So fun fact: the EggRobo kart was the winning US entry in to a “design a kart” contest. If you dig enough, you’ll find the announcement with a picture of the clay model I sent in of EggRobo, but with a big orange mustache because thats how the sprite always looked to me. One of my only claims to fame, and I’m delighted you enjoyed it so!

What's also crazy is that there's an entire sub culture of people who are developing their own original Dreamcast games that you can buy and play off the console itself. I'd love a video going of that cause it's fascinating to see how much love the DC gets years after it wrapped up.

Him mentioning Chu Chu Rocket rather than Phantasy Star Online as the premier online game was very amusing lol

3:57 - Seeing the Dreamcast internet browser's user-interface again after 25 years is such a treat. I feel like I'm instantly back on my living room couch in 1999, using a Dreamcast controller to clunk-ily input text into the URL bar being displayed on a 30" CRT located 12 feet away.

fully ready for jon to go “the Virtual Boy was SO ahead of its time, because thats right, the Virtual Boy had Raytracing!”

SEGA really feels like they hired Time Travelers to make their consoles I'm glad Sonic Frontiers brought back the seasonal events at the very least

It's cool that the Dreamcast conversion mod tried to preserve some of these events in the PC version of Sonic Adventure DX

Actually, a few things to note here. The Internet option was only greyed out if you didn't have a modem plugged into the Dreamcast. On top of that, the DLC was always archived on the website. The only thing timed about some of the DLC was the fact that a number of them were tied to contests. You could still access them, but the period to submit your times to compete were over.

I didn't grow up with the Dreamcast so I didn't know that Seganet was this ahead of it's time. I'm glad that fans are keeping it alive.

The carbuncle ate itself

I remember seeing that the Japanese-exclusive 1998 New Years DLC was lost for the longest time, before eventually someone in the community bought a used VMU from Japan and it just had the DLC still on there after all of those years. It just goes to show how dedicated fan communities are to preserving the things that big companies won't.

Playing online PSO on the Dreamcast was really quite something back in the day, even if we had to use dial-up to do it. I enjoyed it so much that I even bought the keyboard so chatting was easier. Really was ahead of its time in the console world.

You’ve opened the box Jon, Sonic Shuffle video when ?

Sega was really ahead of the times

I loved Sonic Shuffle, Sonic’s Toy Box is cool

The fact Sega had DLC for a few of their games that was hidden and free is so cool and takes me back now it's like oh you need that voice pack....$20.99 lol

I'm replaying SA1 on the Dreamcast, didn't knew it had DLCs. Very impressive! I love it :)

The amount of uk offices that have those USB to dial up connectors sitting in a box somewhere must be staggering.

cant wait for the sonic adventure two fanmade DLC pack that replaces all the cutscenes with the snapcube ones

That's very validating for my childhood self to hear Sonic Shuffle defence, cheers Jon 😁👍

I really enjoyed that, John. I got my first Dreamcast experience in ‘03 where the ex had a chipped one. And I sprained my ankle & dived deep into SA 1. To this day I still absolutely ❤️, even if it’s still buggy on Xbox series S. SA1 had some great levels. Astounding music like Sand Hill, Emerald Coast, Twinkle Park & ‘Goin’ Down’. The time challenges are nails. I only once got A-Rank on Emerald Coast. And that was the GameCube DX version. I truly wish those little bits of DLC were available in the ROMs on Xbox Live Arcade versions. Obviously, licences negate 3rd party sponsorship. The Xmas ones would be greatly appreciated.

Man Dreamcast was so dang cool!

and yeah, people don't realize that Sonic Shuffle is the Competitive mode for Mario Party & that's where most differences come from

thank you for being a Sonic Shuffle truther

Oh hey, just when I was replaying Sonic Adventure 1, what a coincidence, but yeah I also wish I could have access to internet back then to play this DLC, but at least I consider myself lucky to have played the Dreamcast during its short lifetime.

I love SA1 so much. It’s so special. Just recently got myself another Dreamcast after my brother sold the last one

The Egg Robo cart is actually in the Battle re-release and on the later Modern ports, it's the bonus vehicle for.. eggman I believe? For beating all his stages

I really enjoyed Sonic Shuffle 🤷🏾‍♂️ The game WAS hard tho 😅

The problem with Sonic shuffle is that you don't get to the minigames enough. Unlike Mario party where you get a fun minigame every turn and it's minigames with a boardgame holding it together. Sonic shuffle is the opposite where it's a board game with occasional mini game breaks. All the components of the game are actually great, but the balance is off and everyone was of course going to compare it to Mario party. The game was basically made as a response to Mario party getting so big.

Me and my friend had so much fun with sonic shuffle as kids. We still bring it out every once and awhile cause we think it's hilarious and we try to team up against the computer cause they're such cheaters.

It’s crazy how they could fit this stuff on a small ass VMU

Loved this video! Seeing all the DLCs brings back so many memories.

