I cant say anything bad about the dreamcast, i met my wife on it in 2000

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Synthematix amazing, how did thay work?

@Synthematix

6 жыл бұрын

met on dream-arena chatroom, been together 18 years, i remember when they used to close the chat down at 5am in the morning for a few minutes, happy days.

@error4159

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's so cool.

@Synthematix

2 жыл бұрын

@@RMCRetro Still together mate, nearly 22 years now, she's one in a billion, they only downside is my phone bill ended up nearly £700 haha

great video gents. loved watching you guys talk shop for an hour. well done

The strips of information are called "Obi Strips" (Belts). They are found on Vinyl, Cassettes, CDs, VHS, and probably more... They usually contain product summaries and barcodes, as well as collector's and series numbers, if apliccable.

The spine card in the Japanese games are used make the information more readable when they are still in the sellophane as they sit around the case beneath the plastic wrap (i.e under the sellophane but not under the plastic - being under two layers of plastic makes it harder to read I guess). They usually also contain the UPC (product code) to be scanned by the shop.

@HappyCodingZX

6 жыл бұрын

they just seem to like them in Japan. They even have them on books :)

@melvoid01

6 жыл бұрын

TRhey are called "obi" I collect cd's from a couple of Japanese bands and the obi's are also seen as desirable for collectors in that field too.

@sunnyforest3239

6 жыл бұрын

Tapes as well!

@AthenaNova1

6 жыл бұрын

The spine card is known as an "Obi" which means "Belt" like the Obi/Belt of Kimono. LP Records and LaserDiscs used giant Obis as well.

Crazy Taxi 2 is a big exclusive for me, one of my fav' games on the console and of all time.

They seriously should have used the boxes Blockbusters used, Jewel case sized DVD boxes essentially, those things were borderline indestructible.

@Neffers_UK

6 жыл бұрын

I'd love a PS1 rental box, that was built like a tank. I still think to this day it's one of the best 3rd party solutions as far as console portability goes. I've had power tool cases that would cower in a corner in the presence of it.

@mrratchet

6 жыл бұрын

Blockbuster was a chain of video/game rental stores in the UK. With the rise of Netflix, they, along with many other video/game rental stores, went bust.

@levicassidy9312

6 жыл бұрын

they were also here in the U.S.A as well i would always go there as a kid to rent SNES games and some movies "sigh" i was sad wen they all closed down :*(

Another great episode from the cave. An awesome DC collection.

Thanks for watching! I had a great time meeting Simon and learning about the Dreamcast with him. Excuse my poor technical analogy for the GDROM and I'm still laughing about our mental blank when it came to "exclusives" but we correct that a little later with the most obvious example. I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences on the Dreamcast in the comments. Neil - RMC - PS yes... the lightbulb... I know.

@hadessuk

6 жыл бұрын

RetroManCave So Shenmue 2, got it :) I’ll probably try to play Shenmue 1 first, maybe the XBox OG version or the HD remake first.

@electronash

6 жыл бұрын

RetroManCave If you've seen any of my vids on the Dreamcast HDMI stuff, you might have guessed how awesome I think the console is. :p We're STILL working on the latest version of the board, and it will be able to do a whole lot more than just the (true digital) HDMI output, eg. running retro FPGA cores, up to and including the Amiga (Minimig). ;) I've also been working on some GD Emu stuff, and there will be the option to have that as an add on to the new HDMI board, but at a lower cost than you might expect (but one board requires the other). And then, it just so happened that the guy I've been working with on the HDMI project ([RDC]) had also done a fair bit of work on confirming the Dreamcast schematic from the (hard to read) scans that were put online many years ago. Eventually, the idea is to make a complete replacement motherboard that still fits into the original Dreamcast case, but will add the HDMI and GD Emu, plus twice the normal amount of RAM, so it would be possible to play Sega NAOMI games as well (via the FPGA "cart" "emulator"). ;) i.imgur.com/qy4iX7Y.png A real shame that Sega didn't try to hang on for a few more years with the Dreamcast, as it could easily compete with the PS2 technically, and already had a pretty decent library of fun games. I've only just started watching the vid btw, and it already looks great. ;) I've had a coffee (decaf, sorry), so I can now settle down to watch an extended RetroManHole, I mean ManCave. :p

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Ash I haven't seen those videos so it sounds like I have a lot to catch up on in your channel. No doubt Simon will be super interested too. As you can tell from the video I didn't know a lot about its catalogue so it was great to learn some new things about it.

