A Modded Dreamcast is the Best Dreamcast
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Music:
00:11 - The Legend Of Zelda Spirit Tracks: Aboda Village
00:44 - Portal 2: Reconstructing More Science
00:47 - Sonic CD: Main Menu
01:04 - Animal Crossing (idk which): Nookway
01:51 - Donkey Kong Country: Funky the Main Monkey
03:00 - Wii: Photo Channel Puzzle Theme
03:23 - Team Fortress 2: Disco Taunt
03:33 - Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike: You Blow My Mind (Dudley's Stage)
03:52 - Sonic CD: Wacky Workbench
04:07 - My Sims Kingdom (Wii): Training Area
04:56 - Super Mario 3D World: Super Bell Hill
05:45 - Among Us Trap Remix Small Ensemble Concert (ua-cam.com/video/6dtOhLxoWhc/v-deo.html)
05:52 - Wii: Check Mii Out Channel Submission Plaza Theme
06:48 - Super Mario 64: Bob-Omb Battlefield
07:58 - Half-Life: Hazardous Environments
08:37 - Half-Life 2: CP Violation
09:45 - Half-Life: Credits Theme
10:46 - Half-Life: Nuclear Mission Jam
11:49 - Super Mario Galaxy: Honeyhive Galaxy
13:01 - Cannon Spike: Stage C
13:33 - Doom 2016: Main Theme
13:36 - Knee Deep In The Doot
13:56 - Mario Kart DS: WiFi Menu
14:34 - Team Fortress 2: MEDIC!
14:44 - Portal 2: You Are Not Part Of The Control Group
16:13 - Wii Fit U: Body Measurement Theme
17:16 - Sonic and the Secret Rings: Party Dress
19:07 - Hyole Card Games: Swing Town
19:25 - Super Mario 64: Title Screen
19:47 - Archer Maclean's Mercury: Alien
22:11 - Archer Maclean's Mercury: Bleep Blop
23:44 - The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword: Groose's Theme
24:28 - Sonic CD: Beta Title Theme
25:48 - Portal 2: Halls Of Science
24:32 - Mario Superstar Baseball: Mario Stadium Theme
First yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa edit I liked my one comment 😀
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Bro there be scammers in this comment section
@@kaiosobreira lol rite... dam telagram scamers😅
@@kaiosobreira are they still there? I think I got them all banned
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Yamaha is based
Chatting gd, not cd
With Glock, I could buy a shower curtain rod, a semi-automatic pistol, and horse semen at the same time (at one point anyways)
And Phillips is the only manufacturer where you can buy a toothpaste charger, a cd gaming device, and a buzzer (example)
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Air-conditioning and refrigeration systems, Compressors and mechanical turbines, Printing machinery, Rubber and tire machinery, Chemical plants
Hydraulic components and probably a whole lot more.
15:58 - So fun fact: A “Sega Smash Pack Vol. 2” actually does exist, but it only got a PC release. It’s actually how I played Sonic 2 for the first time as a kid…
Shining Force on PC was great
Damn I actually had no idea
Well yea, but "Sega Smash Pack Vol. 1" and "Sega Smash Pack Vol 2." for Windows both came out before "Sega Smash Pack Volume 1" came out for Dreamcast (with some games from both packs, and ones that were in neither.) Also Sega Smash Pack Vol 2 for windows was really Pack 3, with Pack 2 being "Sega Puzzle Pack"
@@johnbuscher7119my man.
The Sega Smash Packs on PC were awesome. I think I still have the CDs somewhere.......
I love that the dreamcast has kept such a lively community over all these years. For a system that sold less than the Wii U thats impressive.
It's a great system, the problem is that Sega was making mistake after mistake after mistake during the Saturn generation and didn't really have the funds to keep it up. Not to mention that they had burned so many bridges with that surprise launch date.
Let's go back to end of 1999. Dreamcast launched in US with 20+ games, with one of the largest generational graphics leaps ever. Doubled the resolution of the PS1 & N64 and games usually ran at 60fps. Before even accounting for the fact that it was only $199 at launch. I absolutely love that it has such a dedicated fanbase now, even if it will never truly get the respect it deserves
One of the Sony CEOs bragged in his autobiography about how they knocked SEGA out of the hardware market with corporate coldwar tactics.
