You hadn't mentioned the recent Atomiswave to Dreamcast conversions released. Added Fist of The North Star, Dolphin Blue and a whole list of other titles to the Dreamcast library?
I think the 6th generation of systems was the absolute best era when it comes to 3D gaming. There was a lot that could be done with these systems but still had some limitations, and limitations breed creativity. It was honestly the last generation where actual care was put into gameplay and stories.
Sega Ferrari F355 Challenge deluxe ( the one with 3 screens) actually used 4 Naomis hooked together. One for processing each screen and another one to handle the communication between them. It's a very impressive platform.
That doesn't even make sense. An entire Naomi just for communication? Seems like basically anything else would be cheaper, and better. Not saying you're incorrect, because I don't actually know. Just seems... Odd.
I mean communication between the boards is a huge part because it has to make sure everything is synced between the 3 screens, so I think it takes a lot of power to do that. @@nexxusty
@@Mahoujanai I guess they didn't build it with networking in mind in the first place. Had to backtrack and create whatever they created to interface multiple machines so they could communicate. I completely understand one Naomi per screen, obviously. However having one just for communication between them all still strikes me as an odd setup. I'd love to see the way they set it up, what type of connectors were used, etc.
30 yr ARCADE TECH HERE[Namco, Gameworks, Dave and Busters, Chuck E]: I had the pleasure of witnessing and working on the Naomi hardware and see it come through arcades in the USA. I own about 25 arcade machines myself. There are so many games that use the hardware, it's insane. Naomi 2 followed, by Chihiro(Ghost Squads), and Lindburgh(AfterBurner Climax), and the combo system of SEGA, NINTENDO, NAMCO aka Triforce, which made the Mario Kart arcade GP games and F-Zero. Hopefully you cover Playstation 1 and 2 Arcade hardware for the likes of DDR, Tekken 1, Tekken 5, Time Crisis, or even Ridge Racer 5, etc.
I have just bought a Dreamcast for the first time. It has always been a console I have wanted to own and finally got one before the crazy retro gaming prices stop me from affording one.
How much? I missed out on it as a kid got ps instead always wanted. Only knew one kid who had one, and his mom wouldn't let no one come in and play. So anytime he talk about his Dreamcast, we say man you got a fakecast!!😂😅 You ain't Dreamcast you got a wish n ask...😂😅
@@MarioChatman-xm1jo I paid £70 from CEX. I was going to buy from EBay but the prices were similar (sometimes much more) on there. You get a 2 year guarantee at CEX as well.
you can mod it with gdemu or if your gdrom drive works you can burn games to a cd and they work. The sdcard gdemu way is the best though, it can hold all your games at once and there is no moving parts, and its fast.
When i watch things like this.... i ''realise'' certain things for me personally about my own gaming experience. By this, i mean.... I am 44, 45 in Sep. I have been gaming decades. I started with the ZX, C64.... Then went straight too the NES. Upgraded too the Mega Drive, Mega CD. Then in order, i had the CD32, Jaguar and my brothers had the CDi and 3DO. We also had the Amiga 500 and 1200. Then i had, through my life... all the PS consoles up till today, owning the PS5. The same with Xbox, and now owning the Series X and also a PC. I love gaming, love adventures, RPG's.... online shooters. But i have never owned Sega Saturn or Dreamcast Never played a Zelda game Never played a Final Fantasy game. I mean i have played many incredible games..... but yeah, weird how you can game for so long, yet miss out on certain well loved consoles and games.
Play FF7 if you can. Zelda 1 too. I recommend not using the strategy guides for them the first time. The sense of exploration is what makes those games. And you can only play those games once to experience them. The second time is never the same. It's incredible how games have evolved over the years. You're a little older than me as I'm 40 so you've seen the transition better than me. Gameplay is what mattered back then. Visuals took a back seat but we're still great. It's amazing what they were able to pull off with that in mind.
yeah i was that crazy gaming freak kid back then who always wanted arcade perfection so i always avoided the ps1 and 2, but will never get rid of my Saturn or Dreamcast.
The NAOMI hardware is awesome. Have one running in my Capcom vs. SnK cabinet. The one NAOMI arcade game that I wish was ported to the Dreamcast though is Sega Strike Fighter.
Still got my Dreamcast from the 90's - Loved it. One of the key points pushed at the time was the Memory "card" could be used in compatible Arcade cabinets, which I now know would have been this! The pitch was all "Buy the game at home and then play it again, using your progress in the Arcade cab", which I thought was a really cool idea. A lot of the games were arcade like so it felt the right way to go too, but it never appeared. Would love to know if it was properly developed and what happened to it.
so cool. had a dc back in the day. incredible system. the best game for me on that was pso. very good online multiplayer loot game i spent hours on. i remember people would use cheats to mess up your save file and would turn your character into an NPC called NOL. don't think there was a way to stop it without an antiNOL cheat or whatever. easy way was to only play with friends. of coourse it got shut down, but can still be played today on pc as pso blue burst,
I actually purchased 2 sets of those Samba de Amigo marraccas back then. (Still have them around here, in fact.) It certainly worked the muscles in your arms in extended play sessions. One point with the marraccas was that you could unscrew the ends and remove the "clackers", for quieter playing. There was also a sequel released for the game, with the only difference being different music tracks. I think its release was limited to the Dreamcast in Japan though.
