PS2 had some amazing ass games but, my god I will forever love the Dreamcast forever!

I'll never forget going over my new neighbors' house as a kid and discovering they had this new console called a "Dreamcast". I'd never heard of it. At the time, I'd only ever played NES, SNES, N64, and PS1. After saying that I thought N64 had the best graphics of any console, the 3 boys started chuckling to themselves in a knowing way. Then they booted it up. I was instantly mesmerized. I'd never seen graphics that advanced running so smoothly! I didn't have the language to describe why it looked so different back then, but now I know it was definitely due to the framerate and 480p. Not only were the textures and models great, the whole presentation just looked so different and new. Now I know why. Then the PS2, GameCube, and XBOX came out and I never heard about the Dreamcast again until adulthood. It was ahead of it's time, but got overtaken in popularity so quickly. I probably only saw it used in person just a few times in my life. My neighbors moved on to other consoles mere months after getting the Dreamcast. It made a lasting impression on me though. Even when games with "better graphics" came out soon after, for the most part they still had that muddy/ghosting look with an unstable or low framerate. The clarity and smoothness of the Dreamcast was simply unreal at the time.

I worked in a computer shop back in 1999 , I really tried to push this system out the door but people weren't buying . . It's a shame people didn't give it a chance tbh .

I am still amazed at how good RE Code Veronica still looks on the Dreamcast. It is a work of art. The lightning looks really nice and it looks crisp. Great video.

Consider subscribing If you want to see more PS2 & Dreamcast videos when they come out 💯👍 Help me hit 1000subs 😎 thanks for watching!

in 1999 I was 10 years old and I remember going to a KB toys and seeing a Dreamcast with NFL 2k playing. I had a hard telling if I was watching a video game or an actual football game on TV. Granted I was used to mainly 16 bit graphics at the time, but I have never had a moment like that again with any other system.

Resident evil code Veronica on the Sega Dreamcast is one of my all time favorite moment for a memory and gaming!! I was 15 years old when it came out and I’ll never forget how blown away I was by seeing it for the first time boot it up on my new Sega Dreamcast that I got for my birthday!!! The game was so brutally hard, for a young 15-year-old that had recently beat resident evil two and three, but neither one of those was his hardest code Veronica and I like that about the game because one it made it last and two you felt the grand sense of reward when you finally completed it-

Very nice covering the GSM modes! That is excellent attention to detail.

Outstanding comparison! You have a great eye for detail and I appreciate how well you were able to articulate the differences.

Holy shit you are fucking awesome for these videos. As a Sega fanboy for over 20 years (I own 3 Dreamcasts along with multiple MegaDrives, Saturns, 32Xs, Mega CDs, etc.) I have been wanting these for years (especially since I always heard the PS2 version of CODE: Veronica had poor audio quality compared to the Dreamcast and GameCube versions). You only have 800 subscribers?! Fuck that. You deserve over 10,000 already. Keep them coming my man!!!

i still have both and both are great machines. Its tragic the Dreamcast never realy reached its full potential.

Resident Evil Code Veronica was one of my favorite games on my Dreamcast. Get the Dreamcast in 1999 and it was a whole other level than Playstation 1 and N64. My favorite gaming console in that generation with so much potential.

I'm so late, thank you for this part 3 !

simply the best plz continue man

My poor PS2 and Dreamcast sitting in a box in the closet haven't been turned on in over a decade. I really appreciate the good times we had.

I loved and bought both of these amazing machines at launch. Wait a minute, you missed something...well something that I think is huge. The PS2 version of Soldier of Fortune has V-Sync tearing. You can really see it starting at time stamp 9:15. It also has some very strange distortion (breaks up or pixelates) that almost looks like an over exaggerated heat wave during the same scene. I would say play that back in slow motion and check it out. Great video!

I remember playing the soldier of fortune on both. And the sound of each shot was a lot stronger and better in the dreamcast

Brilliant video. More PS2 Vs DC videos please! 🙏

You know when you're playing a dreamcast game. The feel within the controls to game just tells you.

Great video. The PS2 is such an awesome system but I'll always have a soft spot for the Dreamcast. The differences in SOF is interesting. There are fewer details and assets in some scenes on the DC, likely due to it have less system memory, but the textures look better and that's probably from it having twice as much texture memory. I'm also not sure the ghosting in RECV is from the interlaced mode, you can still see it in the 480p mode in your video. Many studios tried to use a blur effect on PS2 to cover jaggies since it didn't have native AA support, so I'm wondering if that's what we're seeing here. Looking forward to your other videos!

