I just want to say thank you for all the support on this video. It’s been fun reading people stories on getting their Dreamcast, and all the game recommendations. Many of you also gave me so much advice on the console and reasons for why mine had some issues. And here is where I have some bad news, as some of you mentioned, my disc drive is going, so I can either replace it, or do what many suggested, getting a GDEMU. I would love to obtain the real games for a collection, but learning the cds can deteriorate, the best choice to make is going with GDEMU. It’ll take time to receive it but once it’s in I plan to make more videos on this amazing console. Plus now I can get every game you all suggested. Shenmue, crazy taxi, rayman 2, resident evil, sonic, etc.. Thank you all again for liking, subscribing, and commenting, it’s mean a lot to me.

@NottJoeyOfficial

2 ай бұрын

Just some advice on the GDEMU, most ones you get will be clones and you absolutely should not upload the firmware on them or it will brick. There are two games that won't work perfectly on older firmwares, but it'll be fine. One of the Resident Evil games (has a patch to fix it) and Skies of Arcadia (skip the intro and the game will work fine). Happy Dreamcast playing, I plan on adding my Dreamcast story to the comments after work!

@Squiggy

Ай бұрын

@@NottJoeyOfficial Thanks for the advice. I've seen that most GDEMU's sold online now are mostly clones, I picked up a 5.20.5 version which I heard fixes issues with games like RE. I don't imagine I'll update the firmware for it, as long as it plays the games I want it should be good.

@VictorGonzalez-xs9oc

Ай бұрын

​@@Squiggydon't use emulators, because that will be cheating. Just go buy another one without scratch on it, but you may require buying the one that is new and unused.

@Welcomtotheautovista

Ай бұрын

Wiiwowo

@Welcomtotheautovista

Ай бұрын

@@VictorGonzalez-xs9ocjsjskss

Content creators saying they were “surprised to learn” Sega made consoles are the moments I feel my age… 😩

@Welcomtotheautovista

Ай бұрын

Juyyy

@Welcomtotheautovista

Ай бұрын

Wdym Z fan

@pinkflamingo5972

25 күн бұрын

Same here, when he said that I’m like ahh man

@markasscop

15 күн бұрын

might as well get used to it, the generation that grew up post sega are well into their 20s now

@MJ-uk6lu

14 күн бұрын

To be fair Mega Drive was the only truly popular Sega console and Dreamcast with Saturn weren't even sold in plenty of markets. When I was a kid I didn't even know what Nintendo was because their consoles just weren't sold and those that existed were imported. Also game magazines never even mentioned Sega or Nintendo making consoles only Sony and rarely Microsoft.

Still have my Dreamcast 20+ years later.

@Rschr101

Ай бұрын

Keep it secret, keep it safe.

@KeanBurke

18 күн бұрын

I have 3 of them. Once my friends moved on to the PS2 I got their Dreamcasts

@HoweyJR_

8 күн бұрын

@@KeanBurkecan you sell one please

Real Dreamcast controllers never get stick drift.

@adrenaliner91

2 ай бұрын

But they break easily. My DC Stick is broken in half. No other controller has managed to do this xD

@zadock6370

Ай бұрын

@@adrenaliner91 how on earth did you manage to do that?

@adrenaliner91

Ай бұрын

@@zadock6370 I don't know. One day it just was broken. I don't even know where the broken part is.

@zadock6370

Ай бұрын

@@adrenaliner91 damn. it sucks when things just break out of nowhere without you even using it. it seems surreal, but it happens.

@aleksandarmilosevic4414

Ай бұрын

Same, we play a lot quake 3, and Unreal tournament, I think more then 12 years , neither controller has drift

These prices are out of control. Collectors - stop it. These retro systems need to be accessible if you want companies to keep catering to us. Anything over $60 is insane. It's a dreamcast, not a CDX.

@supersonicernie9827

Ай бұрын

Couldn’t have said it better myself. I wanna get every Sonic game ever, but with games like the SEGA Saturn and the Game Gear games, Knuckles Chaotix, the Sonic Adventure games for the Dreamcast, and Sonic Shuffle. But collectors always have to ruin the fun for those who just wanna play the damn game.

@casey_shame

23 күн бұрын

Don't forget resellers driving up prices artificially!