@electronash

6 жыл бұрын

haha. Thanks. ;) The main issue is actually turning the prototypes into finished products that are practical for installers / modders to install. The older prototype board, with the custom flex cable (both designed by Mr RDC) have been working for about three years now... i.imgur.com/4mRqtV2.jpg imgur.com/jBGBoFt The capture above of the HDMI output isn't a direct digital feed btw, as I zapped the HDMI input on my AverMedia capture card (don't ask. lol), so it's going from HDMI into my external scaler box, then analog Component into the capture card. The scaler also wasn't tweaked for a true 1:1 image stretch, hence the weird glitches in the text etc. On my TV, it looks fantastic. ;) The latest board takes a different approach to how everything fits together, which should make it easier to install, but also adds a much bigger FPGA, SDRAM, and other goodies such as BlueTooth / WiFI module. (probably not for actual online play though, but for things like wireless controllers.) I'm now once again trying to save some money to help towards the cost of having 10 of the new boards built, so we can confirm everything works fine, then we can finally think about pulling the trigger on having larger batches made. (A certain retro retailer in the US has offered to front the cost of the larger batches if we go with them as the main US distributor, and we are more than happy to take them up on it. hehe) I'm still constantly learning about how to improve my own PCB layouts, but Mr RDC has done an amazing job of designing the boards (and all of the mechanical / CAD stuff) for the previous and new designs. He's way above my skill level in that area, but I do the FPGA / software side. The first test I did of a true HDMI mod was for the N64, which you can see in my ancient and crusty vids. But then Marshall came along, and did a superb job on his UltraHDMI board, and so I moved on to the Game Cube instead... And then... Mr Unseen released the source code for his own Game Cube HDMI design, so I moved on to the Dreamcast... And then... Mr Chris then released his own open-source HDMI mod for the Dreamcast, so I finally came to the conclusion that these types of project are inevitable now, and there's always room for others. lol (especially considering how long those projects have been released for, and many people are STILL waiting for their boards / mods.) Nice to hear about your channel, btw (subbed), and even better to see that you actually show footage of the games too. ;)

@electronash

6 жыл бұрын

RetroManCave I've wanted to do "proper" vids for many years, as I said before, so my channel is just a dumping ground for random electronics stuff tbh. ol I have to admit that I don't know a lot of the different Dreamcast games either, so it's good to see some of the more obscure ones. Sadly, I don't tend to play games very often at all any more (due to the projects), but I'll always want to be involved in retro-related projects and hardware. I have this illusion that I might one day finish some of the main projects, then be able to sit down and actually start playing some games again (hopefully in glorious digital HDMI). lol I really want to try the HDMI board on consoles like the 3DO, Jaguar, OG Xbox, and PS2 next. The 3DO and Jag would be by far the easiest to hook up to, but due to various prototyping setbacks, I've somehow ended up with only ONE working HDMI board now, and that's staying firmly in it's Dreamcast home, and will be posted off to the MyLifeInGaming guys very soon. But, there's no technical reason at all why the same (older) board can't be used in many other retro consoles / computers, apart from some simple voltage translation for the "5 Volt" era machines. There are obviously some machines that can't easily be modded for true digital HDMI though, because they don't expose any digital video busses. The only way you would be able to extract that "data" is by implementing some of the original video hardware on the FPGA itself. Notable examples include the SNES and Mega Drive / Genny, which is unfortunate, given how popular they are. That's not to say that it's impossible by any means, it would just take a LOT of figuring out, and FPGA magic. Things like the new Super NT are great though, as they help preserve the logic of the original hardware, and may be one of the only ways that future generations will be able to enjoy the older machines as the original hardware eventually fails.

You know I hadn’t realised the dreamcast had no EA games, what a fantastic selling point. You have to careful looking at pal dreamcast cases as looking at them can also cause the hinges to break.