Really interesting... Though as a Nintendo fan I STILL get "triggered" by the "NintendONT" ad campaign A lot of good people never REALLY came back from the 90's console wars...
I remember seeing the first image of Sonic the hedgehog showing what the Dreamcast could do, and it was so impressive that even though I haven’t seen that image in 20 something years, I can describe it as if it’s right in front of me! … it was a closeup of Sonic head-on, he’s looking slightly skyward (above where the camera would be) and he was in a pyramid stone style level, and I believe the orangish/brown stones were forming a hexagonal tunnel behind him, it was definitely something where the ground he was standing on wasn’t flat, or the camera was slightly tilted, and the image was rotated to make it look level. The point is, it was a big deal! Yet despite having graphics that blew away the N64 and PS1 by a measure that I don’t even think exists, and a better launch lineup than any system to date (or to come until maybe the Wii U or Switch, but it’s debatable) but people were already sold on the unreleased, and unproven PS2 despite not even having announced a single good game, or a freaking screenshot that was better than anything you could get on the Dreamcast… then to make it even more ludicrous, they weren’t able to really deliver on that hype until the trailer for MGS 2 (which didn’t release until 2001, kinda sucked, and are we so sure the Dreamcast couldn’t pull it off? Keep in mind, RE code Veronica was a jaw dropper, and I still think it’s on par with the original, possibly a little better)
I know exactly what you mean... the first screenshots of that game looked so great it was not even funny. Those times when you inhaled every new shot of that game, or of any Dreamcast-game in general... I bought my Dreamcast only a few days after the japanese launch (Dezember 1998 or January 1999 i believe) and I felt as if I was in another galaxy. :)
Watch out. In many cases, the Dreamcast can be better than the Naomi. Crazy Taxi is the perfect example. Not only is the city bigger in the home console version, it looks better as well. Add to the multiple activities, the Dreamcast version beats the Arcade original. Virtua Tennis 2 on the Naomi lacks the 1st person view that you get on the Dreamcast by pressing the Y button. The online features are obviously lacking on Alien Front arcade, but the fun is still there. I didn't notice any difference regarding the Capcom games, but I would like to shed the light on one excellent shmup. Giga Wing 2 is very much off the radar for some reason. It really is a great game. Cosmic Smash has a "it's thinking" vibe about it, with obvious connections to Rez.
Dreamcast can be better than Naomi? Nah. :) You mean the Software can, if it is well optimized... but Dead or Alive 2 for example was better on Naomi than on Dreamcast.
i only had a psp and a ps vita but now I just play a racing game on my phone and I just played racing games on my psp and psvita. And I had a Nintendo 3ds when I was younger and I played different games on that.😊❤️
Parabéns pelo vídeo! Em termos de Hardware, tanto o Dreamcast de Desenvolvimento quanto Naomi, são semelhantes, no Dreamcast de Desenvolvimento ele é diferente do Dreamcast Comercial, o Dreamcast de Desenvolvimento possui o mesmo Hardware da Naomi, com exatos 32 mb de ram principal, 16 mb de ram vídeo e 8 mb de memoria de som, ou seja, as mesmas configurações de Hardware da Naomi, tanto que o mesmo jogo, era desenvolvido no mesmo kit de desenvolvimento, e após o término, era feita uma "conversão" para GD e outra em Cartucho, e por mais que o "Dreamcast Comercial" físicamente não tinha as mesmas capacidades de Memória, que um "Dreamcast de Desenvolvimento", os codigos do desenvolvimento, eram portados compactados sem perda de qualidade, para os "Dreamcast Comerciais", uma vez, que ele tinha como armazenamento o GD, que tinha 4 vezes mais capacidades de armazenamento, que um Cartucho Naomi, fazendo com que a qualidade dos jogos Naomi, permanece indenticos no Dreamcast... Por fim oque realmente considero, como um verdadeiro Dreamcast Pró, é o Naomi 2, pois ai sim, temos uma diferença no desenvolvimento dos jogos, tendo em mente que a Naomi 2 tem duas GPUS, contra uma GPU da Naomi, tornando seu kit de desenvolvimento, diferente do kit de desenvolvimento, do Dreamcast/Naomi...
The thing I don't get is that after the Naomi's demise, most arcade games used Taito's Type X-series arcade boards instead, affecting sequels of Naomi games like Street Fighter, Castle Shikigami 2 and Wartech (Senko no Ronde). However, some franchises like Guilty Gear and Melty Blood stayed on Sega arcade hardware, even for ALLS UX and RingEdge 2 respectively.