Basically Sony had that Walkman money and could sell Playstations at a loss and would recoup from licensing and game sales. Which they did. They also gobbled up every stray 3rd party developer that was scraping by on a shoestring budget and pumped out the largest library in history of shovelware for unsuspecting grandparents to gift wrap for soon to be disappointed children across the globe on Christmas morning.
But that's another story
@@b1llygo4t Sony still has questionable business practices
Sony’s PS2 was the biggest over hyped console in history. It was so much overhyped that it was presented as a DVD player that can play your PS1 games. It was pure marketing strategy to present it as the next big thing and to destroy the competition but little went into the console itself which was apparent from its mediocre launch titles.
Prior to Dreamcast console games generally ran at 320 by 240p, Dreamcast upped that to 640 by 480 which is 2x vertical & 2x horizontal so 4x the resolution & most games supported the VGA box so it was also high color reproduction & proper progressive scan
@@b1llygo4t I don't know who you're talking about, but Sony did nothing but help SEGA during the 32-bit era. It's SEGA's own fault they had to stop making consoles. They let a rubbish, unambitious engineer overdesign the Saturn, the same guy who turned away the cheaper, more efficient, more POWERFUL architecture that would become the N64. They launched said console for 400 dollars in the west, at a handicap, with no hype or fanfare. They hired the late and not so great Sernie Bolar after Sony FIRED him for not selling enough PlayStations in America. Between him, his idol Nakayama, the aforementioned rubbish engineer, and his underlings "Gretchen" and later Peter Moore, the guy who used SEGA's games to get a job at XBOX, It's no wonder SEGA went under as a hardware manufacturer.
I love the Dreamcast as much as the next guy, I love the Saturn MORE than the next guy, but c'mon, guys. Sony did absolutely nothing but exploit Sega's own hubris. Regardless of what either company's corporate schmucks would have us believe.
The people who worked on Bleem are insanely talented, cannot believe how good MGS1 looks running via emulation on hardware that's only a few years newer than the PS1
I remember someone at my college bringing their dreamcast to school and hooking it up to the tv to play jet set radio and it was glorious. Everyone else would bring their switches or ps4s, but I think the dc was definitely the most interesting
The community really said “Fine, we’ll do it ourselves!” And kept it alive. It may have been Sega’s final console but that’s what makes it special, that even 20 years after it is still kept alive and loved by people. It’s almost like the PS Vita in a way, abandoned by Sony and taken over by the fans. This is what I love to see about old consoles!
The dreamcast was a magical system that could finally allow arcade perfect ports of so many classic games. Then it died. Love that little guy.
I love how you were genuinely gushing about our communities little white box. She is a poorly kept secret we love seeing new folks experience. It is why we have kept her alive for so long, because we saw her true potential and knew her greatness.
Thank you for seeing her like we do. Not with rose tinted glasses, but as a retro powerhouse that still gets retail games every year more and more games come out!
its sad it was neglected by its creator, would have been cool to see SEGA Dreamcast 3 that will be head to head with PS3,early PS4 and Wii/WIi U, or Dreamcast 4 that might be ahead of PS4 but not really reaching PS5 yet, or even toe to toe with PS5 and relased in 2018 or something when Nvidia goes Full Flex with RTX GPU
@@shiro3146Dead or Alive 4 is being demaked into DOA2 right now on Dreamcast, and other games are planned to get the same treatment. Model importing tools for Naomi/Dreamcast games has matured enough to the point where customs models and collision is already working in game. DOA4 levels on Dreamcast is very crazy to see. More games can have custom content too like Crazy Taxi possibly getting CT3 city and vehicles or Ferrari 355 Challenge being used as a base to port over Outrun 2 car models to truly transform it into the ultimate Ferrari simulator!
Search "Dead or Alive 2 Kyoto in bloom" to see DOA4 levels working in that game on real Dreamcast hardware. Surreal seeing it. VF4 demake using 3TB as a base will happen for sure in our lifetime. This is just the beginning now that these modding tools have advanced enough. The future is now and in our own hands!
