Dreamcast Hidden gems

[Anonymous No.9736857]

What are some of the best, but lesser known games on the DC?
I'm building up a collection and i would like to know if there are games to look out for.
JP only stuff is welcome as well!

Currently i have:
>SA games
>Skies of Arcadia
>Power Stone 2
>SF3 and Alpha 3
>Project Justice

[Anonymous No.9736864]

Why would anyone suffer the worst version of SF3?

[Anonymous No.9736868]

>>9736864
because i own the PS2 version and was curious to try the diffences since it's alot easier to track down then the arcade revisions

[Anonymous No.9736869]

>>9736857
All the good stuff has ports that are better or you should emulate the arcade original.

[Anonymous No.9736879]

Maken X

[Anonymous No.9736891]

>>9736857
Cosmic Smash
Dynamite Cop
Expendable
Elemental Gimmick Gear
Toy Commander
Zombie Revenge

[Anonymous No.9736895]

>>9736879
>>9736891
Thanks.
Maken X looks really fun, same with Dynamite Cop

[Anonymous No.9736914]

>>9736895
If you can find a buddy, Dynamite Cop is even more excellent co-op.

[Anonymous No.9736934]

>>9736857
Segagaga

[Anonymous No.9737010]

>>9736934
what's the best way to translate this in realtime without giving google money? since a proper translation will probably never be made.

[Anonymous No.9737024]

>>9737010
Just learn Japanese. It's not even hard.

[Anonymous No.9737025]

>>9736879
Second Maken X
Definitely get the Undub version if you can

[Anonymous No.9737028]

>>9737025
Just be happy a burned copy werks

[Anonymous No.9737029]

>>9737028
?

[Anonymous No.9737107]

>>9736857
Napple Tale has really good music

[Anonymous No.9737128]

>>9737107
That looks fun, is it from the same universe as Clockwerk Knight? art seemed familiar

[Anonymous No.9737504]

>>9736857
Isn't there a Record of Lodoss War hack&slash? And a Berserk universe action game?
Dunno how good they are, though.

[Anonymous No.9737514]

>>9737504
Lodoss War is "hack & slash" if you use that term as a synonym for "Diablo clone"

[Anonymous No.9737520]

>>9737514
Yeah, I guess Diablo-clone is the more accurate term.

[Anonymous No.9737528]

>>9736857
Giga Wing
Cannon Spike
Sword of Berserk
Blue Stinger
Gunbird 2
Silver

[Anonymous No.9737615]

>>9736857
Maken X
Dynamite Cop
D2
Densha De Go 2
Fighting Vipers 2

[Anonymous No.9737620]

>>9736891
>only one hit for Zombie Revenge
Damn, you have a solid list and further convinces me how little knowledge people have of the Dreamcast's actual good parts of it's library.

[Anonymous No.9737945]

>>9737620
I think it's mostly we just don't talk about them as often.

[Anonymous No.9737962]

It's my favorite game
On my favorite system

. . . and nobody mentioned it
Funny I really dislike treasure too and think this and Princess Crown are their only good games, the rest are ERMEGERDIMSERSMERT shit.

[Anonymous No.9737974]

Tech Romanced
MDK2

>>9737962
I was going to mention it but I thought everyone knew about it
Also Radiant and Ikaruga are still better.

[Anonymous No.9737990]

>>9737962
Princess Crown isn't Treasure. It's Vanillaware (well, not really. It's Atlus but all of the team went on to become Vanillaware. Ex-devs of the Capcom Dungeons & Dragons Mystara games).

[Anonymous No.9738001]

>>9737990
>It's Atlus but all of the team went on to become Vanillaware. Ex-devs of the Capcom Dungeons & Dragons Mystara games
wat

[Anonymous No.9738006]

>>9737962
>>9737990
>>9738001
People tend to miscredit Treasure with games they had very little to do with if anything at all. I've seen many people try to say Psychic Killer Taromaru was a Treasure game or made by a lot of Treasure staff but it had a single dude who worked on some backgrounds (there were 3 background artists.)

[Anonymous No.9738041]

>>9736857

I forgot to metion Tokyo Xtreme Racer! There is also Tech Romancer which is like Project Justice with robots.
>>9738006
oic

[Anonymous No.9738059]

>>9738041
Reminds me, we had a pretty good thread not long ago about Tokyo Xtreme racer and other racing games. The Dreamcast had a pretty solid line-up of racing games didn't it?

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[Anonymous No.9738084]

>>9738059
Yeah, it honestly had the best racing lineup until the 360 imo.

