The HD remake of Sonic Adventure was on sale on Steam from $1.99, so even though it got kind of mixed reviews I couldn't resist that price for a #sega#dreamcast classic, I never feel bad at treating myself to video games under $5.
Turns out there was a bunch of Christmas content that I missed out on from some of my favorite games like Sonic Adventure
and Sonic Adventure 2 that was only available on the Dreamcast but not in the GameCube ports of the same games.
With the 25th anniversary of the Dreamcast last week, I really wanted to work on some Dreamcast magazines, and I only have about 4 of them left, so here is one of the last few.
Official Dreamcast Magazine 18 - April 2001 (UK) has just been added to the magazine catalogue.
I painted my Dreamcast pink and white! I messed up a bit with applying painter's tape that caused a bare spot above the triangle on the lid, but I'm still happy with the result!
I talked about how fighting games were one of the genres that made me jump from the PSone towards the Saturn in 1997 and how it ended up not only being my favourite system that generation but overall as well.
This video is a great example of the wealth of fighting games released on Saturn, but also the Dreamcast.
Dreamcast fixed! Turns out the culprit was a stupid thing. Last year I borrowed the noctua 5v fan from the Dreamcast to use on my Orange Pi 5 and never put another fan back. After spending a lot of time trying to debug this weird issue, changed the PSU to a PicoPSU, changed the gdemu for the optical drive. It would always turn off a few seconds after boot. Apparently the DC has a safety shutdown in case it won’t detect the fan is working 🤦♂️ #retrogaming#sega#dreamcast
Hmm this #SEGA#Dreamcast#GDEmu is probably a dud. Bought it 1-2 years ago from AliExpress (so I guess it’s a clone?) and it worked fine. Played a couple of times and worked fine. The SD card was brand new as well (not from AliExpress ;-)). Sometime later started having these stuck at loading issues but could get past it. But currently, it’s not getting further anymore. Bah.