of each character. It's true, back then this was a total aberration. The Dreamcast had some real gems.
Opa, cheguei cedo mas ja comentando porque tenho certeza que o video ta incrivel assim como todo seu conteúdo
NEC’s PowerVR GPU is famous for it’s internal and external 32-bit color when most everything at the time were 16-bit, that’s how the system can have enough colors for gradients, shadings, and color operations, and that’s how the graphics are so clean.
And the design of DreamCast also look a whole lot like NEC’s PC Engine.. I always secretly consider Dreamcast a what-if 3D PC Engine 😂
Dreamcast is also the signature console of Chad Warden's sidekick Anthony Perez.
So underrated. Awesome library, awesome graphics.
I didn't play dreamcast in your launch but I'm playing shenmue 1&2 remaster on my PC and there is amazing.
The Dreamcast is my favorite console of all time. I had a couple consoles afterwards, but I'm just a PC guy now. But in 1999 when I was 22, Dreamcast was it.
I remember Nintendo 64 being a huge jump, but when my bro bought a Dreamcast it blew my mind. It also just seemed more user friendly for most games being more fluent than anything I'd ever played before!
We had Demos then too as a bunch of broke-ish college students. Tony Hawk Demo scores got ridiculous between all of us friends on the one warehouse level we had. lol Also, Rush 2049 was insane for us then! Can't believe it's not on your list. Jet set radio was also so impressive especially after a bong rip 🤣
14:35 SEGA Rally 2 has two graphics modes actually
It has a performance mode as well which takes some things away and some effects away to maintain a more stable Frame-rate
It's a combination of button presses at the start screen, after ya do them, you will hear a chime and then hit start and the graphics should be a bit lowered to maintain a higher Frame-rate 😅
Aaaah I wish I knew about it before recording this video!!! Thanks for the info!
@@VideoGameShowcase oh, yeppers!
and yeah it's quite interesting, the Dreamcast sure has more than enough reasons to be my favorite console 👍
Such a great console (i bought it tree times...!), so many memories... connected via VGA BOx to my pc monitor was spectacular!!
Dreamcast was ahead of the curve. So much so the consumer market didn't actually understand that they had a gem and wasted it. I didn't own one myself, but my best friend had one and we played THPS and Sonic adenture 1 and 2 non stop. We did crazy taxi runs and jet set. The console was sick and had internet/dlc capabilities in the 90's! The one gamer regret is that I never got to play Phantasy Star Online on the dreamcast. Friend didn't get it and when they put it on gamecube finding it in my area was impossible.
Soul Calibur is the first perfect 3D fighting game. Also I'm surprised you didn't put Hydro Thunder on here. I love that game. NBA/NFL 2K were both great launch titles as well.
Wth until you talked about a casa do videogame it didn't even occur to me that you are Brksedu, and when you talked it mindblowed me. I was legitimately thinking you were another totally different UA-camr.
Parabéns pelo seu ótimo inglês.
Great video! Did you ever play Power Stone? That was one of my favorite games on Dreamcast. Jet Set Radio or whatever that version was called.
I still have the DC and my games but I haven’t fired it up in at least a decade. I hope they still work.
You’ve inspired me to hook it up.
I'm the future, intend to bring a video similar to this one about the PlayStation 1, one of the most beloved consoles in my view, congratulations on the video!!!
I remember using the VGA mod to output in 480p, which prior to the Xbox was a big deal. On an HDTV, it looked so much better than the competition, it wasn't worth comparing.
As a hard-core gamer many years ago, I was disgusted how many supposed "gamers" snubbed the Dreamcast waiting for the PS2.
The one thing that upset me was that SEGA didn't produce new Dreamcast versions of their deep gaming library from the past like: Power Drift, After Burner, Alien Syndrome, Golden Axe, Space Harrier, Shinobi, Outrun, Thunder Blade.
This was favourite console ever. Msr and soul calibre were two of the best games ever.
18:35 The European version of Dino Crsis runs at 480P, and I think it has VGA box functionality.
Great video and amazing console. Greetings from Colombia. 🇨🇴
I loved my dreamcast! Wish it was a bigger success. Couldnt tell you how many soul calibur matches where played, how many hours phantasy star online was played even the card game! Alien front online, blue stinger, evolution 1 and 2, shenmue, marvel vs capcom, who could forget about skies of arcadia!! Powerstones and much much more. Happy gaming all.
I had a Dreamcast from Hollywood movies in green bay in the August before release for a week. I wasn't even allowed to take a picture of it. I wish I did
I loved to play Phantasy Star online on my Dreamcast ! So much fun
I’ve still got my original Dreamcast in box plus Soul Calibur, Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Capcom vs SNK and a bunch of other games including Shenmue and Skies of Arcadia. It’s a shame it didn’t have a longer life but I enjoyed the time I got with it
Genesis was by far my favorite console. It was super special. But I'd say my second favorite was Dreamcast. So many great games. 4 players out of the box! So many great fighting games! PS2 had tons of great games, but it didnt have personality. So many great memories.
I have fond memories of playing Jet Set Radio and Virtua Tennis on my DC.
I think the best thing you can do for a Dreamcast, these days, is install an optical drive emulator. You may not want to do this with your childhood Dreamcast, for sentimental reasons, but the Dreamcast isn't as insanely priced in the collector market as the PS2. You should be able to acquire a second hand Dreamcast to mod.