@Larry

6 жыл бұрын

..,and yet, EA made games for the Apple Pippin, a console with less than 45,000 users :D

@mcrecordings

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Any console without Fifa is immediately desirable in my eyes =)

Remember UKs Mr. Dreamcast magazine? 2 issues. One got an exclusive demo, the other one a water pistol cover mounted. I think I still got those.

@tomsuzyinfluencerinfj2712

6 жыл бұрын

Used to love the DC, had all UK magazines: DC-UK, Mr.Dreamcast, The Official Dreamcast Magazine, Dreamcast Magazine, dreamcast monthly. Sold all my Sega stuff (games, mags, wotnot) 10 years ago

I rewatched this again and there is so much energy coming from Simon talking about this. He's a ball of energy. I think Neil was coping well to interject in the discussion and keep up in a good way with his great calm and composed manner. . I learnt a lot about about the Dreamcast here as I missed it back then whilst I was PC, Amiga and PS1 gaming. Very good presentation from both of you guys.. Good guest and I will check out Simins channel after all this time. Thank you.

that is a very nice collection, well done Simon. really interesting video.

Absolutely loved this video guys!

Taxi took place in Marseile actually :P And Evil Twin is way more expensive then the expensive ones he pointed out

I found this was a really engaging show, just discovered both of you and have subbed. I collect Dreamcast and this was great to hear your views on the system.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Great to hear I'm glad you could join us, and welcome

I wonder what happen to Simon and his channel Neil. I hope he's all right. I haven't heard from him since. I miss what he had to offer and really a knowledgeable person for sure. 8^) Anthony..

@princeknight4773

4 ай бұрын

I ended up back here seeking an answer to this question.

brill episode, simon is an awesome bloke!

What a lovely episode, enjoyed it immensely.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+Pob pob thank you. It's a longer format even after editing lots out but I'm glad you enjoyed it

20:05 The Japanese games had those around the spine on the cd jewel case. 22:30 The Passport cd is configure-tool for the modem or broadband adapter(Broadband Passport), its just a different version then the regular Passport cd These are the versions by region JAP-Passport, EUR-Dreamkey and US-Planetweb. 27:48 If you push in the midle you will breeak the teeth holding the cd even faster. My pick of the system: Phantasy Star Online (and i still play it online) :D

Half-Life runs pretty well on the Dreamcasr actually, the game seems 100% complete to me. I think it was a business decision not to release it, rather than a technical one. You can download the ROM and stick it on disc and run it using the utopia disc, if you want to try it...

Another old school Dreamcaster here, bought mine on UK launch day and had about two dozen games for it eventually. My favourite was Soul Calibur which looked so amazing I really couldn't believe this was running on a home console connected to my telly. I played it for hours and hours until I had unlocked every fighter and every alternative costume or weapon set. I sold my DC long ago, but nowadays reliving those fun, nostalgic days thanks to an amazing software emulator called Redream. This thing is flawless on PC and Android, the only caveat is it doesn't support games which were built on top of Windows CE, yet, but the rest of them work great.

Really enjoying the new set.

Excellent! 💜💛💚

Nice video this. It's great to see Dreamcast from a UK perspective.

im 40 now now and really did enjoy the 80s movies, video games and music ah the memories

Great video man. I didn't know that EA didn't bring any sports games out in the Dreamcast!

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Gurt Lush Gaming thanks! Yep an EA free zone. Some might consider that reason enough to buy one 😁

The fishing games on Dreamcast are great fun. So fun infact that I ordered Sega Marine Fishing back in the day from the US. Took ages to arrive but was well worth it! If you like Sega Bass Fishing it's well recommended.

@driftbp

6 жыл бұрын

I think it's the greater variety of fish that makes it more interesting, so you have to think more about lures and reeling them in is different each time. Plus you have the aquarium for collectable items. I also imported Daytona USA from Japan. There was no way I was waiting 3 months for the UK release as I loved the arcade version. It's still to this day my most expensive game at £55 which is a lot when you're a student in 1995! Still nothing compared to AES carts, mind! I only ever knew one person who owned one back in the day.

