Interesting Dreamcast Tid-Bits And Stories

[mlavindude]

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Hello forums, i've started this topic for any stories or interesting facts that someone has about the dreamcast. I got one a couple months and want to learn more about it. Keep it clean. I don't want any pornagraphic Dreamcast fan fictions I'll update the forums when I need to. Thank you.


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[SamuraiMegas]

Quite the tidbits and stories.
My dreamcast scratched disks and i was out of alchohol to clean it so i used peroxide.
it worked.

[mlavindude]

Quite the tidbits and stories.
My dreamcast scratched disks and i was out of alchohol to clean it so i used peroxide.
it worked.

Hmmm... interesting. BTW SamuraiMegas, nice signature

[SamuraiMegas]

When you play a CD on the dreamcast does anyone else think the disc looks ALOT like a pokeball?

[flojocabron]

had a friend back in the day who was a big shenmue fan.

played the first one to death.

He was tearing out his hair on deciding wheter to get part 2 on xbox or importing it and playing it with a swap disc.

this was before the days of ebay and amazon.

He ended up getting it for xbox, but I'm sure he wanted to play it on its native console.

he became an xbox fan once the dreamcast became "retail dead"

[CD AGES]

3 internal revision models were made for the Dreamcast during its run.

Rev 0: The best in terms build qualiy and rather uncommon model
Rev 1: The most common version of the console out there. Pretty reliable given the owners TLC
Rev 2: Final revision of the console, common but not as abundant and the rev1 unit. The internals are the most radical of all revisions and its build quality is of a... dubious reputation. Proceed with caution

[marurun]

Rev 2: Final revision of the console, common but not as abundant and the rev1 unit. The internals are the most radical of all revisions and its build quality is of a... dubious reputation. Proceed with caution

And yet the last revision was still more reliable than many of the original Playstation and Playstation 2 hardware models.

[Gunstar Green]

had a friend back in the day who was a big shenmue fan.

played the first one to death.

He was tearing out his hair on deciding wheter to get part 2 on xbox or importing it and playing it with a swap disc.

this was before the days of ebay and amazon.

He ended up getting it for xbox, but I'm sure he wanted to play it on its native console.

he became an xbox fan once the dreamcast became "retail dead"

I remember back then with stuff like Shenmue 2 and Panzer Dragoon Orta people were really billing the Xbox as the Dreamcast's successor as far as Sega's development focus went. This of course did not stick for very long. I wonder if Sega would've kept focusing on just the Xbox how things may have been different that generation?

My story is about one of my favorite games, Bangai-O which sat in my Wal-Mart untouched for months and months. I never bought it because I had never heard of it or knew about it being a Treasure game, the makers of my already beloved Gunstar Heroes. Eventually I played it at a friends house and I knew that I had to have it. Suddenly Wal-Mart wasn't carrying it anymore and I couldn't find it anywhere.

I eventually got it online, brand new and cheap, so the story has a happy ending.

[pierrot]

He was tearing out his hair on deciding wheter to get part 2 on xbox or importing it and playing it with a swap disc.

this was before the days of ebay and amazon.

I bought the Pal version of Shenmue II on Ebay shortly after it was announced that the US release would be on the XBOX. Both websites were around for a number of years prior to that as well.

Incidentally, although Shenmue II is my favorite game of all time, I think the boot disc I used to play it killed my Dreamcast. It'd had a rebooting issue since 2008 or so, which I tried at one point to fix by cleaning the PSU pins, but that didn't seem to do anything, so I stored it until a year or so ago, when I realized that there will probably never be a better system than the DC, and that I needed that thing working again.
Long story short, I think the lens is fried on it now, but the entire time I was working on it I was cursing the day I gave away my launch Dreamcast to my little cousin. Somehow the modem had fried on that one, and when PSO came out I decided to get a new Dreamcast in order to play it, since apparently Sega would have charged me about the same to replace the modem.
Oh what a short-sighted fool I was!

Now I have a working NTSC-U, -J and R7 Dreamcast, so I guess it doesn't really matter. Still, it'd be nice to still have the one I put nearly every non-Sega game/system I owned toward buying on day one.

[mlavindude]

had a friend back in the day who was a big shenmue fan.

played the first one to death.

He was tearing out his hair on deciding wheter to get part 2 on xbox or importing it and playing it with a swap disc.

this was before the days of ebay and amazon.

He ended up getting it for xbox, but I'm sure he wanted to play it on its native console.

he became an xbox fan once the dreamcast became "retail dead"

Hate to hear that he chose xbox over dreamcast even though the xbox is cool, dreamcast is awesomer