march 31st 2001 the dreamcast was discontinued 
, itll have been six years since the dream died, well in north america anyway, this topic is to talk about the little white machine that could, to honour it, and to get everybody on the site to take out their dreamcasts and play them like it was september 9th 1999.... again! 
Hahhaha *praises you* I still play my DC quite a bit[haven't since November 19th but once I go to college i'll be pluggin gin tons of hours]. That Dreamcast. Had so much potential. Many people never got to experience it. Boy that crazy looking controller with its cord connection at the bottom. That VMU unit that acted as a Tomadachi* type feature. Ahhh...sheer greatest. I'm still looking to buy games for it in the future. If only it had had a flippin Dvd player and came out at a different time with more 3rd party support it could have lasted...longer atleast. It was pretty much destined to fail though. =/ R.I.P.
thanx for the praise dude, yah it was destined to fail but in its 2 year life-span there sure were milestone games, not to mention the online capabilities that rival even the wii!
My DC died a few weeks ago.
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Sadly the only games I have for my dreamcast is Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2. SA 2 is so scratched up that I can only play the first level of sonic and the chao world, and it's one of my favorite games ever.I was thinking of buying phantasy star online, but I wasn't sure if I could actually still go online with it. I actually played sonic adventure yesterday. It's still an amazing game.
Best. System. EVAR.
Had mine on 9-9-99. I was flabbergasted by Sonic Adventure. I had been out of the console game scene since my Saturn bit the dust so anything that happened during the PSX era I missed.
And just look at how much of the DC's library got ported over to PS2/Xbox/Cube in some way or another.
:'( All this talk of dying Dreamcasts and defective offspring is unbearable. In my eyes the DC has an everlasting lifespan. I plan on keeping it forever. I suppose quite a few of its offspring were adopted though. That's good, and it opened the portal to online console gaming. Muchos Kudos! Luckily, I had a PS and a DC as well as a PS2 so I got the best of all the worlds.(DC's being the absolute best) =)
yah mine died too but this story has a happy ending, next week (im hoping) my new factory sealed dreamcast from the sega-parts.com website will arrive in the mail, also abac child, you should take sa2 into a game store and get it re-surfaced, then it should work like a charm!
i was a little hesitant to make this topic cause i thought i was gonna get flammed but now i realize it was a good idea after all! thanx every body!
fourteen days...
How much do you think it would cost?
n_n it's thinking. Man I haven't heard that in forever. Still have my DC. My systems never die on m--Err take that back my original GameBoy did. But aside form that, yeah-once I get my entertainment center all wired up, I'm gonna have all my systems up and out of their boxes..
it would only cost 5 bucks abac child, 10 at the most, definatly worth it espesially for a game that rare!
anywho, i was surfin the net last night and i stumbled across this, check it out!
Retro-Sonic? Screenshots look awesome. Sweet find dude.
theres also some sweet emulators there too.
hey everybody looky what i found a free send away sms emulator! www.dcevolution.net/emula...psmsgg.php
im sending for mine tomorow!
Oooh, I've always wanted a master sytem.
This might be the next best thing
i cant beleve it, its soo perfect! i love 8 bit sonic! and now i can play it on my favorite console! yay for me!!!!
I thought this is a good place to ask my question.
question:
is there any way to play pso,online with the dreamcast?
Quote:
hey everybody looky what i found a free send away sms emulator!
Since it'd most likely be on a CD-R, you should check to make sure your DreamCast can play them. Sega got wise and removed the ability for the DC to play back CD-Rs in later models.
And I quotes (out of order) from another forum:
Well, the way they were made - all dreamcast can read cd-rs. But the later model ones cannot read the standard image that most rips are made in.
Most of the Dreamcasts out there are earlier ones anyways. If my memory serves me correctly, they stopped producing the DC hardware in march or may of 2001. So they only produced the later model for about half a year.
You just have to get one manufactured before October of 2000.
Check the Manufacturers Date (it's on the bottom of the DC). If its October 2000 or before (the further back, the better), you're good to go.
thanx for the tip psxphile and to your question abac child, if you live in europe the servers are shuttig down soon if not the noth american servers are allready shut down, although there is a website called www.schtserv.com/ check it out! if you have problems they have a forum there, i havent got my account set up though i need a new isp.
Thanks chu chu, I'll be buying pso soon! I found it for $4 factory sealed!!!!
How much memory does a charactor on pso take up?
30 blocks, 15 for the guild file.
I thought it would have been a lot more than that.
damn i cant wait till my new dreamcast arrives! it should be here this week! PLEASE COME!!!!!
for those of you whos dreamcasts have gone to sega heaven check out sega-parts.com, they carry factory sealed dreamcast consoles, controllers,and must have games!
ive ordered there quite a bit and they are very reliable!
URGENT!!!!!!!!!!!
you guys may know already but sega of japan wants to discontinue the gd-rom, dreamcast scene has a petition going on please go to this address and print the form off and mail it right away, here is the link:
www.dreamcast-scene.com/i...onpetition
i sent mine today i suggest all of you dreamcast, arcade and import lovers do the same.
