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bryan_65 wrote:

Bradtemple87 wrote:I'm thinking about biting on an MVS copy of Gunlord if I get the chance

I would love to do this also, but wasn't the MVS Fast Striker about $500 or $600. I don't know if I can justify spending that much on one game.

Same. It would be great to have it, but I can't even justify spending that type of money on a console, let alone a game.

kingmohd84 wrote:@flamepanther
i see your point, but dreamcast has almost no user base,

Right, and you are on a retro gaming site and obviously "In the know" about Dreamcast going ons.

To tell you the truth, the Dreamcast is more alive NOW than it was back in 2005 or 6, people are getting back into these older systems like you wouldn't believe! over 10 million Dreamcast's were made, and I would reckon at LEAST 1 million to a few hundred thousand people still play theirs on the regular.

Hell, in Brazil where the PS3 costs $1300 USD just to get, the Dreamcast is thriving more than you could ever know! A person with no modding experiance can get into the Dreamcast, not many other consoles can boast that cost of admission. These things need NO modification to run games, play games from the cheapest optical media on earth, and have a VERY devoted user base.

People who love the Dreamcast, REALLY love the Dreamcast. Sega even knew that themselves and made the Dreamcast collection on the spiritual successor of the machine, the Xbox 360.

Dreamcast has such a devoted fanbase, that people still make and market games for us. I would like to see people do that for the original Xbox, but it ain't gonna happen. I would even go so far to say, that Dreamcast fans love their system more than any other fans for other systems as a whole community.

I mean, we are all keeping the Dreamcast alive, we all do our part. It still gets homebrew and emulators made and updated for it. I know of about 10 publishers and developers that have active projects for the Dreamcast, 10 man. And I am talking about retail games! I would also say, that there were so many direct arcade ports for it, that it has also kept the system in peoples hearts. No other system from the last gen had so many awesome fighters, shmups and other arcade style games than the DC does.

I will forgive you for trying to down talk about the most awesomly under appreciated system on the planet, because you are just simply not in the know as it were. I knew nothing about it either till 3 years ago after I emulated the games on my PC and fell in love all over again with Shenmue after not having a Dreamcast since 2002.

Look at these graphics on a 1999 system and tell me it can't hold its own after all this time.



The Dreamcast didn't let the world down, the world let the Dreamcast down.

You know, even after all of these years, I'm still impressed by the power of the Dreamcast.

I've never been a graphics whore, but seeing that for the first time back in the day, god damn it was amazing.

Yeah, the Dreamcast was really even more powerful than the PS2 in some ways. Such as having full screen anti-aliasing which is why a lot of Dreamcast games that were ported to the PS2 ended up looking worse.

Code Veronica looks much smoother on the Dreamcast than Code Veronica X on the PS2.

Hell, if you ask me most Dreamcast games look better than most Wii games so the Dreamcast holds up well even in the current generation.

Shenmue looks better than anything on the Wii.

Busomjack wrote:Yeah, the Dreamcast was really even more powerful than the PS2 in some ways. Such as having full screen anti-aliasing which is why a lot of Dreamcast games that were ported to the PS2 ended up looking worse.

Dead of Alive 2

Sidenote: You should check your PMs every once in a while Busom...

Anthony817 wrote:To tell you the truth, the Dreamcast is more alive NOW than it was back in 2005 or 6,

I agree with this, and most of yr post actually.

Sega even knew that themselves and made the Dreamcast collection on the spiritual successor of the machine, the Xbox 360.

wait, what? What makes 360 the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast?

I know of about 10 publishers and developers that have active projects for the Dreamcast, 10 man. And I am talking about retail games!

that's awesome. I know of Sturmwind and another with a title that escapes me. But what other retail releases do you know that are upcoming?

I knew nothing about it either till 3 years ago after I emulated the games on my PC and fell in love all over again

there's a DC emulator for PC? How good is it?

noiseredux wrote:wait, what? What makes 360 the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast?

Nope, the oXbox was the spiritual successor...

JSRF, Sega GT 2002, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Gunvalkyrie, Crazy Taxi 3, HOTD 3, Otogi 1 and 2...

It was pretty obvious back then...

elmagicochrisg wrote:

noiseredux wrote:wait, what? What makes 360 the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast?

Nope, the oXbox was the spiritual successor...

JSRF, Sega GT 2002, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Gunvalkyrie, Crazy Taxi 3, HOTD 3, Otogi 1 and 2...

It was pretty obvious back then...

yr argument at least makes sense to me. Yeah. I don't see 360 as having much in common with DC, though.

has anyone heard anything about the tahi wars dreamcast game, I think that's what its called? has the guy even started development. he said something about keeping fans posted but forgot the site.

noiseredux wrote:wait, what? What makes 360 the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast?

http://www.1up.com/features/dreamcast-20

Says it all lol. Just look at the 360 controller beside a Dreamcast controller and you can see.

that's awesome. I know of Sturmwind and another with a title that escapes me. But what other retail releases do you know that are upcoming?

http://dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic. ... 98&start=0

there's a DC emulator for PC? How good is it?

Excellent!
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/dre ... with-bios/

marballz wrote:has anyone heard anything about the tahi wars dreamcast game, I think that's what its called? has the guy even started development. he said something about keeping fans posted but forgot the site.

It is in development hell and I am pessimistic that it is going to come out any time soon lol.

http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtop ... f=2&t=1382

Not to sound like a "Know-it-all", but I go to almost every Dreamcast site and scour the web for info and funnel it all back into this place, come find me if you want to see how far the rabbit hole goes.



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