/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3689104]

What are some good casual or multiplayer Dreamcast games? I'm giving my 7 and 8 year old nephews my old Dreamcast for Christmas. I've had it for years, but I never used it since it was given to me with no cables, and I don't know much about it's library, but I've got the cables now, and I've started burning discs.

My current list is Star Wars Episode I: Racer, both Sonic Adventures, Hydro Thunder, Crazy Taxi, San Francisco Rush 2049, and Jet Set Radio.

They're not very smart kids, and they've never played anything other than phone games before so I think casual or multiplayer games would be best. Taking turns is never as much fun.

[Anonymous No.3689108]

Propeller Arena is a must.

[Anonymous No.3689113]

[Anonymous No.3689114]

My ISP might also be massive fucking faggots right now, because after downloading Sonic my whole connection has gone to shit, and 90mb games are taking 10 minutes to download.

[Anonymous No.3689123]

Maybe Penpen Tricelon, or Power Stone 1 & 2.

I quite liked Quake and Unreal Tournament on DC, but they might not be the sort of thing you're looking for.

There are a shitload of good racing games for the Dreamcast, but I'm not sure how many go beyond 2 Player. San Francisco Rush 2049, Metropolis Street Racer and F355 Challenge are all pretty good.

Virtua Tennis is a good party game as well.

[Anonymous No.3689145]

>>3689108
>>3689113
>>3689123
Thanks I'll look at these. Do y'all know if it's possible to burn out of region discs to run on a Dreamcast without burning a boot disc? Also would Phantasy Star Online be worth checking out, and would it be possible to play it offline?

[Anonymous No.3689151]

>>3689104
>casual
>not very smart kids

[Anonymous No.3689157]

>>3689145
>Do y'all know if it's possible to burn out of region discs to run on a Dreamcast without burning a boot disc?
Yes.

>would Phantasy Star Online be worth checking out, and would it be possible to play it offline?
Yes and yes, but it's single-player only offline.

[Anonymous No.3689182]

>>3689157
Do I just burn them normally or is there something specific I would need to do? I've only got 10 CDs on hand and I'd rather not waste any.

[Anonymous No.3689204]

>>3689182
Just burn them normally.

[Anonymous No.3689214]

>>3689204
Ok, Thanks

I got Power Stone 2 running, and it seems pretty fun. The powerup system seems neat, but I kept getting destroyed by a storm of homing ninja stars.

[Anonymous No.3689218]

>>3689104
>They're not very smart kids, and they've never played anything other than phone games before...

No offense but I wouldn't give it to them then because they're probably gonna play it once then either throw it away or sell it.

[Anonymous No.3689231]

>>3689218
Nah, they're poor and the Dreamcast wouldn't go for much. They don't have their own phones or anything. My concern is that they don't take care of their stuff. The only reason I haven't given them anything before is because I don't trust them to take care of discs, but burnt discs are a good with to teach without losing anything of value.

[Anonymous No.3689456]

>we'll never get to play CCR online again

[Anonymous No.3689470]

>>3689456
http://www.dreamcastlive.net/blogs/post/ChuChu-Rocket-Is-Back-Online/

[Anonymous No.3689479]

I just found out that Sonic Shuffle exists. It's a Sonic knockoff of Mario Party but they decided to put a plot in it. I'm surprised I didn't know about this, but it seems terrible.

[Anonymous No.3689484]

>>3689479
>it seems terrible
And it is, in every possible way.

[Anonymous No.3689568]

Bro don't give them it
You might as well throw it into a black hole

[Anonymous No.3689621]

Which Crazy Taxi is better? 1 or 2?

>>3689568
I'm sure they'll take good enough care of it. They like to watch me play games, and they're not terrible kids. I feel like I've burnt a variety of good games, and they'll have more fun with it than I would having it on my shelf.

[Anonymous No.3689627]

>>3689479
It's so bad it's funny for the first 5 to 10 minutes. Then it stops being funny and is just misery until you either end the game or turn it off. It's worth a play once, with some bros.

[Anonymous No.3689632]

Cosmic Smash. It's a combination of breakout and squash, with a cool aesthetic.

[Anonymous No.3689637]

>>3689568
>not dragging your younger family members into a lifelong gaming addiction

This shit is supposed to be passed down. My uncle gave me his gameboy when I was 2. I kept dropping it and the batteries would go rolling across the floor. But I was transfixed by that thing. Then my dad got the NES with the huge stack of cartridges. I've never been the same since.

My cousin was showing me the GBA he picked up at a garage sale. It's beat the fuck up. It just came with some GBC Sabrina The Teenage Witch game. I let him borrow my copy of Pokemon Silver and soon I think I'm going to give him my EZ Flash IV and a SD card loaded with good games. Better that than having him grow up playing nothing but current gen crap.

