Dreamcast On a Chip

rsw writes "I'm still reeling from Sega's decision to discontinue the greatest console ever made. So when I saw this story about a forthcoming Dreamcast-on-a-chip, my thoughts turned immediately to the possibilities: a portable 2nd-generation backwards-compatible Dreamcast?"

Comments

Re:Dreamcast

[ShinSugoi]

Uh, you may have loved it, but this is often cited as the exact reason the DC failed.

You see, the DC does not allow you to boot with your own code... those ripped games you burned are abusing a backdoor boot trick put in by the DC's designers to test software on a system before it was burned as a copy-protected GD-ROM. People always claim to love the DC, but I think that has more to do with the ease of piracy than it's (admittedly great) library of software or excellent hardware.

Re:Stick it in DVD players if it's cheap enough

[MarkGriz]

It is an interesting idea, but one that failed previously

Since current games consoles can play DVDs, I don't see it taking off.

What I'm surprised we haven't seen is a DVD movie with a PS2 or XBOX game on the disk. Maybe it would need to be a 2-sided disk to get it to play properly.