This video actually got me to go out and get a Sega Dreamcast at a local vintage games store. Now i find myself wanting to collect the entire library because it was just SUCH a great system.
My Dreamcast regret is that I waited until January 2001 to buy a Sega Sports Dreamcast, which happened to be only two weeks before Sega announced they were discontinuing it. I panicked and took it back to the retailer for a full refund (Walmart had a great refund policy back then). If I knew then what I knew now, I would've kept it and never traded it in. But I was a bit of a fanboy and wanted to back a console that was going to compete against Sony, so I eventually used my Dreamcast refund to pre-order the new console in town, Microsoft's Xbox. I don't regret buying an Xbox, because I loved that console. I just wish I had it alongside the Dreamcast. I shouldn't have traded in my Xbox either. So many regrets. lol
@@G360LIVE Trust me you never really do get over some of those missed opportunities or bad decisions. Back in the late 90s when there was still an abundance of PS1 games not to mention tons of retro stuff going for cheap I made a lot of bad decisions both selling and buying. To this day I can look back and see all the times I could have bought games that are worth literally hundreds of dollars now or sold games that are worth a small fortune now as well. However these days when I see something that I even have any inkling is going to be worth a good amount of money or just a good investment I'll either check it on my phone a little oe research and come back. Also I do frequent a lot of thrift shops as those are a straight up gold mine. (found a loose copy of jet set radio future for original Xbox for like a dollar)
Been binge watching your GameStop videos lately and my recommendations are just full of "I used to work at GameStop and they're the worst!" videos from ex-employees. Not a single video of yours is included in the recommendations. Not one. RU-vid algorithm pls.
@@VenomSnakeMGS cleanprince is one of the worst, most unnecessary channels on RU-vid. Literally non- content, he doesn't actually say a damn thing yet he's making money.
I remember getting this within weeks of launch. I was 14 years old and my mind was blown when I first booted up Sonic Adventure. It featured cutting edge arcade quality graphics but on a home console, it was the stuff of dreams for gamers at the time. I can't believe its been almost 20 years since then.... time flies...
That is what he is counting on to get those clickbait views. The titles are so dumb. I order a Dreamcast from Gamestop and this is what they sent me....a Dreamcast. Exactly what I ordered.
The point is to watch the quality of the refurbishment, which is usually quite bad and will break fairly quickly. Turns out they didn't refurbish this one at all, so they sold him a lie.
And then when we watch it, and it's 20 minutes of mostly-pointless stuff like commenting on the bubble wrap with a high-energy voice as though that makes it interesting. I don't think I've ever watched an entire video by this guy. He's prolific and somehow keeps ending up in my feed, but he's incredibly bland.
From what I can tell, the biggest issue with them is the optical drive. If that goes, it's going to be increasingly hard to source a replacement. But, on the brightside there are optical disc emulators out there and it's super easy to back up the discs for use, assuming the drive still works.
I am really enjoying these refurbish segments, also watching you take apart consoles is helping me understand the internals im totally going to start deep diving consoles and replace parts on my current retro consoles
@@halo3odst I respect that, but I personally think the GameCube is the greatest piece of gaming hardware. I love the design of the console, games, and of course controller.
First off, why didn't you set the time to check if that battery is still good or been replaced by gamestop? Secondly, controller ports break on the dreamcast because people hot swap controllers. If you have a dreamcast, for the love of god please set your controllers up completely (including vmu's and rumble paks) BEFORE turning on your dreamcast.
Yeah that was my first thought with the clock too, I bought a refurb PS2 not long ago and the battery was dead. Those batteries have around a 10 year life, so after 20 years most will probably need changing. He also talks about soldering a new battery, which in my experience is a bad idea, it's 50/50 whether you'd overheat one of those coin cells and cause them to leak. It's a far better idea to just attach a proper holder.
I’ve believed for a long while (past research etc.) that you can copy a game if you own the original copy. Maybe I’m wrong but even if I’m legally wrong; if you’ve purchased a game you should own the right to a copy of the code no matter the circumstance.
