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I might buy one to play online, the games are only going to get more expensive.
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>>11681812
For some games, like sega tetris and daytona usa, you need the patched cdi and you cant play off of original disc
Its on a game by game basis
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>>11681853
>you need the patched cdi and you cant play off of original disc
I knew that was the case for PSO but that sucks for Sega Tetris, I was eyeing that one specifically. At least I won't have shell a bunch off money for an actual disc.
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>>11681812
Just use Fightcade
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>>11681908
Not the same as real hardware
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No one ever made 3rd party broadband adapters right?
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>>11681913
How so?
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>>11681812
Its really cool but its not like anyone's actually playing them at any given moment besides PSO which usually has a handful of people online at all times. You're gonna need to hit up some forums or rope some friends in to play with you. Dreampi works really well but honestly Id recommend just emulating. Dreamcast emulation is essentially perfect now and Flycast lets you get online without any set up whatsoever on all the supported games and is crossplay with real hardware.
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>>11681812
>inb4 nu metal retard
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>>11681812
>the games are only going to get more expensive.
This. It's getting harder and harder to find CD-Rs. They used to cost pennies a disc and now cost dozens of pennies a disc.
>>11682039
I'm not aware of any commercial ones, but there may have been DIY replicas. People have certainly done work on that. I don;t know how far each got. But there was never really a need, as compatible devices could be had for cheap. Now that most of those have been bought up by """collectors""" it might be worth revisiting.
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>>11682181
>there may have been DIY replicas
I know there was a RaspberryPi mod called DreamPi, but that not exactly cheap and requires a bit of effort from the user.
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>>11681812
If you never played ChuChu Rocket online you aren't a real man.
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>>11681913
...anon i don't know how to tell you this but: seganet is dead. it's been dead for almost 25 years.
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>>11682217
I don't even know what you thought all that word salad was supposed to mean, but dreampi is free software, not a mod, and isn't broadband.
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>>11682285
I am aware of all that. What I meant was in order to even use dreampi, you need several things, i.e. a ras pi, a voltage line inducer, USB modem, etc.. It essentially converts the standard DC modem into a broadband adapter using the pi's ethernet port.
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>>11681812
Hey fuckos, Fred Durst here. Don't go online unless you want your ass kicked. I've been playing Q3 since before your were born. If you can't handle me at my Fredst, you sure as hell can't handle me at my Durst.
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>>11682230
I feel like he knows this
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>>11682360
>I'm aware that what I'm talking about isn't what everyone else is talking about
>What I meant is that to use software that's not what anyone is talking about you need hardware
>Here's my incorrect hot take on what that software and hardware do
Oh deer
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>>11682370
The Fredst of my Durst shall scar thy dna.
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>>11681913
Yeah, Fightcade is even better
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>>11681812
Forget about it.

>>11682370
Fred Durst killed the Dreamcast.
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>>11682096
PSO on Gamecube & Xbox has far more many active players
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>>11682586
You're a moron
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>>11683383
Actually piracy did.
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>>11683393
I accept your concession
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PSOV2 and quake 3 are the only games with regular players.
dreamcast-talk has a weekly game night where they rotate through every playable game, but this means they play shitty games most of the time and you have to wait months to play the few actually good ones, for a couple hours one night.
this rotation also means no one is good at any of the games because they get 4-10 nonconsecutive hours of practice a year.
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>>11683423
didnt stop ps1 lol
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>>11681812
There is still an active community for PSO. Most players play the PC version, with 40-50 actives players at any given moment, but there are still some dreamcast players around, usually in the single digits.

I think Ultima PSO is the most popular if you intend to play on PC whereas Sylverant or Schthack is most popular for Dreamcast.