@cd5sircoupe

21 күн бұрын

That store fleeced this kid hard, he significantly overpaid for what he got. Market value's still hovering at about $100, not 150, and they couldn't even clean the thing much less refurb it for that upcharge. I fully agree about collectors and resellers driving up prices to stupid levels though, I barely even collect anymore because it's not worth the cost. I'm just glad I started collecting 20-25 years ago. Unfortunately anything I want that I don't yet own is insanely expensive now. And he's right, last time I saw a CDX it was north of $600. But I mean, going from 2019 to 2020, Dreamcast went from $25 to $100 real quick.

@CanalDaZoeiraBrasil

3 күн бұрын

that why the best way to preserve games is piracy 🥰

I'm so old, I feel like this video is a report a student made in history class, and I'm the teacher listening who lived that history lol.

@Ray-xx7vo

Ай бұрын

It's OK you enjoy video games nothing wrong with that. I was born sometime in the 80s😮and I'm still collecting video games and going to retro conventions. My girlfriend is the same age and once a new rpg game comes out I'm like oh crap won't see her for months.

@manaboutsound

Ай бұрын

Haha, me too. Nice to see younger people taking an interest in the history of gaming though. In full support of that. Especially sega's

@bigdonpaul

Ай бұрын

I'm with you. I remember getting the Dreamcast on release day 9/9/99.

@Ronnock

28 күн бұрын

Same.

now i want a dreamcast

@MisterSouji

2 ай бұрын

I have 9

@AkiraYanky

2 ай бұрын

Do it

@Keksemann

2 ай бұрын

@@AkiraYanky aight ima buy one

@sargonzaya2253

2 ай бұрын

@@MisterSoujiI have 2

@SlickerSonic

Ай бұрын

Me too

The Dreamcast is my favorite console of all time. Enjoy your Dreamcast!

Tell me you were born in the 90s, without telling me you were born in the 90s. “Sega had its own line of consoles ?!” …

@PsychoSocialLogicalTester7

2 ай бұрын

I was born in the mid 2000s, and I knew that Sega originally made slot machines in Hawaii, then moved to Japan.

@OwOLink

2 ай бұрын

*Tell me you were born post 90s, without telling me you were born post 90's.

@OwOLink

2 ай бұрын

I can't even fathom the idea of kids not knowing the console wars between sega and nintendo, it wasn't just like oh sega had a console, it was a big deal, seeing sonic and mario on the same games would be sacrilege and no one would of ever believed you.

@Ubylosthispants

2 ай бұрын

@@OwOLink it's sad because everyone is dropping out of the arms race, it's gonna be Sony, PCs, and Meta quest on the game oligarchy, we have fallen so far from those first battles between Atari and Intellivision

@BlueEyedVibeChecker

2 ай бұрын

I was born 99, and my first was the Mega Drive, I still find it so novel when people as old as me and sometimes older find out SEGA consoles were a thing. Only one I haven't owned is a Saturn. (Yet.)

Shenmue is mindblowing. Skies of Arcadia very very good.

@DamarFadlan25

Ай бұрын

NFL 2K1, NBA 2K1, MARVEL vs Capcom 2 and TEST DRIVE LE MANS are too.

It’s so nice to hear about younger generations getting into older consoles. Especially Sega who was such a huge player in the 90s. I grew up with Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast and couldn’t recommend them enough. As far as recommendations go I’m going to recommend Soul Caliber, Shenmue and House of the Dead. All are pretty affordable still. Also if you have access to a VGA adapter connect the Dreamcast up to a desktop monitor. The picture is so clear it could be mistaken for modern gaming. I also really recommend the Saturn library if you like anything with Japanese influence

@cryptocsguy9282

Ай бұрын

@arenschultz You don't come across many people who had the megadrive , saturn and dreamcast back in the 90s and early 00s when they were new. Most only got into the saturn and dreamcast later on

@cd5sircoupe

21 күн бұрын

I strongly disagree with your House of the Dead recommendation, and it's not because I don't like the game. So first of all, he's gonna need to find a light gun, and I think the cheapest of the three options is like $50-60. This goes without saying that he's gonna need a CRT tv as well. Secondly, this port of HotD is nearly impossible to calibrate the gun to. I tried three separate light guns back in either March or April of this year, none of them cooperated. You know what they worked perfectly with right out of the box with, no calibration? Virtual Cop 2 in the Sega Smash Pack. Many other people have documented this problem, it's a known thing. VC2 on the other hand, laser accuracy, no setup.

