Sure, I'm not saying it was a dumpster fire or anything. I personally never finished it. Time was better spent with Rayman I thought. I just thought Kao was boring.
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Sega Dreamcast - Appreciation and Emulation Thread
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Sure, I'm not saying it was a dumpster fire or anything. I personally never finished it. Time was better spent with Rayman I thought. I just thought Kao was boring.
Shadow Hog
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I will say I didn't much care for the demo of Kao as a kid, at the very least.
I kinda wish Croc 2 for Dreamcast wasn't cancelled.
I kinda wish Croc 2 for Dreamcast wasn't cancelled.
I wish a lot of games hadn't been cancelled. I really wanted the Castlevania game that was teased.
Laevateinn
Member
3D Castlevania is shit though
MarmiteBadger
Member
I remember playing Dreamcast at my local video game store and saying to myself that the graphics were crisp, detailed, and the colors were really vibrant.
I really think the Dreamcast brought it with having a graphics card with the console. Nothing could compete with it until PS2 came along.
I'll have to check those games out. I have a copy of Croc on Sega Saturn, kind of hoping there was a Croc 2.
I've played and had fun with shit games over the years, would have liked to have seen it come out anyway. I wouldn't take any of the 3d Castlevanias over the 2d ones, but I had fun with some of them. I didn't mind lament of innocence or whatever it was called on ps2. I liked lords of darkness on ps3.
Waddle Dee
Member
Not... really. Kao is just Crash 1, but worse. Crash 1 wasn't all that good to begin with. Kao lacks pretty much anything to call it's own, besides it's bizarre checkpoint mechanic.
The other Kao games are all mediocre or bad from what I've heard. Kao was made by Titus (the company behind Superman 64) so I wouldn't be surprised if they're trash.
IrishNinja
Member
you guys really think DC is on its way to Saturn pricing? when I bought back my stuff years ago some titles had gone a bit up & took time to find on the cheap, but I wanna say mostly the capcom stuff had gotten up there
this is simultaneously crazy and yet the most Sega thing I've read all day
I mean LOI was
well I never finished it but I barely finish any CV games honestly
this is simultaneously crazy and yet the most Sega thing I've read all day
I mean LOI was
well I never finished it but I barely finish any CV games honestly
Laevateinn
Member
Castlevania Lords of Darkness was the game that made me lose faith in the whole industry. I was so pissed when I started playing it. What a fucking terrible experience. I wish I could erase it from my memory.
IrishNinja
Member
yeah I didn't much care for that one either, meant Lament
MarmiteBadger
Member
I didn't care much for Lament either. The artwork was awesome, but the game play itself felt really dull.
Lords of Darkness?
Laevateinn
Member
Lords of Shadow. Whatever the PS3 game was called.
MarmiteBadger
Member
I only played the demo for Lord of Shadow. But I always admire Patrick Stewart for his narration.
That was my bad, I called it the wrong thing.
Lords of Shadow wasn't all the bad, at least the first. Why did it make you lose faith in the industry?
celsowmbr
Banned
Tectoy would be teasing a Dreamcast re-release (using El Chavo del 8 memes):
link: https://www.facebook.com/tectoyofic...189788667563/1608160415870486/?type=3&theater
link: https://www.facebook.com/tectoyofic...189788667563/1608160415870486/?type=3&theater
sechsterangriff
Member
Well, much like the Mega Drive they have the licence. But I highly doubt they could get the necessary parts.Tectoy would be teasing a Dreamcast re-release (using El Chavo del 8 memes):
link: https://www.facebook.com/tectoyofic...189788667563/1608160415870486/?type=3&theater
sixteen-bit
Member
A DC re-release would be wild, lol.
Probably ge an android emulation box tho for the reasons mentioned above.
Probably ge an android emulation box tho for the reasons mentioned above.
Laevateinn
Member
This was probably the most disappointing thing I've ever bought. Everything about the game was so boring. The action was simplistic and shitty and the story was trying too hard to be gothic and dark. Worst of all, the music was unmemorable.
Castlevania is either a punishing action game with precise controls or an adventure game where every room is interesting. Most of all, it should have a fantastic soundtrack and monsters inspired by classic hammer films.
After playing the game for a few hours, I sold it back to Gamestop. I realized that if they can slap a Castlevania on something that was the antithesis of what a Castlevania should be the industry is dead. Only Nintendo and a few teams here and there are worth paying attention to. I'd set my PS3 on fire if it could remove the taint of that fucking game.
Western games ruined the industry.
Laevateinn
Member
Sell your body not your Dreamcast.
Ahaha, thanks I needed to laugh too. :-D
I wouldn't even think about this if my current situation wasn't so critically messed up but life is complicated you know.
This is some great advice right here!
