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The betrayal
(lemmy.ml)
The only reason I have a PS3 is because it was cheaper than a Blu-ray player at the time.
I think I liked my Dreamcast library over any other console I ever owned. Nintendo games and JRPGs of the SNES era were amazing, as well as the groundbreaking graphics and the DVD capability of the PS2, but Jet Set Radio, PSO, Shenmue, Powerstone, DOA2, Sonic 1 and 2, etc. all have a very special place in my heart.
I so wish I had a Dreamcast back in the days. Heck, I so wish I ever had a Dreamcast.
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.
How do emulators handle games that want to use the VMU as an auxiliary display? (Did that actually ever matter?)
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)
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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