@arenschultz

21 күн бұрын

@@cd5sircoupe light gun and crt are ideal but I certainly wouldn’t push anyone to go that route. I think the game is still loads of fun with a regular controller

@cd5sircoupe

21 күн бұрын

@@arenschultz You're out of your mind if you think playing a light gun game without a light gun is any sort of fun. The experience isn't comparable at all, not even close. Are you a glutton for punishment or do you just not have a lot of time with traditional light gun titles?

@andrewparke1764

2 күн бұрын

I agree, VGA to a desktop monitor and a pair of decent stereo speakers is THE way to enjoy the Dreamcast.

a game I can recommend for the Sega Dreamcast is Crazy Taxi, it's a game about being in a taxi driving people to their destination while avoiding traffic laws, it's incredibly fun so if you find a copy for a fair price, I recommend getting it

@Squiggy

2 ай бұрын

Already grabbed it, I was laughing my ass off on how fast I'd be going while slamming into oncoming traffic (I'm not the best currently, but still had fun).

@danishdiana102

2 ай бұрын

@@Squiggy hell yeah, Crazy Taxi is amazing, it does take some time to get used to

@SuperSonicSeaver

Ай бұрын

thats a GREAT game! its funny.

@cryptocsguy9282

Ай бұрын

Crazy Taxi is a banger

The Dreamcast was the first console I bought with my first part time job in high school. Still my favorite console till this day. I'm a little envious that you get to experience if for the first time like many of did years ago. Digging your channel and keep up the great content!

This was the first time I've ever "felt old"🤣🤣🤣. So happy you got to experience the actual console man. I have so many core memories attached to the Dreamcast.

one thing i HIGHLY recommend, it's getting a Dreamcast VGA cable, and a decent vga to hdmi adapter, trust me the difference on image quality is mind blowing

I bought a sega saturn in 2024. I love the console. If sega didn't fumble so hard it could've been able to properly compete with the ps1.

@Mustradamus

2 ай бұрын

Yea they failed because of the dreamcast. The system had no security what so ever lmfao I would go to blockbuster rent a game and just copy it and play it on the dreamcast without any mods needed.

@Shannon-ul5re

Ай бұрын

Sega just didn’t release the right games at the time for the saturn and they rushed everything.

55 for Sonic also is an absurd price….

The fact US stores sell consoles without controllers or cables necessary to run it will always be an alien concept to me. Here you physically cannot hand one in without these things, nor can you buy them without them in highstreet stores.

@zadock6370

Ай бұрын

probably for the best considering these places here would just buy the cheapest 3rd party junk for cables and controllers and sell it all to you for top dollar. ever since the "nes incident" I had, I make damn sure that whatever console I buy, it either has no wires, or all the original wires. I don't want any 3rd part trash.

@ArtemyMalchuk

Ай бұрын

​@@zadock6370It depends. I do lean to purchasing original controllers, but I don't care much for the cables. So, "console only" units is the way to go for me.

Power stone was one of the best fighting games for Dreamcast.

Man you could've gotten a much better deal but at least you're happy with what you got. I'd suggest Rayman 2 and Jet Set Radio.

I still don’t understand how the Dreamcast flopped.. it was more powerful than all the other systems, same games, nice controller & the best graphics at that time. I just don’t get the public consumers

@FilJR99

2 күн бұрын

Everyone was waiting for the PlayStation2 that had already been announced by Sony. The price of the Dreamcast was high and many people chose to wait for the new PlayStation with the announced retro compatibility playing some part in this.

I bought a dreamcast on 1999 and it was not what i was expecting

arrived here via parachute (recommendations), Dreamcast was so ahead of time... the problem is that not many people appreciated its full potential. it's so sad that SEGA wanted to spice things up, but it was at the wrong time.

The VMU was awesome, when playing football you could see your plays on it so that the other player didn’t know what was picked.

Dude you're so underrated. You should totally try sonic adventure 2

This is very relatable in a lot of ways, I remember my (spoiled) cousins having a Dreamcast with sonic in the late 90s and we had to leave the console running constantly to not lose save progress, I’m so glad I still have my original save files for my ps1 on memory cards. Someone remind me to rip and save them, especially Lunar !!

