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Most Dreamcast Online Servers Halted

Posted by simoniker on from the end-of-an-era dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the official Sega announcement that most of their Dreamcast game servers will be shut down starting this month. According to the site, "Effective June 2003, the only Dreamcast titles that Sega will continue to support online are Phantasy Star Online and Phantasy Star Online ver. 2. No other Dreamcast titles will be playable online after this time." This means that titles such as Alien Front Online (which pre-dated Xbox Live with a headset feature), the Sega Sports titles, Quake III, and even the classy Chu Chu Rocket will no longer be online-compatible, admittedly long after their prime. Perhaps someone could find a homebrew solution?

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  1. Re:Uhh...? by Painaxl · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not trying to flame or anything, but the DC has what is probably the largest homebrew communities around. Check out DC Emulation or BOOB! Dreamcast Development. A lot of people still use the Dreamcast (I still do, even though I've got a PS2 and Xbox). It still has it's supporters, especially in the homebrew, emulation and open source communities.

  2. Re:Uhh...? by Baron_911 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, the Dreamcast isn't quite dead yet! The hacker community has been writing all sorts of emulators and various trinkits for the DC for a while after it 'officially' died, so there will probably still be some demand for at least a Chu Chu rocket server. :P

    Links:
    Dreamcast Programming
    Dreamcast Emulation(much more than emulation there...)

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  3. Re:Anyone know for certain about Quake 3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    They said that would be a feature, but it never happened. Quake 3 DC only supports 4 players at a time.