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submitted 1 day ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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I owned a Dreamcast 20 some years ago. It was one of the funnest systems ive had. It sadly got destroyed in a flood. Ever since then ive been on the fence about getting another one; well I figured, theyre getting old and its gonna be impossible to find one soon, so I bought 2 (kind of on accident, I won a bid i didnt intend to)!

Im super pumped. I already have way too many consoles but the dreamcast is just too awesome. I know I'll likely have to do the sd card mod and replace the psu, which is fine.

I was also very excited to see the online hobby community is still alive!! I would LOVE to get mine going for some online games someday.

Now to make space for it or decide if I can part with another console ๐Ÿค”

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[โ€“] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Dreamcast is the best. There is an emulator that feels abandoned but it's still fine for now: https://redream.io/

And if you buy a license for a few bucks, you get high definition graphics.

There may be open source emulators but I have never looked for them.

[โ€“] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah I tried flycast and it works excellent.

I was on the fence. But after I would spend all that money on adapting the real controllers to use on my pc and then futzing with all the emulation and then not being able to play on my crt, I figured why not get a real one again. The systems arent expensive yet, I paid 120 for one with 2 controllers and 2 vmus with all cables, in working condition.

[โ€“] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think Flycast is the most popular one now