Happy 25th Anniversary, Sega Dreamcast!

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• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wildly ahead of its time, deserved so much better. The memory stick being like a tamagotchi, that’s an amazing idea. I could never figure out how to make it work but raising the Chao from Sonic Adventure, so much unrealised potential.

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was a prototype VMU MP3 player in the works before the Dreamcast was discontinued, alongside a music store.

    Sega also produced a digital camera for the Dreamcast, the DreamEye.

    The tech world could have looked very different if the Dreamcast went differently for Sega.

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• THEWIZARD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Soul Calibur House Of The Dead 2 with the light gun Dynamite Cop

  loved mine should never have sold it they werexeons ahead of their time way more advanced graphically and the internet play I never could try uneconicay viable had they hung on and survived nad the online side took off they’d probably be king at this point and pumping out new true next gen console hardware instead of Android and IOS apps and re-boot mini consoles of the original megadrive and so on. Damn shame they flopped but I loved mine had it a a week after release day I think 1999

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• rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  oh shit it is 9.9.99+25

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• tee900@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good lord i forgot about those controllers. They look so awkward. More ergonomic than steckdeck or a switch though.

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  • koncertejo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re molded to the hands really well but the analogue stick is entirely plastic and digs into your thumb really easily!

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    • Pooptimist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As does the d-pad! I remember having blisters on my left thumb from playing project justice 2 for hours

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This controller is probably the daddy of the original Xbox controller, and the GameCube controller (N64 is the mother there).

    It was probably more comfortable than the Xbox one, and looked cooler than the GC one, but the GC controller wins in comfort.

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    • 01011@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I always hated the GC controller.

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are more comfortable than they look. The lack of a second analogue stick is a big limitation though.

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• koncertejo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s everyone’s best Dreamcast memory?

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  • Cadeillac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    CD-Rs

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    • 01011@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol.

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  • B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Spending hours online either on Phantasy Star Online or in the Dreamarena chat rooms.

    Getting Shenmue and Shenmue II on launch days was a special time.

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Soul Calibur, Phantasy Star Online.

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  • Pooptimist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Project Justice 2 and power stone! Still two of the best fighting games imo

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Playing pso with my homies every night. I remember having to dig up free dial up ISPs every week so we could all connect. Really wish it came with Ethernet support out of the box.

    But man we’d play so much pso. The game seemed so much bigger back then. Looking at it now, there wasn’t really that much content there.

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  • c0smokram3r@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Purchased it on a Sunday & stayed up all night. Missed school on Monday & kept playing 😅😂

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• Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I should play Skies of Arcadia again.

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• NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  o7

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• koncertejo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Playing some Jet Set Radio today in her honour

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• helloharu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  25 years already?! It doesn’t seem that long ago. I might see if I can dig mine out - Jet Set Radio or Sonic…

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• djidane535@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  An amazing controller. I had not the chance to play it at the time, but the first impressions of the controller 10 years ago was incredible. I bought a Dreamcast shortly after :). I just ordered a GDEmu yesterday, can’t wait to get it :D.

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• SurfinBird@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Currently playing Grandia 2 again. It’s like time travel.

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• tilefan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember playing NBA something on the Dreamcast kiosk at Best Buy. I remember thinking how advanced the technology was but how goofy the controller was

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• demizerone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got this at a weird time in my life when I was going from teen to adult. It was the first console I had where I had a bunch of games that I did not finish and completely flip.

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same, me too! I had my first job at that time and was buying up a ton of games because they were so heavily discounted.

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• Purple_drink@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First console I downloaded dlc on (Skies of Arcadia) First game I uploaded my own content for (Jet Grind Radio) First console I emulated games on (Genesis and NES) First console I downloaded and burnt discs of full games (too many)

  And I raised some really nice Chao (SA2)

  What a great console.

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• cevn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The sound of the dreamcast is what gets me, computers used to be so loud.

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know why the drive was so loud. Neither the PlayStation’s or Saturns drives were that loud.

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    • cevn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good point. I wonder if the DC drive runs at a higher speed. I also feel a lot of air coming out so the fans may add to the noise.

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• Cadeillac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is perfect! I just downloaded a bunch of Dreamcast games to play. Both Sonic Adventures, Crazy Taxis, and Bass Fishings. Jet (Grind) Set Radio and Seaman (what a weird but fascinating game). For my partner and I, Gauntlet Legends, Dynamite Cop, Zombies Revenge, and maybe some more

  I grabbed the PowerStone collection on PSP for the smaller file size, and I don’t think my partner will want to play it. I’ll show them, and download the Dreamcast copies if necessary

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