Get your Sega Dreamcast today! While supplies last

[DB-Audio 10+ year member]

great counsole never thought they'd bring it back and for 119 not bad price would buy if had the money cause i traded mine in for a ps2 years back

 

[KyngHype 10+ year member]

Yeah this thing owned n64.

yeah, owned it so much that because of its massive fial Sega almost went out of buisness and now you can play Sonic on the DS? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

yeah, owned it so much that because of its massive fial Sega almost went out of buisness and now you can play Sonic on the DS? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

Sega was never going to go out of business. They just quit making consoles they still make Console games and Arcade machines.. And have been quite sucessful after the demise of the dreamcast.

several factors went into the doom of the dreamcast, When you bought it at launch there was only 4 games, Was supposed to be 10 launch titles but the company that was doing all of sega's CD burning failed BIG TIME.

The system was pretty hard to program for and Sega already burnt alot of bridges with the Sega Saturn being the hardest system to program for ever beating event he Xbox 360 and PS3. 3rd party companies were already backing out due to the president of Sega dropping almost all marketing for the System. Later that year he retired hint hint.

Sega has always been ahead of the game and pretty much the first in almost every console release, Sega Genesis was Sega most sucessful system, Dreamcast being the most popular among collectors and fans and still being supported by homebrew designers all over the world.

 

[infamous_e46 5,000+ posts]

aghhhhm dammmit there was no demise and it didnt go out of business bill gates just said heyyy i want and bought the shit i mean look at the damm graphics and the dreamcast even had microsoft badging lol

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

aghhhhm dammmit there was no demise and it didnt go out of business bill gates just said heyyy i want and bought the shit i mean look at the damm graphics and the dreamcast even had microsoft badging lol

The Dreamcast's Operating System was a stripped version of Windows CE.

You can run emulators and other programs off discs it was pretty cool.

 

[rtillaree 10+ year member]

my favorite system to watch **** on in 1999...

 

[wu36ca 10+ year member]

I still have my Dreamcast and yes it is super easy to burn games for it.

One of the problems I think along with the ridiculous proprietary development tools was the fact that the system seemed to be more geared towards the Japanese market. Most of their third party developers were Japanese at a time when their market share was tanking. Same thing with the Saturn whereas the PS was based more around 3D graphics, the Saturn was built more for 2D graphics which was more popular in Japan.

The Dreamcast did introduce the 2K series of games which I think blows away EA sports games.

 

[rtillaree 10+ year member]

I only bought like 8 games for DC, and I have about 60 other games that I just burned...newsgroups back in the day were flooded with DC game copies...US and Japanese based games, I have all kinds of crazy shit...I have a US version of Code Veronica as well as a Japanese version which were crazy different...fun system...

 

[Enellz 10+ year member]

I had one. Had Marvel vs capcom, Sonic adventure, jet grind radio, and so on. Great system. I kinda want it back now....

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

The Saturn was far more powerful then the Playstation, It was the fact that programmers had limited tools and had to program for 4 different processors vs the PSX that only had 2.

The Saturn to this day is still a mystery and just recently was able to be fully emulated to 90% of its full speed. And the PC reqs to even run the emulator is far greater then ANY pc game out to date. And this system is amost 15 years old //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Check out the Sega Saturn Wiki and look at the Shenmue beta for the Saturn then go look at the dreamcast version. You will be amazed.

The system was yet another Sega victim of poor launch and poor marketing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Saturn

Shenmue Beta Demo




Some of the last games made for the Saturn looked far better then the PSX counterparts, Resident Evil for instance.

Also look at Panzer Dragoon Saga and House of the Dead and Shining Force III fully 3d and looked good!

YES the Japanese market for the Saturn was FAR better then the US, Marvel Super Heroes VS Streetfighter was arcade perfect for the saturn, For the PSX it was crap, Could not do character swaps less character animation and non animated backgrounds.

Saturn also had that 4 meg video ram cart allowing games to have more ram on the fly that utilized it, Like Metal Slug, KoF Series, Any Capcom fighter and so on.

 

[wu36ca 10+ year member]

That clip of Shenmue is pretty **** clean for a 32 bit system.

The cool thing about the Saturn was all you needed was a cartridge in teh back of the system to play import games.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Sega CD > all.

 

[tyler_fitz 10+ year member]

my sega dreamcast doesnt work anymore... well, it does, theres just no audio...

i got a new av cord for it, but that didnt fix it. anyone know how to fix it?

 

[bigaudiofanati2 10+ year member]

I still remember playing rush 2049 with a friend of mine back in mid school ahhhh those were the days.

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

Get a new one //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

sounds like the Audio output board took a shit.

Or you can go to your local Goodwill or Salvation army and find a console for 9 bucks. I have bought several Rare game systems from those places and made mad cash on them.