The text file explaining how to load your own ROMs is hilarious and was a great tidbit to include 🙂
One of the great things about the dreamcast is just how easy it is to backup the discs these days. I bought a kit for a few bucks and can backup my games. Which is pretty important, given that it's a CD based system that's so many years old at this point.
I would also like to mention that the Dreamcast is home to the best game of all time: the home port of Soul Calibur 1, which instead of simply porting what was a PS1-level arcade game was instead remade entirely from scratch to be a launch title for the American release. It still looks and plays amazing to this day.
Soul Calibur 1 on Dreamcast is still to this day one of my favorite fighting games ever. And I still always play my OG disc on my actual dreamcast too
Oh for sure. Soul Calibur is one of my favorites, I always play Kilik. CATS! CATS! CATS!
Dead Or Alive 2, Virtua Fighter 3 TB, Street Fighter 3
I love the Dreamcast. I have so many good memories playing this with my friends when they got one. It hearkens back to a time I'd give anything to go back to. Those friends and I drifted apart over the years and when I play DC, in a small way it takes me back when we were young and had some great times together. Man I miss those days.
The reason why the Mario 64 runs poorly is because of how the N64 hardware works. The N64 didn't have any soundchip so the music and sounds was made entirely by the CPU which is a demanding task. The Dreamcast however, had a soundchip and it was even better than the PS2. So if the port had used the sound chip, it would've run at full speed. This is the reason why there's an option to disable music on the Dreamcast port. Also remember, the port was made by 1 person in a week so it isn't perfect.
Slight tangent not related to the Dreamcast, but from what I know about studying the N64 HW the sound usually wasn't handled by the CPU, but the RCP. The RCP is a custom co-proccessor made of two units (RSP and RDP) that the N64 has that is optimized for graphics and audio processing. It is similar to a CPU so audio was handled by software and not a traditional soundchip, but the CPU was separate and didn't have to deal with audio processing unless it was coded that way by the developer.
That might help explain the slow speed since the Dreamcast probably has a much faster CPU, but now it has to do double the work.
@@Ty4onsYes, and the audio backend would have to be rewritten completely to get full speed with audio. Mrneo240 told me he wasn't going to attempt that as it would be a gargantuan task but totally possible. Streaming in CDDA audio from disc image if rewritten to support CDDA would make it run better with zero strain on CPU or going above 16mb ram limitations. That was the good thing about that. But the DC Yamaha audio AICA chip could do some amazing electronic synthesized sounds as Shenmue produced them on the fly in real time to help cut down on disc space. It is why the music sounds so good in that game to this day.
just gonna say, the dreamcast controller has hall effect joysticks. So it's technically better than using just a single joy con.
I never had one growing up, but I've always thought the Dreamcast was so much more than a footnote in gaming history, and I always thought it was so cool. The homebrew community surrounding it is unlike anything I've ever seen, and every day it continues to impress me.
I know you said basically no one had one of these growing up, but somehow it was my first console. Thanks for making this video to show off the fantastic efforts of the people still supporting the Dreamcast 23 years, wow that's a long time, after it was supposed to be dead
I bought a dreamcast like a decade ago at a flea market and honestly think it is such a cool system. The lack of copy protection made it easy to explore the library despite being a poor teenager since I always had a stack of CD-Rs
"It grew and it thrived, that's the story of the Dreamcast" @Bringus you are the Dreamcast, you are the dog that doesn't live up to most peoples expectations, but with the right audience we love you and what you do with all these videos, please keep growing!
One of my sister's childhood friends houses burned down back in like, 2013, and she lost almost everything... But her kids had a Sega Dreamcast with a small number of games. The games were destroyed in the fire (aside from Disc 1 of Resident Evil: Code Veronica) but the console itself only suffered external damage. She ended up selling that Dreamcast to my sister, who surprised me with it one day, and I was pretty excited! The Dreamcast is a neat little piece of tech history that is too-often overlooked.
It's easy to assume that the loser in these competitions is bad, but that's not always the case.
omfg the dreamcast is literally THE CONSOLE i wanted you to talk about.
