Resident evil code Veronica on the Sega Dreamcast is one of my all time favorite moment for a memory and gaming!! I was 15 years old when it came out and I’ll never forget how blown away I was by seeing it for the first time boot it up on my new Sega Dreamcast that I got for my birthday!!! The game was so brutally hard, for a young 15-year-old that had recently beat resident evil two and three, but neither one of those was his hardest code Veronica and I like that about the game because one it made it last and two you felt the grand sense of reward when you finally completed it-
Thanks for watching! Yea code veronica is pretty tough game haha😀 still my favorites are original 1-3 👍 remake 2 also was fantastic despite not having as good B scenarios as original
I worked in a computer shop back in 1999 , I really tried to push this system out the door but people weren't buying . . It's a shame people didn't give it a chance tbh .
They were kind of right, I mean, Dreamcast isn't a bad console, but in 1999 people who were invested in videogames know that in 1 year PS2 and GameCube came out, and also they know Sega and the things they did so people don't trust them. And people who weren't invested in videogames didn't know that Dreamcast was a competent console, they know ps1 and Nintendo 64 better.
Great video. The PS2 is such an awesome system but I'll always have a soft spot for the Dreamcast. The differences in SOF is interesting. There are fewer details and assets in some scenes on the DC, likely due to it have less system memory, but the textures look better and that's probably from it having twice as much texture memory. I'm also not sure the ghosting in RECV is from the interlaced mode, you can still see it in the 480p mode in your video. Many studios tried to use a blur effect on PS2 to cover jaggies since it didn't have native AA support, so I'm wondering if that's what we're seeing here. Looking forward to your other videos!
Thanks so much for watching! Glad you liked it. Yeah you may be right about ghosting thing.. i thought at the time it was 480i reason . Im slowly getting back to doing these now that i soon have more freetime👍 hope to see you around !
What a lot of people forget: a lot of the flaws back then were masked by the CRT. This is especially visible in pixel art, you cannot compare how it looked back then and how the raw digital signal looks.
About Code Veronica: In the newer ps2 version (and probably the GameCube too) they changed Steve's hairstyle to fit like a precocious Easter egg to what resident Evil 4 would be. Remembering Capcom team chosen the visuals of John Connor to RE4 Leon's.
Do you think that was "golden" age of sports games ? Im not NBA or NFL fan but have heard those games had many features that are still missing in modern titles😁
If the Dreamcast had lasted longer, I think it would be very close to PS2 in terms of graphics. I think Dreamcast never used 100% it's power because of it's early death. 😕
Crazy Taxi has PSN port and maybe XBLA, iunno I played it on PS3... is that the DC version? I wonder to side by side arcade, DC, PS2 and PS3. Soldier of Fortune is a PC game. Is it possible to put side by side of PC, DC and PS2 versions? Then the same for first Half-Life, I know ports had unique assets.
Probably PS3 version is DC version, i dont know never played it. When it comes to having pc versions aswell is ofcourse good idea and something i definetly was thinking but for now i get zero compensation for doing these and already spend no kidding tens of hours recording , editing etc per video so i just have to cut some ideas 🧐 anyways about half Life im actually thinking about doing "special" episode next which would only cover that one game and in that im looking into having pc footage too. Ofcourse half Life was never officially released for DC so it could be nice extra episode to do
I remember you asking about GSM earlier so i went back and recorded some footage for this episode👍 i try to include gsm comparisons but probably keep it pretty short like here
If you can do the same Video but this time with component cable for the ps2, that would be really nice, I nocited that the component cable make Ps2 graphics sharper and thanks for the video.
