Shared All Games (Nintendo 64 vs Dreamcast) Side by Side Comparison | VCDECIDE 

The same is true of the N64 but all of its' competition was technologically inferior. The Dreamcast had to compete with systems superior to it after a brief moment of being the most technologically advanced system.

The Dreamcast was an exclusive experience to all the smart people who bought it, while the masses were waiting for the PS2. Even though the Dreamcast existed only for about 2 years it got a compatable classic game collection to the PS2, Xbox and GC. To me it still has the best games of that generation.

If they waited more, they'd got nothing to compete against ps2, or perhaps ps2 just came out at exactly the best time it could. Dreamcast could have been updated with the Naomi2 hardware, but at the time it was possible, Dreamcast got essentially discontinued, something not odd, given Sega's history of bad decisions, today, a Dreamcast Pro would have been released without issues.

​​​@@epicon6I love the Dreamcast too and in some cases it had much better image quality than the PS2 but you've got to admit that it never really had any games on the same level as GTA 3, god of war or metal gear solid 2.

@@santitabnavascues8673Dreamcast no necesitaba actualizarse, de hecho hay en ciertos aspectos técnicos donde Dreamcast es superior a PS2. El tiempo en el que salió no es ni mejor ni peor simplemente no funciono comercialmente (por muchos motivos, sobretodo errores pasados) pero cuenta que todos los que tuvieron Dreamcast día uno, se dio un salto tecnológico con una diferencia impresionante un año antes (año y medio para los japoneses). Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue estaban a años luz de Playstation y N64. El ejemplo de que podría haber continuado a igualdad en la generación lo tienes en cuanto aprovecharon (sobretodo Xbox por el acuerdo con Sega) los demás sistemas tras su salida del mercado. Casi siempre el sistema más poderoso no fue el de más éxito, claro ejemplo con Switch actualmente.

Sobrevalora tremendo mugre de consola, 007 goldeneye le gana cualquier cosa que tenga dreamcast y si hablamos con fue la mejor fue ps2

It's an absolutely INSANE port. They managed some absolute black magic with that game by getting both discs of roughly 750-ish MB of data compressed down to only 64 MB of space on the cartridge. Bro that's 512 Mb. They managed to fit the entire two discs, PLUS EXTRA CONTENT down to 8.5% of its size, and in the process they remastered the audio and added Dolby surround support, and it's the only version to have those. It has the best audio version, ON CARTRIDGE. It's nuts man. The graphics are even better in some ways, such as actually having perspective correct textures on 3D models and higher resolutions at times, and worse in others like the FMV sequences and far lower resolution pre rendered backgrounds. But it's impressive on every single level.

Easy to say that now that they aren't $80 haha. And no game on this list is anywhere close to that small

"No game on this list is anywhere near that" lmao styopeed m0r0n, the 2nd game on the list Asteroids64 is actually 4MB, most N64 games are between 8-16MB, with only the top tier games being 32MB and a handful being 64MB, think before typing i know its hard sometimes...

@@alanf8622 I believe you're confusing MB with Mb.

@@jhkuno88 no need to be so rude

6 people managed to put 2 CD's on to a 64 MegaByte cart. It's the most insane port ever done on any console. No one else would even try to do it.

TBH when I saw the leap from late PS3 to PS4, I didn't notice the jump either.

@@XIIITheCoffeeMan yeah. The biggest jump was ps1 to ps2. The tail end of the PS3 had such fantastic looking games that early PS4 didn’t look so amazing. Late PS4 games still look incredible compared to early current gen games.

yeah no kidding! after reaching 2006 the leaps were gone! and i feel like graphics have barely improved since 2008

Totally agree, it was really cool back then because the systems were all custom made, today they're all just pc parts off the shelf which is great for parity buts it's so boring lol

try cyberpunk now

Some of these games looks similar on both platform because during it's lifetime the Dreamcast was largely held back by these overflowing of enhanched ports which were very cheap to make by the developers. If you take original Dreamcast games which use the real power of the machine like Shenmue or Resident Evil Code Veronica or DOA 2 not even Majoras Mask is even remotely comparable to them

Design flaws that include the onboard Texture Memory that weighed in at 4KB in size at the time, meant early N64 games had to be shrunken down in size to reduce the size and quality of the textures so that they would fit inside the onboard Texture memory. Followed by the unified architecture that was plagued by high access latency, in other words, the delay in time before a data transfer could occur. The type of memory implementation was RDRAM, which offered high bandwidth at a lower cost, but it had horrible latency to boot that programmers ultimately ignored storing textures on RAM due to horrible latency (640 ns).

