Dreamcast
polycounter lvl 12
Hey guys,
I was never able to own a dreamcast when it came out, but i recently acquired one off my boss, but the only game he had was tony hawk 2 (which is awesome!) anyone know what games i should get?
I was never able to own a dreamcast when it came out, but i recently acquired one off my boss, but the only game he had was tony hawk 2 (which is awesome!) anyone know what games i should get?
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Shenmue
Space Channel 5 (good luck finding this one...)
Chu Chu Rocket.
Dynamite Cop, one of the last Diehard Arcade-type games made. A lot of dumb fun.
Power Stone + Power Stone 2 are amazing.
Hope he didnt sell it to you that would be kinda ripoffish ^^
Dead or Alive 2
Soul Calibur was pretty good too.
Jet Grind Radio
SF 3rd Strike
Crazy Taxi
Sonic Adventure
crazy taxi was also fun with a buddy. But not in split screen, more in a hot seat mode)
MDK 2 was insaneubercool
I hope i get one someday so I can play Shenmue.)
People are still actually playing Phantasy Star Online on Dreamcast using custom hacked servers. You can find a lot of Sonic characters running around in those servers.
God I loved my DC.
Bangai-O
Fur Fighters
Grandia 2
Mr Driller
PSO
Skies of Arcadia
Virtua Tennis
Annnnd what everyone else has said! I played my DC so fucking much... but was especially addicted to Virtua Tennis and q3 arena!
There's this one game I used to always play (I was a kid then) calls ____ ____ Decathlon. I can't remember the first two words in the name... It was some silly little racing game where you were this little creatures sliding on your bellies on ice in these strange gumdrop/candy winter environments. There was also a hat system similar to TF2's. Not sure any of you would have played it as it was a kids game but I remember it being pretty fun...
Are you seriously asking what dreamcast is?
JetSetRadio and Rez for sure
Third strike is very accurate on DC too from what I've heard
Hope you will find a component cable. I have them for PS2 and GameCube and it really helps making games stand up to the test of time.
Have fun!!
I want one too
Shenmue, too, if you've got hours and hours to spend on a game.
Quake 3's also pretty funny on Dreamcast. In an entirely shit way.
Pior: No component cables were ever released for the DC unfortunatly, the only way you could get component is to buy a vga box and then use a component transcoder to convert the signal. Also, you don't need an old boot disc for that stuff, the homebrew/pirate community figured out how to make everything self boot on DC a long time ago. I'd recommend against using ripped copies though sense DC games ran on gd-roms which were essentially cds that held 1gb, so copies are often compressed and sometimes have stuff removed to accomodate the smaller size of burnable discs.
Anyhow, games:
Grandia 2
Skies of Arcadia
Rez
Crazy Taxi (both)
Power Stone (both)
Ooga Booga (Almost no one played this seems like, but I had a blast with it)
MDK2
Jet Grind Radio
Ikaruga
Sonic Adventure 2 (Gamecube version is good too, but they screwed up the chao garden and the visuals arnt as crisp as on DC)
Also, I'd heavily recomend NesterDC if your into old school NES titles, as its the best nes emu ever made (from a compatibility standpoint), completly destroying every nes emu on the PC.
Here ya go:
http://bswirl.kitsunet.org/vmu/game/
Have fun
DC, apart from PS1 is probably the best console ever made.
Best evar! (even though you can get it on the ps2 also)
Dreamcast + Arcade Stick + VGA Box = Kick-Ass
A lot of the titles on the Dreamcast were ports of arcade games, or at least inspired by arcade games. And most of them work REALLY well with an arcade stick. Soul Calibur, Power Stone 1 & 2, and Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 are all fantastic to play with an arcade stick. The VGA box is a must-have for Dreamcast fans. It provides brighter colors and nice crisp graphics. It really helps a lot of the Dreamcast's titles to shine. It will also throw the system's lack of anti-aliasing into sharp relief, but it is a small price to pay for the extra detail.
The Dreamcast was ahead of its time, and left us too quickly. I never gave up my original DC, and still have all my games for it on the shelf.
Haha, loved that game, loaded up my saves the other day and had 250+ hours, ouch so that's what I did as a kid...
God dammit Ikaruga is one of my favorite games of all time. And Sonic Adventure 1 was an absolutely brilliant 3d Sonic game..that and my friend did the voice of Tails.
Dude! I was thinking about this at work i also second the HMMMMMMMM
NeverBall (kind of reminds me of MonkeyBall):
Hypertension:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tERev_ESsPo
Dynamite Dreams:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFtIxc-Ms9Y
Elysian Shadows
Plus some open-world type 3d game which is in the works (cant find any screens for it, but gues some people in the community are looking forward to it based on what info has been released). It's called TAHI: The Arocean War (http://www.reticonentertainment.org/)
Then these guys have been working on an engine for a while to make an an old fashoned 2d jrpg called Elysian Shadows, but they're all programmers and no artists (they're looking for sprite artists atm if anyones interested):
http://elysianshadows.com/project/
Also, check this out: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/29/dreamcast-sd-adapter-could-make-for-homebrew-magic/