Eveeyting in this video is actually done with high quality component cables for ps2👍🏻 main reason why Dreamcast often looks crisper is because it outputs 480p resolution while ps2 for majority of games outputs 480i . Now there are exceptions for this but for most part that’s how it is🤓
I owned all four of the major consoles from the 6th gen. I generally loved them all. But let's be real, PS2 was the more powerful system than DC. Just difficult to program for like Saturn vs. PS1. Was a true 128-bit. DC was 64-bit. The graphics we got by 2005 like God of War, I'm not sure DC would've handled it. DC (1998 in Japan) came out 2 years before PS2 (2000). The thing is, I think Dreamcast and GameCube might be my favorite consoles to emulate. Sega and Nintendo gave us the more colorful, brighter, more timeless graphics. PlayStations were always darker and more muddy. I didn't feel Sony perfected colors in games until PS4! If stuck on an island, I would choose PS2 over DC and GCN. Can play PS1 games and DVDs. But I think DC and GCN have the higher replay value in their library. I would choose GCN over DC and PS2 but DC over PS2. Sega and Nintendo have this gaming magic that Sony never really had and my favorite company is Sony owning every PlayStation except PSP go and PS5.
Yes, PS2 specs are for most part better than DC . Some advantages for DC like VRAM but still would have been interesting to see if dreamcast lasted for few years more 👍 thanks for watching!
If Sega didn't roll over they could have easily competed. They had some of the best games that still hold up well but too many arcade style games fitting what they were known for, as good as code Veronica still looks on it it could have had a better RE4 than Playstation, and many other games. I get US sales weren't there but and a lot of that had to do with the built in DVD player Playstation had. As far as game play capabilities dreamcast was superior graphically. Loved my ps2 and still love a lot of the games today also love my DC just hate Sega rolled over and gave up world wide but kept things going on the home court in Japan. As things progressed I'm sure the DC would have found its love don't think it'd dethrone the king but think it would have still done greatly better than how it ended. Sega should get to work with one more go and be ready for next gen.
DVD definetly was a big feature at the right time. Do you think Sega had burned peoples trust at that point with releases like 32x and giving up on Saturn pretty quickly ?
You have some of that the wrong way around. The Dreamcast was pulled from production from within Sega Japan, they absolutely wanted to restructure Sega to software only from 2000 onwards. In the US, the Dreamcast actually sold well and it was it's key market with things like Sega Net and the 2K Sports range of titles helping garner a decent foothold. The Dreamcast only really continued with releases up to 2007 in Japan because it was reasonably easy to port visual novels and shooters to, and even then, Sega Japan stopped production of GD-Rom discs before 3-4 projects being ported to the console could be released. Realistically, they had no choice but to pull it, they were losing money on each unit sold and had very little reserves in the bank to cover that - they basically released it too cheaply, as it was meant to launch for $250 rather than $199.
@@KimTe63 Barbie Race and Ride (fmv horse racing, how fun) and the god awful ps1 port of space station silicon valley. The company existed for less than 6 years and shat out ~30 titles. (With some being these bad ports)
@@nezxd5516 i have to disagree personally but its ok If you prefer DC👍 but spending like 10hours alone playing and recording SOF footage for this episode i have to say i never want to play my DC copy again hah 😄 but DC does have better graphics even If missing some details
the dreamcast has a odd disc drive , the disc hold 1.2 GB of data , but the drive is more like a go between cd and DVD so it's not as fast at reading the discs as the ps2 is with it's dvd drive. that said , the PS 2 was much beter at crunching numbers .. AKA it was a polygon rendering beast in it's day . while the dreamcast have twice as much vram as the PS2 , meaning it was able to do better texture detail . oddly enough SoF having shadows on the PS2 version and not the DC version is odd as shadows are usually a more memory intensive feature quite a few games would cut them on PS 2 while haivng them on dreamcast. so it's odd to see one game reverse this trend. but yeah typcially a PS 2 version would have more triangles while the dreamcast will have better textures.
dreamcast had more vram and better antialiasing, so its games textures were better and the video output was better also. but lps2 in general was more powerfull with better cpu and ram, and it shows later in the console life.
No, PS2 never managed to match DC's superlative visual output, despite having had a 4x longer life cycle. Powerful is misleading parameter. The DC is more capable than the PS2 graphically, and we never got to see what games would have looked like later in its life cycle.