@@israelgottmein6925 I agree. I DO make my own backups from my PS1 and PS2 games, but I can't do it with my Dreamcast and GameCube games, as Dreamcast discs use a proprietary format called GD-ROM, and GameCube discs are encrypted, so I DO download those.
holy shit i was convinced he didn't make one to begin with cause he's acting like it's as easy as popping it in your pc and burning it to a blank CD which there are multiple reasons that isn't gonna work in the first place but i didn't even notice that LMAOO
@@bionyx6368 yeah exactly, he'd have to Rip it via the Dreamcast itself and then make a MIL-CD format version of it by Scrambling the image. no one does that so it's a bit dumb like he's acting like he totally did all that.
I wonder if when that came up he thought "oh shit! I hope nobody notices that!" How stupid does he think we are anyways? Claiming he made a backup of a GD-rom using nothing but a standard PC drive.
I wish gamestop Canada had these retro systems and games available, once again we lost out. Also my dude if you're gonna claim that you "legally" backed up the disc yourself and then download an ISO at least don't get one that has the group tag (reviveDC Project) on the SEGA loading screen lol....
It wasn't an 'underrated' system, but it died young because Sega couldn't get necessary parts for it in the volume they needed at a crucial point. 'Underrated' means 'reviews and opinions gave it a lesser estimation than it deserved' and that's not the case.
KeroBero Nah they wrecked themselves. They could’ve been selling consoles alongside Sony and Nintendo if they had better practices. This console was initially successful but they didn’t have enough money to keep it alive.
I personally think red is nice, what i really want though was for the spiral to be Orange, which they almost did, because orange is the color of luck in japan, orange is also my favorite color.
@Ordinary GP A lot of the PAL Dreamcast games had a 50/60Hz selector so you could run them in 60Hz mode if your TV supported it. This was on a title-by-title basis though - and there were some annoying games that obviously had 60Hz support coded in because they worked at 60Hz with the VGA box connected, but didn't give you the option when connected to a TV.
@Ordinary GP You can also mod them to play out of region games, luckily our TV's here support RGB Scart (in the US you basically have to own a PVM/BVM to get that kind of quality) so the video quality will be much better for systems in Europe with the right hookups and RGB mods if needed. All our TV's made from the 90's onwards support a format called PAL60, which is what PS2, GC and a lot of PAL Dreamcast games support. But yeah with a regionfree mod you can basically play imports/backups from the US or Japan in 60Hz too, with a way better video signal and TV to boot ;)
@@linkhatchet Yes but it's the other way around, in the Pal territories there was a company in Germany that already has the red/orange swirl logo so SEGA used the Blue color over there.
Assuming he did ever own a disc of the game, then ReviveDC could probably be considered an Authorized Agent under 17 U.S. Code § 117 in this particular situation, so it very well might be legal. I don't know if that's ever been formally adjudicated though, probably because honestly no one cares. No one is losing money from people playing Dreamcast games in 2020. Nor was anyone ever losing much money due to piracy, if you believe the massive amount of peer-reviewed scientific research that seems to show that people tend to only pirate things that they have no way of buying in the first place. In many cases, people go back and buy the thing later, or generate third party sales via word-of-mouth even if they can never afford to buy it, or if it's not available in their area. This is because most people have feelings. Only 1% of the general population are psychopaths who choose (in many cases, according to fMRI research) to turn off their feelings and take advantage of people just for kicks. However, according to research data, over 20% of CEOs are psychopaths, compared to 1% of everyone else. So they tend to be really paranoid and just assume everyone would do what they would do when it comes to questions of ethics (for example, bragging about your "winnings" while underpaid people are dying of heat stoke in your warehouses), and then project that narrative to all their flying monkeys to repeat to everyone, regardless of what real research actually says. You know there are some developers and musicians, myself included, who actually encourage piracy of their own work, and they still make money. Maybe it's just the people who make stuff so shitty that people DON'T want to go back and buy it later, after they get a chance to actually see it, who are spreading this nonsense.
i was looking to see if anyone said this. lol. Because you can't just put dreamcast games in a PC and back them up. Dreamcast games are not CD-roms they are GD-roms which is a disc format that can only be read by the dreamcast. the only way to actually make a backup is to do it through a network connection to a PC and it takes a LONG time. and on top of that cutscenes need to be shrunk in order for the GD-Rom data to fit on a CD-rom. kind of funny how he acts like you can just pop the disc in a pc and make a backup when you can't.