Edit: also the video was great :)
fr same i’ve been binging dreamcast stuff recently too 😭
So much of Half-Life’s development and expansions and ports had such interesting stories behind it. Always cool to see someone discover this neat little facet of its history.
If this video was made by anyone else, I probably wouldn't have clicked it, but Bringus videos hit different. I see Bringus, I click Bringus.
No, dude-you don't know the HISTORY! The Dreamcast came too late to rescue Sega's console business.
I'm sure it would have kept up if it had DVD media
@@shadowopsairman1583 That's not the point, The 32x and Sega Saturn were released within the same week as Sega of Japan and America were split in their projects, causing confusion and throwing consistency and tracking into chaos. They needed to unify as a company, and released an awesome Dreamcast, but too much damage has been done and they lost too much money to go on.
@@shadowopsairman1583It wouldn’t have saved Sega anyways, since Sega was already financially crippled by that point and slapping a full fledged DVD player was far too expensive at the time. For context, DVD players back in the late 90s were prohibitively expensive at the time and the Dreamcast launched on November 27th ‘98 (Initial launch in Japan) which means that not many folks had DVD players at the time unless they were willing to pay an expensive fee for one.
@@shadowopsairman1583Except DVD players back in the late 90s were prohibitively expensive. Slapping a DVD drive wouldn’t have helped either way since Sega was already financially crippled and with how DVD players at the time of the Dreamcast’s launch (November 27th, ‘98 in Japan) were far too expensive for the average person to afford.
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What I think Optical Media is good for is to be ripped using a PC optical drive, and then the ripped game can be stored in physical storages like SSDs or SD cards.
Otherwise you can just resell them to a "infected person" after ripping them to recoup some cash, in the same time you'll never lose the game because you have it digitally stored and you basically own it.
This is the way
I mean, I definitely didn’t burn Linkin Park’s 2003 masterpiece Meteora and sell it for $5/piece to the 5th and 6th grade kids at school😬
just saying, digital collections are boring and lame. just download it for free at that point, skip the whole ripping process its pointless
@@CatOnVenus183 every game collection is digital it came free with your media storage device
I burned a CD for The Life of Pablo and sold it to my friend in highschool after totally not illegally downloading it lmao
The Dreamcast is an ocean of homebrew, so much so that there could be room for a follow-up video. The Atomiswave arcade ports, (Metal Slug 6 , Dolphin Blue, King of Fighters and more) various media players and unbelievable Quake 1 hardware accelerated port are just some of the incredible standouts on the system.
Boy what I wouldn't do for a "Your PS Vita Can Play Thus (And So Much More)" video.
A man can dream
Finally, a Dreamcast homebrew video
Hopefully that deep Bringus part is back....
Don't forget the translation scene! The Dreamcast got a lot of Japan-exclusive games that to this day haven't been re-released and some them have been translated by the community. Some examples include Frame Gride (a mech combat game by FromSoftware, their only game on the DC iirc), Cool Cool Toon (a Rhythm game by SNK) and Napple Tale (a cutesy 2.5D platformer). There's also El Dorado Gate, an RPG series by Capcom that STILL hasn't been translated or re-released.
There's also fanmade ports of several Sammy Atomiswave games. Some these games like Dolphin Blue and Demolish Fist still haven't been re-released and are pretty cool games in their own right.
There are also some really good Japan only SMUPS on the Dreamcast. Because of the Naomi arcade system real arcade games were still being released years after the Dreamcast was officially dead.
One small correction: the Dreamcast has a Hitachi SH4 CPU as its main processor, not a MIPS CPU like you say in the video. Sure, they are both RISC CPUs, but they are not compatible with each other.
It's nice to see both Linux and NetBSD running on the DC. I was thinking of porting OpenBSD to the DC, but I didn't get very far.
Anyway, consider this as my entry for the giveaway. 2.7 k comments is a pretty good response!
when he booted RedHat and said he couldn't do anything without a mouse.. the nerd in me died a bit. i was really hoping he'd ctrl+alt+T and run neofetch or something. it's not that difficult to connect to the internet and launch a browser from command line either
@@vaelxn
Well, I have a DC mouse and DC keyboard, so I wouldn't have the same problem. What I do want to get, though, is a Broadband Adapter (BBA) or two. Perhaps he's not that familiar with the Linux terminal.