That PS2 port of Code Veronica is the updated one, it is also on Dreamcast as a later release with Steves hair looking the same in both.

I like your honest take on the comparison.

I remember reading a comment from an actual developer who worked on the Soldier of Fortune port for the Dreamcast, stating that they had a lot of trouble fitting everything into the 16Megs of memory. That might explain why they sacrificed so many details.

I would love to see the GSM comparisons, yes.

GSM is great. Would love to see the comparisons 🤗

If the Dreamcast had lasted longer, I think it would be very close to PS2 in terms of graphics. I think Dreamcast never used 100% it's power because of it's early death. 😕

If the dream cast uses the sd card mod in the place of the cd will it still load? Or will will it skip loading in games? Or portions in games that require it to load often?

Finally got around to watching this third episode! It was interesting to see GSM mode between CT and RE CV, but honestly I'm not interested in that comparison going forward. I agree it made RE CV slightly better, and I think it made CT slightly worse

I might be remembering wrong, but did the VMU also function as a copmass while paused? In "Code Veronica"! I know it did in D2 for shure! :)

I think the games being originally released for dc gave it the advantage. Loved the dc 👌

What a lot of people forget: a lot of the flaws back then were masked by the CRT. This is especially visible in pixel art, you cannot compare how it looked back then and how the raw digital signal looks.

About Code Veronica: In the newer ps2 version (and probably the GameCube too) they changed Steve's hairstyle to fit like a precocious Easter egg to what resident Evil 4 would be. Remembering Capcom team chosen the visuals of John Connor to RE4 Leon's.

Code Veronica was developed for the Dreamcast. Wasn't it originally meant as an exclusive but ended up on the other consoles? It was developed around both the Dreamcast hardware and controller. It should be the best way to play the game.

Dreamcast does have a dedicated reload button for soldier of fortune. I just finished playing trhough it with a game pad. One of the buttons essentially acts as a shift button. I think it was L trigger. So it doubles up the amount of buttons. For example a and then L held down and press a

I agree with you on the controls of Soldier of Fortune. The controls on UT and Quake 3 were great on the dreamcast, but Soldier of Fortune was impossible for me to play on the dreamcast. Thankfully the game supported Keyboard and mouse, so i was able to play it like a pc version.

lol the "emotion engine" that promised toy story graphics

Erm some out these comments here lol I think the point of these videos is going way over their heads. It’s not some fanboyism bs. It’s just an honest look at some differences and what shines better on one as opposed to the other.

About Crazy taxi: Sega always had an issue with transparency and fog. Back at Sega Saturn, it's pretty noticeable in Castlevania Sotn, (another mutual game between Sony and Sega) the transparency being resumed to yes and no pixels with veeeeery low resolution. Curiously, in the same game, we can see ghosts with real transparency, but not much as 85 percent opacity. I think this could be some of patent struggling between companies. Just like Samsung is prohibited by LG of making OLED tvs, and, works in the gray lines, making "almost" OLED, they named "QLED"! Hahaha

Hello. Thanks for the cool stuff, you can reminisce and thanks to you you have the opportunity to see the differences between consoles. Of course, there are additional elements on PlayStation 2, such as in Soldier Of Fortune, but the original ones on Sega Dreamcast suit me better, Sega had a lot in common with arcade machines, this console still has this magic to this day. :) However, I will ask how this Free McBoot program for PlayStation 2 run games on it? Because I have it too, but I can't seem to be missing something ... I wish you a lot of success, fan from Poland :)

Crazy Taxi is so much better looking on DC even with the 480P mod on PS2. Be interested to see it compared with Cube and Xbox actually.

DC is a beast.. I bought mines day one. The good old days.

I dont know if anyone said this, but code veronica X was later released for dreamcast in japan only.

You can force progressive scan on ps2 with a backwards compatibility PS3. The system also has other features like HD upscaling

You didn't mention in the discription if you used component, scart or VGA cables

The amazing Dreamcast home too the first NBA2k truly in a league of it own.

Dreamcast games like Crazy Taxi may look better for the most, but many of them were hampered by slowdown when things got busy.

I feel like the parallel universe where dreamcast lived on is a utopia of sorts.