@driftbp

6 жыл бұрын

The handling's probably not everyones cup of tea, but yeah it's a great game. The music is brilliant too. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5mEp5SbeqTNaZs.html

Wow I have never seen complete DC collection before. Fantastic stuff. Although I always viewed the Japanese and US Dreamcast logo as being orange not red.

If you have higher data density, you lower the RPM to bring the read speed back into "manageable". E.G. DVD's spin slower than CD's (of the same era).

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+Christopher Terry far more eloquent than my attempt

Always wondered why the blue spine varied in shade so much?

The dreamcast version of Skies of Arcadia had fully orchestral music (which was brilliant) compared to the GC version which only had midi (iirc?) because of the size limitations of the mini disc.

Amazing. Loved this. My brother bought the Dreamcast and loved it. At first. Less than 6 months later he stopped playing much and sold it later because it just sat saying. I believe for him it was the lack of certain titles and genes.

Shenmue, the first one, is exclusive to the Dreamcast. Awesome video! I love the Dreamcast! :-)

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Mauro Sanna thanks I'm glad you like it. Yes a little later I mention Shenmue as an exclusive after our brains went blank. We needed another coffee!

@Yukatoshi

6 жыл бұрын

Mauro Sanna There are quite a lot of exclusives on DC.

@lordsofkoble

2 жыл бұрын

Was an exclusive, until they got released on PS4.

That bit of extra paper is an obi strip (spine card). It’s held in place under the cellophane wrap of a new game/cd in Japan. wiki.musicbrainz.org/Obi_Strip

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Salmonaxe223 thank you sir. Every day is a school day

Oh, and that reminds me. Utopia Bootdisc really isn't meant as an import enabler. It was created mainly to boot pirated "backups" before self-booting discs was a thing. It won't work with several games, and will often not force 60Hz. DC-X, DC-IE, and Codebreaker do a much better job. Codebreaker is the best.

Nice video! Just found your channel the other day and have been watching youf vids for hpurs. :) The paper thingies in Japanese Dreamcast games are spinecards. They are placed on the spine of the case, and then it is shrinkwrapped. I don't really see a big point to them, all CDs seem to have them in Japan. Just additional writing, flashy taglines and info... Since the spinecard can't be held once unwrapped, people either put it inside next to the manual or lose it. ^^ Also, Simon was 99% sure Sturmwind was also on Neo Geo. The 1% win though, it is a DC excludive, and amazing! :) It was made by two brothers from Germany, all by themselves, and looks gorgeous. The very common situation of Dreamcast and Neo Geo cross development is mainly thanks to NG Dev Team. They are mostly into Neo Geo, but made DC versions because those sold a lot. Basically cross financing their Neo Geo love and minimizing risk. They have since stopped due to losing their DC coder though.

I really need to get my hands on one of those Hello Kitty Dreamcasts, I've wanted one forever. They certainly ain't cheap on the Japanese auction sites!

It was an amazing little machine, I had the Japanese version a few days before the Japanese release date due to importers not giving a flying you know what about official dates as such, for the pleasure I parted with £600 and a copy of VF TB, the collection got so serious that I had two of the Virtual ON Ontorio Tangram twin sticks. sadly all long gone now but great days.

Captain charisma showing off his collection

I always wanted one since I read about it in the magazines and so many years later I got one and I love it! I did buy a GDEMU because I don't have the nostalgie for loud cd drives :-)

I'm going to go grab a beer, kick back and watch this in full.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Enjoy both the beer and the chat!

I love nostalgia!

Hi top show as ever mate , just a quick one what soldering iron station have you got, I'm looking to buy one, look forward to you next video

(Despite the fact that they are fragile like hell) love the Euro DC case !

The Utopia Bootdisc was also used to Boot pirated games without the proper Bootfiles (1ST_READ.BIN or BOOT.BIN) present on the Disc (which covers most of the P2P releases). But some games on the other hand had the bootfiles present (non P2P releases) which means most of the scene releases had them present (from releasegroups/crackinggroups like ECH, PDX, KAL etc) and were selfbooting without the use of the Utopia Bootdisc.

Just stumbled onto this video (somehow I missed it in the past) and found that the channel for BackInTimeSime no longer exists.

