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That was such a fantastic launch day. Took the day off from school and had a blast playing with my cousin after picking ours up from the mall.

I know I played the hell out of mine. I didn’t buy it at launch but ended up finding a college student sometime in 2000 selling a Dreamcast package for a pretty good deal at the time because he wanted a PS2 like everyone else. I think I still have that system but I can’t remember because I did so many deals back then. I still have multiple DC consoles. One day I’d like to get one of those fancy modded ones.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah, such a cool system. Shenmue, JSR, Power Stone 1 and 2, MvC 1 and 2, Grandia 2, so many more...

DCGX wrote:

I was just looking at your forum. Wow, you have an impressive collection of DC information. I'm going to have go through it at some point.

I had my Dreamcast preorder for at least a year before launch, I was a big Saturn fan at the time and fired up about the next system coming out.

I had a Dreamcast maybe around 2000-2002. I traded it to someone here in 2002 for $75.

I remember being really into these games for it:
Seaman, Omikron: The Nomad Soul, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, and Shenmue

I made some changes to gametz (perhaps it was still ugtz at the time) so that you could use the site on the Dreamcast web browser.

I imported it a few months before 9/9/99. Good memories.

Fun fact: I used the Saturn Netlink to browse UGTZ back then.

Lunar wrote:


Me too. Then switched to the Dreamcast browser.

Ha! even more primitive than the DC browser!

I remember going back and fourth to the mall returning Blue Stinger and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing. I had to end up sending BS in for a replacement copy and I think I ended up swapping R2R for Sonic or Powerstone.

Everyone talks about how mind-blowing Mario 64 was at launch. That's how I felt seeing Soulcalibur for the first time.

I have such a soft spot for that console. I bought it right before the final price drop and played the crap out of it my freshman year of college. Marvel vs. Capcom was definitely the standout.

To this day, Crazy Taxi is one of the few games to give me actual blisters.

DOA2, Power Stone 2, Shenmue, Third Strike, Mark of the Wolves, Guilty Gear X, and Virtua Tennis all took a lot of my time. One day I need to go back and finish Skies of Arcadia.

Did any of you play with a VGA box on a PC monitor? Man, did that look good.

Let's face it, Blue Stinger was clearly the definitive launch title for the DC.

Staraang wrote:

I got one eventually, but my TV was larger, so I still preferred to play it there. I hear that there were a lot of subpar boxes on the market, so that may have been why.

Staraang wrote:

Thanks! Yes, definitely go peruse when you get a chance. I try to keep everything as up-to-date as possible.

Fun fact: two new DC games were just announced. They're developed by Nape Games, and will be ports of NES games they crowdfunded. I have their preorder info in the Commercial Indie Game Releases Thread.

Indie 'Rocket League' homage 'Driving Strikers' was also just released physically and digitally, and has cross-play online-play with Dreamcast!

I unfortunately did not have time to play any Dreamcast yesterday. It was just a busy day. I want to start 'Starfield' today, but I might have to spin a few GD-Roms first.

Staraang wrote:

Not on a PC monitor, but on my OLED via the OSSC. Looks great, but still has its limitations for non-VGA supported games (I also can't get various SEGA Sports games to play this way). I'm seriously considering having the DC Digital Kit installed. I'm not quite confidant in my soldering skills to do it myself, and there are individuals/websites that will do it, but either way, it isn't cheap.

I use a Scart cable to a CRT and PVM, prob the only way to easily get those 240p games working.

I'll share my recent Dreamcast pickup with the group since its anniversary is upon us. Lunar has already seen this but I thought it was super cool.

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DCGX wrote:

What does DC digital kit do?

Renaissance2K wrote:

I had an official box and one third-party one and I think they both worked pretty well iirc. I used to play in my bedroom a lot which didn't have room for a big TV. Already had a computer monitor for my computer so it was a matter of convenience too.

Staraang wrote:

It taps the internal digital video signal and creates HDMI out for it. Zero lag, zero noise video for modern TVs.

It's great, if you play Dreamcast enough to warrant the price.

Renaissance2K wrote:

Yup what he said. It's a separate board that attaches/is soldered to the DC chipset/board. It's over $200 without an installation service. I'm considering it because then I don't have to deal with any games that don't work with VGA.

@Renaissance2K @DCGX Sounds awesome. I don't really trust myself to do the mods. I saw that you can buy a fully modded console from Retro Reflow though it's not cheap. Is it possible to get it cheaper anywhere else?

I would say it's entirely possible, but I don't know. I haven't shopped for fully modded systems.

The base kit for the Retro Gem - the follow-up to the DCDigital - is a lot cheaper than what the DCDigital used to cost, so that may lower the price of these completed units once it starts to propagate.

Or not, given how mod pricing seems to work.

They need to make a mini-Dreamcast ala Genesis.. It could have 15 games on it and I'd buy it..
Crazy Taxi 1/2
Jet Set Radio
Power Stone 1/2
Shenmue
MVC 2
Soul Calibur
Seaman
Sonic Adventure
Grandia II
Virtua Tennis
Space Channel 5
Chu Chu Rocket
Metro Street Racer
SF3: Third Strike
Skies of Arcadia


Hell, throw in the fishing game and I'd be happy!

I think Sega already considered a mini DC but it wasn’t going to be cost effective so they dropped the idea.

Awesome

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