Bought a Dreamcast yesterday!

Thanks for the replies guys,seems theres a lot of games for me to go through.I definitely wanna play House of the Dead 2 and Jet Set Radio.BTW if I hooked the dreamcast to my PC monitor would the Light Gun work?
 
jesta said:
Thanks for the replies guys,seems theres a lot of games for me to go through.I definitely wanna play House of the Dead 2 and Jet Set Radio.BTW if I hooked the dreamcast to my PC monitor would the Light Gun work?
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As long as it isn't an LCD, I don't see why not.

I'm a bit miffed as we don't have any CRTs in the house anymore so I wont be able to play with any games with a lightgun. :(
 
House of the Dead 2 with a lightgun was awesome. It was even better when you unlocked the red blood option so it the depcapitations...etc on the zombies looked even more realistic :D
 
loopstah said:
As long as it isn't an LCD, I don't see why not.

I'm a bit miffed as we don't have any CRTs in the house anymore so I wont be able to play with any games with a lightgun. :(
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Unfortunately my monitor is a TFT which I'm assuming it won't work?:(
Tempted to buy a 28" CRT TV for my uni room just to play House of the Dead.:o
 
just wondering, how much more powerful was the ps2 than the dreamcast? Because looking at specs for the DC on wiki, it looked very powerful for the time of release.
 
tomanders91 said:
just wondering, how much more powerful was the ps2 than the dreamcast? Because looking at specs for the DC on wiki, it looked very powerful for the time of release.
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Not much, although Sony would've had you believe it was 10x more powerful at the time of it's release.

The PS3 had some nice lighting effects that the DC couldn't do, but if you look at some of the games that were released on both (e.g. Dead or Alive 2) there's really not much between them.

I'd say it was no more than 1.5x, if that.
 
loopstah said:
It's one of the best consoles if you're into fighting games.

2D:
PAL
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter 3: Double Impact
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Marvel Vs Capcom
Marvel Vs Capcom 2
Capcom Vs SNK
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Mortal Combat Gold

US
Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves
King of Fighters '99: Dream Match
King of Fighters '99: Evolution
The Last Blade 2

JPN
Guilty Gear X
Vampire Chronicles
Super Street Fighter 2X
King of Fighters 2000
King of Fighters 2001
King of Fighters 2002
Capcom Vs SNK Pro
Capcom Vs SNK 2
The Last Blade: Final Edition

2.5D/3D
PAL
Tech Romancer
Project Justice: Rival Schools 2
Dead Or Alive 2
Soul Caliber
Virtua Fighter 3TB
Psychic Force 2012
Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstien
Power Stone
Power Stone 2
Fighting Vipers 2

US
Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram

Plus you can get a pretty impressive Arcade controller to play them all with.:D
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Some good games there! Was the dreamcast region free? Or do you have to get it modded to play the us/jap games? Also is the dreamcast widescreen and can it do 480p?
 
magick said:
Some good games there! Was the dreamcast region free? Or do you have to get it modded to play the us/jap games? Also is the dreamcast widescreen and can it do 480p?
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It can do 480p through VGA. I've heard some games have widescreen options as well.

You need to get a boot disc to play US/JPN games, I picked up an Action Replay CDX (cart and disc) from ebay and it lets me play US/JPN games. I believe there are some downloadable ones but apparently they don't work as well. DC-X is another multiregion boot disc, it goes for about £20, but apparently plays everything.
 
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Some games I hfad in my collection (that were all mentioned I think) but just wanna say I thought were top class:

Sonic Adventure
Power Stone
Shenmue 1 + 2
Soul Calibur
Resident evil : Code Veronica
House of the dead 2
Crazy Taxi
Metropolis Steet Racer
Jet Set Radio
Skies of Arcadia
Chu-Chu Rocket
Street fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter lll Third strike
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Bust a Move 4
Ecco the dolphin
Phantasy Star Online
Rez
 
Out of interest is Phantasy Star Online worth getting as a single player game or is it pointless without the online part?
 
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