CONKER!

Salieron 2 años antes por eso no resultó

The advertising for it was horrible. Most people just didn't know it existed at the time.

​@hyuga4477 I actually bought it on launch day 9/9/99 with Soul Calibur, much to the chagrin of my gf at the time because money was a little tight. I was extremely satisfied with that game in particular though, and I still have the DC and all the games in my possession to this day.

It isn't that people weren't ready for it. Sega abandoned the Saturn before its time. Saturn still had life in it, and they didn't give it a full chance to really compete with the PS1 and N64. The DC was released way too early. Then again, Sega released the Saturn too early too, in a dumb attempt to "get the jump" on Playstation, when they didn't need to. The Genesis was still doing well enough, even with the mess of the 32X attachment. Honestly, both Saturn and DC had bad marketing, and Sega in general just horribly mismanaged both consoles. Which is a damn shame.

@@Retrorevelations I disagree... The Saturn FLOPPED hard outside of Japan and Sega had internal global Problems which harmed the Saturn business... So they went WAY ahead of the Competition with the Dreamcast in 1998... A costly last attemped to get a foothold in the Gaming Industry again but the PS2 Hype "killed" it

No por mucho. Siento que los desarrolladores que porteaban estos juegos desde la N64 o Ps1 solo se conformaban con incrementar la resolución de renderizado y algunas texturas y ya. Ciertamente no creo que la mayoría de las personas que compraban la Dreamcast lo hicieran para poder jugar los mismos juegos de N64 y Ps1 pero más bonitos.

Shadow man es un buen ejemplo de eso mejor calidad de audio texturas fps estaba al nivel de la version de pc

Bueno, siguen siendo ports flojos la verdad xD, ya que para tratarse de una Dreamcast saben a poco

@@IgnacioCalvo87 o sea no exprimieron la Dreamcast pero las versiones de N64 parecen juegos incompletos en esta comparación. El salto es generacional. Digamos que TAN flojos al final no eran

Depende de cada caso. Pero las mejoras de resolución, framerate y texturas eran muy fáciles de implementar y eran una gran mejora. Además de que los juegos buenos de n64 no tenían unos gráficos tan malos. Tal vez la gran mayoría no exprimieran la dreamcast, pero eran y son la mejor opción para jugar a algunos juegos buenos

O Dreamcast foi imbatível por 1 ano no máximo, o PS2 matou não só o Dreamcast, como a SEGA.

Tem que ter paciência para comprar um N64, não adianta negociar com retrogamers exploradores.

@@renattopaes Vlw a dica meu amigo!! Eu tenho um amigo que compro meus games retro bem honesto!! Mas realmente tem que cuidar!!! Abraço!!

@@Goku16053 E hoje com a existência dos flashcard tudo se tornou mais fácil. Comprei aquele flashcard vermelho super 64 para um n64 que tenho desde 1997... É bom demais! Agora podemos ter todos os jogos em um só cartucho e sem precisar pagar um fortuna! Assim que pegar um n64 pegue um flashcard destes, o custo benefício é enorme.

Me too

I too would like to see that if it hasn't happened already.

Damn right, I still have mine in y living room.

@@ThexthSurvivor hell yeah! Mine is sitting right next to my genesis, sitting right next to my master system!

@@bee2377 it’s next to my fat PS2 :)

Some N64 games play smoother without the expansion pack. Like Rush 2049. The pack enhanced graphics but at a loss to framerate which today is totally wack.

​@@Lightblue2222I was going to say the same thing. Unfortunately the example you gave (Rush 2049) is completely wrong. That game used the expansion pack not to increase the resolution, but to allow for more movement and animations in the environment as well as make the huge 6th track playable.

Some of those N64 games that look extra choppy are actually better looking when played at their lower resolution. Some games I prefer playing in Hi-res mode but others are awful.

I can't think of many N64 games that didn't struggle in hi-res mode. Shadow Man, Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Excitebike 64, and that's about it. Everything else on N64 just dies in hi-res mode.