@RMCRetro

2 жыл бұрын

Sime decided to take a step back and just enjoy his hobby without making videos so he closed his channel a couple of years back

@androxilogin

2 жыл бұрын

@@RMCRetro Man.. Sounded interesting. Wish he'd have left up what he had to offer.

I was a huge Sega fan from the Mega Drive through to the Dreamcast. But the most important thing for me was the release of Shenmue. It was a masterpiece. I basically bought the original Xbox because I thought Shenmue 3 was going to come out on it. I then brought a PS4 solely because Shenmue 3 was released on it. The game and the sequels were that influential that whatever console the next one (if it happens) is released on is where I will follow.

I got PAL big box The House of the Dead 2, with gun, an excellent game, played it for hours

I bought my Samba De Amigo from from GAME, it definitely was sold in stores

I'm amazed at this guy's lackadaisical attitude to it all I would be so worried with my whole collection just sat there waiting to be knocked all over the shop like he almost did. And not being aware of what a spine card is at that point in the journey to a complete DC collection 😯

Atomiswave games are being added to the Dreamcast library as well.

The lack of EA sports gave rise to the 2k sports titles, which are still going today. Indeed NBA 2k has gone on to totally destroy EA's NBA titles. Bit disappointed Sime didn't point this out.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+Dj Mercenary that's an interesting factoid I'm sure Simon will enjoy learning that thanks DJ

@djmercenary6588

6 жыл бұрын

Golden chance to give EA some grief, for contributing to PS2's dominance and Dreamcasts demise!

Pretty sure there's a sign outside the cave saying baldies only! D: Great video anyway. I also have a very large Dreamcast collection, but mostly Japanese stuff.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Matthias Forelli I did tell Sime we have a 100% baldy ratio on show and tell so far. Let's see if we can make it 3 in a row

@Yukatoshi

6 жыл бұрын

Back in Time Sime Too much info....

@Yukatoshi

6 жыл бұрын

RetroManCave Retro Baldy Cave?

The Samba De Amigo set was exclusive to Blockbuster in the UK, not exclusive from SEGA.

Evil Twin is a rare and expensive game exclusively to the European Dreamcast which wasn't mentioned, but it's fine.

The first console to push a 60hz option in Pal regions.

The Dreamcast was the only console I ever bought new and they killed it off too quickly. Street Fighter III is my favourite fighter of all time.

This was a fantastic interview. Two nice guys having an unbiased convo about something loved. Awesome RMC :) I'd have watched another hour of this easily. Kinda disappointed it ended.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+Neffers very kind thank you

@Neffers_UK

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, sir. Edit, damn apostrophe.

@Neffers_UK

6 жыл бұрын

I hope you guys get together again either for the same subject or something completely different. Hint, Neo-Geo! @RMC, are you going to super gun or make a cab for your board once fixed?

25:52 I used to see piles of them in hmv brand new.

I use to love playing the emulators and pirate discs, and emu hacks on the dream cast, might not be purest , but I did love that side of the console

I don't understand how videos like this get dislikes, nearly an hour talking about a complete dreamcast collection, what more do you want?

Nice i still cannot notice the different frame rate of PAL and NTSC, and what i see from your footage its look run perfectly fine no frame drop or anything, but slightly i notice there some game have frame drop but i think its game fault not the system.

Great collection, and on the subject of exclusive games , although you briefly showed it .Simon should have mentioned Shenmue, and #ShenmueHD !

Despite being a huge fan of this channel for a good few years 'now, I've only just come across this video..... really enjoyed it. Does anyone know what happened to Simons's channel though, it seems to not exist anymore. Hopefully just re-named?

Bizarre Creations, who made MetropolisStreetRacer, and then the ProjectGothamRacing series, now make up most of the team that make the Forza Horizon games, hence the similarities there and the down-right British-cool of them. MSR is just utterly fantastic!

Does anyone know what has happened to Back In Time Sime's channel? It seems to have disappeared.

@TheDarkHour684

Жыл бұрын

did he die?

Nice, looks almost like my Dreamcast PAL full set. :-) Guys, do you really not now what spine cards are for?

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+IntyMichael we do now :) I'm not a collector just a host who loves to see this stuff. During this period I was an avid PC gamer. I certainly learned a lot and hopefully others did too

I have a question, does a French DREAMCAST console only work with French games? Or a French dreamcast console can play games from uk, spain, italy?

