16th May 2022, 8:06 AM
(15th May 2022, 4:57 PM)A Black Falcon Wrote: It is really cool. I can't help be greedy and wish for more -- I mean, this is amazing for the games on the Atomiswave that didn't get home console ports, but for the SNK games, that did? It's neat to be able to play those games on the Dreamcast, but with the major limitations this has in saving and options, ie that it doesn't have any of either one, this is by far the worst way to play any of those games on a console. Sure, I like the Dreamcast a WHOLE WHOLE lot more than the PS2, but KOF XI is very feature-rich on PS2. This barebones version is amazing but is hardly a replacement. And such.
But for those two racing games, the lightgun games, Dolphin Blue, the beat 'em up, Sammy's fighters... it's just awesome. Sure none of those games are ones I'd put on SNK's level, but still it's really cool.
I'm a fan of the Dreamcast and have a number of games on the thing. I also like the PS2 quite a bit, simply for it's vast library of games including, well, improved versions of SOME Dreamcast games. That said, the Dreamcast did have some things the PS2, even one with the Network and HDD addons installed, didn't. For one, it generally had better "smoothing", and playing into that visual bonus it also offered one thing almost no other console ever did, full on RGBHV output via a D-SUB15 VGA connection. Sadly, VGA as a standard doesn't support old "interlaced" modes, though the connector itself can still of course be used for such a nonstandard mode if you want to connect to NTSC supporting TVs that happen to have it (and that will detect and operate that mode through their VGA ports, like my TV happens to), but it's still a wonderful addition that works on many games. I do have a few issues with the Dreamcast as well, but the little thing all in all was a wonderful introduction to an era past the "blocky" generation of 3D. I do remember some compromises though. Soul Caliber took away Inferno's flames due to challenges porting that game from Arcade to Dreamcast.
Anyway, while I think overall I prefer the Sega Saturn these days and consider it Sega's crowning mix of old and new with a wider array of amazing games, the Dreamcast will forever hold a place of "oh no it's been two hours my VMU's batteries are dead" goodness.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)