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I got a Dreamcast as an early birthday gift and aside from Sonic Adventure and its Sequel, are there any dream cast games you'd recommend?

I plan on getting grandia II and Skies of Arcadia, as well as the two sonic titles, that's my list so far.
 
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Happy Birthday!

The Dreamcast has the best versions of many 5th gen (PS1/N64) games, I would recommend those--especially Rayman 2 and Hydro Thunder.

In addition, there is an active Dreamcast scene, with both new homebrew games and ports.

For Dreamcast exclusive games, you can't go wrong with Daytona USA or Soul Caliber.
 
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radicalten said:
Happy Birthday!

The Dreamcast has the best versions of many 5th gen (PS1/N64) games, I would recommend those--especially Rayman 2 and Hydro Thunder.

In addition, there is an active Dreamcast scene, with both new homebrew games and ports.

For Dreamcast exclusive games, you can't go wrong with Daytona USA or Soul Caliber.
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Thank you!

I forgot about Soul Caliber having a dream cast port, I'm so used to hearing about the GCN version and the ports that came after.

I'll definitely look into getting that since my sister really likes Soul Blade on PS1.

Is there a dedicated place I can look into the dreamcast homebrew ports? I'd love to look more into it since I've only heard of the Sonic Mania port.
 
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Must play games:
  • Elemental Gimmick Gear
  • Illbleed
  • D2
    • Multi-disc game (4 discs)
  • Evolution The World of Sacred Device
Honorable mentions:
  • Seven Mansions: Ghastly Smile
    • Japan-only but English patch is available
  • Eldorado Gate
    • Japan-only
    • Multi-disc series game (7 discs in total)
  • Treasure Strike
    • Japan-only
  • Border Down
    • Japan-only
    • Side scrolling shooter
  • deSPIRIA
    • Japan-Only
    • Point-and-click hybrid with Earthbound-like fighting mechanics
Bad games that may be enjoyable:
  • The Ring: Terror's Realm
  • Golem no Maigo (The Lost Golem)
    • Japan-only but English patch is available
  • Bomber Hehhe!
    • Japan-only
  • Roommania 203
    • Japan-only
    • Life simulator, can be incredibly boring
  • Seaman
    • Requires microphone accessory
  • Fish Life
    • It's literally an aquarium screensaver

ChronoCrossfangirl2002 said:
Thanks! I'll try burning these to a CD, as it seems options like dreamshell are pretty slow and going deeper down the rabbit hole it looks like it'll be the PS2 HDD hell all over again with the ODE mod haha
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Dreamcast ODEs are incredibly easy to use, as long as you use the proper backups.

For reference, some REDUMP images (specifically if it has more than 3 bin files) won't work with the ODE because it contains additional data (mostly CDDA) tracks, but specifically because of how REDUMP dumps their images.

Those you'll have to use TOSEC images in the cdi/gdi file format instead.
 
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The homebrew scène is now working on a Super Monkey Ball Arcade port for the Dreamcast.
You can already play GTA3 now, the way it was intended. And you can't go wrong with the private PSO servers for countless hours of fun.

Enjoy your birthday gift, and welcome to the next level.
 
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koffieleut said:
The homebrew scène is now working on a Super Monkey Ball Arcade port for the Dreamcast.
You can already play GTA3 now, the way it was intended. And you can't go wrong with the private PSO servers for countless hours of fun.

Enjoy your birthday gift, and welcome to the next level.
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Thanks!

I had considered phantasy star online, however I already have a gamecube account set up, however if they're not cross play I may have to get again so I can play with people I know have a dreamcast.
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master801 said:
Must play games:
  • Elemental Gimmick Gear
  • Illbleed
  • D2
    • Multi-disc game (4 discs)
  • Evolution The World of Sacred Device
Honorable mentions:
  • Seven Mansions: Ghastly Smile
    • Japan-only but English patch is available
  • Eldorado Gate
    • Japan-only
    • Multi-disc series game (7 discs in total)
  • Treasure Strike
    • Japan-only
  • Border Down
    • Japan-only
    • Side scrolling shooter
  • deSPIRIA
    • Japan-Only
    • Point-and-click hybrid with Earthbound-like fighting mechanics
Bad games that may be enjoyable:
  • The Ring: Terror's Realm
  • Golem no Maigo (The Lost Golem)
    • Japan-only but English patch is available
  • Bomber Hehhe!
    • Japan-only
  • Roommania 203
    • Japan-only
    • Life simulator, can be incredibly boring
  • Seaman
    • Requires microphone accessory
  • Fish Life
    • It's literally an aquarium screensaver


Dreamcast ODEs are incredibly easy to use, as long as you use the proper backups.