@@nighteel Yeah .... i was like wtf... this guy has no clue how to make a backup .... you can either use your solution with the network ... or rip to an sd card with the sd adapter from DC-swat or jj1odm ... or you can even use your pc ... if you can get a very old (and very rare) cd drive model and flash a custom firmware to it. Maybe it is also possible with the sega katana ...(don't know about that one, but seems possible)
I bought a Dreamcast at a Flea Market for $25 and it came bundled with 4 Sega sports titles, Crazy Taxi, and Fighting Force 2. Also paid $20 for a copy of Seaman with the mic included.
@@jsc315 It came in the original box too.... however stupid, stupid me lost the green mic topper over the course of 3 years of owning said Dreamcast.......... Also at the same flea market, some old man was selling Super Mario Sunshine used for $3....
@@Irraptured ooooooooookkkkaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy if you say so, but you are missing out. i have more nostalgia for the N64 as i never had one but i remember watching people play on it when i was at a summer daycare for a few years. i only got a dreamcast maybe 5 years ago and i had never experienced it or associated any of its games with it before then, and let me just say that if you want a good comparison between the two, it would be star wars episode 1 racer, i played it on the PC when i was a kid you i got treated to the best version, but its a very close second on the dreamcast, its only missing a few minor sound effects such as watto humming at the end of a race. what im saying, is that if you ever do get around to trying it out, (well first and foremost look for one with a yamaha laser) you wont be disappointed. its a great system with a distinct style to it and a great library of games.
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@@jessthebenjamin758 the title is over exaggerated, making it seem like GameStop messed up or something. The real title should be "I ordered a dreamcast... And I got a dreamcast
I remember when I got my first Dreamcast, I live in the UK so we had the "Blue Swirl" model, my friend had the "Red Swirl" version in storage for a couple years and never used it, sold it to me for £40 with 4 controlls, 4 VM's, 4 Vibro packs, 4 Fishing Reels and about 20 games. I still actually play it to this day :D
Spawn you've done the title again. Please stop with the 'and this is what they sent me'. This type of title is for when you order a set of plates from ebay and open it to find a severed hand. We know you're using it here to try to attract more views and it's kind of sad that you can't just let the otherwise great quality of your videos stand. Stop using this title.
@Elwapo Gomez Yeah, I feel like im getting a little tired of all these clueless idiot "retro collector" RU-vidrs making videos because "look at me, I have more money than sense, and I treat my audience like they are as stupid as me" Rgt85 Spawn Wave Metal Jesus Rocks Adam Koralik and quite a few more that I can't think of off the top of my head The only guys that actually know what they are talking about, and clearly have a real passion for retro, are RetroRGB, Modern Vintage Gamer, and LGR
20 years from now you're going to look at this video and say, "Why the fuck do I have a shitty Genesis Flashback behind me? What was I THINKING? YIKES!" There isn't one dignified box behind you. It's like standing proudly in front of a bunch of Razer Mice boxes. What kind of nutcase....
It would still be twenty minutes of narration about the box, the receipt, and anything else he can milk for time by doting on the so-what details, like most of his videos. He'd probably show himself testing every single key individually.
I still have my sports one in all black. Still works. Fond memories playing sword of the beserk, phantasy star online, the online browser disk, Sonic adventure and the mini games you play on the memory cards with the Chao...the list goes on lol. Oh and there was an arena game of spawn that was awesome to play with friends too. I need to pull it out from storage and play again...
I've had a good experience of using tape on sticker residue, it removes it completely. I used just some regular packing tape on the adhesive that was left behind on the Intel sticker I ripped off my laptop.
