https://x.com/falco_girgis/status/2043027579800567872
People underestimate how powerful the Dreamcast was, especially for 1998 hardware. It died before people could really master it.
>>736988185it was not that powerful
>>736988334Better hardware than the Poorstation 2.
>>736987943It's the mobile version ported to the DreamcastDreamcast, a 5.5th gen console, can't handle the og console version.
>>736987943is there a link that doesn't link to a nazi infested shithole?thank you
>>736987943Holy shit, someone call Crowbcat! We got even MORE soul here!
>>736988465ew
>>736988562Kek
>>736988185Meh, it did have a fuckton of VRAM but that's about it.
>>736987943It's literally just running some loose assets and pretending it's actually a meaningful tech demo for something running so poorly that there's no hope this could ever run a real full version of the game. Like goddamn this basically has nothing to do with RE4.
>>736987943Damn, it looks just as good as the GameCube version
>>736989471We need RE4 GCN decompiled right now, just so it can be ported to DC and mog the shit out of the PS2 port.
>>736988185Yeah. SA2 looked insane and is 60fps, nothing to do with SA1 looking like an N64 game at 30fps. Even with how old the hardware was they must have a plan to get VF4 running, too. That would have looked worse than the PS2 version for sure, it wouldn't have been too noticeable worse also, considering some complete amateur managed to run VF4 stages on DC.the biggest problem of the console long term is actually the controller. Piece of shit has way too few buttons and a whole missing stick. The disk is also a huge problem.
>>736988185>It died before people could really master it.wasn't the dreamcast really easy to program for? which is why there's always been so much homebrew in it, the ps2 on the other hand has no indie games
>>736989471timeless
>>736989471lol
>>736987943>>736989471>>736989858DC giving PS2 a run for its money...yet again...
>>736989471HOLY SOULY
#its over#I have a dream
>>736988185>especially for 1998Holy fuck, no. The Dreamcast was the most 1998 console of all time. That's why it failed. No matter how hard you niggers try, you'll never be able to revise the Dreamcast's awkward place in history as the middle child that benefited a ton from advancements in technology but was also too early to have enough to actually make it into the next generation properly.
>>736987943>ported No, this is a fan-game meant to resemble RE4. None of RE4's code is here. You can expect a legitimate port when RE4 is decompiled. It would have a lot of comprises, but it's probably possible like GTA 3 and VC were
>>736991951>dynamic lightingThat ain't the PS2 port.
>>736988185if that's true someone should post the original yakuza onto it
>>736992027>The Dreamcast was the most 1998 console of all time.I would argue its GPU was pretty ahead of its time, literally. The chip wasn't even released for PCs until the following year.
>>736988185Imagine having all that "innovation" but only have a single joystick on the controller. lol
>>736991951How about actually posting the ps2 version, and not the gc version?
>>736992424The PS1 initially didn't even have one joystick.
>>736992502>>736992161lol, keep dreaming poorstation 2 javiers.....
>>736987943re4(mobile)
>>736992506Not an excuse. They had a year to rip off Sony.
>>736989471CAPCOM HIRE THIS MAN
https://ph3nom-dc.itch.io/re4-dreamcast-pocThey put this shit out as a free download.
>>736989471Should port it to OG Xbox.
>>736992586Dual analogs didn't really catch on as a standard until Halo all the way out in 2001. Anything supporting that shit before then was ahead of the curve.
>>736992934Did RE4 not get an Xbox port? I swear they ported the game to damn near everything.
>>736993565Nope, the 360 got a RE4 port uses the OG gamecube textures too
>>736988394100+ hour game vs 2 hour game
>>736993565It was a weird time. RE4 was designed with the intent of being a Gamecube exclusive, it didn't start getting ported off to everything under the sun until after the Wii edition. Technically, Mikami still owes us a self-beheading over the PS2 version. He still cared about that at the time.
>>736992974It took until rachet and clank 3 for the series to add a cross hair and even that was just an option. Console shooters had no idea wtf they were doing for the first couple of years and Halo really paved the way for how console shooters played and any other answer is pure cope
>>736989471Ahahahahaha!
>>736988562Obsessed
>>736989471UGHH SOUL....
>>736987943didn't the dreamcast get a gta3 port too? pretty based.
>>736993565There's a classic story of an MS exec pissing Mikami off at the time because he asked what games are to them, Nintendo said games are toys, Sony said games are entertainment, MS couldn't give a straight answer and gave a soulless corpo lecture, so he never had RE4 or any RE game ported to the OG Xbox.It was mended by the 360 though.
>>736987943The Sonic Mania port has come along very well too.
>>736994627An embellishment on that story, Microsoft did have a vision for games at the time - aspiring to make games that could be art. The talking heads they sent to court Mikami never got the memo though. Also, fuck these loading times man.https://www.eurogamer.net/why-xbox-failed-in-japan
>>736992424I love the Dreamcast, but it doesn’t help that the one analog stick present is also a pretty shitty analog stick.
>>736995196I don't think it's that bad considering when it came out. The N64 was barely 2 years old at the time and the Dualshock was maybe a year old. It was a wild time of rapid evolution and Sega shot their shot too soon, but for 1998 standards I think they did alright.