DC, the only console I ever bought day one. Had all 3 of these games on DC so I never bought the PS2 versions. For Crazy Taxi, being that the arcade Naomi board and DC have a similar architecture, it would make sense that the DC gives a closer experience to the arcade.

What's the name of that music from Crazy Taxi?

Dreamcast looks cleaner and sharper right off the bat. As much as I love ps2, the jaggies have always been a staple for better or worse.

Any games ported from the Naomi hardware onto dc are going to look better than ps2

Crazy Taxi has PSN port and maybe XBLA, iunno I played it on PS3... is that the DC version? I wonder to side by side arcade, DC, PS2 and PS3. Soldier of Fortune is a PC game. Is it possible to put side by side of PC, DC and PS2 versions? Then the same for first Half-Life, I know ports had unique assets.

love this video ! Dreamcast best console ever !

I remember talking to this Asian guy at GameStop and he was totally ripping PlayStation telling me how crappy Sony’s hardware was and how much better the Dreamcast was. I had a Dreamcast and eventually got a PS2. But after seeing this, I have to say, maybe he was right. Some of these games looked miles better on Dreamcast compared to PS2. Too bad The Dreamcast never reached its full potential, it was headed in the right direction and was ahead of it’s time.

I have the PS2 port of Crazy Taxi but my particular disc has glitches that make the car drive underground and everything else disappears.

Games like Soldier of Fortune really shows the Dreamcast's greatest flaw: It's antiquated controller design. Playing first person shooters with the Dreamcast's controller is an exercise in futility. To play them properly on the system you need the KB+Mouse, but if you're gonna go that route you might as well play them on the PC.

I never got the love for code Veronica, the move to 3D seemed premature, I much preferred the ambience of the backdrops in the 1st 3 games. The story moved from something that was believable enough in western movie kind of way into what was basically anime tropes, most people hated Steve & the puzzle back tracking was annoying this time around. Also it seemed entirely possible to brick your progress with the plane flight. When you compare this to RE4 on the same system it manages to look rather basic. I didn't hate the game. Just puzzled how it seems to be one of the better received entries in the series.

The Dreamcast has better colors too. Dreamcast also supports vga cable or box at 640x480 resolution.

18:48 Young DiCaprio 🙃

Dead Or Alive 2 is another good comparison of DC/PS2

Did Code Veronica have the same save room music from RE4?

U can play Soldier of Fortune on the DC with the mouse and keyboard or with the Panther DC and those feel better than a PS2 controller for sure

😢The DC was definitely an under rated console. loved mine and was my most played console that gen

Dreamcast was my jam

That's the issue with ps2 games, most of them are running in interlaced mode. Only few games support progressive scan. Sega really future proofed their Dreamcast games.

The Dreamcast is very sharp, very bright. For my the Dreamcast was great there.

The 2 greatest consoles ever made, I wouldn't mind if every other console disappeared tomorrow and only these 2 were left.

If you can do the same Video but this time with component cable for the ps2, that would be really nice, I nocited that the component cable make Ps2 graphics sharper and thanks for the video.

i believe crazy taxi on ps2 also had sligtly shorter drawdistance so les poly s onscreen aswel

I grew up a Nintendo fan, I didn't like Sega. I also liked the ps1 but when it came to graphics the 64 blew it away even if it did look blurry, It was not a pixelated mess. Then the dreamcast came along and one of the guys at the game store I went to, imported one from Japan. I believe the game he had was power Stone. I was blown away by it. I was instantly turned into a fan and it became the first console I pre-ordered. The dreamcast had a lot of great games. I always felt the DC could've held its own against the ps2. It's sad they quit on it. Sony really put the scare in them. It turned out the ps2 was not as powerful as they claimed. It never achieved those graphics they showed in those tech demos lol.

What cables are you using on both systems?

Hello everyone, cool video, thanks to the author for the nostalgia 🙂

Dreamcast used direct x for most games which has better image quality compared to opengl in ps2 games, thats why even in 480p DC wins

Crazy Taxi is one of my favourite games ever. Dreamcast looks much better. The mip mapping on Dreamcast is always really noticeable though. Maybe you could show a framerate graph more often. I prefer you keep it limited to stock footage. Soldier of Fortune was really rushed on the Dreamcast and was released at a budget price. It plays well with mouse and keyboard, but the framerate and loading times are horrible. They probably deleted a lot of details to get it to run at an acceptable rate and still get it out before the Dreamcast wouldn't be a viable platform anymore. I did complete it at the time though and had fun with it. Resident Evil Code V: I love the vmu function. I only have the PAL version. Don't understand why they dropped the VGA support. I did know that this was the case. I really don't like the extra blur on the PS2 version. Colour grading is much better on the Dreamcast. Texture resolution looks to be higher on Dreamcast. Prefer the Dreamcast version.

