Dreamcast in 1998 was truly ahead of its time>Support for Sega's own fast/streamlined/documented SDK or Windows CE (to make porting games from the PC easier)>Hitachi SH4 chips>Designed by Hideki Sato, the "father of Sega hardware", with input from Naka and Iizuka >PVR on Dreamcast was much better than Saturn GPU>Rarely-used volumetric per-pixel shadows and volumetric fog features>Order Independent Transparency and is the only system to date that came with OIT at the hardware level>Main RAM: 16 MB SDRAM ยท VRAM: 8 MB SDRAM>Native VGA out support>independent filesharing between memory cards without the console needing to be present>a large (again, for the time) optical disc format that stored up to 1GB of data>Plans to download Dreamcast games directly to the 40GB HDD, a feature that Xbox 360 realized >Modern game controller is heavily inspired by Dreamcast>Major figures in the industry like John Carmack, Mikami and Itagaki even loved it for how easy and fun it was to work on the system
>>108798406So true. My battlestation in 1998 looked exactly like that. Zoomers will never understand.
>>108798406Retro games on an LCD makes me physically ill
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>>108798769>NOOO AHHH YOU _HAVE_ TO PLAY HECKING RETRO GAEMS ON A SONY MEDICAL GRADE HOSPITAL MONITOR THE SCANLINEROONIES HURRRR DURRRRR>DUDE CHECK THE AUTISM ALIEN ok
>>108798802Do you enjoy your IPS glow, dogshit contrast and copious 60hz sample&hold motion blur?
>>108798802>>108798808And lets not forget about scaling
>>108798802Never understood the PVM autism, since actual CRT TVs used at the time looked nothing like that.
>>108798823Nobody said anything about PVMs. And it doesn't matter either, any CRT will just look and feel so much better than LCDs.
>>108798802Says who? Not even /vr/ says that.>>>/vr/12563412
>>108798882>Nobody said anything about PVMs.>>108798802>SONY MEDICAL GRADE HOSPITAL MONITORPVMs were often used in hospitals.
>>108798924>Nobody said anything about PVMs.Before the strawmanning retard that is
>>108798406>>Plans to download Dreamcast games directly to the 40GB HDD, a feature that Xbox 360 realizedAckshually the original Xbox did it first. When most people hear "Xbox Live Arcade" they think of the 360, but it was on the original first. You needed a disc to access it but all the games (besides Ms. Pac-Man) were downloads. And it wasn't just old arcade game emulation, there were new titles too.Also you could technically argue the Sega Channel for the Genesis did something similar first, but the game you picked was lost after powering off.
>>108798882>Nobody said anything about PVMs.t. actual sperg
>>108799605Actual spergs would have understood the reference.
>>108798406>16 MB SDRAMeven for the era that's fucking tinywhat were they thinking?
