Who Remembers The Dreamcast...? Thread

Hello,

I have not seen anything about the Dreamcast in these recent posts and I am wondering why, it is still a great console and has a great homebrew community. So, who remembers the Sega Dreamcast or who still develops for the Sega Dreamcast?

It was a hell of a lot easier to develop for than the Saturn and there could have easily been more titles developed for the Dreamcast at the time (or at the very least more of the Japanese titles translated for foreign markets).  Such a shame that its capabilities were put to full use in an all-too-short lifespan.  I wasn't aware of its homebrew community??

Well they kind of did.

The OS used by some Dreamcast games was based on Windows CE, DirectX.

Edited by: Melerski

am a huge old fan of the DC,bought mine second hand from GAME originaly,also got the DC keyboard,and found shenmue one and two second hand for cheap from there to.

at least up until last year the dreamcast still has games in production [at least the last time was checking out a import store they did].
from what remember they are obscure stuff tailored for the japanese market only.
even the mega drive [US=genesis] still gets attention from indie developers though unfortunately the games have never lost the rip off price,guess that was a hazard of using carts back in the day.

although nintendo were years ahead of the rest for online access;having designed the giant breezeblock known as the NES to have a modem bay [though only japanese people were lucky enough to put a modem in it,the rest of us just collected dust in ours], the DCs internet access was far superior and light years ahead in terms of what it allowed us to do,a favourite of mine was the exclusive sega forum we had access to,it allowed us to upload VMU data so we coud compete on the score boards and also so SWIM and others coud use the information to cheat.
the only downside was the useless modem and the laser which had a common fault of burning the disc codes and rendering them useless before long.
however it gave many of us access to the internet back then when we coudnt afford a PC/laptop which as a computer geek am truly greatful for.

sega made some amazing consoles and they are so horribly underated,it was a tragedy for gamer choice/freedom,unique,diverse and exclusive console games, and technology well beyond the time when sega left the hardware business.
nintendo had spent so long trying to focus on developing a unique control system to make it accessible to a broader audience that they have forgoten to update the gpu side of it and they and their weak catelogue of games are woefuly flagging well behind the strong developer support of microsoft.
sega shoud never had dropped out,if nintendo drops out we will no longer have freedom of choice in our gaming, we will have one console company which charges a ton because it has no competitors to push the prices down.

anyway sorry for waffle.

The Dreamcast has several good games but was far from a great system IMO.