Cycopl

dreamcast yay

I'm really happy about my dreamcast now... I got my new spindle of cd's and started buring games, and they have pretty much all worked except for one. And the one game that didn't work was American 18 Wheeler Pro Trucker, or whatever, so I don't really care.

First I'm going to have to point out that Power Stone 2, is quite possibly better than Super Smash Bros. Melee. I mean, there's mini games in the middle of the fucking fights. It's crazy and it's great. For example, you'll be fighting on this airship, and you can punch and kick each other or pick up weapons and shoot each other or hit each other or throw stuff or whatever. Anyway, the airship blows up and you're flying through the air with all of you opponents, and there's a little mini game where there's coins flying around, but you also have to get an umbrella that's flying through the air, so when you land on the ground you don't get hurt. Then, once everybody lands on the ground, the fight continues until the last man is standing. Wow wow awesome stuff, I can't wait to play this at the LAN. If anybody has dreamcast controllers, I would highly reccomend that you bring them, because I only have 2.

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 / Capcom vs. SNK 2 - These both work perfectly and I am just so happy. Capcom vs. SNK is in japanese, but it doesn't really matter because the menus are in english and it's a fighting game... don't really need to read anything.

Shenmue II is awesome from what I have played so far. It is the european release, because it never came out in the US except on Xbox, which left me feeling really fucking gypped by Sega. I mean, they released it in ENGLISH in europe, and they didn't even bother to do a quick sloppy port over here. Did they feel that the english dubbed voice-overs were that necessary? The euro version has the japanese voices with english subtitles, and it's much much better than the shitty english voice overs in the first Shenmue. Seems like they also made some interface upgrades and general graphics upgrades, which look great, especially for a Dreamcast.

I also got some emulators. I haven't burned the MAME emulator for Dreamcast yet, but I'll get to that soon probably. I burned a Genesis emulator that has like 450 roms included on the CD, and tried it out. It worked, and seemed pretty compatible. I tried out Streets of Rage III, and the speed seemed to be pretty much 100% with no real slowdown except for emulated genesis slowdown. The sound emulation didn't sound very good, but it gets the point across and it's good enough not to ruin the game. Far from it really, this seems like the next best thing past NesterDC. Now only if they can get a fast running SNES emulator for Dreamcast going.

I also got Elemental Gimmick Gear (E.G.G.) which seemed like a pretty good game while I was testing it out. It had the RPG Zelda type gameplay going for it, so I might play that a bit also. I think I'm gonna have to buy yet another memory card for dreamcast now, and that would make THREE. I wish they could have made their VMU's bigger, jesus. I buy this cool looking memory card with a screen on it, and it saves like four games. Sega, come on, what are you thinking guys. You might still be making consoles if you weren't so dumb.

Posted by at March 13, 2004 03:29 AM