I've had a Dreamcast since 2004, when I was 9. I got it for $20 from Gamestop. $20. That was only a few years after the DC got discontinued. I got Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 for $10 each, and Jet Grind Radio for $5. Honestly, the Dreamcast wasn't very reliable hardware-wise. Even that one had a broken disc drive. My dad and I learned how to replace it and it's been fine since.

I still have my old Dreamcast, controllers and VMUs I bought in the 90s with games 😊😊😊😊 Buy Shenmue 1 & 2, Zombie Revenge, Carrier, and MDK 2 very good games

If you’re into obscure fighting games, definitely try Power Stone. Definitely an underrated gem (pun intended) on the Dreamcast.

@PatientN9ne

4 күн бұрын

I Looved that game I still play it on my psp emulator

I'm from Russia and my father bought us the console in 2005. I was so happy to play on it. We didn't have a PC yet. I still have my Dreamcast with GDEMU and 128GB SD Card with games and always turn it on for an hour when I visit my parents. You definitely should try Shenmue 1/2 and RE: Code Veronica. Thanks for the video!

Man you make me feel old, I grew up with all of this stuff being born in the early 90s. Lol the fact that you describe the manual like some sort of ancient relic really shows your age 😂

You gotta buy the mod that lets you play roms from an sd card, then you're set for life with all the games.

So some recommendations are as follows: Crazy Taxi - nobrainer - one of best arcade games of all times! Resident Evil Code Veronica - really good classic Resident Evil game Illbleed - weird and wild horror game - it's crazy Sonic Adventure 2 is still great Skies of Arcadia - incredible JRPG for the system Grandia 2 - another JRPG banger, also for some reason non-DC versions are all buggy and have some issues. Dead or Alive 2 - great fighting game Metropolis Street Racer - a predecessor to Project Gotham Racing - really good racing title with highly detailed cars I think this is enough if you can find them.

I remember being the only person I knew who had one of these. I was starting my senior year in high school when it came out and I saved money each paycheck to get the Dreamcast, Sonic, Hydrothunder, and a VMU. I couldn’t believe the jump in graphics from the PS1/Saturn/N64 to the Dreamcast.

I still have my Dreamcast i bought in 2001 brand new for only 130 bucks. It's insane that this beast of a console launched in Japan in 1998 during prime time of N64 and PS1.

The way bro talks about the manual makes me feel like a fossil

I can definitely see you going far in the future! Great video

Dreamcast was pure magic to me. Sadly, I think it’s fair to say I’ve spent the last few decades chasing that feeling the DC gave me but it’s just never returned. And yeah, nothing lasts forever so if there’s a way to play DC games not on a DC, that’s preferable. I don’t think this can be repeated until there’s a massive change in how we game. DC released just as the internet as we now know it was being born and we got online and games together everyone was excited. There was no cynicism or jaded social media, it was all fun. We were focused on games and gaming and those days are just gone.

@Rschr101

Ай бұрын

All downhill after 9/11 bro.

Man does this video make me feel old! Never knew SEGA made consoles!? 🤯😭I guess that's the reality of people in their 20's today. I bought the Dreamcast for 99$ back in 2001. Such a steal. A video game store here in my hometown was filing for bankruptcy, selling ALL of their stock. I didn't have much money at the time, but I was able to scoop up Sonic Adventures 1 & 2, Jet Set Radio, Soul Calibur, Dead or Alive 2, Daytona USA, Skies of Arcadia, Shenmue 1 & 2. Most games were 10-20$, I bought an arcade stick two VMUs, a 4x-memory card and a mouse. I remember feeling really bad about burning so much money. But honestly I have been playing on it basically every week since then. And those initial game purchases were such bangers! So many hours of fun! And since then I have replaced the optical drive with a GDEMU (the drive doesn't perform well anymore, I'm still contemplating on trying to restore/fix it)

I’m old enough that I grew up with Sega consoles. The truth is they made a bunch of costly and shortsighted business decisions through the mid to late 90s and with the PlayStation taking so many gamers upon its release, they just couldn’t survive on failure after failure.

I wish I had a Sega Dreamcast. I loved Sonic Adventure 1!

really nice video! i love it when youtube recommends me stuff from smaller channels, especially for stuff like this. i myself want to get this console at one point, but i don’t have enough space at the moment 😅 (btw this is just a nitpick but please don’t stretch your Dreamcast footage to 16:9, it hurts me to see that 😭)

@Squiggy

2 ай бұрын

Gonna be honest, I noticed it after recording, I think it was because a setting in elgato, I'll make sure to fix it next time.