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Same with the Sega Saturn had way better graphics than the ps1 but Saturn lacked a decent game library and the dream cast sufferd the same fate in the Europe and the states. Plus everyone back then was like PS2 OMG IT PLAYS DVDS MUST BUY !!! If Sega of Japan was on the same page with its regional braches. I think everyone would be buying Sega. Have almost the same games on dream cast like we see today for switch and Xbox ps4
the DC was such a great console, but my GOD the controller was absolute GARBAGE lol the most trash controller ive ever seen that and the Craptendo 64 controllers were the most disgusting controllers ive ever seen in my entire life.
going to ps2 from dreamcast was a disapointing muddy graphical exp I was upset knowing this ugly playstaion is the reason the dreamcast died hated sony every since
Well yea but those 2 are very late PS2 games right? But there was for example MGS2 in 2001 which looked amazing at the time. GTA3 was also impressive for PS2 , huge open world with decent graphics
@@chadbrick67 If you talk like that because i accidentally clicked thumbs down for you trying to reply (immideatly removed it) then i mean what can i say 😄 coming to conclusions like that right away is pretty weird behavior
I am still amazed at how good RE Code Veronica still looks on the Dreamcast. It is a work of art. The lightning looks really nice and it looks crisp. Great video.
Thanks for watching Sergio ! Yea i mean that 480p output has really aged well, looks great even without crt TV . Check out episodes 1&2 also from my channel if interested💯
It does but something like Devil May Cry completely obliterates it, i doubt that game could run at anywhere near 60 fps on Dreamcast with all the lighting & particle effects
in 1999 I was 10 years old and I remember going to a KB toys and seeing a Dreamcast with NFL 2k playing. I had a hard telling if I was watching a video game or an actual football game on TV. Granted I was used to mainly 16 bit graphics at the time, but I have never had a moment like that again with any other system.
Yea its crazy to think moments like that happened in the past. Last time i had experience similar to that was when i first saw Motorstorm game running on PS3, i could not believe how good it looked😁 Even tho graphics are amazing nowdays that never happens anymore. Thanks for watching Elliot 🙏
I'll never forget going over my new neighbors' house as a kid and discovering they had this new console called a "Dreamcast". I'd never heard of it. At the time, I'd only ever played NES, SNES, N64, and PS1. After saying that I thought N64 had the best graphics of any console, the 3 boys started chuckling to themselves in a knowing way. Then they booted it up. I was instantly mesmerized. I'd never seen graphics that advanced running so smoothly! I didn't have the language to describe why it looked so different back then, but now I know it was definitely due to the framerate and 480p. Not only were the textures and models great, the whole presentation just looked so different and new. Now I know why. Then the PS2, GameCube, and XBOX came out and I never heard about the Dreamcast again until adulthood. It was ahead of it's time, but got overtaken in popularity so quickly. I probably only saw it used in person just a few times in my life. My neighbors moved on to other consoles mere months after getting the Dreamcast. It made a lasting impression on me though. Even when games with "better graphics" came out soon after, for the most part they still had that muddy/ghosting look with an unstable or low framerate. The clarity and smoothness of the Dreamcast was simply unreal at the time.
I felt the same about the newer console I never thought they looked as crisp as the Dreamcast and then trend of games being mature and colorless really turned me off to gaming in general
That effect does not exist anymore. Yes stuff nowadays is more advanced but graphics on my Series X vs my Xbox 360 are oddly similar to the untrained eye. It's not generational leaps like back in the day. Sonic Adventure had me take a seat in awe😮, but to be honest Last time I felt blown away was when I went from Xbox original to the 360. NBA live 06 at best buy watching sweat on players had me living in the future. LoL
@@torres3800 Definitely. The jump to 360 was pretty mind-blowing to me as well. I remember thinking graphics probably couldn't get much better than CoD4 and Halo 3. It was also the first time I'd seen consoles with HD support for TVs (that input lag was serious, but I didn't care unless I was playing competitively). Still, I had no conception of how good graphics could be until the Dreamcast. Like I said, the N64 and even PS1 cutscenes blew my mind as a kid. Ever since the 360 generation, everything's been improving much slower. New games look fantastic, but they don't "wow" me anymore. I almost expect them to look amazing. I can be impressed with new games, but I'm never shocked or amazed these days. I don't know if we'll ever see that kind of jump in tech again when it comes to graphics. We may get some new things in the future as far as the way games are played or experienced, but at the moment we just have increases in lighting effects, resolution, and framerate.