When I had a Dreamcast I bought an imported copy of Ikaruga to use with the boot disc I had at the time but it would only allow import games to run at PAL 50hz rather than the native NTSC 60hz, because the PAL Dreamcast boot sequence ran at 50Hz, so the console was still in 50hz mode when Ikaruga loaded via the boot disc and there was no option in any import games to select 50 or 60hz. I mean, why would there be...Ikaruga at 50hz was just terrible.

Just a shame that the PAL Dreamcast cases break so easily! They’re like glass.

YOU CAN PUT an arcade in the bedroom and play it for free but a pinball machine thats something differnt if there are no pinball machines then there is nowone to play with and if ther is nowone to play with then there is no fun but you can have fun with she arcade

Forgetful eh? I still have your travel suitcase and 2 of your phone chargers!

Soul calibur was was my favourite, but surprised you did not mention dead or alive 2, which was also on the PS2 and I think ran better on the Dreamcast.

Really cool and informative video! I like videos about collections from a players perspective rather than technical nerd oneupmanship mumbo jumbo I love the Dreamcast and will finish my Pal collection once my primary objective has been achieved. I have to say , who knew Bramley apple crates looked so cool as a storage medium!!!!!

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+Little Miss Nintendo Fan thanks for watching! I certainly enjoyed getting to see something of a system I didn't have much exposure to

@littlemissnintendofan6558

6 жыл бұрын

Me too! Give me a game and I play it and that's it. Who knew about Taxi 2? I look forward to owning a copy............one day! The Dreamcast should be in everyone's top 3 consoles of all time!

@littlemissnintendofan6558

6 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed it very much! I bought the console on release and had many a great time. I only have 50 or so games but they are all great and my teens would have been a duller place without my Dreamcast!!

Samba De Amigo was epic on the DC. Much better than the Wii version.

Oh man, a perfectly functioning Samba de Amgio set up is wasted on you!

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+Ambrose Watson I'll have you know we samba de amigoed hard at Play Expo Blackpool this weekend. Simon however is playing all on his own :p

Who remembers using the fission rod with soul calibur??

Soul Blade on PS1. and the Windows CE was just a Developer Kit

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+A Wilson yes indeed we talk about CE dev kit

The PS2 version of Half Life does have USB keyboard and mouse support - so presumably, the Dreamcast version would have also made use of that machine's keyboard and mouse. Sega have announced a partnership with a peripheral manufacturer to bring out USB and bluetooth versions of controllers for the Dreamcast, Saturn and Megadrive, as well as versions wired for the original hardware, and bluetooth receivers for the original hardware - along with video cables and so on.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+ZygmaExperiment very interesting indeed! Off to find out more thank you

@boblowes

6 жыл бұрын

Here you go: retro-bit.com/retrobit-announces-sega-partnership www.seganerds.com/2018/01/10/retro-bits-bluetooth-genesis-saturn-and-dreamcast-accessories-revealed-at-ces/

I have the PAL version of Evolution 2: Far off Promise. It cost me £15 complete.

Did you know that the insides of the SEGA CHIHIRO was exactly the same as the original Microsoft XBOX also has the same executable as XBOX I.E. *.xbe, provided you have installed the CHIHIRO Launcher, the owner of SEGA wanted the original XBOX to be compatible with the SEGA DREAMCAST.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+DAVID GREGORY KERR thats just the kind of fact that sends me off on KZread video rabbit holes thank you... off to learn more

Funnily enough, I have just watched this video by Modern Vintage Gamer which is a great companion piece to this video as it looks more closely at the Dreamcast's connection to the arcades, Microsoft and ultimately, the XBox. kzread.info/dash/bejne/not7y6qghMeycsY.html

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+MrTravisHighrise I enjoyed that video the day before Simon visited, it's a great watch

Soul calibur came out on xbox live arcade and is playable on xbox one

I'm guessing Simon's favourite game is actually Capcom Vs. Snk as you showed off, rather than Snk Vs. Capcom as he kept referring to; as that never saw a DC release as far as I'm aware.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+Back in Time Sime shhh don't mention Metropolitan Street Racer and I won't either

Underneath the Best Buy it says: The King of fighters 99.