Often I find that when I pull a sticker off something, I can use it to pull up the residue as well unless the 'sticky' has turned to gluey crap like old electrical tape.
Love these retro console videos. I bought the metroid prime series cause of these videos lol. I saw how cheap you got them from Gamestop so I did the same thing and all three came with original cases and prime 2 with manuals 👍👍👍
IIRC you can't copy the Dreamcast disc using your PC drive, the discs are proprietary 1gb GD-Roms. You would need some sort of software on the Dreamcast like Dreamshell to rip the GD-Rom. Then you would have to transfer it to the PC and modify the media to fit a CD-R in MIL format. It's way easier just to find the premade CDI online. (Which is what he did)
7:18 wish granted. Also, Crazy Taxi 2 is one of the best games on the system, and you really can't play it on anything but the DC, unfortunately (I know they made a PSP port, but Crazy Taxi 2 had issues on that).
Yep although my original battery still holds a charge, compared to the clock capacitor on my Original Xbox which was bulging and about to start leaking onto the mobo.
Isaac Delacroix ahh! A fellow berserk fan. I miss seeing the geysers of blood in berserk mode and the cool crossbow Gatling gun on his arm. Sorry bout your Dreamcast. Maybe this vid will help give you ideas to fix it.
Thank you for your interest. The console can not read the discs, but it can probably be repaired by calibrating the laser. Yes, I am a big fan of Berserk, since 1996 and I loved the game, especially the bright red eye, the fights and the cannon with endless ammunition.
Isaac Delacroix hope you can get that laser fixed my friend. That game will obviously be remembered by us both. Most memorable part? That crazy hard battle with the giant gargoyle. Least I think that’s what it was? 🤔
@@Chriscovelli1 In the burning village? That is Zodd the immortal. I'm sure you remember a gargoyle because its fur was made with a few polygons. Other times. My favorite parts are the fights in the castle dungeons and the boss battles, like Zodd, the woman plant, the giant baby mandrake and the final boss
Pro tip for anyone here; your Dreamcast GD-Rom drives rails dry out over time, the plastic pieces of the laser sliding down the metal rails with no lube or dried out lube cause that grinding sound. At worst, this issue can completely cause your Dreamcast to stop reading discs, with almost no lube the drives get hung up and appear to stop working. If you use white lithium grease to re-lube the rails on the drive, the drive becomes MUCH quieter, and in almost all cases the drives come back to life like that if they’ve stopped working. HIGHLY recommend doing that to any Dreamcast or console you own!
angelshide yeah, I was curious about his ripping of the disc as well because last I heard there was only a couple of drives that could do it otherwise you had to do it from the dreamcast via the broadband adapter or dream shell. Then I saw revive dreamcast project pop up in the bottom right... lol
Yeah, as soon as he said he was gonna "make a backup" and that he "has a disc drive and everything" I knew he was just gonna grab a copy off the internet.
That's because he's like the commercial for switching Internet providers. "Hi... I'm me, and that's me... 30 days before." He's the 30 days before guy!!! LOL
9:45 I caught you red-handed you did not personally make that back up yourself. 😂 I don't blame you because you would technically need an SD card adapter to make it. I personally have replaced all the capacitors in my dreamcast with polymer capacitors. Also gries the gd-rom drive and it's not as noisy anymore. You probably already know this but the controller Port issue is just a blown fuse, you can replace those with resettable fuses now
The laser might need a simple recalibration. You basically pop it open and twist a screw a half turn, test and repeat until it reads. I did the opposite to make mine read cdrw instead of CDR.
yeah i have a revision 0 dreamcast that doesn't read discs either, but mine was caused by a gear in the laser's arm warping and cracking, specifically, the gear that's right on the motor.
Unfortunately Sega used pretty cheap disk drives to keep the cost down after the Saturn's poor sales in the west due partially to it costing $100 more than the PS1. Despite its weird design the Saturn is built like a tank in comparison to most other consoles.
are you clickbaiting everything now? "see 20 min of this video to know the answer, an answer that would take like 5 sec to respond or 3 min max to explain"
I love how he pretends that he actually made a backup of Crazy Taxi himself and not just downloaded one. He claims he has a drive in the PC to do it. I'd really like to know what drive he has to backup GD-ROMs lol. Then at 9:42 it has an image added to the boot screen from the group that ripped it! LOL!
