Interesting Dreamcast Tid-Bits And Stories

[pierrot]

Alot of people at my work thinks the dreamcast sucks. Too bad they never had a chance to play it.

This kind of reminds me of middle school, when we would have long-winded debates over whether the Dreamcast or the PS2 was a better console, even though the Dreamcast wouldn't be released for about a year. Most were in the PS2 camp, but I championed the Dreamcast's cause along with a couple others. It was a losing argument, though, since the only information on either mostly boiled down to their technical specs, which PS2 won hands down from start to finish.
But who had the last laugh when I was the only kid with Soul Calibur! HAHA!

Somehow I came out of everything hating Microsoft more than Sony, though. Go figure.

[elmagicochrisg]

Somehow I came out of everything hating Microsoft more than Sony, though. Go figure.

Naah, they should've teamed up with Microsoft exclusively after the DC's demise...

[ice445]

Alot of people at my work thinks the dreamcast sucks. Too bad they never had a chance to play it.

This kind of reminds me of middle school, when we would have long-winded debates over whether the Dreamcast or the PS2 was a better console, even though the Dreamcast wouldn't be released for about a year. Most were in the PS2 camp, but I championed the Dreamcast's cause along with a couple others. It was a losing argument, though, since the only information on either mostly boiled down to their technical specs, which PS2 won hands down from start to finish.
But who had the last laugh when I was the only kid with Soul Calibur! HAHA!

Somehow I came out of everything hating Microsoft more than Sony, though. Go figure.

PS2 actually has an inferior audio processor IIRC, which is interesting to say the least.

[MulishaSoldier929]

Somehow I came out of everything hating Microsoft more than Sony, though. Go figure.

Naah, they should've teamed up with Microsoft exclusively after the DC's demise...

That would of been so much better than the reality. Maybe if that was the case Sega might have had stayed somewhat the same quality of game making. I always thought they were somehow in bed in some way by the look of the original xbox contoller/design plus a certain exclusive game that should of came out on the dc in america. *cough*shenmue2*cough*. This might be heinous for an old time Sega fan to admit but when Sega was for sale I was secretly really hoping Nintendo would have picked them up. Maybe then there franchises would have had respectable games.

[Key-Glyph]

My birthday is in November, so growing up I occasionally got one big present as a combined birthday/Christmas gift from my family. In '99 it was a Dreamcast, an imported Japanese copy of Dance Dance Revolution: 2nd Mix, and two Japanese dance pads. (I did chip in a bit for all this, actually.) Holy mackerel. It was excruciating to wait for those presents -- other friends in the neighborhood already had their consoles in September, whetting my appetite -- but it made for an amazing winter break, let me tell you.

Christmas morning I was running a fever of 100.3 and still stomped half the day away. My breathing ability was so poor and my body so weak that I could only get through one song before needing to rest. One song! When I already knew from practicing on a friend's copy that I could usually do several sets of three! Still, it was the happiest I've ever been while fighting off the flu.

An interesting thing I'm realizing in hindsight is that Sega products were just as popular in my town as Nintendo products, and that in my friend group it was actually more likely for people to have Sega stuff. In '99 a large group of us got together regularly for Chu Chu Rocket 4-player craziness, and all the way up to high school graduation in 2004 my friends were coming over to my house to play DDR and raid my parents' Snapple stash on early release days.

I eagerly await the day I either have a basement or live on a ground floor so I can go nuts on that game again. In either scenario I will most likely boot it up before we even have all the practical furniture in place.

[ExedExes]

In '99 it was a Dreamcast, an imported Japanese copy of Dance Dance Revolution: 2nd Mix, and two Japanese dance pads.

How sweet is that? About 10 years ago my fixation with DDR 3rd-5th had me seek out a copy of the Japanese 2nd Mix ($60 on eBay), and I got what I thought was a DC dance pad from another seller -- turns out it was a cheap Chinese knock off with some of the worst engrish for an instruction card ever! (under spoiler tag, I like the last one)

(lesson learned, look for official DDR Japanese pads)

Anyway, it did NOT register any movement, any time you put a foot down it would not go back up, it was no good on carpet. Still wanting to play the game, I just resorted to using the controller. Hand Dance Revolution was on! Managed to unlock nearly all the stuff that way

[noiseredux]

you guys are making me want some Dreamcast DDR. I have a generic Gamestop PS2 dance mat boxed up somewhere, and a Total Control adapter for DC...

[pierrot]

and I got what I thought was a DC dance pad from another seller -- turns out it was a cheap Chinese knock off with some of the worst engrish for an instruction card ever! (under spoiler tag, I like the last one)

Did it happen to be the plastic stage one that has to be assembled? 'Cause I guess that one is actually pretty rare.

[ExedExes]

Did it happen to be the plastic stage one that has to be assembled? 'Cause I guess that one is actually pretty rare.

I happen to have the stuff right here -- keep in mind I wasn't as savvy a collector as I am now nailing down the best deals on legitimate items!



It was called the Dance Performance II -- the instruction card also calls it "Dancecast"



Looks just like a standard pack-in Konami pad, too! Too bad it sure didn't work that way.

[pierrot]

It was called the Dance Performance II -- the instruction card also calls it "Dancecast"

Gotta love the consistency.