Toy commander was my fav

I love the Dreamcast but for newcomers I don't really recommend collect it. The best games saw re-releases on another consoles and you can even buy them through the online stores of those other consoles. The few exclusives that it still has I don't think are really that worth it or that people would even care.

I've seen someone hack a vmu to put a raspberry pi in it.

I can never listen to Tina Turner's "We don't need another hero" without having flashbacks to my teenage years, hacking and patching Manic Miner on a Speccy 48K

Allô j’ai une dreamcast dans ma maison est-elle nécessaire pour de l’argent

Sorry to be "that guy", but this isn't a full set. No Bass Fishing or HOTD box sets?

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Oooh controversial. Are they PAL releases? I'll alert Sime if so

@onaretrotip

6 жыл бұрын

They are indeed. As I said in Blackpool, I had a full set for a couple of years but sold a lot off in November. There's also a Planet Ring box set with microphone. I still have the Bass Fishing and HOTD box sets if you wanted pics.

@onaretrotip

6 жыл бұрын

Back in Time Sime Ah, gotcha. Yeah, they can certainly take up some space (Samba being the worst of course). Personally I do consider the full set to include the four box sets, but having said that I'm all for the individual doing whatever they want with their collection and collecting goals. Happy to see a fellow Dreamcast lover!

@onaretrotip

6 жыл бұрын

Back in Time Sime True. I have a B&O MX8000, it's awesome for retro games (although admittedly I rarely play the lightgun games). Dreamcast is great through VGA though if a modern TV is the only option.

Is there a list somewhere? :)

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

StrictlySegaEurope I believe Simon mentions RetroCollect.com as the site he used for that information

Exclusives would be sports games as SEGA lost EA which was a massive blow to the console.

Fight stick?? Aren't those generally called arcade sticks? Since they're just as good for shooters as they are for fighters.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Techno Breakers Inc I think the official name of this is Dreamcast Arcade stick but others are retailed as fight sticks. Ultimately you're right... they are all arcade sticks whatever the label says

@UltraHealthyVideoGameNerd

6 жыл бұрын

It may be a cultural/linguistic difference. I'm an American (Yank) living in Japan. Check me out as 'Ultra Healthy Video Game Nerd' for reviews of games that don't get much coverage.

@UltraHealthyVideoGameNerd

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, much appreciated! Actually I came to this video from Retro Collect, I think it may have been you who started the thread.

Was quite lovely to watch but uneven sound was making me feel weird, guess headphone users had it worse :)

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+99nerka Hi Nerka thanks for the feedback. By uneven do you mean volume or stereo seperation?

@99nerka

6 жыл бұрын

Separation (you on left speaker and BackInTimeSime on right) and loudness for each of you was uneven and it changed after ~15minutes to diffrent level of volume for each. Nothing really dealbreaking but it was giving me some weird mini locomotion sickness or something, no idea why... but i might be the odd one on this :D

Will anyone ever invent a light gun to work with modern Televisions???

@electronash

6 жыл бұрын

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@-Dash-

6 жыл бұрын

Excellent to see someone working on it, I hope someone starts producing them for current consoles.

@electronash

6 жыл бұрын

Yet another project I've been meaning to finish for years. lol Mr Charlie beat me to it though, and it looks like his design works great. I thought of using a Wiimote sensor for tracking a long time ago, but I thought the latency would be too high to make it useful for light guns. Apparently I was wrong. :p I think he's still working on that stuff? He did an interview on RetroRGB (Bob's) channel a few months ago. If you just had the analog video (opamp) part of the circuit, the tiny sensor (camera) from the Wiimote, and a small Arduino or ESP module, you wouldn't even need the whole Rasp Pi + Bluetooth setup at all. It's very easy to just read the tracking dot values directly from the Wiimote camera. It just means that it would need to be wired, which isn't a big deal, as almost all of the older light gun systems are wired anyway. Actually, you could make it wireless with two ESP modules as well, just by sending the tracking dot coords to the second module that grabs the video signal. Hmmm. (which would be ideal for the Menacer gun and Super-scope. Not sure if it definitely works with those, though, as they use an IR receiver.)

