5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Buying a Dreamcast

Nah, the dreamcast controller has always been one of my all time favorites

I'm still hoping for the day when Sega makes a Dreamcast Mini (and a Saturn Mini, to a lesser extent). Reportedly, the reason Sega has been holding back is because they want it to cost under $300.00. At least Hallmark gave us a Sega Dreamcast ornament with a light-up VMU and the Emerald Coast music from Sonic Adventure for this Holiday season.

I'm digging up my old yellow nasty smoke colour dreamcast, replace the power adapter, put in the sdcard reader thing and give it a second life.

I dont know. Alot of these sounds like personal preferences. Ive never really had memory card issues. Most games ive played used smaller blocks. As far as the ports blowing out. Ive had that issue one tume because my vmu was corrupt. Once i figured that out, never had that issue again. Never had an issue with burned games either. The space is usually freed up by taking away the online gameplay option. Lastly, the dreamcast controller is the most comfortable controller i have ever played. It feels the most natural for my hands. One correction, playstation 2 didnt kill it, sega killed it. They released too many consecutive systems in the 90s without supporting them and lost the trust of buyers. While nintendo only had super nintendo and n64, sega had genesis, cd, 32x, saturn, and the dreamcast. The ps2 was just the proof that the buyers were no longer trusting sega.

Great video! The Dreamcast was one of my favorite consoles growing up, and I spent many late nights delving into futuristic dungeons with strangers on Phantasy Star Online.

What a great video! Usually people just praise their retro consoles but this is very important information. Would love to see a similar video about other „troublesome“ consoles like the Saturn or the N64.

I just made the jump into the DC a day ago. Paralysis of choice hit me and I just kinda bought Sonic Adventure (again), but that’s not stopping me from having the time of my life with it: the transparency looks genuinely lovely on Chaos Looks like I got lucky in getting a 4x card to start with: I didn’t even know what the cycling did before this video, but that’s a huge bonus, being able to have 800 blocks instead of 200 (or I guess 1000 instead of 400, since I bought a VMU as well)

This video is absolutely amazing!! So informative, I am obsessed with retro gaming, but I haven't actually played on a Dreamcast since 2001! I've been toying with the idea of buying one!

Saw this in my recommended. This deserves more views. Keep up the good work!

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Glad I checked the comments regarding the large size of some games and with how they will fit on blank discs. Thanks!

7:18 Grand Theft Auto 2 is on Dreamcast, and I have to say it's a superior port as opposed to the PlayStation version. In fact, many multiplatform games that came out on Dreamcast tend to be the best versions presentation and quality-wise.

Awesome video man. Dreamcast is one of my favorite game systems of all time. I owned one when it first came out back in 1999 and it felt like such a graphical leap at the time compared to the n64 and ps1. Didnt realize it had so many issues with the laser and all that. So thanks for pointing that out.

Cool video dude, im just looking to buy one and alrhough i knew mist if these stuff its very well put together and easy to watch video.

That was a pretty great to the point video. You just earned a Subcriber.

You owned the console for two years! lol, I have had mine since 2000

I always use to plug controllers in, after I booted up the game and forgot to do it.. never had a problem so far with it

i loved this video, will you be doing more for other consoles? perhaps n64?

What's weird is, the Saturn is known for having an amazing disc drive; why they cheaped out on the Dreamcast's I will never understand.

Pirated games don't use extra compression beyond downgrading audio and/or video quality (except Skies of Arcadia). If the full game can't fit, audio will be excluded or dummied out with empty track. Videos can also be dummied out with blank files.