JON on FIRE with these recent Videossss

Now that you mentioned Sonic Shuffle... Yeah, why hasn't a Sonic Mario Party clone been attempted again?

Wow Europe got DMX dlc! I had clue that is cool!

Hey Jon, Everyone Here!

my fav part of this account his these indepth video from John!

You gained a new subscriber not only because your video was dope, and hearing you gleefully explore the lost knowledge of Dreamcast DLC was really fun and nostalgic, but because you also acknowledge that Sonic Shuffle is very overly hated! Sonic Shuffle should never have been abandoned, and I venture to say if it were explored further, it could have been a really great party series that I would like more than Mario Party. Sure its rough around the edges, but man i see the vision and potential. Also it had some really aesthetic music and visuals (especially that opening cutscene, THAT is something nostalgic for me)

Quake on dreamcast online does fraggin fridays. Excited to see more games have online support restored.

Yaay glad to see you also like sonic shuffle , I was so upset to hear it was going to have online but was scrape to make a Christmas deadline :( I have so many good memories playing 4player games with my family . It was my first Mario Party. I definitely hope that more people make DLC for sonic adventure. I keep trying to learn how to make my own. I decorated station square to celebrate sonic super stars then left a link on the sonic adventure bbs. It's a mediafire link though so you can't download it from the Dreamcast it's self . I really hope in the future they either let users upload dlc or I find a way to host proper Dreamcast files for download. The Dreamcast hates https so almost all websites won't load 😕 vmu manager is great to use along with a Dreamcast wingman adapter. You should check those out :D thank you for a fantastic video. It makes me want to mess around with the vmu more and figure out the heck I'm doing.

Jon you know there is an even easier and cheaper way to get Dreamcast dlc by using a homebrew called DC VMU Backup CD and burn it to a CDR then run it on your Dreamcast and you can install any save file or dlc strait to your VMU. Also some games like Sakura Wars Columns 2 added built in dlc to vmu downloader in the fan English patch.

On the steam deck if you use Emudeck and emulate sonic adventure. The online feature will partly work on the hand held. No dlc just let's you browse

16:40 Pumpkin-and Skele... It's spooky month (Doin the the Scary Swings while the music kicks in). What if Sonic Scary Swings danced?

This is genuienly one of the raddest preservation projects I've seen so far, I really need to get a Dreamcast someday and try this out myself

*great video sir!* ⭐️

Great video dude, me and brother actually had internet for dreamcast and downloaded all the unique chao on sonic adventure 2! :D

"So far ahead of its time.." That not even Sega was able to use some of its more redeeming features. Like the DreamEye. Or the DLC capability.

I find it insane that this DLC is 24 years old, and KZfaq is about to be 20 years old... yet we are now getting clear information on Sonic DLC.

beautiful video

The only time I ever regretted selling a video game related item was my Dreamcast. I wish I still had it.

When I had a dreamcast, while I did have a VMU, I also had a regular memory card without the screen. The card had 8x and 16x the amount of storage space of the VMU, so you didn't need to delete stuff (especially since the console's library was pretty open on allowing any memory card in any slot to work with other cards in other slots.) The only real complication was when rumble packs were brought into the picture, since they also used the memory unit ports...you had to choose between extra storage or the rumble pack to use in the back slot since the VMU always took priority in the front slot.

I actually adore Sonic Shuffle! Very nostalgic game for me.

5:40 There's a program called SA Tools that can be used to modify the SA1 DLC, including removing the region locking

I remember Phantasy Star Online had a Burning Rangers themed level dlc where you put out fires, and it played music from the game. It blew my tiny little mind!?

Wow that Dreamcast looks so vintage with the yellowed aging finish it has.

When you were talking about it being ahead of its time... no stick drift. Sega was using the Hall Effect for their analogue sticks even on the Dreamcast's predecessor, the Saturn, in 1996. They fixed joycon drift 21 years before the Switch came out!

I've just seen Shadow in a little skeleton outfit. My soul has travelled straight to heaven.

Holding the triggers and circling the joystick unlocks the secretary theme. I still remember that. I think that was on the gc version though

I find it funny that these days you got people complain about the possibility of ads in games meanwhile Sonic Adventure in 1998 be like

I was born when the dreamcast came out. Gaming has come a long way!

This was my first video of yours and bravo sir. It was fantastic and I just subscribed, keep up the good work and SEEEGGGAAAA.

I have great memories of sonic adventure and it's online portion, all the events, the competition stuff in europe to collect shoes, being able to get ranked for time taken to get all emblems, it was ahead of it's time and it's a shame adventure 2 dialed back on the online stuff since the dc was on it's way out around then.

You sound a lot like Jeremy Clarkson to my American ears!

I love Sonic Shuffle and still have my copy of the game. You definitely need 1 VMU per controller to have the full experience.

Awesome!