For reference, some REDUMP images (specifically if it has more than 3 bin files) won't work with the ODE because it contains additional data (mostly CDDA) tracks, but specifically because of how REDUMP dumps their images.

Those you'll have to use TOSEC images in the cdi/gdi file format instead.
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Ah I see, I'll have to look more into it then.

D2, I've heard of the first game of saturn, I think now would be the best time to play it since it's October.

Fish life, as boring as that sounds I feel like it'd look very good on my CRT so there's that!
 
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Rayman has already been recommended, so I'll second that. It runs at a buttery smooth 60fps!

Chu-Chu rocket is a fun little diversion.

My favorite Dreamcast game of all time is Fur Fighters! I much prefer the Dreamcast version over the PS2 version.
 
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Gonna throw my recommendations in too:
  • Jet Set Radio
  • Dino Crisis
  • Power Stone 1/2
  • Sega Extreme Sports
  • Sno-cross championship racing
  • Star Wars Episode 1: Racer
There's even a unreleased port of the hd version of Half life out there.

Obviously I had others, but they are already mentioned. There's many games that are ports or aren't exclusives, but look much better on Dreamcast, particularly PlayStation games.
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Chu-Chu rocket is a fun little diversion.
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I don't talk about that...that game, the bane of my life. I have deep childhood trauma thanks to that bundleware, PTSD type shit. :rofl::cry:
 
Rasa39 said:
Gonna throw my recommendations in too:
  • Jet Set Radio
  • Dino Crisis
  • Power Stone 1/2
  • Sega Extreme Sports
  • Sno-cross championship racing
  • Star Wars Episode 1: Racer
There's even a unreleased port of the hd version of Half life out there.

Obviously I had others, but they are already mentioned. There's many games that are ports or aren't exclusives, but look much better on Dreamcast, particularly PlayStation games.
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Yeah this is the case with the saturn too, this is why I'm glad I own counterparts for both gens so it's easier to know which port is better.

I've played powerstone via the collection on psp, how does it fair in comparison to the DC version of the games?

Nonetheless I do quite enjoy platform fighters, my favorite is digimon rumble arena 2.
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tmnr1992 said:
Ikaruga, The House of the Dead 2, Shenmue 1 and 2, Zero Gunner 2.
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I've actually heard of all of these it's just been easy to forget they were for dreamcast but I definitely wanna look into ikaruga and shenmue
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Citizen_404 said:
Rayman has already been recommended, so I'll second that. It runs at a buttery smooth 60fps!

Chu-Chu rocket is a fun little diversion.

My favorite Dreamcast game of all time is Fur Fighters! I much prefer the Dreamcast version over the PS2 version.
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I've actually never heard of fur fighters, so I'll look into that.

Everyone is recommending Rayman, I've never played a Rayman game, guess it's time I started huh
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Exnor said:
Crazy Taxi (the original, not the 2nd), San Francisco Rush 2048, DOA 2, Le Mans 24, Dynamite Deka 2, Virtua Tennis, Capcom VS SNK 1 & 2, Marvel vs Capcom 2.
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That's alot of fighting games, did they not have a darkstalkers game for DC?
 
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ChronoCrossfangirl2002 said:
Yeah this is the case with the saturn too, this is why I'm glad I own counterparts for both gens so it's easier to know which port is better.

I've played powerstone via the collection on psp, how does it fair in comparison to the DC version of the games?

Nonetheless I do quite enjoy platform fighters, my favorite is digimon rumble arena 2.
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I've actually heard of all of these it's just been easy to forget they were for dreamcast but I definitely wanna look into ikaruga and shenmue
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I've actually never heard of fur fighters, so I'll look into that.

Everyone is recommending Rayman, I've never played a Rayman game, guess it's time I started huh
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That's alot of fighting games, did they not have a darkstalkers game for DC?
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I think Legacy of Kain had a DC version.
 

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