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The betrayal (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 19 points 9 months ago (15 children)

I so wish I had a Dreamcast back in the days. Heck, I so wish I ever had a Dreamcast.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Emulation is always an option. The R36s can handle dreamcast games for pretty cheap, though it's recommended to replace the cheap SD card it comes with.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Wait a sec. How the hell is that so cheap??? I thought it'd be 300 at the least..

    I just bought a GBC and an everdrive GB after not having one forever and now im regretting that lol...should I sell what I got and get the r36?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The R36s is pretty underpowered and can't run Dreamcast (unless there's another R36s that doesn't have the RK3326). I recommend purchasing a more expensive one (handhelds of around 100$ nowadays can run PSP, 200$ usually gets GameCube and PS2 if you grab the right one) or directly a PC.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Well, the R36S can technically run Dreamcast. Some Dreamcast games. At like, 50% resolution scale and with some frameskip probably. I was able to get it to run Phantasy Star Online pretty decently. But other games were unplayable.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    How do emulators handle games that want to use the VMU as an auxiliary display? (Did that actually ever matter?)

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    It did rarely matter.

    I think emulators can give little windows for the screens now? But no controllers I'm aware of can actually display them (including an official DC controller with a VMU...no adapter sends data back, and the emulators don't know how to send it anyhow)

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I loved mine and i only had 2 games, crazy taxi and NFL blitz 2000.

    Sadly it was ruined in a flood. I should get another one...

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    And you should get Seaman. Lenard Nemoy provides daily updated commentary to your journey as you talk to a fish. Comes with microphone accessory.

    No, I'm not joking. That's real. That is a game you can play on Dreamcast.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    I figured out how to emulate that game a few years back. It was wild. I never did finish it tho. All the Seamen got sick and I never could figure out how to make them better so they died.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    They get born with I think 8 (gotta give my memory some slack. I'm old, and it was 20+ years ago). Then 6 die, leaving you with 2. Then they fight, and mate, and 1 dies.

    But the last one should stay alive, and evolve.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    I might be misremembering a bit then. I did get down to the last one, that all sounds familiar, and I'm pretty sure he did evolve a bit, but I think he ate a spider or something and got sick and I wasn't able to nurse him back to health. I was pretty bummed because I was pretty far into the game.

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