[Anonymous No.9738089]

Border Down is great too
>another shmup
yep

[Anonymous No.9738098]

[Anonymous No.9738104]

This is underrated as well.
People hate the handling apparently but you just need to reduce the steering sensitivity and it's pretty damn close to the original game.
>the OST is trash
There's a romhack version with the og OST as well.

[Anonymous No.9738107]

>>9736857
Get yourself a copy of this, easily the most fun fishing game on the console even better than bass fishing. You don't even need the fishing controller either but it's probably more fun with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VYtgUfPurc

[Anonymous No.9738117]

Is Illbleed too popular to count these days?

[Anonymous No.9738128]

[Anonymous No.9738161]

It's not underrated at all but I have to mention Metropolis Street Racer because I'm about 25 hours deep at this point playing for an hour a day. A flawed but very charming racing game.

[Anonymous No.9738269]

>>9736857
Headhunter, a PAL exclusive release.

[Anonymous No.9738401]

>>9738107
All the games that involve water on the dreamcast are fucking beautiful. It's a shame they didn't port that Naomi underwater lightgun game. That would look awesome too. It needed a jet ski game or two like waverace 64.
>>9738104
Is that like Cruisin USA?
>>9738161
LOL >>9738059 has a point. DC had a very hefty racing catalog.

[Anonymous No.9738467]

>>9738401
>Is that like Cruisin USA?
Dude, it's Daytona, surely you've heard of it before, it's an arcade classic
ROLLLING STAAAAAAAAAAAAAART
BLUE BLUE SKY etc

[Anonymous No.9738494]

>>9738089
I'm always down for more
R-type was my shit

[Anonymous No.9738514]

>>9737528
Second for Silver

[Anonymous No.9739739]

>>9736857
I really like Triggerheart Exelica. It was also on PS2 and 360, but the Dreamcast original was where I first experienced it. I think it's anchor mechanic is the unique defining feature that I find fun. I think SF3 and Alpha 3 are pretty well known games in their day, but I guess that time has passed and they may have become an unknown flash in the pan which is sad to me since I still know very well of them.

[Anonymous No.9739749]

>>9737528
>Blue Stinger
Blue stinger is not a good game

[Anonymous No.9739754]

>>9736857
Gauntlet legends is great fun if you have some friends to play with

[Anonymous No.9739773]

>>9739739
I am endlessly befuddled that Triggerheart Exelica went from Dreamcast to Xbox 360, then to PS2. They put the "best" version on worse hardware than the original. My blood boils.
Still, every version of it is enjoyable. Tossing enemies into each other is a fun time.

[Anonymous No.9740236]

>>9739754
How does this one compare to the N64 version?

[Anonymous No.9740246]

>>9740236
I never played the 64 version so I don't know. Probably doesn't suffer from the storage limitations the n64 does though

[Anonymous No.9740254]

>>9736857
The analog stick on none of my controllers look like that.
Is that an early version?
It certainly looks more comfortable than mine.

[Anonymous No.9740260]

>>9740254
Probably a mod

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[Anonymous No.9741628]

>>9736864
L.O.L. - Lack of Love
Frame Gride
Bangai-o
Mars Matrix

[Anonymous No.9741923]

Rippin Riders and PenPen were fun (i thought).
I remember Frogger 2 being really hard.

[Anonymous No.9742223]

>>9736857
Toy Commander
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense
Capcom vs SNK Pro
Sega Swirl
Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise From The Ashes
MDK 2
Seaman

[Anonymous No.9742350]

>>9740236
Play the DC version

[Anonymous No.9742371]

>>9740236
>>9742350
N64 version was the first home console release of this game. it's actually pretty cool; you can pick up and store items you find instead of them activating as soon as you walk over them (like the arcade version). the graphics and music are significantly worse as would be expected, but the content is mostly the same. you also get the benefit of memory pak saves (can transfer characters between memory paks/consoles), no load times and a fully rendered intro sequence (if you prefer that to the CGI cutscenes... i don't, but to each their own). this version is significantly better than PS1, which was butchered, but DC is sort of an odd story. DC version came out after Dark Legacy, which was basically an expansion pack for Legends, and as a result is a weird hybrid of legends and legacy. I've never actually played this version but from what I've read and watched, it has the most accurate graphics and gameplay of the arcade version. the biggest detractor seems to be that you can't store items ala N64 and you can't buy food so you have to grind for health and loot. aside from that, it looks pretty awesome. i heard somebody say the audio was ripped from the PS1 version and the announcer occasionally references things that don't exist in the DC version but i have no proof of that. overall seems the best way to play the game barring some of the Dark Legacy releases.