>>736992027I'd argue that the Dreamcast failed in great part due to Sega never getting out of their "We're an arcade company" mindset. They never really saw consoles as anything more than a way to release home ports of arcade titles. While this worked pretty good for the Mega Drive/Genesis, even as early as the NES their competitors were realizing that consoles allowed for a lot of kinds of gameplay that arcades couldn't really replicate no matter how much more powerful they may have been. But Sega refused to really learn that lesson and the Saturn and Dreamcast were both designed and marketed as basically the equivalent of the NeoGeo AES. But whereas the NeoGeo even in the arcade golden age of the early 90's knew to stick to it's lane and be a "boutique" console for rentals and hobbyists, Sega thought the mass audience still wanted ports of quarter munchers at the turn of the millennium. Like look at the Dreamcasts library in the two (really 3) year lead it had on the PS2. It's basically nothing but arcade ports when Sony was releasing expansive games like Final Fantasy 9. Had the Dreamcast actually used its massive head start to build up a big library of console style games to show off against the PS2's pathetic launch lineup, they may not have gotten crushed so quickly and easily.
>>736987943All of these projects suck.>Mario 64 gets ported to Dreamcast>Has issues that are never corrected because waow look what I ported to the Dreamcast>Mario Kart 64 gets ported to Dreamcast>Has issues that are never corrected because waow look what I ported to the Dreamcast>Starfox 64 gets ported to Dreamcast>Has issues that are never corrected because waow look what I ported to the Dreamcast>GTA VC and III get ported to Dreamcast>Both have issues that are never corrected because waow look what I ported to the DreamcastThese people never commit to completing their shit or doing post-release fixes. It's just get it 'running', post it, move on to the next project.Mario Kart and Star Fox shouldn't have the huge framerate issues they have and given they got Starfox' music going fine Mario Kart's audio shouldn't sound so shitty and compressed.
>2026>No high quality aftermarket controller replacement with a VMU slot>closest we got was the retro fighters and it's a fucking piece of shit in terms of build quality
>>736992974I remember the first time I played a fps on console and the dual stick control scheme just seemed so natural it's really confusing to me why it took so long to really solidify itself. I just didn't really play any shooters before that, not on PC or otherwise so I guess I just had a fresh mind for it. Same feeling with mouselook, I'm even more confused why that took a while as well.
>>736995410Because nobody who's seriously trying to play games ever bothers with these meme ports. They're neat proof of concepts but if you actually cared about playing, you probably already have a PC, laptop, or phone that can run all these N64 and GC games already. Nobody's gonna bust out a Dreamcast to play Nintendo games when you can run them all on a Wii.
>>736994057Rent free
>>736988481Gonna cry?
>>736989471Better than modern Pokémon.
>>736995410Translating the game code to run on different hardware is one thing.Optimizing the game is a completely different matter and requires a lot of time and hardware and software knowledge... like a complete team that fully understands how the game engine and the hardware that runs it work.
>>736995847Gonna being gay?
>>736996020Yes
>>736992027>>736992361>>736995345holy larping newfagsThe only reason (and that is the ONLY reason) the dreamcast failed was it completely lacked anti piracy protection, people could burn discs and straight up play them on the console, I know because I was there.Third party developers stopped developing for a console that couldn't ensure sales of their games and jumped ship, that's literally all there is to it.
>>736996285>it completely lacked anti piracy protectionNot true. The exploit that allows burned games circumvents the checks completely. The last Dreamcast revision removes MIL-CD support (the thing that was being exploited) and still to this day can not play burned games.
>>736987943>>736989471That's the old version without lighting.https://x.com/falco_girgis/status/2043837944109142528
>>736989471Games peaked here
Did /v/ really forget that Falco used to be shitposted here a lot? He was a lolcow and was legitimately a grifter in all definitions. He robbed a lot of money off of kickstarter. What the fuck is wtong with /v/ now?
>>736997056Most people don't remember, but I do.
>>736997097This place is full of zoomer retards whose year of birth started with a 2.
>>736997056He still lolcows a lot on twitter over the dreamcast. People like fucking with him gloating about the PS2 to freak him out. He also still abandons projects quickly like he did with the GTA DC versions before they ever got above 20 FPS. Impressive programmer though. He says he worked at AMD and Nvidia. You think they fired him for being a psycho?
>>736997208>You think they fired him for being a psycho?He used to openly brag about scamming people, doing coke, and fucking hookers. Probably an amazing person to work with.
>>736995121I dunno, Microsoft's aims with the Xbox were pretty clear at a time the whole industry was controlled by Japanese softwareAll the heads in the meeting only being able to come up with 'we really just LOVE games and your PASSION' would piss me off too
>>736997208Every Dreamcast fanatic is a lolcow, lolUnironically every single one
>>736997308It is a really cool programming challenge though. It seems to be one of those consoles that is impossible to use to its full potential.
I am surprised that with all the autism that sonic games generate, no one has ever ported Sonic Heroes to the DC
>>736989471VGH... what the Remake could've been... Crapcom has fallen...
>>736987943>>736989471>>736991951Still better than the demake lol
>>736999696Lol
>>736987943>ported>redone in a different engineretard
>>736989471Yeah exactly
>>737003295Nah its a port jackass
