Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast

Re:Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast by 1983054105 on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:03AM (#33770550)

Another question that has not been answered yet: What happened to all the great arcade games of the Dreamcast? In 40 years it has been my favorite console so far and I would love to play again all the good games it had. The only fun alternative is the Neo Geo but the graphics are a bit outdated.

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Re:Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast by causi on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:35AM (#33770736)

You could emulate it. Personally I'm really hoping Sega releases a Dreamcast Mini in the coming years.

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Re:Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast by Grazester on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:57AM (#33770885)

That's not going to happen anytime soon. Emulating it is a non trivial affair and the hardware to properly do that is going to be expensive and the mini console is going to cost more than just $100. Games were also relatively big so then you have the added cost of storage for those 40 or so games you would not include.

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Re:Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast by causi on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:55AM (#33771632)

Emulating it is a non trivial affair

The Playstation Classic can run fanmade Dreamcast emulators. I'd call that effectively trivial especially when it's a team with access to Sega's source code and intellectual property doing it.

Games were also relatively big so then you have the added cost of storage for those 40 or so games you would not include.

C'mon dude. A 64GB eMMC in bulk quantities costs less than three dollars a piece.

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Re:Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast by Grazester on Monday November 28, 2022 @07:07AM (#33772587)

Yeah a whole lot of these single-board computers can run emulation but that doesn't make it worth playing. The raspberry pi can't even do perfect Dreamcast emulation. And for the the price of emmc, that's very expensive(for a single component)

I don't know who would want a subpar experience on a mini console when they can just run an emulator a decent 4 years old computer/laptop and have a much better experience...or just buy the console if it matters that much to them.

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Re:Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast by doubled112 on Monday November 28, 2022 @09:59AM (#33774406)

I think that could be said about any of the mini consoles recently released.

Why would I buy a NES Mini, or a SNES Mini when I could use this perfectly good PC?

However, they sold like hotcakes. Many people just want the thing to work, and enjoy the novelty factor.

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Re:Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast by yamtaddle on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:05PM (#33777089)

Those things were amazing value. A couple dollars per game even if you value the hardware at $0, better UI than any TV-attached DIY emulator system I've seen, and controllers so good that it's hard to tell the difference between them and the originals without checking the cord or the molded label on the bottom. Plus a game selection that was, if not ideal, pretty decent, and large enough that anyone into games could find something to play.

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Re:Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast by bitwize on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:36PM (#33778452)

It really makes me appreciate the phenomenal products THEC64 and THEC64 Mini are. They are like Nintendo's mini consoles but they also let you sideload your own C64 software or boot to BASIC -- with no hackery needed! And you can have as many virtual floppies as will fit on a USB drive to save your work to!

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