Dreamcast had that PC clarity look on it's games and it looked great because of that. There are many games that had better graphical effects on the ps2 port, but the overall picture quality looked so much clearer on dc versions.
Resident Evil Code Veronica was one of my favorite games on my Dreamcast. Get the Dreamcast in 1999 and it was a whole other level than Playstation 1 and N64. My favorite gaming console in that generation with so much potential.
@@KimTe63 started to play Dreamcast again this year. I prefer to play modern games, but I still love the Dreamcast, it was my favorite console and had awesome games. Many of them didn't age too bad and still hold up.
@@KimTe63 That is not fair, Dreamcast was clearly superior to these consoles, it would be like if PS3 came out in 2003, obviously would be better than every console, that is why is unfair to compare with the previous generation.
Holy shit you are fucking awesome for these videos. As a Sega fanboy for over 20 years (I own 3 Dreamcasts along with multiple MegaDrives, Saturns, 32Xs, Mega CDs, etc.) I have been wanting these for years (especially since I always heard the PS2 version of CODE: Veronica had poor audio quality compared to the Dreamcast and GameCube versions). You only have 800 subscribers?! Fuck that. You deserve over 10,000 already. Keep them coming my man!!!
Thanks so much Cloud121🙂! Well its pretty hard to get discovered in RU-vid but we are growing because of people like you who find stuff like this interesting 🙏 what are some of your favorite Sega games ? Im more of a just Dreamcast fan but did have megadrive Back in the day too
If I had to really narrow it down, Virtua Fighter 2 and the original Phantasy Star are my two absolute favorite Sega games. But really, I love everything except Sonic (I enjoy Sonic, but not fanatical about it like the other properties). Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Space Harrier, Outrun, Afterburner, Virtua Racing, Sega Rally, Phantasy Star, Shining, Hang On, NiGHTS, Ecco, Space Channel 5, Crazy Taxi, Propeller Arena. I just love Sega, and miss them dearly.
@@RolfWrenWalsh Good games right there. you know i also never been big fan of sonic except as a kid i really liked sonic 2, other than that have not really played those but i just recently ordered Sonic Frontiers. Seems like its going bit more to direction i like so decided to support that game. I had to sell my Saturn collection about year ago becuase needed money for my family , stings a bit still but my favorites was also VF2 and Sega Rally. Pretty much going to focus on Dreamcast only , about to order few games for upcoming episodes 👍
@@KimTe63 You are a Dreamcast Fanboy. You know that at that time Playstation 2 received Ports that did not take advantage of the potential of the console.
@@joel8558 Yes? And I mention that in episode 1 . Believe me I dont have a horse in this race . Im just interested to see how games that released for both looked compared to each other and thats excalty what this series is
@@KimTe63 Fanboy Dreamcast. PS2 God of war, Shadow of the Colossus, Matrix, Silent Hill 3, Black, Tekken 5, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil Outbreak>>>all games Dreamcast.
I remember talking to this Asian guy at GameStop and he was totally ripping PlayStation telling me how crappy Sony’s hardware was and how much better the Dreamcast was. I had a Dreamcast and eventually got a PS2. But after seeing this, I have to say, maybe he was right. Some of these games looked miles better on Dreamcast compared to PS2. Too bad The Dreamcast never reached its full potential, it was headed in the right direction and was ahead of it’s time.
Maybe that guy had VGA cables for Dreamcast Back then 😀 i mean all i remember back then was my friends talking how amazing PS2 will be and best graphics ever and i did bought into hype lol 😀 but most games early on definetly look better on DC if both systems have best cables used
Erm some out these comments here lol I think the point of these videos is going way over their heads. It’s not some fanboyism bs. It’s just an honest look at some differences and what shines better on one as opposed to the other.