@electronash

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, he has made a fair bit of progress now... github.com/charcole/LCDZapper/

For a collector, this guy seem a little lost when it comes to his comments about the dreamcast and first person shooters. Dreamcast was probably the best console, even far surpressing what xbox has now, even with the XBOX One X. The dreamcast supported both keyboard and mouse in games. I played Quake 3 Arena on the dreamcast with the dreamcast keyboard and mouse for a long time, not only did I play against other dreamcast users, but again something microsoft is trying today with cross platform play, I was also able to play against PC gamers in Quake 3. The problem was lack of updates on the Dreamcast, once the PC side of things updated the server software I couldn't play against them unless they kept an old version. Half Life on the Dreamcast would have been great, the dreamcast control pad may have been a little clunkly for FPS games, but considering there were plenty of keyboard and mice in all my llocal stores for the Dreamcast, and they weren't super expensive either, it could have changed history when it comes to how we play FPS games on consoles. Still, even without the games, the keyboard and mouse made for great web browsing experience, even if the slow dial up was a little off putting. Even on the back of the box for Rail Road Tycoon ii at 00:46:07, it says supports mouse. This is how you get to play real time strategy games on the console. Dreamcast a head of it's time man, a head of it's time.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

+Simon Johnny yes indeed I did see that about the mouse (and can't comment on Simes behalf of course) but the mouse on RT2 would have been the exception not the norm so adaptations would have been made which are always interesting to me. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

@simonj48

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I realise I've must have come across as a little brash. It wasn't my intention. I too had a PC for gaming, Sime... but of course Soulcalibur did it for me. Still, I really miss my dreamcast. A young lad with a lot of disposable income... I had most of the games I could find at my local ebags and game stores. I ended up giving the entire thing to my nephew as a stepping stone into gaming. A lot of people say piracy killed the dreamcast because it was so easy to do in the end, but personally I think it was more about lack of storage for game updates and DLC, something the XBOX came along with and dominated. However, at least in the UK market, the lack of a LAN version or even the ability to purchase a LAN model to replace the dial up modem was a huge issue. The console was released just as people were getting broadband connections as common place in the home, and dial up even then was still quite expensive pay by the minute in most cases. As I said, I was a PC gamer, so it wasn't much of an issue for me to setup a remote dial service using my PC's old dial up modem when I already had a broadband connection for free internet access with the dreamcast. For what it was the dreamcast was a very nice box for internet gaming, I honestly think it was just a head of it's time. Games like Quake 3 Arena, or Phantasty Star Online (and MMORPG at that!) as well as smaller games like ChuChu Rocket just made for a nice experience for a console. Of course we don't even think about those things anymore, if a game is multiplayer we just expect it to work online. Anyway., thanks for the video it was nice to have a bit of a flash back and hear you guys talk about it. I wish I could have been there lol. Very nice collection you have.

@RMCRetro

6 жыл бұрын

Simon Johnny don't worry people say a lot worse! I was well into my PC gaming during this era also so I enjoyed having a dig through the collection. I was probably burning hours on Battlefield 1942 or quake 3 also at this time. Where in the UK are you based?

@Jef_Vermassen

6 жыл бұрын

As to the failing of the DC: cost of the thing and competition. The piracy that has been touted as its failing, that came mostly after Sega already gave up (internally) on the console. Sega staff leaked the information for piracy (so goes the rumor) as a way to not let the system completely die.

great video but the dreamcast wasnt killed by itself. segas decisions before the dreamcast were killing it. sega made so big mistakes with the 32x and the sega saturn, so the consumers didnt trust sega anymore. and the other point were the PS2. I bought the DC on the first day it came out in europe. but all of my friends waited for the PS2.

Even thought the ps2 kicked Dreamcasts bottom, i still say the Dreamcast had better graphics, it was the better machine, i think the Saturn sealed Segas downfall, they promised so much with the saturn and it couldnt deliver, such a shame

Is strange how when you talk about American consoles you just say "game collection" and not "NTSC collection" but you have to say "PAL". For many American collector's import games are from another planet cause in their minds America is all the is