All that said, of course, emulation is a thing, and we live in a world where the NVidia Shield TV exists. Probably the perfect Dreamcast emulation device. If you don't want to perform surgery on a Dreamcast, emulating it on the Shield TV is perfectly acceptable.
I’m modding my childhood Dreamcast. I can play all my games on my laptop so screw it… 😂
Ready to Rumble sold me on the Dreamcast. They used to use it in the display stands in shops and it alays had a crowd of people waiting to have a go of the game.
When I think of dreamcast, the first thing that comes to my mind is sonic adventure, specifically the Orca in the first level as in 23:52
Crazy Taxi and Virtua Fighter. First football game with commentary as well whatever that was i cant remember
Like many folks on here I agree the DC was underrated and was by far superior to its competitors. When he got to the part of Soul Calibur, the memories that struck of playing with my lil brother and friends, We'd stay up late playing that game for hours. So many times our grandmother would bust open the door and told us to get our arses to bed LOL! Good times, great vid, thanks!
First console to have Hall effects thumb sticks.
Love it. Only thing for me the title "this is how Dreamcast really looks on modern displays" Would love if it possible for you to make another video where you put the result some CRT emulation / or filming an actual time representative CRT with same output you use here. Would love to see this proper DC video output shown both "sharp - LED" look and then "smoothed CRT look" Ideally showing first both and then a side by side comparsion. Reason is just what you shown in the picture. so more is "This is really how Dreamcast games are supposed to look" as for sure most of them look better on a CRT due to the reasons you mentioned in this video
The big issue with showing games with a CRT filter is that usually UA-cam destroys the image quality, it really doesn't handle CRT filters well. Sometimes it ends up ok with games with static backgrounds, but for a full 3D experience it's awful unfortunately! Thanks a lot for the comment!
@@VideoGameShowcase ah even if you upload it in 4K? That’s a shame. But I get what you mean. I would love if someone did a program that could fetch a UA-cam screen and then apply a realtime shader to simulate older displays. Like retrotink 4K well not the same but you get what I mean.
Thanks for the nice content btw.
I still really really like how Dreamcast games look. The games and the console have a really unique character
My BIGGEST regret was selling my dreamcast, that i got used for 220cad with a bunch of games and two controllers. And most of the games i had are going for 120+ on ebay.
i loved my dreamcast, it had the best version of doom music and i used it to go online for the first time ever.
The Dreamcast was also the first console I was able to pick up on release. I saved up all my hard-earned money as a teenager to get it, and there were only a few games available at the time. It was a truly special system. Nothing came close, and even when the PS2 came out, DC games still looked better.
@@HankBaxter I had the dreamcast too , not my first system because I was born in 1981 but yes I loved the system because I was a Sega fan , my first system was nes that my grandpa bought me in 1986 but besides that we was very poor , got super Nintendo in 1994 and Sega Saturn in 1996 , got dream cast in 2000 , wanted to get it at launch but I couldn't afford it.
@@jeremymardis5590 Yeah, I was also a Sega fan. First system I had was a Genesis/Mega Drive in the mid 90s. Then people we lived with got a Saturn. One of my friends at the time was a huge Nintendo fan, so we'd always be comparing the console versions of various games. But Dreamcast felt like such a generational leap.
The Dreamcast was so dope! I can't believe that it failed with all the great games and accessories
I never had a Dreamcast nor did I rarely play on it, but growing up I always viewed it as the at-home arcade system.
Shenmue and power stone was all I needed for Dreamcast
I was fortunate enough to grow up with the Saturn. I can't count how many times I played Sega Rally Championship. "Game over yeaahhhhhhhhhhHhhhhhh!"
Man, I love that golden era of 3D fighting games, Tekken, Toshinden, Bloody Roar, Soul Calibur, etc...
Fighting games now rely too much on "How can we keep this game alive through paid online content and big ass tournaments?" Rather than making something that can hold on it own on release day with some cool 1P content as well as some fun side-modes like Tekken 3's beat-em up, volleyball, Soul Calibur 2's Weapon Master, etc...
I vividly remember Soul Calibur being the first time I played a home port that actually looked BETTER than the arcade version.
Dreamcast to me is the best home console ever , it gave you that real japanese arcade feeling , i never had one but it was on top of my list i owned a Game Boy , NES , SNES , but wanted a Dreamcast so bad sad it failured🎉
Blue stinger was the shit, I have huge nostalgia for it and even played it on an emulator on PC a few years back. Never finished it though, I need to some time.
Bought my Dreamcast on launch day along with Sonic the Hedgehog…put it in and I had a blank disc. Had to go back and exchange it immediately.
I'm also very nostalgic for the Dreamcast. I assume you're also Brazilian, so you'll understand my story. I bought my Dreamcast in Santo Amaro, São Paulo, when I worked as an office boy, exchanging it for meal tickets. I went a whole month without lunch🤣
Pixels were born out of the CRT. Showing them without the CRT screen is showing them naked
This is good stuff! I like your style and point of view in this. Keep going! Also, check out Metal Gear Solid for Bleemcast.
SEGA Saturn was no mistake, that machine cranks, Moe!💯
DC was and still is awesome.
D.O.A. is also a fantastic fighting game along with your other recommendations
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Marvel vs Capcom 2 NEEDS to be remade. Such a great cast of fighters. Super fluid. Tons of stuff to unlock. Heck, just port it to the switch.