Yeea some people take it too serious hah. Im very happy how well this video has been recieved and those people are just unavoidable 😄 but yes im not trying to make one system look better than other 💯
Code Veronica was developed for the Dreamcast. Wasn't it originally meant as an exclusive but ended up on the other consoles? It was developed around both the Dreamcast hardware and controller. It should be the best way to play the game.
Yea , i think biggest reason it got ported to Playstation 2 and well GameCube couple years later also was lower sales than expected. My favorite is DC version but i guess you could argue PS2 and GC versions are better with added content. It is also nowdays available for 360 (also plays on Series consoles) and PS4 i think has version also
I never got the love for code Veronica, the move to 3D seemed premature, I much preferred the ambience of the backdrops in the 1st 3 games. The story moved from something that was believable enough in western movie kind of way into what was basically anime tropes, most people hated Steve & the puzzle back tracking was annoying this time around. Also it seemed entirely possible to brick your progress with the plane flight. When you compare this to RE4 on the same system it manages to look rather basic. I didn't hate the game. Just puzzled how it seems to be one of the better received entries in the series.
Not on of my favorites either.. only mainline games worse than CV for me are 5,6 and Zero . Maybe even 4, never was big fsn of that one but Remake looks awesome, going to more serious and dark direction which is what i wanted
I loved and bought both of these amazing machines at launch. Wait a minute, you missed something...well something that I think is huge. The PS2 version of Soldier of Fortune has V-Sync tearing. You can really see it starting at time stamp 9:15. It also has some very strange distortion (breaks up or pixelates) that almost looks like an over exaggerated heat wave during the same scene. I would say play that back in slow motion and check it out. Great video!
Yea i missed that🧐 you know its sometimes pretty hard to spot everything because i pretty much look at differences inside editing software ,quality of preview definetly is not as good as final product😁 . Anyways thanks alot for watching!
Yea that has been said, i even have that version but forgot to mention it lol😀 well anyways its only in japanese so most people would not likely want to play that version
Thanks for watching 🙂 yea i agree ,so much better hah. You know ive been thinking about bringing Cube and Xbox videos aswell but man getting best possible video out of Cube is so expensive that have not done it yet. But i think i will at some point 👍
Wow Runecraft did NOT do the Dreamcast any favors. Like first of all, lean harder on PVRTC on the Dreamcast to free up RAM, so you can fit those deleted assets. Second, holy COW what does their loading code look like? The DC's 12X GD-ROM is almost as fast as the PS2's 2X DVD drive, and you've "only" got a combined total of 26MB of RAM to fill, vs a combined total of 38MB on the PS2. The missing fog, too. Embarassing... wait, did they use the WinCE dev kit? That is only good for like... ports of random 2D DirectX games and really ancient stuff. The DC versions of Crazy Taxi and Code Veronica are obviously nicer to look at than the PS2's ports. In the PS2's defense, 480i looked decent on a good quality CRT... not as good as 480p, but still. On modern displays, you get all kinds of artifacting. Attempting to REMOVE the artifacts in realtime, even with a Retrotink 5X Pro or better, results in blurring and/or ghosting. Disable all the deinterlacing and it gets sharper but looks worse overall (distracting). GSM helps but it still pales to a stock DC's output (plus there's also patchable VGA support for even most non-VGA titles).
One things I noticed in this video is the the DC is displaying square pixels. What that means is that the image is not distorted. The PS2 image is slightly lower resolution on the horizontal axis, which you can tell simply by looking at the shapes of things, especially faces, which you are more used to assessing if they look too wide.
DC, the only console I ever bought day one. Had all 3 of these games on DC so I never bought the PS2 versions. For Crazy Taxi, being that the arcade Naomi board and DC have a similar architecture, it would make sense that the DC gives a closer experience to the arcade.
@@KimTe63 Unfortunately, I sold all my consoles (NES gen to PS2 gen) when I moved to Japan. I do have the Famicom, SFC, MD, Neogeo minis though. And also play retro games on the Switch. I miss me some DC though. From DC, I only have Jet Set Radio, Space Channel 5, and REZ HD versions on my PS account. The good ole days man. Thanks for showing us details in these videos! I really hope your channel grows!