Anyways, about that Lords of Shadow, i actually thought the game was decent enough. And a few of the boss fights were freaking amazing and required a lot of skill. I even had to turn down the difficulty on the final dlc-boss to easy to be able to beat it - which was pretty embarrassing, but shows that the game had its hardcore moments.
But of course the game didnt have much to do with classic Castlevania, unfortunately.
If you're selling it altogether, around $90-100. Separately:
DC = $45-65 depending on how many controllers/accessories and barring any really rare stuff like a Toro/hanzo, 1st party SCART cable, or 1st party VGA box.
Shenmue 1: $40-50 depending on condition
Soul Calibur: $10 cib
Jet Grind Radio: $20-25 cib
Thank you 👍
IrishNinja
Member
this is the most succinct differentiation i've seen between classic/tank/belmontvania and iga's stuff, just wanted to commend you for that
catpurrcat
Member
Can you guys recommend a decent VGA cable that I can run to a VGA-HDMI conversion box?
IrishNinja
Member
finally got 18 Wheel Pro Trucker for a good price at a con today - man, i love this game. the horn upgrades, the rival talking shit at me, all of it. kinda wanna get a wheel and a trucker hat & do this right.
Hey all, it's been a while.
I will be trying NullDC tonight to see if most games work well in 4K. I got the original Soul Reaver on Steam yesterday via the Crystal Dynamics Humble Bundle only to realise that it was a port of the PS version, which kind of turned me off, that goes without talking of how terribly the game handles my USB X360 controller. Sooo it all got me tempted to go test DC emulation after years of hiatus.
Looking at the latest releases for DC emulators on EmuCR is a bit depressive, only thing that seems to be in development is Reicast (Android) and another one called ReDream which I never heard about, anyone tried it yet or have a better recommendation?
I guess NullDC is still one of the best after all these years, a shame that the DC emulation scene is so anemic of devs.
I will be trying NullDC tonight to see if most games work well in 4K. I got the original Soul Reaver on Steam yesterday via the Crystal Dynamics Humble Bundle only to realise that it was a port of the PS version, which kind of turned me off, that goes without talking of how terribly the game handles my USB X360 controller. Sooo it all got me tempted to go test DC emulation after years of hiatus.
Looking at the latest releases for DC emulators on EmuCR is a bit depressive, only thing that seems to be in development is Reicast (Android) and another one called ReDream which I never heard about, anyone tried it yet or have a better recommendation?
I guess NullDC is still one of the best after all these years, a shame that the DC emulation scene is so anemic of devs.
IrishNinja
Member
hey Seik! you've been missed man
Redream is the most promising in development DC emulator currently. There's been some good progress on it lately: http://redream.io/posts/progress-report-july-2017
I haven't tested it out myself yet to see how good it is for general use though. It's probably still behind Demul, NullDC and Reicast.
Laevateinn
Member
Removing a laser is easy. If you want to replace, get a GDEmu or another Dreamcast.
sechsterangriff
Member
Cross-posting from the August 2017 pickups thread
Finally got Super Street Fighter 2 X, one of my Dreamcast holy grails.
Finally got Super Street Fighter 2 X, one of my Dreamcast holy grails.
Dreamcast
sixteen-bit
Member
Awesome pickups! 2X is definitely on my to-buy list.
IrishNinja
Member
exactly, i just swapped out disc drives entirely. still need to adjust the pots (and learn how), giga wang & a couple others won't currently play
Laevateinn
Member
Does your TV have VGA?
I don't see any placings for VGA on the back, just Component. It shows it has a standard AV input but next to the sticker it only has one or two inputs.
I remember tacking on Street Fighter 2 X to an existing order years ago for like $15 to round out an order and get it to free shipping because no one really wanted it. My friends were like why are you buying that on DC, it won't even play online.
Everything is cooler on Dreamcast.
Everything is cooler on Dreamcast.
sechsterangriff
Member
IrishNinja
Member
right but before people lost their minds about retro games it was just another SF 2 port & people weren't talking most places about which one was more definitive/etc, it was another classic no one cared about till they did years later
sechsterangriff
Member
Sorry. I didn't meant to sound like a jerk. Only later I realized you were already talking in hindsight.
It's cool. Nobody had to convince me to buy Dreamcast shit, I was in love with the system from day one. I think I have more Dreamcast peripherals than all my other systems combined.
Still have my 2 green goblin sticks and a ton of fighting games. Missing Vampire Chronicles for Matching Service but luckily that one isn't crazy (yet?)
Still have my 2 green goblin sticks and a ton of fighting games. Missing Vampire Chronicles for Matching Service but luckily that one isn't crazy (yet?)
IrishNinja
Member
Mzo we both gotta get rasperrby pi's and get our dreamcasts back online...at least in time for 9/9 anyway
I love this game too! Sadly it got away from me at the time and the high price it commands now sucks! I'm always on the lookout for it at a reasonable price.