I still remember passing up a Dreamcast with like 20 games, on sale for $200 at my dentist office. The dental assistant's son was selling it. WHY OH WHY DID I NOT BUY IT?!?!?! DANG IT!!!

The irony of this is I needed to tide myself over before the PS3 came out, and picked up a Gamecube for about $90 bucks and fell in love with it. But the DC is still one of my favorite consoles of all time.

And a second joystick... And 32mb of ram instead of 16mb. That really crippled the console because without the additional ram, it wasn't capable of loading/caching large open world 3D games that were next Gen a la grand theft auto 3. Rockstar actually supported the Dreamcast somewhat and if they would have brought over grand theft auto 3, that would have been a game changer. Dreamcast would have gone on to sell 30 million consoles at least. A port of GTA could have been possible but it would have been plagued with random loading screens when moving across the map.

@@7shocker the PS2 version of GTA3 was also plagued with frequent loading screens and slowdown issues, so it's not like bringing the Dreamcast up to parity would have prevented that from being the case. To be completely honest with you, I feel like GTA3 was overhyped and was pretty mediocre as a game once you look past the spectacle of it having big levels. I'd much rather have had a console that was incapable of running it because the entire genre that spun off from people imitating GTA3 didn't hit its stride until much later and I don't think that open world games really stack up compared to more focused experiences, even today. I do agree that a second analogue stick and some more buttons on the controller would have been welcome, but the Dreamcast didn't fail because of weak hardware or because it didn't have the right software: it was because of MILCDs. If they hadn't decided to make the console compatible with MILCDs, it would have been close to impossible to pirate software because it would never boot a game that wasn't pressed to a GDROM. DVD playback could have been handled by a peripheral and the storage issues from not using DVD for games would probably not be all that significant, considering that most games on PS2 and XBOX used less than half of the disc space of a single layer DVD. GDROM wasn't that far from the capacity of a Gamecube disc, so if a Gamecube could run the game it would most likely be able to fit on a single GDROM.

Nothing was going to stop the PS2, the hype was insane even if half of it wasn't true. I love my Dreamcast though.

@@deepblue8143 even the xbox with al the money in the world lost against the ps2.

I don’t think this what if scenario would have made a difference… we all know SEGA was taking a lot of risks and that’s what set them apart from competition… I mean MEGA CD, 32X, Saturn with its messy hardware and last minute changes and then the Dreamcast… the only thing that could’ve saved them is having a bigger amount of cash to endure these failures… I still remember people saying that Nintendo could have taken at least 7 Sega Saturn’s failure until bankruptcy… well this is another “What if” scenario, but it all comes down to this: Ca$h money.

I was curious in Dreamcast, and saw it in action at somebodies house. Looked really great, and surprised me a lot. But I was already hooked by PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 by that point, and was frustrated by Sega's Saturn and 32x disappointment. It's a shame. Honestly, providing Sega pledge to support and stick to any new consoles they release, then I'd happily return to Sega again. Microsoft and Sony's modern consoles aren't as exciting compared to as they used to be.

I often wonder why SEGA gets stick for that more than others. The CD and 32X were optional addons, but PlayStation Move not withstanding, the PS Vita and PS TV weren't. And people let it slide every time. I mean, the only game Sony gave us Vita fans was Uncharted Golden Abyss, but people still crave a new Vita, while SEGA at least gave the CD and even 32X some support yet lost all trust from everyone. I think people don't deserve a new SEGA system honestly. Though given how SEGA was "the arcade at home" and the state of arcades today, I can't see SEGA being the same if they did come back. Not if they wanted to last anyway.

@@BlueEyedVibeChecker Sega CD and 32 received a handful of games, of those.. ports besides what.. 2 games (I can only think of sonic CD). Even though the vita was a commercial failure, it went on to receive a shitton of Japanese support somewhat like the Saturn did. PS move was a gimmick to capitalize on the wii's success but unlike the add-ons for genesis the PS4 was a commercial success outselling the Genesis 3 to 1.. PS TV and PS portal are some WTFs.. sega could have survived had the Genesis sold like the PS4 did.