@@foyo5497 thanks alot! Yea i think those mini consoles and ports to new hardware are great way to enjoy classics without spending much money. Who knows maybe one day we even get Dreamcast mini, would be awesome if they do it with same care as 2 megadrive/Genesis minis
I grew up a Nintendo fan, I didn't like Sega. I also liked the ps1 but when it came to graphics the 64 blew it away even if it did look blurry, It was not a pixelated mess. Then the dreamcast came along and one of the guys at the game store I went to, imported one from Japan. I believe the game he had was power Stone. I was blown away by it. I was instantly turned into a fan and it became the first console I pre-ordered. The dreamcast had a lot of great games. I always felt the DC could've held its own against the ps2. It's sad they quit on it. Sony really put the scare in them. It turned out the ps2 was not as powerful as they claimed. It never achieved those graphics they showed in those tech demos lol.
Yes, interlace artifacts would look like a sawtooth-effect... but this effect could be caused by running interlaced graphics through an upscaler maybe.
Dreamcast does have a dedicated reload button for soldier of fortune. I just finished playing trhough it with a game pad. One of the buttons essentially acts as a shift button. I think it was L trigger. So it doubles up the amount of buttons. For example a and then L held down and press a
Soldier of Fortune fue un dilema en su programación para la Dreamcast, sacrificaron tiempo de loading para ganar en gráficos colores y resolución pero eso les costó estabilidad en los frames y detalles. Es superior e inferior al mismo tiempo, la versión de Playstation 2 trató de darle prioridad al juego, conservando detalles, cuadros por segundo, tiempos de carga pero sacrificando resolución y colores.
Dreamcast was between generations, much more powerfull than fifth, but much weaker than the sixth. Rivalry with PS2 would end anyway in 2003-04, when PS2 got GTA, RE4 and other super hits. I wonder what Sega would do, new console, or just addon 256X? Anyway still love Dreamcast, still playing it on android emu.
That's the issue with ps2 games, most of them are running in interlaced mode. Only few games support progressive scan. Sega really future proofed their Dreamcast games.
Finally got around to watching this third episode! It was interesting to see GSM mode between CT and RE CV, but honestly I'm not interested in that comparison going forward. I agree it made RE CV slightly better, and I think it made CT slightly worse
Thanks alot for watching! Yea i agree it did not really improve image in Crazy taxi . i guess i try to inlcude it atleast in a short way like i did here so those who want to see it can have it
PS2 generally is better at : lightning effects, shadows, particles, reflections, framerate and physics. Dreamcast is generally better at : Texture filtering, texture resolution, better overall native resolution and better color depth. Note : "progressive scan games on PS2 generally reduce color depth from 24bit to 16bit while Dreamcast run at progressive and 24bit. That's is why some progressive scan games on PS2 looks dithered, specially at large portion of the same color "
I always remembered hearing about Dreamcast a ton then and a friend in 1st grade who would always talk about playing Ready 2 Rumble Boxing 2. In my mind and I guess at the time, Sony was seen as prestigious and top dog in electronics while Sega was sort of kiddish, so my assumption was the PlayStation tp the more powerful. Regret not getting one until about a decade later
Yea well back then everything was just so different, hype around ps2 power was just something I know I caught up into back then . Also atleast where I lived literally noone talked about Dreamcast , no one I knew even had Dreamcast or Saturn before it lol . I first saw Saturn live when it was already about 20years old haha . I was just a kid back then to be fair but still , everyone had PlayStations or some few had Nintendos
dreamcast had better resolution but i think you can only see on new tv and some games on ps2 have more details so if we speaking on crt wich was of the time ps2 in that case was better
For sure thats correct.. Back in the day barely anyone knew how Dreamcast looks in 480p. But we are not speaking about crt here, this is both at their best with modern equipment 💯👍 still crt is great way to play these
La ps2 a toujours eu une gros problème avec l' aliasing et plus sombre en général , la différence est net avec la dreamcast, alors si on compare avec une xbox ou GC, la PS2 était vraiment complètement à la ramasse techniquement et cela a peine sortie, heureusement pour elle, que les éditeurs tiers ont joué le jeux....