I was thinking of trying to port Darwin/XNU to the SuperH but I don't have any HW that has it and QEMU is slow (ironically).
I fought tooth and nail to get a Dreamcast, and when I finally got it, that first day I played so much my grandmother missed her soap operas, and I got scolded for not sharing the TV. Once I got older and homebrew and modding was easier to understand, I got some games burned and brought it to my college dorm to play Jojo's Bizarre Adventure with my roommates. That little system has so many memories for me for as little life as it had.
The Dreamcast is truly a legendary console. Also had by far the best Arcade ports
I bought my 1st Sega Dreamcast September 9, 1999. I lent it to a so called friend and never saw it again. I was hooked on it from the 1st NFL 2K game that came out. My friends and I used to put 2 computer teams against each other and watch the game. It was so good for it's time. Takes me back to some good times. I was a Saturn collector too and Sega CD as well. Still have those collections too. SEGA!!! 👊😆
thanks for keeping me sane during chemo and this past eight months or so; it's been rough but you never cease to make me smile, no matter how creepy it makes me feel
hol up chemo? Do you have cancer? If so, man I am sorry and I hope this video helped you through something as hellsih as that.
My dad and my uncle had a Dreamcast. Unfortunately he sold it so I have never used a Dreamcast. I still love it because of how cool and advanced it was at the time and how cool it still is now.
Honestly, glad that the community is keeping this console alive. Like you, I never thought it was special, but after seeing the love the fans still hold for it, it’s definitely got a better spot in gaming history other than the “Failed Sega Console”
I owned a Saturn, and i fell in love with the Dreamcast when I saw it. I played at my friend's house to SOF with the keyboard and mouse, and House of the Dead with the gun remote. Good 'ol times.
I've never messed with the dreamcast personally and i have no memories of it from when i was a child, but I've always heard it has some amazing games for it, and I knew the homebrew was always good, but never thought it was as extensive as what was shown here. This video makes me want a dreamcast and i feel like that's a dangerous thought, for some reason.
I love the Dreamcast and it was a personal favorite of mine in the 6th generation. I remember bringing it home from camping for it, hooking it up and then plugging it into my phone jack to go online with it. NUTS! The fact that it was internet ready out-of-the-box was a first for me. I played so much Phantasy Star Online that way before moving to the Broadband Adapter. And yes, the original PSO is compatible with the lan adapter, you just need to use it with a copy of Broadband Passport first.
Sega's games were so bright, colorful, and just crazy fun. Nothing but good memories with that system.
Yeah best consol ever for me, internet in my teenage bedroom, coping save at school ( VMU to VMU ). Good memories 🤤
As someone with hundreds of burned game discs, I've always battled with the idea of getting an SD reader. Yes, it's convenient and mostly hassle free. But on the other hand, there's something neat about flipping through the selections, picking a disc, popping it in, and pretending it's 1999, load times and all. The Sega Saturn also has a very interesting homebrew scene, I would absolutely recommend checking it out!
The primary reason to use an optical drive emulator over burned discs is the optical drive is the first thing in disc based consoles that will fail, and there aren't replacements for Sega' proprietary format. Remove the moving part and you instantly add another 20 years to the lifespan of the machine.
@@JD-xz1mx True!
Cost is also a factor though and weighing the cost of a $100-200 emu and a $30 optical assembly replacement is easy for me.
I always remembered the Dreamcast as that weird neighbor you always had.
there is just something so special about the sound effects you use and all of the references are just so great. I love this channel
I remember having the exact same experience as him when ai discovered the existence of the Dreamcast. I never knew Sega made more consoles after the Genesis or that some of my favorite games from the GC/PS2 era were DC titles originally. Nowadays I love this console so much. Long live the Dreamcast! 🙏
I bought a Dreamcast day one. I was fourteen years old in EB games at Carlingwood in Ottawa on 9/9/99. They wouldn't sell it to me at first because I didn't have a pre-order, but someone cancelled a minute after I asked so I was able to walk out with the console, Sonic Adventure 2 and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing.