I can't tell which statement would be more accurate: That the Dreamcast is "just" the NAOMI at home or that the NAOMI is "just" the arcade version of the Dreamcast. Would the answer be whichever one started development first? Or would it be whichever one released first? In the case of the NAOMI, its release would be that of the first game using it, right?
Due to the complexity, I believe that the arcade board is the true system. Few people know but the creation of Naomi and Dreamcast had a double objective. recover Sega's market share and save the arcade market from total extinction. It failed in the console market but this move by Sega allowed arcades to exist at least as a niche market.
Same here, the controller isn’t good. The Saturn version ( the 3d controller) has all you needed but Sega stupidly decided to delete 2 buttons on the Dreamcast controller… what a shame.
Ok. This is gonna be obscure and unusual but if you do talk about the successor of Segata Sanshiro you need to wear something called a Decadriver. Namely because Segata is played by the same actor as the original Kamen Rider and the successor is played by none other than his own son. A son that also inherited the classic Kamen Rider role of his father. So why a Decadriver? Why it's the transformation belt of one Kamen Rider Decade.
I wouldn't say that the naomi is a dreamcast pro, it wasn't especially better than the dreamcast, it was a dreamcast with a bit more ram memory system. the term “pro” brings to mind the ps4 pro, which is far more powerful than the ps4 if the naomi had been a dreamcast pro, it would have been considerably more powerful, but in reality, it's exactly the same hardware. naomi games ported to dreamcast are perfect arcade or, at worst, a hair less detailed to the point where it's barely noticeable The term dreamcast pro is better suited to the naomi 2, an arcade terminal released in 2000, which has the same hardware as the naomi/dreamcast but 2 times more powerful than the naomi/dreamcast, since it has twice the gpu of the dream, with modern compatibilities such as bump mapping. it can be considered a dreamcast pro And to another extent, philosophically speaking, the first xbox can be considered a dreamcast pro, even if it doesn't have the same hardware at all, it has taken over all the games that should have been released on dreamcast if the console had sold well ( jet set radio futur , fable , crazy cab 3 , project gotham )
Kiiiinda not sure why you had to shit on California. But okay. Your singing of the word "treasure" made me laugh. I love your presentation style. As always, excellent video ❤
no it only can play naomi games, cause for a naomi game to work you need the disc+security dongle. if you don't have the dongle, nothing will happen. but you could replace out the laserunit from the naomi discdrive (if it's broken) with a dreamcast one. they are the same😅
The Naomi is more powerful than a Dreamcast. The Naomi versions of games that were on Dreamcast are not the same versions The Naomi has been cracked and you can boot games to it from a raspberry Pi or over a network to play on the actual hardware. It's pretty sick
Naomi has double the RAM, double the VRAM, four times sound RAM, some cabinets have higher clocked GPU+VRAM and of course, you had much faster loading times, no matter if it used GD-ROMs or mROM as storage medium. Still, it is quite puzzling that the differences in games were so small... Naomi-games don't seem to be very well optimized in general.
@@vitorrodrigues5735 I can spot some slightly higher texture quality in some scenes on Naomi, but thats about it. Perhaps shadows as well, but it's really hard to notice! Yes, it seems they left many textures on Naomi uncompressed. Makes me wonder why they did this. Of course, Naomi has 16 MB of VRAM, but then again, you always want more memory available, as texture variety and resolution are very important. Naomi's and Dreamcast's texture compression is not lossless (it degrades sharpness/colors/details of textures to a certain degree), so maybe that was one of the reason? Or they alwas co-developed for both systems and then were just lazy to upgrade it substantially for Naomi? I dont know, it is a riddle! :)
2 times more then dreamcast at same games then 4 times up to arcade style games then "STACKABLE for up to 4 x 4 so 16 times faster then dreamcast.. so after my hardstudies would of been a system we still use today. like ps2 or xbox original
Sega knew it was going to be the weakest system of that generation. The designers of the hardware should have included an expansion port for processor or memory expansion, similar to the way the N64 and Saturn had RAM expansion slots. That way the DC could hahe been more competitive in the later years. Maybe even make Naomi and DC games identical if the DC had access to an extra CPU and more ram via a high speed expansion port.
@@aceassn716 Zip drive was never released in Japan and it never left prototype stage. It was meant for external storage. For example VMU saves, expansion packs, MP3s, etc. Basically DLC before it became a thing. What I'm referring to was an add on expansion that would have added an extra CPU and doubled the ram to allow the DC to be more competitive years down the road with Sony and Nintendo and later on Microsoft. It would have made series like the MGS and GTA and games such as Resident Evil 4 viable candidates for a port to the DC Plus if it lasted that long and had the horsepower under the hood.
Not enough people are complaining about samba day amigo for you to get defensive about it. I don't agree with most cultural appropriation criticisms either but still, chill the hell out
With xbox potentially stepping away from the console industry, it might be a perfect time for sega to once again to enter the hardware arena with a dreamcast 2😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