All of my retro consoles (Sega genesis, n64 and Wii) come from family

Ngl this is actually a cool piece of Sega history to have.

My God I'm only 32, youre making me feel ancient

@Rschr101

Ай бұрын

😂 36 here, I got one foot in the grave with this video.

@rdubs1705

26 күн бұрын

I bought a Dreamcast the first day it came out which was the first week I started highschool 😅

thanks for showimg love for the dream cast the dreamcast is awsome you allways find something new that is just crazy and awsome

Whenever i couldn't save the game with any memory cards I just turned the TV off like a sleep mode and woke up the next morning and turned my TV back on

Virtua Tennis, Skies of Arcadia, and Quake 3 were some bangers. Phantasy Star Online was also a personal favorite but without internet not sure how good it'd be these days.

I found my dreamcast at the beginning of the year for $30 with all cables, vmu, a mouse, controllers, and bass fishing in it ❤

For discs I recommend using water and hand soap, just make sure you dry it really really well with something soft so you don’t break your console

i did too actually! for my birthday on the 12th i bought it along with Sonic Adventure Limited Edition, a copy of the game exclusively for blockbuster and let ne tell you it was worth every penny!🎉

When shopping for a rumble pack remember the 3rd party "high performance" work way better than the OEM brand. Thanks for appreciating and preserving this retro piece of history.

0:47 ayo Miracle Piano Lets Play when?? Lol also great video!! This was a really well informed video and I got to learn a lot about the Dreamcast! 😄

@Squiggy

Ай бұрын

Sad thing is I don't think I have that piano anymore :( I would've loved to do a video on that thing now.

@hihiyoshi106

Ай бұрын

@@Squiggy 🥲 maybe some day in the future who knows!

I had all the Sega consoles starting from the Master System II up until the Dreamcast (except for the 32X and Mega CD which were not consoles per se). To this day, the Dreamcast is still my favourite console ever! I loved the controllersa and the arcade games were awesome! Such a shame Sega blew up because of bad strategy when faced with a giant like Sony, back then. Daytona USA, 18 Wheeler, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Metropolis Street Racing, Shenmue, Virtua Tennis, NBA 2K… Goo’old times!

I just Hope that Sega will return to Bring another their New Console Game one day. I Don't lose hope

games i highly recommend, crazy taxi, jet grind radio, power stone, and virtua tennis, even the 2K NFL, and NBA series are recommended.

Man the store that sold you that console is a complete rip off. The condition of everything is really bad for the money you paid, they should at least clean everything and test it before selling. I got my Dreamcast back in 1999 and man, I love it. I will never forget playing Sonic Adventure for the first time, hope it works out for you and the console brings you many years of joy!

No way a Sega Dreamcast is worth $150 in America, last time i was in America I got one for $50 and I think Austin Evans recently got one for $100.

@zadock6370

Ай бұрын

yeah, he was waaayyyyy overcharged for his considering the shape it was in. I got mine with all the original cords and the original controller, all in really nice shape, for only $110. I would average the price of a complete dreamcast with controller to be around $90 or $100 today in america.

1:30 I think I remember seeing that a part of the Sega company split ways which lead to the ps1, the direct downfall of Dreamcast cause of how much less it cost

Dreamcast for $150 is crazy I remember buying mine for $60 at a game store bac in 2014

@schwartz4074

26 күн бұрын

Exactly

@TheKey32

10 күн бұрын

Bro a decade ago they were so much cheaper, i got mine for 160 but atleast it has 2 official controllers a VMU and 30 games

I wanted one for so long and I just randomly found one for free lol it even came with everything

All the games were compatible with broad band adapter. I had it back in the day. Played Phnatasy Star Online mostly but also Bomberman Online, Alien Front Online, Quake and Unreal Tournament with the mouse and keyboard peripherals, and others. Good times. I want to go back

For my city, Dreamcast is 175 dollars

Samba de Amigo is a fun game that becomes even more fun if you get the maracas for it.

It's insane to see how these games are sold nowadays. I got a mint copy of SMB3 15 years ago for like 10€. It's fucking insane.