I got mine in 99 and after they left the console market, I switched to PC

​@@BlueEyedVibeCheckerSega/Sammy Japan Execs have their heads up their wazoos now. I never got the CD, but the 32X and had Knuckles Chaotix and NBA Jam TE for it, both were pretty entertaining. I got Sonoc CD for W95 PC and it was awesome.

I remember Christmas of 2000 and my grandparents bought me and my sister a Dreamcast, that Generator Demo Disk with Sonic Adventure 1 on it... that game felt like a complete revolution to what I was playing before then,, agree with you fully that it felt like a futuristic space-tech machine.

Same I feel things could have been different

It'll always be special to me for being the first SEGA console to grace our home. Well, not exactly. My mom and brother briefly had a Master System before I was around, but they hated it and so returned it, opting for an NES, instead. This was the grounds for denying me the SEGA systems I wanted - Genesis, Game Gear, Saturn - but one fateful day, that same brother would trade in all our N64 stuff for a Dreamcast plus a few games, which really was a dream come true, for me.

Também reconheci e vim ver se alguém já tinha comentado isso.

1 year later for me, but same deal. that Generator disk was one of the best demo-disks, period.

WOW, I was also a Sega fan and had a MegaDrive and then got my PS1 in 1997 too!! I remember playing Tekken and Tomb Raider the first time - blown away!!

You can get close results with much less! RetroTink 5X with a 1080p capture card, for example! Analog cables are always super relevant for high quality though.

Thought that an S-Video output would be more than enough. Very interesting.

Agreed, thought that in that time period too. the PS2 versions of multi-plat games always looked muddy and kind of gross to me, loved my PS2, don't get me wrong, but DC was the cleanest console for visuals until like Generation 8, honestly.

Aaaah I wish I knew about it before recording this video!!! Thanks for the info!

@@VideoGameShowcase oh, yeppers! and yeah it's quite interesting, the Dreamcast sure has more than enough reasons to be my favorite console 👍

The big issue with showing games with a CRT filter is that usually KZfaq destroys the image quality, it really doesn't handle CRT filters well. Sometimes it ends up ok with games with static backgrounds, but for a full 3D experience it's awful unfortunately! Thanks a lot for the comment!

@@VideoGameShowcase ah even if you upload it in 4K? That’s a shame. But I get what you mean. I would love if someone did a program that could fetch a KZfaq screen and then apply a realtime shader to simulate older displays. Like retrotink 4K well not the same but you get what I mean. Thanks for the nice content btw.

I’m modding my childhood Dreamcast. I can play all my games on my laptop so screw it… 😂

Thanks a lot!!!

Hmm eu comecei a aprender Inglês com 7 ou 8 anos só, moro no Canadá já há mais de 12 anos, e além disso fiquei uns meses na Nova Zelândia quando era mais novo... portanto: não se cobre tanto. Simplesmente siga com tua jornada de aprendizado. E te garanto que quando escuto minhas gravações pra esse canal penso "eu podia ter melhorado a pronúncia aqui e ali". Faz parte! Valeu!

Some yes but compare killzone 3 to any Dreamcast game and you’ll retract your statement pretty fast.

uh no

i will say that the dc had crazy high fidelity and frame pacing.. that's something they did better than anyone.. which is why arcade games look great on the system

I can’t remember where I got it, but I actually downloaded a modified version of it. Hopefully it can solve your issue.

@@VideoGameShowcase So, the next question is where I can download it?

Damn lol

Bummer!! So I guess that's how she became your EX ?! 😅

NO.

@@jsr734 yes. I’ll take Dreamcast over DitherStation 2

​@@jsr734yes, also the controls fit my hands better than any ps controller

Hmm not really, check this out: gamescare.com.br/produto/placa-rgb-vga/ If it were a GBS Control image quality would be much worse. Thanks!

@@VideoGameShowcase is it transform SCART to VGA?

I did show up in some portions, it just didn’t have a dedicated segment! Thanks!

From what it looks like the color space conversion seems wrong. I’m guessing the RT4K is outputting in full range and the capture setting is set to limited range causing the black levels to be wrong. The black bars on the side aren’t pure black on my OLED/Phone.