[Anonymous No.3689651]

Ooga Booga is a third person arena shooter with a hawaiian/island theme. Great party game. Check out Fur Fighters too for a similar game with furries.

Third Strike for a fighter.
Giga Wing 2 for co-op shooters.
Sonic Adventure 1/2 for going fast.
Next Tetris or Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo for puzzle goodness.
Hydro Thunder for racing.
Charge N' Blast for being so best.

[Anonymous No.3689659]

>>3689568
You can't take it with you, anon.

[Anonymous No.3689678]

>>3689108
Wouldn't controlling a plane with only one stick kinda suck?

[Anonymous No.3689684]

>>3689659
This.

Also, 7 and 8 years old kids are pretty responsible.

[Anonymous No.3689689]

>>3689659
>Implying I haven't made a deal with The Devil to keep my worldly possessions in Hell.

[Anonymous No.3689713]

+1 for Power Stone 2; used to play it with my 7 year old nephew and 5 year old niece. Once they could actually see what they were doing, they loved it - it never left the Dreamcast

[Anonymous No.3689727]

>>3689568
this, kids are shitters, best case scenario they never touch it because it's a fucking dreamcast that nobody has heard of

[Anonymous No.3689783]

I've had a Dreamcast for little over a year, I haven't touched it in months tho.
I picked up rayman 2 today, only game I've ever seen for it in the wild and it wasn't even 4 bucks so obviously I picked it up.
And I got this thought in my head that I had before but never fully fleshed out,
Is there really that much of a reason to own a Dreamcast?
Most of the famous and worthwhile games in its library have been ported and rereleased, and honestly a lot of the time the ports play and look a lot better than the originals, and most, not all, but most games that really are Dreamcast exclusive are pretty bad.
Honestly tho, every game for Dreamcast you'd want to play is on ps2, GameCube or pc

[Anonymous No.3689816]

>>3689627

Literally doing just this in a week. My bros are huge fans of Mario Party so I'm hoping we'll at least enjoy the novelty of it being an unofficial Mario Party. That Emerald Coast board puts me to sleep every time though, staying far away.

[Anonymous No.3689818]

>>3689783
Well if you're into shmups, DC still has a lot of exclusives that weren't ported to any other console.

There's also horror games like Carrier, D2, Blue Stinger, and Illbleed that are certainly worth playing (Carrier is the only one I would call "bad", but I still enjoyed parts of it).

There's some action games that are still exclusive, like Berserk (never played it, dunno if it's good), Frame Gride, Gundam Side Story 0079, and Maken X (this has a PS2 remake, and it plays differently, not for the better imo).

Arcade games? Dynamite Cop, Sega Marine Fishing (awesome with the fishing controller), Crazy Taxi 2 (this actually never had an arcade version, so it's a true exclusive for the DC).

Fighters? Tech Romancer, Project Justice, and DC still has the only home port of Virtua Fighter 3 (it was a rushed port, but still good).

[Anonymous No.3689826]

>>3689783

>Honestly tho, every game for Dreamcast you'd want to play is on ps2, GameCube or pc

PC I might give you, what with recent Steam releases, but any Dreamcast game that was ported to those consoles was completely butchered. Acclaim's ports of Crazy Taxi are borderline unplayable, the timing on Space Channel 5 (PS2) got borked. Sonic Adventure 2 on GC and Shenmue 2 on Xbox were the only two decent ports that generation.

[Anonymous No.3689845]

OP here, I ended up "testing" Phantasy Star for longer than I intended to, and I killed a dragon. It actually has some really good gameplay for an MMO. Are the servers still running or are there any private servers to connect to? Are the sequels good?

[Anonymous No.3689856]

>>3689845
There's currently a general on this board about it. You can play Blue Burst on PC for free now, and DC servers are live as well, but far less populated.

[Anonymous No.3689859]

What's up with you people passing on your old systems to kids? Shit is lame. They won't enjoy it, trust me. It's like waking up Christmas morning and getting a fucking psone when you were hoping for a ps2.

[Anonymous No.3689863]

Jesus, is there some fucking trick to burning DC games on win7? I've wasted like 15 discs trying to burn Illbleed, what the fuck?

[Anonymous No.3689872]

>>3689859
When I was a kid I was always excited about the newer consoles but now that I'm an adult I seek out all those old experiences. It's giving the gift of gaming and giving them different perspectives rather than just playing COD online and calling other kids bitches on the microphone. It's not guaranteed to work but it's worth a shot.

