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Amateurs Pushing the Dreamcast's Boundaries

Posted by timothy on from the pushy-amateurs dept.

Wraggster writes "The Sega Dreamcast console, which died an early commercial death, has recently seen some amazing new projects mainly aimed at emulation. Recently, a coder named Bluecrab released a port of the Saturn emulator called Yabause for the Dreamcast. Also, GPF (Troy Davis) has ported the excellent Visual Boy Advance (Game Boy Advance Emulator) to the Dreamcast. Finally, yesterday it was announced that Nincest (Nintendo 64 Emulator), an early N64 emulator that played demos only, has also been ported to the Dreamcast. All the projects are somewhat slow, but the achievement of the work is not to be discounted. Who says the Dreamcast is dead?"

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  1. Lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Dreamcast was dead before it hit the shelves.

    And that wasn't soon enough.

  2. Here's A Real Brain Twister... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who's more pathetic:

    A) Amiga Freaks
    B) Dreamcast Freaks

    Answer coming up...

    1. Re:Here's A Real Brain Twister... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Amiga Freaks. want a PPC machine? Get a mac.

  3. See, it's like this... by Lord+Kano · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who says the Dreamcast is dead?

    Let me give you an equation..

    "Who says the Dreamcast is dead?" = ((Everyone_In_The_Entire_World)- (GPF + Bluecrab))

    LK

    --
    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  4. But it IS dead, according to Ars Technica by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Dreamcast is deader than BSD.

    Why? BECAUSE IT HAS NO USER BASE.

    Just like "Ogg Vorbis," which is the fucking WORST name ever for any product, codec, wrapper, or whatever the fucking ass it's supposed to be. "Ogg Vorbis": repeat it to yourself. How juvenile and idiotic it sounds.

    Slashdot morons.

  5. Re:Burnable games.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    JESUS, you speak as if this is not the most obvious thing in the world.

    Sega sees no money from their unsupported platform. Everyone in the world knows this. And yet, this knowledge only makes a difference to the fanboys, of which we old console hackers typically are not. We hobbyists don't give a fuck about this at all; we bought our Dreamcasts, and we want to do things with them. Where is the problem? Now, speak ill of what we do yet again, so that this retarded finger-pointing of yours may continue, to the enjoyment of all.

    Frankly, your fad consumerist mindset is disgusting to me. I have a Dreamcast and I'll do whatever the fuck I want with it. Eat that. If you have a problem with that, meet me in person and tell me to my face that I'm wasting my time. You'll fall down, I'll laugh, and you can keep your useless opinions to yourself, driving yourself crazy wondering why people would want to play with the shit they've bought. Your opinion is worthless here, and your points are in argument against things that other people aren't even saying.

    Shithead.