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Pre-owned Sega Dreamcast Console
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About this deal
If you have not heard the new yet, this Retro badboy is being re-release very soon. This battled the PlayStation and won in many ways its was a modders dream
Play dvds, Vcds, Avi. Mp3, browse the web and more leaving the PlayStation in its wake.
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Development tools
The development tools provided with the Dreamcast system's Windows CE Software Development Kit (SDK) were built around the Microsoft Visual Studio development system version 5.0 with well-tested and refined Visual C++ development system-based tools. The tools enabled video game developers to develop Dreamcast games on Windows-based PCs, taking advantage of the productivity and convenience features of the same advanced integrated development environment (IDE) used by developers for the Windows desktop.
The controller and VM
The Dreamcast controller was truly unique, featuring a slot on the front for the Visual Memory (VM) unit. While it primarily served as a removable storage unit for saved game data, the VM could also function as an auxiliary display during gameplay, and even sometimes as its own bespoke handheld device. Features of the VM included a small black and white screen, speaker, directional pad, and four buttons.
**Discounted grade comes with a compatible controller.
Notes About Additional Content
Our products may not include additional material like Digital Copies, Online Passes or promotional downloadable content (DLC).
Product Guide
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GRADING GUIDE
Games consoles are graded as one of the following:
- Boxed - Good to Mint Condition. All essential accessories. Original, first party controller of matching colour. Official box with all inserts.
- Unboxed - As above, just without the box.
- Discounted - Poor condition but must be fully working. Chips, dents and scratches are acceptable providing function is not impeded. Cracks or missing/broken casing is not acceptable. All essential accessories, any compatible controller. Box not required.
* Some consoles may come with additional non-essential accessories. If a console does come with additional accessories, it will be mentioned in the product name/description
* Please note that all items with a mains plug must be local region specific and adhere to government safety standards.
Please note that CeX reserves the right to reject items based on their hygienic condition. All items must be clean and sanitary prior to shipping to us.
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131 Comments
sorted byThere are some second hand systems on AliExpress with built-in ODE (optical disc emulator) and hard disks full of games.
Somebody on here did this to their console, best looking Dreamcast I've ever seen
To be this good takes SEGA
Still a decent console in its time.
He called it his "pr0n Cast", now that was ahead if it's time.
Still, it was easy to develop for (ran Windows CE), it had online gaming, it was super compact... hell even the VMU was innovative.
Soul Calibur might still be one of the best games ever.
I had one way back and loved it,
Soul Calibre, Crazy Taxi, Ready to rumble were some of my goto games. But my favourite was the House of the dead with the light guns.
The VMU was a cool idea but any mini games on it were extremely simplistic, and it had a tiny amount of storage, only 100KB available to the user, that's less than the 128KB a PS1 memory card had in 1994. PS2 came about 15 months later with an 8MB memory card. That's nearly 82 times more storage than a VMU had to use.
Had to have a whole bunch of VMUs for the game saves to fit. And the batteries went dead in no time and needed coin cells instead of a AAA or something.
Also the controller sucked. Was comfy enough, and analogue triggers were good for the few racers. But no right thumb stick, and not enough buttons made some games awkward. Good job GTA3 never came to it as intended as you'd struggle to map everything to the pad.
Also it was noisy, and the GD ROM drive was even louder than the fan. Though early PS2s and Xbox's were also noisy. But compared to the silent N64 and practically silent Saturn and PlayStation, suddenly having a noisy machine sucked.
Also the better graphics than previous gen was good, but they had crappy texture filtering. The horizontal lines across the screen as you saw the textures get more and more blurry in the distance sucked.
I still loved it, had some awesome games on it. But it always seems to be remembered a bit too fondly. We got like 2 years of games, then it was dead. There wasn't much of a library on it either. Some real classics but in total probably like 10 real good games.
Still have mine with a GD Emu and silent fan mod. But don't use it very often.
This official Jap rare one is on a retro site for only £25k!!
Play dvds, Vcds, Avi. Mp3, browse the web and more leaving the PlayStation in its wake."
Wat? Since when is it being re released? Since when was it a modders dream? Cause you can fit a GD Emu? Like all the other console OD Emulators? Also famously doesn't play DVDs. Won't play VCD, Avi, or MP3 CDs either.
See these -
dreamcast-talk.com/for…447
fuzzcast.com/
And most of the coolest games were Japanese release only.
It was OK but I do think the PS2 was just so much better for games.
I guess the only thing wrong with it is the lack of hard drive... (edited)