Thrilled! the dreamcast has thrilled!

[nickfil]

Since about 1999/2000ish i had a love affair with the dreamcast. The great games per shovelware ratio is crazy high and it seemed i would pick up a new game every other week sometimes. Then i went off to college... traded some games. Sold my dreamcast. Always regretted it.

Then in about 2004 a friend of mine game me his dreamcast because he owed me some cash or something. I can't quite remember the specifics. Since then I have been trying to burn dream cast games off and on to no avail. First with a pc, but with limited knowledge of it. The very idea of burning games very new to me, and seemingly shrouded in the secrecy of mirc. Then i switched to mac. Which.... as a gamer, apple really isn't the way to go. As an artist, it worked beautifully. Now i have a new mac, with intel tech. I am running microsoft xp and vista.

And after long long years, i burnt my first dreamcast game today using Parallels, windows xp, and Alcohol 120%. Thank fucking god, because it is impossible to find a reasonably priced copy of ikaruga!

For some reason, I could never get discjuggler to work correctly. It could never connect to the superdrive and start burning discs.

anyway- just thought i'd share. I'll probably be playing dremcast games for the next couple months. At least until i get a new HDD into my original xbox. Then i'll switch to ps1.

[Droid party]

Welcome back to the club.

[4ppleseed]

I never had a Dreamcast the first time around but buying a second-hand one and burning my first few games was one of the most amazing experiences of my gaming life. Going from Soul Calibre to Space Channel 5 to Shenmue to Rez - such a wonderful collection of games, Sega's 1st and 2nd party developers really had a field day!

[j4ck]

I freaking love my Dreamcast. Picked it up for a super low price. I should really put more time into playing it.

[Kyle]

Yeah I love the Dreamcast too. Two years ago i bought for 50 € (=68 $) a new sealed Dreamcast, amazing. Together with Jet Set Radio, sealed too! And I love this console since then

[gennss]

I do believe i've become a dreamcast otaku at some point.

[nickfil]

Welcome back to the club.

It is really good to be back. Took care of my seaman today as part of my morning routine.

I never had a Dreamcast the first time around but buying a second-hand one and burning my first few games was one of the most amazing experiences of my gaming life. Going from Soul Calibre to Space Channel 5 to Shenmue to Rez - such a wonderful collection of games, Sega's 1st and 2nd party developers really had a field day!

It was a really great time for gaming. Its weird- it comes and goes in waves. Mid/early 90s were great with the SNES. Early 2000 was fantastic for video game fans with the dreamcast and ps2 (all be it, fierce competition)

Yeah I love the Dreamcast too. Two years ago i bought for 50 € (=68 $) a new sealed Dreamcast, amazing.

just out of curiosity- did that new dreamcast motor make horrible horrible sounds. I feel like my dremcast is loud as shit.

[gennss]

yep, they tend to be that way. the fan is loud and the gd-rom laser mover thingy is loud too.

[shallowgamer]

but buying a second-hand one and burning my first few games was one of the most amazing experiences of my gaming life.

Thanks for assisting with putting the last nail in the Dreamcast coffin

Don't mind me, I'm a bitter old man still living in 1999. Kinda like seaman, come to think of it.

[arion]

ah yes the first successfully burned dreamcast game. For me it was Shenmue 2 and finally being able to play it was a blast. And similarly i had only heard rumours about burning games for the dreamcast and i couldn belive just how easy it really was after all