Holy f-balls...and to think all this time we thought the Ps2 as vastly superior to the poor Dc.... certainly NOT! Dreamcast was a great console and for its short life span it has amazing titles and i cant see the reason why the heck they pulled the plug on it...there certainly was a place for it in the 6th gen even as a cheaper 6th gen console with quality titles...why???!!! i guess we'll never truly know!
Sega had to discontinue Dreamcast 🥲 otherwise whole company would have fallen, part of the reason was too low price of Dreamcast which is one of reasons why they lost ton of money all the time despite console selling ok
If the dream cast uses the sd card mod in the place of the cd will it still load? Or will will it skip loading in games? Or portions in games that require it to load often?
About Crazy taxi: Sega always had an issue with transparency and fog. Back at Sega Saturn, it's pretty noticeable in Castlevania Sotn, (another mutual game between Sony and Sega) the transparency being resumed to yes and no pixels with veeeeery low resolution. Curiously, in the same game, we can see ghosts with real transparency, but not much as 85 percent opacity. I think this could be some of patent struggling between companies. Just like Samsung is prohibited by LG of making OLED tvs, and, works in the gray lines, making "almost" OLED, they named "QLED"! Hahaha
You really need a CRT to compare these two. All we are seeing here is how well his capture device handles interlacing or, more specifically, deinterlacing. There is no flat-screen that can natively display 480i well. If using an emulator... Nvidia graphics cards completely destroy 480i / 60hz by defaulting to 480p / 30hz. AMD cards can handle 480i / 60 but only if manually set-up. I have both systems and tri-sync CRT so I can compare 15khz and 31khz on the same screen. There is definitely a difference but it is nowhere near how it looks here. Real 480i is still updating 60x per second but only displaying half of each frame. The loss of detail vs 480p is very heavily dependent on the quality of the crt.
cmon bro yea its fine if you want to only compare them on crt you go and do that but this was recorded with retrotink5x with component cables which only makes ps2 look way better than without deinterlacing. Obviously difference is smaller using 480i crt because with those displays Dreamcast is also forced to 480i even tho it can output 480P for almost every single game.. now that being said back then Sony was smart to target 480i when it truly mattered but truth is in terms of image quality Dreamcast is just more capable when not restricted by CRT . When it comes to video output DC was just more forward looking and thats why it looks sharper with modern equipment and no that does not mean it was more powerful.. could games like San Andreas or MGS2 run on DC ? we will never know but possibly not. BTW its not screen doing deinterlacing in this case but retrotink5x itself. Anyways this is not CRT comparison and thats that
@@Zebra66 Ok well that is your opinion and it's fine. Reality is most people don't wanna have crts nowadays including me , yes I've played ps2 on a crt and it looks nice and all but it does look much sharper using retrotink5x and modern display. At the end of the day this video is done just for fun and because I WAS interested to see how good these systems *at the time* of video can look with equipment out there . For those who only accept CRT comparisons and still live in 2001 go and do it yourself then , it's not a video for you unfortunately
The only issue with the DC was durability. I think I bought 3 or 4. I have had no such issues with the PS2 Slim. So, the PS2 had the better value and the graphics were close enough. Still, if you wanted to play Sonic at the time(bonafide smashes*) and certain other games early on, it was the DC... *When I first played the Sonic Adv demo the first time, WHOA!
Oh ok i didnt know DC was unreliable or maybe you had worse luck than others . I have had 2 DC for years and luckily they both work to this day . Thanks for the comment . TBH i think ps2 has way better library with some really good looking games when looking at whole librarys not just games that released for both
@@KimTe63 You're right about about the game selection. That's another reason the PS2 is the winner(Ratchet was even a super rival to Sonic and who wins that in someone's mind might depend on the player). DC had the better graphics, but only slightly. PS2 had everything else, including DVD VS CD player(with DVD players you get both) and USB device charging VS none*. *It's been a very long time since I owned a DC. But, I do not remember it having a charging port...
He's probable referring to a well known problem with the power supply... but that can be solved very, very easily by using matches or tooth-sticks.@@KimTe63