Awww. My older brother got a Dreamcast in Christmas of 2000. He was 14 at the time, My older sister was 12, and I was 5 and we were living in the Bronx NYC. I remember that after we all finished opening our presents, we went over to the tv in the bedroom me and my older sister shared to hook up the dreamcast and see it live for the first time. He played through Emerald Coast in Sonic Adventure and we were all amazed. There were other games he got / rented as a kid like Power Stone and Shenmue. There were days when my older brother and sister were at school, and I was home all day with our Mother. I would just pop in the Dreamcast and fool around in Sonic Adventure as Tails. I bought a Dreamcast again myself in 2015 off ebay. It was a shock with how small the system is and how loud it was to load a game. For a while my older brother and I would go out to retro gaming stores and collect for it. For his birthday, I bought Shenmue and I just let that intro run on repeat until he came into the living room and I could surprise him. We played through Shenmue and laughed at the horrible voice acting… lol. My Brother wondered how it never stood out to him until now. My brother owns it now since he cares for it more than I do. I’m more into emulating. I actually have a portable emulation machine.

@Squiggy

2 ай бұрын

I remember both Christmas' when my siblings and I got the gamecube and PS2, each of us got a game and we'd be playing it all day. Memories like those always stick with you. Also yeah it's always funny looking back at old games thinking how we grew up with them. Shenmue voice acting I've seen online, it does have a charm to it haha.

Definitely try Jet Set Radio

Honestly though, having retro consoles is really cool

I love the Dreamcast, some real bangers on the platform, but also some real good jank. D2 is some GOOD jank.

I wish i grew up with sega, my folks at the time could only afford a genesis so i only could play those until they could of gotten me and my bros a ps1 and later a ps2. I missed out on so much sega stuff growing up and two years ago the wife got me a VA0 dreamcast and been loving the thing since.

I would strongly recommend Soul Calibur

Two Dreamcast Games I can highly recommend are Fur Fighters and Toy Commander. They’re both very fun but also fairly common games on the system so you should be able to get your hands on them fairly easily (AtLeast thats the case here in the UK) Fur Fighters - is a mix of a Banjo-Kazooie style collectathon with a third person shooter. 6 animal friends set out to save their kidnapped families. You switch between them to solve puzzles and get around the levels. If I’m honest it can be little clunky with its controls but it more then makes up for it with the games scale and charm of the characters, settings and the music. This was Dreamcast exclusive till it was re-released on Ps2 as Fur Fighters: Viggos Revenge, which changed to a cell-shaded art style. I’m not aware if there are any other difference between the versions. But I would still say the Dreamcast is my preferred version. I think it looks a lot better. Toy Commander - the premise is you’re a Kid playing with his toys. you get to complete missions, races and fight bosses while driving cars, tanks, planes and helicopters. Being small scale in regular environments like a kitchen or a bedroom is just so charming in its concept and execution. It was one of the first games I played on the Dreamcast along with Sonic Adventure.

I still have a brand new Japanese Dreamcast. Once I've sorted my Saturn I will sort the DC power supply and play some OG PSO V2 and the best versions of the Sonic Adventure games.

I love seeing young folks' POV on retro consoles. Yeah, manuals were great

As a kid I remember my cousin had sonic adventure 2 or sonic heroes on the gamecube and virtua fighter 4 on ps2 , Sega as a 3rd party company was completely NORMAL to me and I didn't find out SEGA used to make consoles until about 2013 or 2014. I remember seeing the dreamcast logo on old Arsenal football shirts and thinking dreamcast was a company , once Ii found about about sega consoles I slowly feel in love with their old stuff and bought a lot of their older games on xbox live arcade and used emulators. I also never played the original sonic the hedgehog game until 2015 but I recognised some of the iconic music from mario & sonic at the Olympic games on DS

I got a Dreamcast recently too. Today actually. It’s got issues w/ the disk drive, but I think I can make it work.

lol you are so right that they could have atleast wiped that controller down. One of my biggest pet peeves with retro game stores is when they just don’t wipe down the consoles and accessories it takes maybe five minutes at most to do and makes the buyer feel better about the purchase

This vid was cool! Love the Dreamcast. A couple of games you should try out is Jet Set Radio (or Jet Grind Radio for NA), Sonic Adventure 2, Power Stone, Crazy Taxi, and Chu-Chu Rocket!