[Anonymous No.3689873]

>>3689863
Try imgburn

[Anonymous No.3689876]

>>3689856
Ok, thanks I'll look into that.

>>3689859
I'm broke as shit, and they aren't gamers. They aren't expecting anything from me. An old console with a bunch of old but good games would probably be better than a new console with one controller and one game.

>>3689863
Are you using CD-R's? have you tried burning at your discs lowest compatible speed? What is the circled number on the bottom of your Dreamcast by the Region? This is what I've been using.
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/pc/other/update-v13-imgburn-2570-w-dreamcast-drivers/

[Anonymous No.3689891]

>>3689863
I should also mention that even though I've got it working it only seems to run the disc if it's in the console before it's turned on, and it's been reading them properly about 80% of the time so if it doesn't read it the first time resetting a couple of times might work.

[Anonymous No.3689893]

>>3689863
I always used Discjuggler for burning all DC games, and it always worked fine. Burning in Nero/CloneCD/Imgburn however always failed for DC games, no matter the setting.

>>3689876
>have you tried burning at your discs lowest compatible speed?

This meme needs to die.
Burning speed only mattered in the 90s when you were still using shit burners and shit media.

It has been irrelevant for more than 10 years now. As long as you are not using 10 cent Chinese bulk ordered CDRs and as long as you don't burn at the maximum speeds, you'll be fine.

[Anonymous No.3689903]

>>3689104
Here are some fun racing games

Hydro Thunder
San Francisco Rush
Re-Volt
Star Wars Pod Racing

[Anonymous No.3689926]

Is there a good database for high resolution scans of Dreamcast box covers. All I can find are shitty jpg's, and they look kinda lame right now in their paper sleeves.

[Anonymous No.3689971]

>>3689926
http://www.thecoverproject.net/

Dreamcast games are in jewel cases.

[Anonymous No.3689993]

>7 and 8
>They're not very smart kids, and they've never played anything other than phone games before so I think casual or multiplayer games would be best. Taking turns is never as much fun.
Fighting games and party games. Power Stone 1 is just 1 vs 1 but still is fun, while Power Stone 2 is crazy when playing with 4 players.
Get Marvel vs Capcom series(as any other vs Capcom), get some Street Fighter, Dead or Alive 2 and Soul Calibur(that is still pretty good). If you want the kids to have every playable characters from start in these games just download an iso with all savefiles.
Party? Chuchu Rocket for sure. Sonic Shuffle is mediocre as hell, but kids could enjoy it I guess.
Virtua Tennis get 2, but I doubt kids will like tennis. NBA 2k2 if they like basket

Metropolis Street Racer is not an easy racer, so don't get that.

[Anonymous No.3690051]

>>3689104
what you need is Looney Toons Space Race.

[Anonymous No.3690057]

>>3689104
>Hydro Thunder, Crazy Taxi, San Francisco Rush 2049
My brother of african descent.

[Anonymous No.3690074]

OP here, sorry about my shitty camera, but this is what I've got so far. I probably should have printed the covers on cardstock, but I didn't realize that till afterwards. I'll have to glue or tape them to the paper sleeves tomorrow since I don't have cases. Hopefully they enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.3690206]

>>3689104
Outrigger
Marvel VS Capcom 2
Chu Chu Rocket

[Anonymous No.3690209]

Wacky Race.

[Anonymous No.3690486]

Fur Fighters, that game have some nice colors.

[Anonymous No.3690497]

Toy Commander

[Anonymous No.3690660]

>>3689818
Berserk aged badly. It's only good for fans of the series.

[Anonymous No.3690813]

>>3689876
>Are you using CD-R
Yeah, I've been using Verbatim CD-R
>>3689876
>What is the circled number on the bottom of your Dreamcast
1 NTSC-U

>>3689893
Discjuggler
I tried that too and nothing and I've even tried different computers too.

[Anonymous No.3690824]

>>3690074
It's not the camera. It's your shaky hands and the lack of lighting.

[Anonymous No.3692250]

>>3690660
And Puck pedos

[Anonymous No.3692362]

underrated af

[Anonymous No.3693072]

>>3690074
They're guaranteed to like Cannon Spike and Power Stone 2.

[Anonymous No.3694108]

>>3690497
T H I S

[Anonymous No.3694194]

>>3692362
Ludicrously fun game. Much better than the PS1 version too.

[Anonymous No.3694196]

Chu Chu Rocket

Then sit back and watch them tear each other to shreds

[Anonymous No.3694202]

>>3689479

This is the second worst game I own.

The worst is Power Rangers for the Sega CD

[Anonymous No.3694227]

>>3689479
>It's a Sonic knockoff of Mario Party
I don't think you can really call it a knockoff since it's made by the same developer.