And then a few years later I got a PS2 and my world was changed forever.
LIVE AND LEEEEEEARN
uhh might wanna check your post, you didnt walk out with Sonic Adventure 2 on day one.
The Dreamcast has always been a cool console to me mostly because of the controller design and I’ve always felt like it could’ve been so much more
The Dreamcast wasn't just a console; it was a gateway to endless possibilities, and it left an indelible mark on my childhood gaming adventures. With masterpieces like Jet Set Radio, Sonic Adventure, ChuChu Rocket!, Space Channel 5, and arguably the best platform for arcade ports like Marvel Vs Capcom 2
Don't you mean "jet *GRIND* radio"? Lol
@@DuelingDexperts The original name of Jet Grind Radio is actually Jet Set Radio.☝️🤓 It was released in Japan.
The name was changed for its North American release due to trademark issues with the name "Jet Set" to avoid potential legal conflicts ☝️🤓
@@doradojesus2808 yeah I know that I was just poking fun at the fact you used the original name. But it was a fantastic game by any name. Though I still hold to that the grind name sounded better. Even if it was only for Americans due to trademark issues.
This is a comment. as someone who lives in Linux 8 hours a day I know your pain. Thank you for sharing that pain with the masses on most of your videos.
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH WITH THE HL2 SOUND EFFECTS IT BRINGS ME NOSTALGIA FOR GMOD
The dreamcast has such an excellent vibe. I'm so glad it is getting the love it deserves! Maybe I should look around my area for one 👀
i love how at 2:17 it shows a picture someone took on their phone of their computer screen
I was a child that grew up with a Dreamcast.. and In Brazil, which always had a weaker market share for video games, compared to the U.S.. Sega did have some impactful success in Brazil in the 90s and early 2000s.. So my dad gave me a Dreamcast for Christmas. I used to love my Dreamcast, it had such an amazing impact on my short life at the time. I have some fond memories. I miss those days of getting home after school and playing some Sonic Adventure, Shenmue, Dead of Alive, or Marvel VS Capcom 2... among other gems of the console.
Sometimes you go into a video with mid expectations and then come out of it really impressed.
This is definitely one of those times.
Just when UA-cam was in a drought of content you come in to save the day. 😊
Fun fact: I did, in fact, grow up playing Dreamcast. I didn't have a ton of games for it (Crazy Taxi, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Shuffle, Floigan Bros, and a non-functional copy of E.G.G.: Elemental Gimmick Gear) but I loved that thing. In fact, the playstation family was the only one i *didn't* experience as a kid, outside of occasionally playing on my cousins' ps2.
Great video :)
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11 HRS??
How is your comment 11 hours ago???
@@ConnerChocoPatrons get to see video first
@@sopvwastaken damn i wish i wasnt broke
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3:37 RATATOING!!
I've been in the modding game consoles for a while now. But this is the first time I've ever seen a game console have homebrew licensed games made for it in the modern day. We need this to happen to other consoles.
0:13 cant believe you managed to get one of the 9 dreamcasts ever sold!!
It's 9 million it sais in millions of units sold
can i hav the dreamcast pls lol
NO
@@phillipsfamily27SUS
NO
YES
@@chady51 lmao i forgot about this, i wonder who actually won it.
Hot damn, I love that this console got such a long life by basically being easy to run whatever you want on it. Modern consoles should take note.
I can't believe people are still doing things for the dreamcast it is truly unbelievable and yet so exciting to see what else will be on there in the future, only time will tell!
TBH, people are still doing things with much older consoles. The dreamcast at least gives you relatively large amounts of storage space and can do some pretty decent graphics.
That SEGA Smash Pack Vol 1 unlocked a core memory for me, I was hooked on SEGA Swirl and Shining Force as a kid
My dad loved SEGA. We had the Genesis, Game Gear, Saturn, and Dreamcast. I remember watching him dominate at WarCraft for Saturn and Panzer Dragoon, my older brother was good at Toe Jam & Earl on Genesis and Ecco The Tides of Time, and I was great at Daytona USA. Great memories
My uncle had every single console from the Atari to the Xbox, with 5 different TVs to handle them all. He was the coolest uncle ever. But then he went to college and sold almost everything to pay for it. All that was left was a Dreamcast that had emulation for every single NES and SNES game.