@benceszarvas5464

2 ай бұрын

I wanted to recommend him the same. Also Rayman 2 and Toy Story 2. They are great platformers. And maybe Shenmue because that has a cult following. And Sonic Shuffle as well because that game is console locked and i think despite how hard the game is its very overhated. I did complete it 99.99%(one mini event missing) with a japanese copy that only had japanese texts. Visually espically the CG cutscenes the game was beautiful for its time.

@Squiggy

2 ай бұрын

I remembered playing Toy Story 2 on PS1, so good. There are so many games people recommended, Sonic Shuffle I do plan to grab to play with friends, I know not many people like it but as long as me and the guys have a fun time then it's all good.

@benceszarvas5464

2 ай бұрын

@@Squiggy definitely get VMU-s for Sonic Shuffle multiplayer because you can only see the cards in your vmu monitor screen.😁

The Dreamcast version’s DLC is actually available as a mod for the PC version

Good to know: most of the Dreamcast library is compatible with native VGA and the results are quite stunning. If you can, ditch the composite cable and buy a VGA cable instead. AV Adapters like the one that you use in the video damages the image and can produce serious input lag so i think VGA should be the way if you play on a modern display. It's always nice to see newcomers for this fantastic machine, though !

@cd5sircoupe

21 күн бұрын

You know what game grinds my gears? Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. The damn back cover explicitly states that it IS VGA box compatible, yet it is definitely not. And the cherry on top is that even running it as an iso on my gdemu system will only display the image squished into the lower horizontal half of the screen. I can only play my physical copy if I feel like hooking up the old a/v cables to one of my CRTs. Thankfully I didn't pay anywhere near the recent prices for it, but it's a stupid expensive shelf warmer.

Great video. The title and thumbnail had my interest but the video now has my attention and subscription keep up the hood work

As someone who has experienced the gaming revolution in the 90's and the dawn of the 6th Gen consoles, I find your perspective quite interesting as you can talk about these things uninfluenced by nostalgia and still be excited about that era. Nice vid 🐯👍

“I only knew about Sonic the Hedgehog after he went multi-platform and didn’t know Sega made consoles.” made feel like I’m 100 years old. Should probably go apply for an AARP card now.

"One company I was surprised to see making consoles was Sega of all people.." Holy $#@% dude.. That made me feel old 😆.. Yeah. Sega made consoles. I'm as familiar with the fact that Sega made consoles as this guy's generation is aware that Apple makes smartphones 😄 Still have my Sega Genesis, Sega CD, and Dreamcast.

Ton of great games for this console

I missed out on having a Dreamcast back in the day. I did grow up in the '90s and I played Sega Genesis although I actually preferred SNES and I played PS1 but I also preferred N64, but I was able to play some Dreamcast thanks to some friends of my brothers who had a dream cast. In the early 2000s my family had a GameCube and I enjoyed that console and one of the first games we got on it because it was an early release on the GameCube was Sonic Adventure 2 battle. So much fun! The first time I played Sonic Adventure 1 was actually at a friend's house on historycast and then Sonic Adventure DX came out for the GameCube I think not that long after and I would get that. I'm definitely much more used to Sonic Adventure DX because that's the one I actually owned and the one I played, but it was Cool to actually play the original song Adventure on the Dreamcast before that. I also did end up playing Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast as well by playing it on my friend's Dreamcast because he could not figure out how to beat the biolizer boss so I beat it for him

It's weird seeing that crash bandicoot footage running in 60fps.

I'll keep an eye open on your dreamcast journey

Get a good CRT for motion clarity, alongside an RGB SCART cable for a crisp signal. As for games: Soul Calibur, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, MSR, Rayman 2, Shenmue, Ecco, Grandia 2, Soul Reaver, Quake 3 Arena (you might want to get a Keyboard and Mouse for best experience), Virtua Tennis, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Re-Volt

If your DC is compatible, make sure to install a ODE (optical disc emulator). It replaces the optical drive so you can play games via a sd card. This way your DC will never die due to the optical disc drive failing. Single best upgrade for the system. Install is very easy as well.

I had no idea sega even made consoles!

I wasn't born in 1999 I was born in 2005 but the game still stuck with me then and that's why it is still one of the greatest Sonic titles of all time

This video makes me feel so old.