I intended to try to get my dreamcast online, but I haven't gotten around to finding a 56k serial modem to make a PC-DC server. I hope to do so one day.
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>>11684439
Piracy wasn't widespread on the PS1 due to the requirement of modchips and how expensive CD-R burners were at the time.
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>>11684669
> there are still some dreamcast players around, usually in the single digits.
This is me, Fred Durst, coming at you from the other end of the line on my DurstCast. I'm in single digits because I'm one of a kind, everyone else got their asses kicked by me. I'm also on PSO Blue Durst btw. But I have no time for you chumps, I'm busy playing Jet Fred Radio rn
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>>11684686
PS1 was incredibly wide-spread. It's common to buy a second hand PS1 these days and buy one chipped on accident.
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>>11684795
PS1's maybe common, but mod chipped PS1's were very uncommon. By the way, I have a used PS1, no mod chips in sight when I cleaned the PS1.
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>>11684896
>sample size n=1

ok zoomer
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>>11684904
Zoomers is people like you who didn't live in the 90's playing these consoles. There's a reason why many games sold over millions of copies and end up becoming franchises. If piracy was rampant, then those games would not sell millions and many franchises would have died as a result.
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>>11681812
>Dreamcast-talk posting free dial-up services on their forums
Those things still exist?
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>>11683383
>Fred Durst killed the Dreamcast.
I bought mine because of him
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>>11684686
Tell me you're a zoomie without telling me. Piracy was massive on the PS1.
>>11684946
>if zoomer math then zoomer logic
Just embarrassing
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>>11684986
T. Did it for the nookie
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>>11685059
>Piracy was massive on the PS1.
Delusional groomer detected. No wonder you hate math. Stop doing meth.
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>>11682285
>>11682586
>>11683703
Your rebuttal to the attached image anon? Kindly show the class the free software solution you spoke of in >>11682285


There is also the creators website (blog.kazade.co.uk/p/dreampi.html) where it states:
"DreamPi is a piece of software I've written combined with a standard set of hardware which allows the SEGA Dreamcast to connect to the internet without a dial-up ISP."
See that bit that says "standard set of hardware"? The creator was nice enough to provide us a list of them! Here's a copypasta of that too:
"To build a DreamPi, you need the following hardware:
A Raspberry Pi
An SD card containing the DreamPi software image
A Linux-compatible, USB dial-up voice modem (UK | US | DE)
A telephone cable
An ethernet cable
Dreamcast browser software (e.g. Dreamkey 3.0)

Chances are (regardless of region) you will also need to build a line voltage inducer. This is a simple circuit which sends an electric current down the telephone cable. For this you will need:
A 0.47uf capacitor
A 380 Ohm resistor
A 9v battery connector (two if you have a PAL modem)
A 9v battery (two if you have a PAL modem)
A soldering iron, some solder, wire strippers, electrical tape, and patience"


So I ask you again,what's your smary childish come-back gonna be this time?

--With Love,
a passing shitposter <3
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>>11685951
>Your rebuttal to the attached image anon?
See:
>>11685951
>DreamPi is a piece of software I've written
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>>11681812
>posted on a Saturday
Kys
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>>11685997
>ignoring the bit that proves him wrong
can't use the free software wthout the hardware anon.
i.e. it isn't free
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>>11683703
where is this concession exactly?
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>>11684946
Uh.. how do YOU know how many people pirated? You can't. Just because a title sold millions doesnt mean it wouldn't have sold additional millions if pirates didn't pirate. Pirated games were easily available, you got 4-5 games for the price of one legit game.
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>>11685268
you say buzzwords without even knowing what they mean lol dumb zoomer
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>>11686148
I haven't seen this much cope since the last mister thread
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>>11686192
False. I know how many people pirated, they were FEW, not many. Because it if it were many, then many video game titles would underperform, with franchises like Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid never getting sequels as a result. You had to have mod-chipped PS1 to play pirated games and not many were willing(nor knew anything about) to modchip their PS1. Many of my friends had legit copies of PS1 games. The only time I've seen anything close to pirated was a DreamSNES CD-R disc, used to play SNES games on the Dreamcast. This was back in 2000 or 2001, but nonetheless I got to play SNES games on a Sega console and that's because my wealthy friend(middle or upper class) had a PC with a built-in CD burner, who lived in a wealthy neighborhood. But even he didn't have pirated PS1 games. But he did have pirated Dreamcast games.

