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Sega Dreamcast - Appreciation and Emulation Thread
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The PS2 is a fantastic system with some of the best games of all time, but I still get mad thinking about all the idiots waiting for the PS2 over buying the amazing Dreamcast and trying to justify that first year.
Literally all PS2 had forever was like Fantavision and an MGS2 video.
Literally all PS2 had forever was like Fantavision and an MGS2 video.
Theonik
Member
IrishNinja
Member
ya'll hearin this? these are the words of a dude who lived through that era, and was bout it bout it
like no one discovering shit in 2015 remembers this pain, but shit was real...i was using my PS2 to play braveheart, matrix, good the bad & the ugly and propping up my dreamcast pretty much till year 1 ended, and FF X/MGS2/DMC/etc showed up
*sigh* i know but for real fam who else here in 2015 trynna put heads onto BLUE SKIES FOREVER~
Theonik
Member
BLUE SKIES LIVE ON IN OUR HEARTS
Edit:
Oh and this is the picture he was talking about:
http://i.imgur.com/owGEvAF.gif
cj_iwakura
Member
I was Sega for life. You're banned from the SDF, out of the pool!
I was the only person in like the entire county who chose Saturn.
IrishNinja
Member
yessss that's the one! brilliant, haha
man, i still remember the feeling of saving up my publix grocery bagging $, running to EB to try the new kiosk (why did it have VF instead of Panzer ill never know), hearing the $400 price tag and damn near weeping.
by the time the price drop happened, it felt like the lineup wasn't even trying to pander to my western tastes,,,no sonic, SOR, TJ&E etc. it's crazy that so many of the reasons i was sour grapes/didn't want it in the day are why i love it today though
theSlacker
Member
When I was younger I remember getting mad at a friend who bought a PS1 instead of a Saturn because I wanted to play Nights so bad.
He made the right choice though. No matter how good a few Saturn games were it was no competition for the PS1.
Of course he just used it to play sports games so watever.
sixteen-bit
Member
Maybe it's a blessing in disguise and they're saving you money.
so I fried the power supply on my VF3 board. it was 100% wired and playable for one sweet, sweet evening, and now it's back to out-of-service status.
i hear model 3 PSUs are just shit and once I verify that the PSU is the source of the problem I'll order the one used for T5 which I guess is better suited to model 3 than the model 3 PSU!
the things I do for love
here's my evidence that it once lived! impossible to get to this screen without everything wired.
i hear model 3 PSUs are just shit and once I verify that the PSU is the source of the problem I'll order the one used for T5 which I guess is better suited to model 3 than the model 3 PSU!
the things I do for love
here's my evidence that it once lived! impossible to get to this screen without everything wired.
sixteen-bit
Member
Dat green goblin.sorry for the double post.
was gonna buy Forza 6 but the universe had other plans.
based local game shops!
Fun times.
Nice find!sorry for the double post.
was gonna buy Forza 6 but the universe had other plans.
based local game shops!
I've been looking for one of these. So far, none of my local game shops have come through.
sixteen-bit
Member
Dream Match 1999 is quite good IMO
3D stages eh? is there a way to turn that off? there's a cheap 14 joke somewhere in here
It's very good! It has an amazing animated intro. Despite being Dream Match '99 it's more like a slightly modified '98. Probably my favorite KOF.
Sega New Challenge Conference - May 21st 1998 in Tokyo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ngKU9VYNZQ
Hideo Kojima @ 5:30
I'd like to know what he's saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ngKU9VYNZQ
Hideo Kojima @ 5:30
I'd like to know what he's saying.
entremet
Member
Such a pretty stick.sorry for the double post.
was gonna buy Forza 6 but the universe had other plans.
based local game shops!
That and the Virtua Fighter High Grade Sticks are my favorites.
Sega made some great sticks.
sixteen-bit
Member
DC pad was such a downgrade from the 3D multi controller on Saturn.
I wish this was a common accessory I could buy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw7eH_YPKEg
I wish this was a common accessory I could buy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw7eH_YPKEg
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Why has no one made knock off adapters like this? I tried a friend's 3D controller and it it's leagues better than the DC official pad.
Yeah, much easier to play fighters on Saturn than DC.
sixteen-bit
Member
No such adapters that I'm aware of unfortunately. If you like the Goblin's form factor, you could swap the PCB for a multicthulhu and then use RJ45 cables that terminate in Dreamcast and Saturn connectors for use on those two systems (and options to use on many others ). This used to be a popular mod a few years ago.
Theonik
Member
You're saying you never wanted to use the fishing controller on things not the DC?
sounds like too much work
THATS what's missing in my Soul Calibur 2 life
geniusbits
Member
Sorry if this has already been answered but do DC Euro SCART cables work for NTSC consoles? I'm trying to hook a DC up to a SCART to YUV transcoded and then into a 480i CRT, or else of course I would go for VGA.
sixteen-bit
Member
I have a Pelican-brand European SCART RGB cable that works great via YUV transcoder. 240p content like Gunbird 2 and Jojo's and SF3 look amazing, but for high-res games I just use the VGA cable instead.
Nostalgic Nightmare
Member
Yes but be aware some games won't work with euro scart.
Ssf2t and sfz3 are two off the top of my head.
Just curious, what monitor/tv are you using for VGA games?
geniusbits
Member
Composite works for these? Or just VGA?
sixteen-bit
Member
old CRT PC monitor
Yeah you have to wonder why those consoles never outputted VGA. Gotta say if there had to be one though I'm glad it was the Dreamcast.
petran79
Banned
It does not support VGA mode but there is also a Windows PC version
nnnnnooooooooo
do any of the kofs on DC support VGA?
petran79
Banned
Only KOF 2000 and 2002 unfortunately. They're the same as the arcade version
Garou:MOTW supports VGA too but at least it has arranged soundtrack and proper endings, though it lacks animation frames.
Twinklestar Sprites is supported as well
KOF98 Ultimate Match and Last Blade 2 are unsupported.
But for Last Blade you're better off running the Dreamast Neo Geo CD emulator with the arranged soundtrack
Nostalgic Nightmare
Member
Composite and svideo, not sure about vga.
geniusbits
Member
Ok thanks, maybe S video is the way to go for DC on an SD CRT.
sixteen-bit
Member
How are the load times? Any improvement when playing on DC. I have LB on Neo CD and they're fuckin' atrocious, lmao.
Nostalgic Nightmare
Member
I use scart for 95% of my games and svid for the 2 I mentioned. Scart/RGB has a very perceiveable increase of quality over svid, I'd still get it. The scart to component devices look fantastic on decent consumer grade crts that have component.
petran79
Banned
Much faster than NGCD, no comparison! Though not as instant as in Raine emulator.Also it does not strain the DC lens like the official GD-ROM disc
Also another good thing is that the blood is red, in contrast to the Wii version. While LB1 Wii version has red blood.
Same thing with Wii SamSho. SS1 and SS2 have red blood, while SS3 and SS4 have white blood.
sixteen-bit
Member
Doesn't it depend on the BIOS version? Like if I were to play on a USA system, it would be white regardless of where the game came from? That's how it played out on Neo.