Good buy sir! Then you said “i had an interest in retro consoles” and that you were SHOCKED Sega made consoles! Oh man… i felt extremely old hearing that. I was a sophomore in high school when Dreamcast came out and clearly remember the real console wars with Genesis and Nintendo when i was younger than that. Man, oh man, you missed out on growing up in a great generation kid. Edit: side note, it’s insane they had a copy of Super Mario Bros 3 in its original box! No one kept their boxes back when Nintendo games came out! I just kept them in the black plastic sleeves. Also, why didn’t you guys not have a PlayStation memory card?? If this console was retro to you, then that means you must’ve been a kid in the late 2000’s, by then you could get those for a few bucks.

My dad got my sister the miracle piano but she never learned to play lol

Yup any DC exclusives or multiplatform games you wanna snag. Grab a tremor pack too for that force feedback

If you'd like to learn more about the Dreamcast, I have a couple of videos on my channel already about it, if you're interested. I'm also currently working on a video dedicated to it, and it may turn out to be somewhere between 30 to 40 minutes long. I got into the system in 2013, and ever since then, it has been my favorite console of all time. Your video helped me feel a bit nostalgic, and brought me back to my first experiences with the system. I also had some growing pains, for sure, and have been through 3 or 4 systems now? Maybe more? I know the current one that I have though, I have had before Covid, I think. Back then, the system was only $50, if I can remember right. But yeah, the Dreamcast is truly amazing! Happy almost 25th Anniversary, Dreamcast!

Coco Hayashi also ever bought Sega Dreamcast in 2023.

Master System was not Sega's first console that would be the 1983 Sega SG-1000, and the Sonic DX is a downgrade not an upgrade from the superior Dreamcast version, to the point where effort has been made to convert Sonic DX back to the original assets on Dreamcast for the PC version (Gamecube could not handle a lot of the Dreamcast's lighting, transparency, textures and effects. One of the Dreamcast’s unique features was its PowerVR GPU. It was equipped with a hardware feature called order-independent transparency (OIT). No console before or after the Dreamcast ever had that feature built in on the hardware level, and it took many years until mainstream GPUs became capable of dealing with order-independent transparency. When the game was being ported to the Gamecube, the benefits of order-independent transparency were no longer there, and the developers ran into numerous problems involving transparent models) Lastly for Dreamcast, you want a model 1 version of the console as it can read CD-R and it's easy to burn GD-ROM ISO of expensive titles to be played on the system. It's sad what happened to Sega, though in a round about way the original Xbox was essentially Dreamcast 2 (Dreamcast was based on Sega Arcade Naomi hardware, Xbox was based on Sega Chihiro arcade hardware, Peter Moore was head of the Dreamcast, also head of the Xbox, etc).

Nice video. As a kid that bought that console a year after it launched, I was marveled at the time with the graphics. I had seen some comercials on the tv, I had a cousin that had a PS1and you could see the jump in graphical fidelity. I'd say this period, 3rd gen (nes) to 6th gen(ps2) were the most incredible for consumers as the jumps in graphics and the size of games were balooming. It felt like witchcrafty. I grew with a megadrive/genesis and the jump to the ps1 was incredible for me. Me and my friends were always in awe while playing winning eleven and looking at those blocky polygons thinking: "My god, look that is indeed Roberto Carlos!". Them the jump to the dreamcast/ps2 was even crazier... I remember thinking we couldn´t get more real than what we had on the ps2. A point I would like to make because I find it fascinating is the following: Sega was in dire straits since the mid 90's thanks to the saturn. Looking at all the books, media and everything I could find in this strange hobby of mine, sega put itself into a costly corner based on marketing and edginess in the united states market. Consoles are already very costly to R&D and put into the market, but marketing is even more especially when you build your strategy the way sega did. They invested a lot of money thinking on recovering it with game sales but there weren't enough of it and when the ps2 launched in japan sega was basically bankrupt. Actually, were not for their president at the time, isao okawa, they would have gone under and probably be bought by microsoft and scrapped like rare was. Sega was never meant to launch the dreamcast, he wanted to bail out of the console industry during the megadrive era because of the cost. Yet when push came to shove, he financed the R&D of the dreamcast and did everything he could to make the console sucessful. Sadly, as stated, it didn´t work. He literally forgave the debt and gave back all the shares he had from sega, which amounted to more than 500 million dollars, soon after passing because of cancer. No joke, that move saved sega from bankrupcy. I am always impressed by the balls of sega to die trying than to fold and give up. Not financially responsible, but admirably badass.