@davidaitken8503 I think mine ran smoother than the example shown here, looks pretty bad.. I loved this game and I didn't have the expansion pack. Perhaps the extra moving background environments messed with it. I've heard others say that Rush 2049 plays smoother without the pack. I know it was many years ago but I always thought it was smooth, just as smooth as Rush 2. But it was a while ago and I didn't have the Pak to compare. Spent many hours with friends especially on the stunt courses. And we were on CRT too if that made any difference.

Verdade, um jogo que curto muito no N64 é o Blast Corps, mas tem fases que que o framerate cai demais!

Tive os 2 na época O Dreamcast era uma geração a frente do N64, Era um salto evolutivo muito grande , O Dram era praticamente um PS2 em termos de poder , Inferior pouca coisa em uns quesitos e em outros até superior , O Dreamcast poderia ter disputado na geração PS2 , Game Cube e Xbox Clássico, Assim tendo uma vida muito maior , Uma pena ele morreu no início da de vida dele , Não sendo explorado em nada o verdadeiro potencial dele ,,, Basta ver as comparações de ficha técnica dele e do PS2 se pode ver claramente que ele bateria de frente com o PS2,,, N64 era lá na geração do PS1 e Saturno mesmo

​​@@recomecoemdeus5844Shenmue on Dreamcast has better graphic than anything on early ps2 games cycle

Agreed!

R/that happened

two vastly different forms of storage, yet two of the best consoles ever. The N64's ability to continue to provide a more than capable gaming experience with some of the top releases in the late 90s/early 2000s was incredible. I had many friends who didn't have get a DC, but still played all of these great games on their N64

Here is where you notice how important was the Nintendo and rare games, goldeneye, ocarina of time, Mario kart , Mario 64, banjo Kazooie, that really gives the plus that Sega and Sonic couldn't give to Dreamcast, because multiconsole games Dreamcast had best versions of the 3: PS1, N64 and DC.

Massive leap? I remember thinking that the games looked like sharper, smoother, N64 games. Hardly what I would call a massive leap. Have you seen Phantasy Star Online?

​​​@@davidaitken8503Well, of course the games made exclusively for Dreamcast (even SEGA Worldwide Soccer 2000, which was only a rehashed WLS 2000, an N64 game) were better, but at the same time you can clearly see the difference he's talking about :)

@@davidaitken8503 dude, some n64 games in this side by side look like beta versions. Probably the only one holds up is Rayman 2

@@IronicSonic83 No. They look like N64 games. When you put them on faster hardware it is easy to improve the framerate and resolution because you have more resources running idle. It's why Playstation games like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater run smoother and in a higher resolution on the N64. It isn't a great example of what the hardware is truly capable of which is my main complaint about this channel focusing so heavily on ports. Ports are rarely the most impressive looking games on any piece of hardware. Exclusives designed to take full advantage usually look the best.

@@davidaitken8503 Of course, I played PSO, and I am more aware than most about the true capabilities of the DC. In fact, I am of the opinion that the DC is more graphically capable than the PS2. There are many reasons for that but Tiled rendering, normal mapping support, VQ compression and the superior VRAM comes to mind. Did you know that Claire Redfield in Code Veronica was pushing more polygons than Snake in that famous MGS2 demo ? (~4k vs 3k polygons). Did you know that Characters in DOA2 for DC were pushing more polygons per characters than any PS2 fighting game released throughout the generation of the console ? Did you know Shenmue 2 pushes about as many polygons per frame as Yakuza on PS2 ? People have no idea how capable the DC was. Suffice to say that all of these high profile ps2 games - people thought impossible to port on DC - were of course mistaking and were of course possible on DC - complete with superior image quality and textures to boot. THIS INCLUDES RE4 (Although not the Gamecube version because it pushes more than double the polygon count than the PS2 version). Yes you heard me RE4 on DC could be made, and it would certainly look better than the PS2 version. That said, you take for granted how much better these N64 ports look and run on DC. The performance boost and image quality seen here constitute a truly remarkable leap for a console that came out only 2 years later. For instance, N64 games looked often worst than their Playstation versions and PS2 ports looked worst than their DC versions. Remember that this is 1998, DC was released during the 5th generation of console. It's the only console that can be said to be truly ahead of its time.

Tenho um Dreamcast com GDemu e posso garantir que vale cada centavo.

@@EdnXavier Eu quero colocar no meu Dreamcast também. Dessa vez não vou arrumar o GD ROM, parece que dessa vez foi o motor que gira o disco.