I had such a blast as a kid with the Dreamcast. Many great games, great system overall. Really sad it didn't last.
The homebrew games are 10/10.
fun fact about the dreamcast: theres a community of people still playing Phantasy Star Online on Android (Flycast emulator w/ BBA emulation), PC (also through flycast), and Dreamcast (through private DNS) together. I occasionally pop in to talk to the other players but I mostly stick to the PC release of the game because its updated more frequently
The Dreamcast was one of the little happy accidents I had when I was a kid. I asked for a PlayStation (PS1) at almost the end of its lifecycle (my parents couldn't afford a PS2 or a GameCube, in fact, they weren't released yet) and they bought a Sega Dreamcast out of ignorance (I can't blame them, they called every console "Nintendo"). I was surprised of how modern games looked back then and I was more than happy.
The Dreamcast was an urban legend when I was a kid, never in my childhood I came across one, I discovered the Dreamcast in my teenage years.
That crossplay game is wild. Surprising that the modem on the dreamcast can even work at all anymore
I got a Dreamcast for Christmas the year it came out. I hate it never took off. It was ahead of its time for sure.
the Half-Life 1 port is crazy, but the fact that there's an official retail version of Unreal Tournament with online play (only in the North American version for some reason), and it was even one of 13 games to support the Broadband Adapter
even more bizarre than that is the official retail Quake 3 Arena release, which also featured online play, which is still playable online TO THIS DAY
I had the Vsmile and played Halo 2 on my Grandpa's Xbox when I was little... A little under aged gaming never hurt anybody. It more nostalgic than inappropriate.
As someone who owned a Dreamcast launch and we'll after, it was a really great time to be a Dreamcast owner, despite the cancellation.
I would check the DC homebrew sites and forums near daily to see what new software may have dropped.
I will say, I remember SNES gameplay being much better than you had shown, with some frameskip enabled. I didn't use it too often, but I did play a lot of Donkey Kong Country on it.
The dreamcast truly is something special, it was my first ever console and im repairing one now c:
Well, worth it. I got one from a friend that mostly just wanted it gone. But, it's still completely functional, I just wish it had the broadband adapter rather than the modem. I may eventually get an ODE, but I mostly just use it for backup up games for emulation. Just because it is kind of ancient and the optical drives are in limited supply.
I love my Dreamcast. I didnt have one growing up, so i LOVE my dreamcast now. Only have one game to play. (Another modern steam game released on Dreamcast.)
4:07 dont forget their quad bikes, electric bicycles, car engines, golf carts, ATVs, power generators, snow throwers, electric wheelchairs, swimming pools, waterslides, metal alloy manufacture, semiconductors, and most importantly their harmonica
I still think that the Dreamcast was an underrated gem, sure it can't emulate as well as some of the other consoles, but to me the appeal was always it's homebrew scene, people making their passion projects for a system that doesn't receive official support anymore which is just amazing to me.
Cross-play is actually really easy to make happen depending on how you set it up. Quake III Arena for Dreamcast for example ran basically exactly like a PC game so you would just connect to any server and you were playing the same game as anyone on the PC, quite literally.
The coolest thing about Bleemcast is how it scaled up the resolution of the games. Back then me and my friends from school were amazed that they looked better on Dreamcast than if you played them on a PS2. No wonder Sony tried to snuff it out as quick as possible.
I loved my Dreamcast, but I was the only one in my group of friends who had one. But having that VMU was sweet!
For the small blip of time the dreamcast was actually competing in the market, it had some really cool ambitions and ideas. The fact that you could play Quake 3 online with other PC players sticks out the most to me as being well ahead of its time, and it seems to have really bridged the gap with PC gaming staples the way indie games are so prevalent on it.
I wonder what it's like to actually develop for it, being a hobbyist game dev myself.
I remember always playing the Dreamcast in Sears when they had it loaded up with Sonic Adventure. It's awesome what the modding and homebrew community continue to do for these forgotten systems. Great video!