Sonic shuffle!!! I enjoyed that game growing up that was brilliant. I wish i still had my dreamcast but sadly life throws it away without you knowing. It's interesting to know that you could get DLC for this i never knew that you could get DLC for sonic 1 & 2 it's pretty cool to know about. 👍 Ive got a copy of the Japanese sonic adventure i brought it on impulse so many years ago but i have no dreamcast 😂 nevermind. Great video 👍

They really put all their alt outfit effort in SA2 on Rouge huh...

They took 90s/2000s internet banner ads to a next level... 😂

Back in the day I played Quake3 online on my Dreamcast and you could play it against PC players, The Dreamcast didn't have enough power to play the full maps so the maps were cutdown versions. PC players needed to download a special version of the maps on their PC to join the Dreamcast servers.

My dad works at AT&T and I need it for a joke

You wouldn't emulate a dial connection to get the ultimate christmas form. . . . . Except I'd totally would lmao

Shuffle was great as long as you were playing with four humans where either everyone had a vmu or no one had a vmu. Playing with CPU players is awful no matter what the scenario. The mini games are perhaps some of hudsons best.

Dreamcast mentioned??? Time to advocate once again for a Skies of Arcadia Remaster/Remake, also a game on Dreamcast that had DLC.

2:46 Sonic with gun

Sonic Shuffle gets the hate it does *because* it's Sonic. Literally no other reason. If Hudson released that exact game just with Mario characters, it'd be called a classic.

I still find it impressive how the Dreamcast was an excellent console far ahead of its time and yet it was unable to recover the losses generated by the Sega 32x and the Sega Saturn. The Dreamcast had incredible graphic quality for the time and even beat the PS2 in some aspects (such as having greater VRAM, better texture quality, better anti-aliasing and higher resolution), it had great games and amazing exclusives right on the first year, it had a greater focus on Online with games like BomberMan Online and Phantasy Star Online being totally focused on this, it already had DLCs long before this became a trend, it was the first console to introduce online crossplay (Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament had online crossplay with the PC and if I'm not mistaken Marvel vs Capcom 2 had crossplay with the PS2 but only in Japan) and it also had a browser, several things that only became a trend in the 7th generation of consoles. It surprises me how short it lasted for such an incredible console.

SEGA was so cutting-edge back in 1999. BRB, going to renew my AT&T Worldnet™ Service.

The graphics look pretty good

Rouge going absolutely all out on the costumes and Knuckles just looks nearly identical to his ordinary self

Momma did always warn me about Rouge growin up

Year 1 DC user here. I traded in my N64 to get a DC. I remember the halloween DLC. I played a lot of Sonic Adventure and Phantasy Star Online back then!

How was Dreamcast DLC so small? Like a tiny number of KB if I remember correctly. I assumed a lot of the data had to be on the disk already and the DLC either was a simple key to unlock it or referenced existing data on the disk in the most part?

Thank you for defending Sonic Shuffle. I agree, get 4 four people together and it’s a lot of fun!

Dreamcast was ahead of it's time. If it had a dvd player it would have beat everyone.

I know that Christmas tree music would have scared the living hell out of me as a child 😅😅

I always wondered why Sega couldn't have had these dlc toggle-able in the settings in the GameCube versions.

Ive wanted that adapter for years but its always out of stock. I know its just one guy working on them so I get it. Dreamcast is so underrated. Easily my favorite sega console

i kinda hope people find ways to mod this content into the rereleases

Wasn't this content already present on the disc, and the "DLC" basically just unlocks that for the most part? VMU storage space and the internet speed back then doesn't really allow for big downloads, does it?

playing ttyd on my switch while watching a video on sonic adventure games, im in heaven, its 2004 all over again (my favorite two games of all time are ttyd and sonic adventure,

Jon has anyone ever told you that you should do movie trailers?

Reebok Quest is a prototype for Team Chaotix Missions😂

Always wondered why they didn't include the cool purple moon chao in the GBA games, despite both DX and SA2B having the necessary data. There is no egg afaik, so the developers would have needed to rely on another game like they did with the Tails chao in PSO.

I can't help wondering why the DLC costumes didn't make the jump to GameCube. Admittedly the Christmas ones look a bit rushed (It genuinely took me a second to notice the bulbs on Eggman's walker,) but the Halloween costumes all look rad as flip. I don't have Sonic release dates memorized, was 2 Battle developed before 2's costumes were made? That's the only reason to exclude them that makes sense to me. Ah well. I'm sure someone out there has modded them back in to the Steam port, and maybe even made them usable in the singleplayer stages.

Woo!

it would be cool if/when we sa2 remake it has all the holiday costumes and all of the jewel chao plus the moon chao , tails,knux amy chao and the unused chao type colors

if you play SA1 with a controller in port D with a VMU in the controller you get access to vmu game

Puyo Puyo Fever spotted in the background ❗❗

My boi got the smoked version lmfao

It’s insane to me that these are still up and available, while Nintendo and Sony are actively taking down and/or threatening to take their old online stuff down.