Le mans toooooo

The DC port of SOF is terrible, but what did you expect from Runecraft? :)

What’s the name of the first rock track used? I really like it

Quake arena, and Dead or alive 2 is a good comparison.

What IS music in 5min please ?

The only issue with the DC was durability. I think I bought 3 or 4. I have had no such issues with the PS2 Slim. So, the PS2 had the better value and the graphics were close enough. Still, if you wanted to play Sonic at the time(bonafide smashes*) and certain other games early on, it was the DC... *When I first played the Sonic Adv demo the first time, WHOA!

Crazy taxi looks better on Dreamcast in my opinion

Dreamcast Flawless Victory!

its so sad sega failed and so sad what happened to game industry

I always remembered hearing about Dreamcast a ton then and a friend in 1st grade who would always talk about playing Ready 2 Rumble Boxing 2. In my mind and I guess at the time, Sony was seen as prestigious and top dog in electronics while Sega was sort of kiddish, so my assumption was the PlayStation tp the more powerful. Regret not getting one until about a decade later

This is strange Resident Evil Code Veronica X was launched 1 year earlier on DreamCast than Play Station 2

Dreamcast and PS2 are both 480i. Ps2 just doesn't have anti-aliasing

17:48 That is not an interlacing artifact. It must be some redneck motion blur from the game.

recuerda que crazy taxi y re code veronica, salieron primero para la dreamcast, en ps2 son ports

Dreamcast was between generations, much more powerfull than fifth, but much weaker than the sixth. Rivalry with PS2 would end anyway in 2003-04, when PS2 got GTA, RE4 and other super hits. I wonder what Sega would do, new console, or just addon 256X? Anyway still love Dreamcast, still playing it on android emu.

dreamcast had better resolution but i think you can only see on new tv and some games on ps2 have more details so if we speaking on crt wich was of the time ps2 in that case was better

The Difference between PS2 Version and Dreamcast Version is not from this World! The Dreamcast Version looks so much Better than The PS2 Version......AWESOME

#TeamDreamcast

Ps2 and dc only shared one game that mattered

Welp, if it means anything, I still have my Dreamcast.

You really need a CRT to compare these two. All we are seeing here is how well his capture device handles interlacing or, more specifically, deinterlacing. There is no flat-screen that can natively display 480i well. If using an emulator... Nvidia graphics cards completely destroy 480i / 60hz by defaulting to 480p / 30hz. AMD cards can handle 480i / 60 but only if manually set-up. I have both systems and tri-sync CRT so I can compare 15khz and 31khz on the same screen. There is definitely a difference but it is nowhere near how it looks here. Real 480i is still updating 60x per second but only displaying half of each frame. The loss of detail vs 480p is very heavily dependent on the quality of the crt.

el dramcast tambien venia preparado para conectarse a un monitor de pc, a través del adaptador VGA lo cual le daba una ventaja descomunal frente al conector de video compuesto, que traía los tres cables, rojo, verde y azul, que de hecho fueron muy pocos los juegos que aprovechaban esa ventaja en los tv mas modernos, muy pocos juegos podían subir o escalar su resolucion a 1080i, una lastima lo que desaprovecharon en ps2 en cuanto al rendimiento y conectividad con monitores, y fue peor para la dreamcast que nadie o muy pocos pudieran ver en acción su verdadero potencial

I love the Dreamcast but it gets obliterated by the huge game collection of the PS2. That collection is what makes the PS2 far superior.

First person shooter controls were terrible on the dreamcast. Really suffered from not having the second joystick.

I have soviet strike for Dream cast dc looks like there fingers instead of socks

PS2 generally is better at : lightning effects, shadows, particles, reflections, framerate and physics. Dreamcast is generally better at : Texture filtering, texture resolution, better overall native resolution and better color depth. Note : "progressive scan games on PS2 generally reduce color depth from 24bit to 16bit while Dreamcast run at progressive and 24bit. That's is why some progressive scan games on PS2 looks dithered, specially at large portion of the same color "