"this is probably the worst way to play half life" bro is forgetting the tremble yuma
People who weren't there just don't seem to understand how awesome the Dreamcast was. PS2 would eventually overshadow it, but for a time it was about as good as it gets, and felt like a huge leap compared to the previous generation.
Plenty of games like SoulCalibur, NBA 2K, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Power Stone, etc. all basically started with, or for a time were only available on Dreamcast too. Maybe now you'd just play some other version or sequel (or whine about tank controls like a baby), but back then you wouldn't have been playing it's games and thinking it was anything but awesome.
The Dreamcast filled the huge gap between the ps1 and ps2.
The modding/homebrew community constantly blows my mind when it comes to showing what they are capable of.
The Dreamcast is awesome. I think of it as the middle child between two era's of gaming. It even has middle child syndrome; it's weird and a little awkward, but is also full of character and charm. He he.
I grew up with a Colecovision lol. The controller with the 16” coily cable and the joystick with torture needles built into the bottom. I may still have it in my basement actually haha
you old as hell
Yes for most people worldwide the Dreamcast lasted around 2 Years but in Japan she has a nice 9 Year span, she was released in 1998 & then retired in 2007, I miss the old SEGA, if they announced that they were going to make a New system I would jump at it, I've had my Dreamcast from New back in 2000 when I was 16, she was the 1st Console I ever purchased, another awesome thing is the Blue Swirl 😃
The dreamcast actually had a huge underground following for a lot of cool games... but no one wanted to get it over a playstation or xbox. I actually got one because there were some arcade games I really wanted to play on it like crazy taxi, arctic thunder, capcom vs snk 2, and a few others. I wasn't into it, but it was THE console for the JRPG fan. supposed to have the best JRPG's.
for some reason this is the One Sega Console i have had a required hyperfixation on for so long and even then i had zero idea about how lively they community behind it is and still is to keep giving it life while i was upset assuming that wasn't there, that's genuinely the nicest thing i've learned about today ;w;
They make adapters to use USB keyboards and mice on the DC. There's also lots of other mods... Bluetooth controllers, controllers with better d-pads, upgraded PSUs with wireless power-on, etc. There was even an official LAN adapter / BBA for though it's rare now.
As a kid, I had the opposite experience: I never got an original Xbox, but I had a Dreamcast and enjoyed it long after it was cancelled. Long story short, I don't have it anymore; It went, "missing," along with like half of my game collection. I even had the keyboard and mouse to go with it. Some rare games I recognized showed up in a local thrift shop together afterwards. It's funny that whoever had the games last didn't know that Hey You Pikachu! and the VRU for it were part of a set...
Bleem is such a weird concept. Can you imagine something like that coming out today? Gl on the giveaway everyone
In college circa 2003 I bought a dream cast, 4 controllers, and made a Nester DC disk that was the best way to play Gauntlet with 4 people late into the night. Fond memories. It was a final clearance at Toys R Us because nobody wanted it.
I played my Dreamcast religiously when I was growing up. Thanks for the nostalgia.
This was a weird era - the Dreamcast came out in 1999, got full online functionality for games with SegaNET in like 2000, and then died in 2001. There was a solid year or so between when the Dreamcast died and any of the other sixth gen consoles got online functionality.
The music on the FPS menu is some odd version of 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
I still got one of these in the box at my parents house. Used to play mortal Kombat gold on it when I was younger. I had completely forgot about it until I stumbled across this video (thanks yt algo) I’ll have to go back and fire the ol brick up
The vibe of the dreamcast really adds to running homebrew on it in a way, like you’re going back in time
In the land where consoles gleam, Dreamcast shines a vibrant beam.
Yet amidst its mighty glow, a skeptic arose, Bringus Studios, with disdain it chose.
Though Dreamcast's light may flicker and wane, Bringus' critique like a relentless rain.
Yet amidst the clash of love and hate, Dreamcast's legacy shall forever resonate.
For in the world of gaming, opinions may sway, But Dreamcast's spirit still dances, come what may.
Bringus' disdain, a passing phase, Dreamcast's essence, in history stays.