A Black Falcon
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Yeah, that's definitely one of the best-looking DC games, no question.
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Sega Dreamcast - Appreciation and Emulation Thread
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Yeah, that's definitely one of the best-looking DC games, no question.
gingerbeardman
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I love the clean arcade styling of Vanishing Point.
petran79
Banned
The driving games (at least, the ones I played) I recall all looked great. F355 was amazing too, but the night driving in Le Mans was insane, not to mention the disc brakes glowing, tyre tracks in the grass and everything else about it. Love that game.
MSR is still pretty good looking too.
petran79
Banned
Non-Japanese versions seem to have the issue.
The pins have both to make contact but also be in the correct height. Or else even soldering and cleaning will not correct this. Problems repappears. Due to closing/opening the lid, disc spinning, generating heat or moving the console, daughterboards tends to lower in height, reducing the pin contact. Problem is that there are no screws on the lower right side of the daughterboard to keep a balance. Bottom right part has no stand.
I had to adjust this almost every week.
Since summer I put a small paper clip below the daughterboard on bottom right to keep the balance. Now I have to adjust the console once a month.
It also depends on the game. Power Stone 2 and some stages of Capcom vs SNK 2 tend to overheat the console faster, causing the reset.
metareferential
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Finally it's here! I couldn't resist. Here's my third DC:
Bar81
Member
Congrats. Super Black has always been my favorite.
theSlacker
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sixteen-bit
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Dreamcast looks so good in black
I really do love the Dreamcast.
Recently I grabbed a few of my favourite console boxes (all originals, owned by me from launch period) to display on top of my shelves and the Dreamcast one is still the most sleek looking.
Of course, the instruction manuals and all inserts were still sealed inside, so I flicked through them today. Filled me with the same excitement as if I'd just bought a brand new Dreamcast!
Recently I grabbed a few of my favourite console boxes (all originals, owned by me from launch period) to display on top of my shelves and the Dreamcast one is still the most sleek looking.
Of course, the instruction manuals and all inserts were still sealed inside, so I flicked through them today. Filled me with the same excitement as if I'd just bought a brand new Dreamcast!
I was trying to get my brother into fighting games, so I sat down with him and we played various games on various systems.
For some insane reason the only one that he really liked was Virtua Fighter 3 Team Battle. It's a fun game so I never really questioned his choice but man I wish it had a better port :|
For some insane reason the only one that he really liked was Virtua Fighter 3 Team Battle. It's a fun game so I never really questioned his choice but man I wish it had a better port :|
Bar81
Member
I have the consoles, but not the box for either unfortunately.
Redeemed
I still play it even if I grumble about the port. the game itself is so fun.
sixteen-bit
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VF3 and Tekken 4 had real interesting arenas but I guess most people disagreed.
Slightly off topic but if you want to talk about better ports, go down the insane rabbit hole of two differentl and allegedly incredibly impressive Saturn iterations of VF3 straight from AM2. Despite zero evidencene quite a few people out there swear up and down they're real, somewhere.
petran79
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Reminds me of the SC1 sessions with my brother some years ago. Even today he beats me there more times than I do. Though in 2D fighters he struggles.
DAREALGUMMY
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I was a huge Nintendo fan boy
and something about the Dreamcast just made me want it. I got my first summer job in high school just to buy it day one. It was my first midnight release console, hell the first system I bought for myself and I loved it. I wish I knew about the disc spinning though. Mine went out because of that. Probably one of my favorite systems of all time.
(was??)
sixteen-bit
Member
Yeah, totally anecdotal but in my experience, Dreamcast is the Sega console Nntendo fans like the best.
I like them a lot in VF3 but something about seeing Kazuya and Heihachi fighting to the death in a strip mall or parking garage is really trashy.
I am skeptical
I recall reading about this; Yu Suzuki/AM2 apparently worked on the Saturn port in competition with Genki who developed the Dreamcast port. It sounded like early-Apple Computers levels of teams pitted against each other internally. Pretty interesting...
sixteen-bit
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sameses
I saw a video of planned Saturn games that were canceled and half of them seem like pie-in-the-sky fantasy
ss_lemonade
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Test Drive Le Mans was 60fps? Thought it was 30
thechristoph
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That looks amazing. I wonder if you can use a Magic Eraser to get the Sega Sports logo off of the SSDC....
Bar81
Member
There's nothing wrong with the Sega Sports consoles - I have two and they look really nice.
sixteen-bit
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You can.
Just be aware that Magic Eraser is essentially a very fine sandpaper. You will wear away the texture on the lid of the Dreamcast and it will appear glossy over the space where the logo was instead of matte like the rest of the system.
Baron Von Beans
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I recently hooked my DC back up to play through my bullet hells I have for it, I went on an nostalgia overload for a day. It was sublime.
And today, I learned of that Under Defeat game...never heard of it before, but MAN it looks fantastic. This is something I definitely need to have in my collection.
And today, I learned of that Under Defeat game...never heard of it before, but MAN it looks fantastic. This is something I definitely need to have in my collection.
sixteen-bit
Member
Yeah, Under Defeat is incredible. Big fan. I double-dipped when it came out on PS3 as well.
I don't like how the DC game comes in a DVD style case tho, lol.
I don't like how the DC game comes in a DVD style case tho, lol.
Wow...Saturn Shemue looks amazing! Could that have even run 30 fps on Saturn though? It looks better than most late PS1 3D titles.
EDIT: I still need VF3 TB...but I cant find a good quality one for a good price.
Was that video posted in the Saturn thread?
Wow @ Raiden II and Capcom's Alien vs Predator on Saturn.
Edit: sorry, that was Raiden Fighters not Raiden II.
Every time those exact Saturn VF3 screens come up someone always rushes to say they're actually from a bad model 3 emulator. Today I am that guy.
Someday when I have more time I'm going to collect all of the Saturn VF3 minutia from the Assembler forums along with all of the random internet speculation and fit it into a single, comprehensible post in the gaming forum. Gaf's huge, someone has to have concrete info on this.
sixteen-bit
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Oneida, you like 3D fighters on Saturn, right? What's your take on Anarchy in the Nippon?
Fair enough re: the images being emulator shots. I don't doubt the fact that there was a VF3 port in development for Saturn. The extent to which it was completed is debatable, however.
While we're taking this nostalgic trip down Sega memory lane, check this out.
don't have it!
ss_lemonade
Member
Never played it, but doesn't it have stages and characters (or maybe just stages) from VF3? Maybe re-used assets?
sixteen-bit
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FM had VF3 moves in it and Janet was modeled after Aoi IIRC.
metareferential
Member
Paid something like 200 dollars.
If I'm remembering correctly, there only are 200 black DC's around.
It's so bad ass.
I got myself a black dreamcast and love it
SpikedGunner
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Think there is a way to fix that: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=899984
Gonna try it soon on the Broadband adapter I bought a while back...which I wanted to ask, any games I can still play online with it (like PSO, which I know there are private servers, though I don't know if they're active)? I've only used it so far to mess with JSR tags.
meitantei_conan
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I played PSO over dialup a couple months ago. It's mostly pc and cube players. I didn't see any DC players. I think quake has some servers up.
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DoA 2
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