You are talking about the Dreamcast but don't know it.

​@@robert5235no clown talking about the 64 clown

Cool

It definitely isn't higher res on N64 but the N64 version is better. It always felt like you could see further around you and some really stupid changes made for the Dreamcast version were not for the better. The Dreamcast controller isn't nearly as good for the game either. I had actually played quite a lot of the Dreamcast version and decided to import the N64 version along with Sin & Punishment along with a Japanese to USA converter. I was actually pleasantly surprised at how much better the N64 version was.

Para um vídeo game de 1996, o que o N64 entrega impressiona e muito!

E onde caberia um áudio de qualidade? Kkkkk E dos frames, jogando em casa numa tubão sem ter nada para comparar, a gente adapta a visão.

Recentemente saiu um mod para super Mario 64 e Diddy Kong que faz fica em 60 FPS no Nintendo 64 via everdrive.

why was the Dreamcast console ahead of its time?

Why?

honra seria o n64, wiiu e virtual boy nao existirem

You're a mindless TROLLBOT program that has no sense of context. The N64 was the powerhouse of its' generation while the Dreamcast was the weakest of its' generation. These are simple facts.

Even though the Dreamcast lived only 2 years it got a comparable game library of great games to the PS2,Xbox and GC. To me personally the DC has more great games than all of the other 3 combined and i still play the Dreamcast every week and i have a ton of DC games to play for the next 50 years, so in reality consoles die only when you stop playing them. And the DC had the most personality with the color and design of the console and the controller design and VMU and all the fishing controllers and the sounds the console made when running the game.

@@epicon6best game is san Francisco rush 2049

@@epicon6 nah the game library were different cases for each console, the dreamcast was top-notch in arcade games, and the of the generation focus on games with deeper gameplay, nonetheless, the dreamcast are absolute top-tier and timeless pieces while the n64 basically gives you the simplest forms of fun with games that dont look pristine but work well despite the controllers "unique" style, it was also THE multiplayer machine then too

@@epicon6 Comparable library???? No, not even close man. Stop lying.

You must have the expansion pack or it will be

@@blastproces mind has it but it ran kinda slow

O roadsters por exemplo é até bonito no n64, mas o frame rate é bem ruim... Já no Dreamcast é como fosse a versão definitiva e roda extremamente bem apesar de ser um port. Agora realmente se tu pega um Shenmue por exemplo aí sim o salto gráfico é gigante.

​@@TheFred128o Dead or Alive 2 também é tão detalhado a modelagens dos personagens, texturas e cenários rodando tudo à 60fps que mostram que o Dreamcast era mesmo de outra geração pois esse jogo que eu mencionei seria impossível de se rodar no Nintendo 64 ou Ps1!

@@Leo-xh8pp Com certeza, os gráficos do Dead or Alive 2 eram muito impressionantes, e são bonitos até hoje. E como eu falei do Roadsters que é de corrida, se pegar um Test drive Lemans, Tokyo Xtreme racer 2, Metrópolis street Race, f355 Challenge o salto gráfico também é gigante em relação aos games de n64 e ps1.

Vc está errado, esses jogos eram os piores de Dreamcast... Os melhores q rodavam em 128bits é absurda a diferença... Nota se pelo Sonic aventure 2, soul calibur, desde or alive, Head Hunter, semmue... Entre outros

Ah mais um resident evil code verônica x... Compara com o resident do n64... Sem comparação a superioridade em tudo do dreamcast

@@juliafreitas7001 sim, foi o que eu disse, o Dreamcast é um console tecnicamente superior por motivos óbvios, e comentei ali que quando comparamos os jogos que "os dois consoles tem em comum", a gameplay fica muito próxima em ambas as plataformas, e que se fosse apenas por esses jogos, não compensaria trocar de console na época, mas cada console tem seus grandes jogos, e ai sim, se fosse para escolher um deles pelos jogos, o ideal seria analisar o que mais agrada, sobre o Resident Evil, podemos comparar o 2 de N64 com o 2 de Dreamcast, e sim, o de Dreamcast é tecnicamente superior, mas ambos trazem a mesma diversão, se a pessoa jogar apenas o de n64 vai ter a experiencia completa, assim como no Dreamcast ou no Playstation, já o Code Veronica não entra na comparação técnica por não existir versão no N64, mas pode ser comparada com o Playstation 2 que possui um port.