Am sick of u and others kicking gamestop. I remember when there where no video game stores. Only pawnshops to sale your games. U think gamestop is bad try a pawnshop. Do you only want digital games . Gamestop is something we have to save. Stop making fun of them. Trust me you will hate it if they go out of business.
Pawn shops are pretty terrible. They'll have some old shitty sports game for the SNES priced at like $50 cause they heard "these old games are collectible now"
There use to be mom and pop video game stores till gamestop took over. They destroyed any competition and because they had no one else to challenge them they can dictate the quality of service they give you. Which in a free market, why not give you bad service and save a buck. This also allowed them to discontinue selling retro games for a very long time. Gamestop selling retro games has only been the past few years. Just because it's all we have doesn't make it good. Defending gamestop is like defending eating food out of a dumpster when your starving: I understand why you're doing it but life could be better.
wait ..how did you back up your copy of crazy taxi ? a PC disc drive wont read those GD-ROM disc .. you would maybe need the broadband adapter to rip the game ????
Because you can't simply put a GDR into a DVD drive and rip it. They are on Gigabyte Disc's, which obviously can't be ripped via PC disc drive lol. I laughed out loud when he said he was gonna rip it with the PC, "Nope"!
What PC disc drive can read gdroms? I know there was one that could read Xbox and Xbox 360 and another that read Wii and GC, but I was under the impression that you needed a broadband adapter and crossover cable to read DC discs over the pc
N64 DD. It's an N64 DD game. I dunno, either cater to an audience that knows what you're talking about, or doesn't, don't try to do it for both. Acknowledge it, and move on.
When he showed that like it was some big mystery surprise I was like umm duh it is an N64 DD game. I would think anybody who is into retro gaming enough to be watching videos about it on youtube would know that.
@@HerecomestheCalavera Everything Spawnwave says is like that: if you follow the subject, he doesn't have any insight to offer. He's just a rich dude who does a shitty imitation of people who know what they're talking about, and he doesn't realize there's more to this kind of video than describing EVERY SINGLE THING in ludicrous detail. I turned off this video at the point where he began describing the bubble wrap. His videos are well-shot but that's the best I can say about them. He has no real energy or insight about anything.
@@jamescarter3196 dude. I've got like 1000 videos, but I have shit camera, mic, and editing skills so no one ever watched me. I was making videos for almost a decade and whole I got a decent amount of views overall, I got no consistent viewership and I just haven't made a video since like last spring. When guys like this with money and a better setup do the "same" thing as me, I have no chance.
Man the comments are full or weird hate that is upset he's making fun of GameStop. What is going on? Did I miss something because there's nothing remotely negative about GameStop itself. It's a teardown video of stuff he got in the mail. It's very confusing.
Ummm...the whole series about gamestop is one nit pick after another.....he complains about cases, little scratches , every stupid thing that doesn't matter. Snickers like he's expecting shit to be wrong. It's obvious. I watch a lot of reviews and he's the only one infatuated with gamestop. Maybe he got fired from there or his boyfriend left him for someone that works there idk
This video sparked my interest in the dreamcast. I picked one up for $50 about 2 days ago with 7 games 2 controllers and a 3rd party memory card. I absolutely love the console, I'm just waiting to start picking up more games and I know ill love it more
As a host, he's got a weird combination of 'boring' and 'squeaky clean' with no genuine enthusiasm, he moves really slow, discusses pointless things and rarely says anything interesting. I've never seen anyone else in unpackaging videos discuss the quality of the bubble wrap. I think that pretty much sums up my impression of 'Spawn Wave', which I have to say is a pretty bad name also for a channel like this; I'm guessing it's a video game reference, but it's so vague that it just doesn't make any sense as a name for a 'retro-tech' channel, and it's a little too close to 'Sperm Wave'.