>>11686286
Stay triggered groomer.
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I burn the games they are free
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>>11687301
here's your last (you). don't waste it
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>>11685268
I accept your concession
>>11687301
>more zoomer math more zoomer logic larp added
Just embarrassing
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I've never played PSO before. Should I connect my Dreamcast online? Does the game actually hold up if you haven't played it before?
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Even with modern Internet old games online still use awkward delay-based netcode.

Trying to play CvS2 EO online over Insignia is decently fun but I've been spoiled by modern rollback netcode.
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this thread just goes to show that actual retards will argue vehemently over literally anything
the fragility is palpable
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>>11684686
GET, I SAY, GET A LOAD OF THIS GUY
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>>11686181
>is it in the room with us now?
>show me on the doll where the concession is
>tell me you don't concede without telling me
>still time to delete this post, my guy
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>>11687301
The more popular [thing] is, the more likely it is to be pirated or bootlegged. Yes, this means the [Thing] Corporation gets less profit but that rarely results in it folding because there are enough legit customers.

Guess you swallowed the "you wouldn't download a car" propaganda hook, line and sinker
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>>11687874
Discussion!? On my discussion board!?
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>>11681812
Fred durst is and always will be /our/ guy
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>>11687973
>shitposting? on my shitposting board?
>my
So it's true that most shitposters are tjs?
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>>11687839
No, what's embarrassing is that you're on meth, you hate math and you hate that I'm right. Your math ain't mathing because you hate math. Whereas my math works because I love it, hence why I know for a fact piracy on the PS1 wasn't widespread or rampant on the PS1 due to several factors, one of which is...1) requiring a modchip. 2) requiring solder skills. 3) CD burners were expensive at the time, not very many people had one installed on PC's.

Thus making it less likely for piracy to be common the PS1. The PS1 birthed many franchises, selling millions of games, which wouldn't have been possible with widespread piracy.

>>11687940
You're an idiot if you think modchipped PS1's were super common or that CD burners were affordable.

>>11687963
False. The most popular thing is usually the least pirated and most affordable. PS1 attracted massive third party support, thanks to it's anti-piracy measures. Whereas the price ($299) attracted the consumers who didn't wanna pay $399 for a Saturn. Which reminds me, CD burners at the time were $700. So unless you were rich, you weren't pirating PS1 games anytime soon. At that point, you may as well have bought or build a gaming PC, buy "Bleem" and download PS1 roms. Instead of buying a PS1 to then install a modchip, to then buy and install a CD burner for your PC, which you would have undoubtedly spent over $1000 dollars like an idiot just to pirate games. LOL
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>>11689135
Get well soon
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Limp Dickspit sucks and always will suck, no amount of gen z born in the wrong gen shit will change that. I was actually a preteen when they were around and they sucked, deserved to be mocked, fuck zoomer revisionism and their gay obsession with my decade of adolescence.

Likewise, Dreamcast was a middling system with a couple good games that put the final nail in Sega's back, you wouldn't think fondly of it if you really grew up with Sega like I did, you'd be pissed at how it sunk them and forced them to make games for Nintendblow.
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>>11689757
Waving the white flag already? Alrighty then, victory is mine.
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>>11691047
>no u
You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.
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>>11682370
gem of a post
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>>11689782
>Limp Dickspit sucks and always will suck, no amount of gen z born in the wrong gen shit will change that.
no ones gonna read the rest of your post if you reveal that you have bad taste in the first sentence. opinion discarded.
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>>11684746
Based durstposter is le based
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>>11681812
>the games are only going to get more expensive.
>>11681913
>Not the same as real hardware

Back in my day, we burned a boot disc and played pirated games that way.

However now days, it's even better: get GDemu. GDemu allows you to load games from your SD card and run games on their native environment. Zero soldering required, just unplug the GD-ROM drive and replace it with a GDemu.
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>>11687870
There's barely anyone playing the Dreamcast version of the game, and it's probably the version that has aged the worst. Either get PSOBB on PC or play PSO Episode 1&2 on GameCube or Xbox.



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