[Anonymous No.9742378]

>>9742371
The 64 version is probably the best version
I'm just saying play the DC version because it's more arcade like, both versions are worth playing

[Anonymous No.9742384]

>>9742371
>cool
>shitty controller
>shitty music
>bad res
>vasiline
why would anyone play the n64 version of any game

[Anonymous No.9742409]

>>9742384
to piss you and only you off

[Anonymous No.9742414]

>>9742409
>i want to play a shitty version of a game
go ahead I guess

[Anonymous No.9742427]

>>9742414
You console warriors never cease to make me chuckle

[Anonymous No.9742442]

>>9736857
illbleed, purely because of how uniquely weird it is. its like an adult swim show that starts at 2am
https://youtu.be/xUCOfrSOVuY

[Anonymous No.9742474]

>>9742384
maybe you should actually try playing the game before writing it off and going bsck to sucking dicks?

[Anonymous No.9742478]

>>9742378
64 is definitely not better than DC legends and it gets BTFO by any dark legacy release. of the 5th gen ports though, yeah it's the best

[Anonymous No.9742482]

>>9738467
The only game that still made me feel good losing.

GAME OVER
YEAH

[Anonymous No.9742495]

>>9742482
>game over yeah
thats in sega rally you motherfucking zoomer

[Anonymous No.9742502]

>>9742474
maybe you should stop chilling ur shitty console

[Anonymous No.9742508]

>>9742502
bro you're literally having a panic attack because somebody said the N64 version of gauntlet legends was good but still not the best. that is "shilling" in your mentally ill mind. you need to go to sleep.

[Anonymous No.9742521]

>>9742508
>panic attack
lmao idc if you like to play shitty versions but at least don't come here and say its better

[Anonymous No.9742531]

>>9742521
what did i say the N64 version was better than? the PS1 version, aka the worst version of the game ever released. that isn't up for debate. you are acting like a hysterical woman because the N64 version of a single game happens to be better than the PS1 version. that's mentally ill. i repeat, go to sleep.

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[Anonymous No.9743632]

>>9742531
>panic attack
the post.
n64 sucks
the end.

[Deep Fighter No.9743694]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5_TDddpJcY

[Anonymous No.9743780]

>>9742478
they're different games
The DC game is like an arcade mode and the 64 is like an adventure mode

[Anonymous No.9743817]

>>9738161
Will anyone ever take the reins of bizarre creations and make a game similar to Project Gotham Racing? That and burnout are such a loss to the genre.

[Anonymous No.9744692]

>>9743632
did banjo molest you or something?

[Anonymous No.9745304]

i had probably 100 games for dreamcast but soulcalibur 1, cvs2 and mvc2 were so good that i never ended up playing anything else

[Anonymous No.9745586]

>>9738269
is the sequel any good?

[Anonymous No.9745591]

>>9744692
sorry I only play good 3d platformers like rayman 2 on dreamcast

[Anonymous No.9745597]

>>9736857
Sonic Adventure 2.

[Anonymous No.9745675]

>>9736857
I was surprised at how many VNs and adventure games are on the Dreamcast. Though seeing as it's the Saturn successor it makes more sense. Of course most are either already on PC or untranslated.

[Anonymous No.9747375]

>>9739773
Neither of the first two platforms had a large enough audience for their game, so they probably had to go for a large install base. The unique mechanic is great fun and I wish there were a sequel to do it again.

[Anonymous No.9748010]

any game outside these ones

[Anonymous No.9748028]

>>9748010
>Tacoland calls fps game "shoot'em ups"

[Anonymous No.9748148]

a primitive but pioneering 3d open world sandbox game. Limited in scope and range but for the time and hardware it came out on was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.9748172]

>>9748148
I remember always seeing this game as a kid but ignoring it due to the cover art making it look like a movie game. Regretted not getting it later on when I found out what it was. I need to get around to trying it sometime

[Anonymous No.9748186]

>>9748172
for it's time it's bretty gud
https://youtu.be/ANnhfKckbpg?t=4564
Also this game is very GTA like in terms of utilizing in game satirical news broadcasts as exposition/enhance to the plot

[Anonymous No.9748208]

Probably better on pc but the scale of it was really impressive for a console game at the time

[Anonymous No.9748616]

>>9737107
That's because they had Yoko Kanno on that shit.

[Anonymous No.9748625]

>>9736869
This is a fairly true statement. Sky's of arcadia and e.g.g. withstanding. Final burn neo/mame are best for arcade stuffs. I honestly can't think of more than like 10 games that I'd actually want to play on Dreamcast. It doesn't have the library of snes, PS1, PS2, so there really isn't any "hidden gems" same with the N64. All the "obscure" wacky games on Dreamcast were actually it's selling point. You won't find games like super gossun oyoyo or blast chamber on Dreamcast. The best it's got is bangai-O and that's fairly well known.

[Anonymous No.9748637]

Super Magnetic Neo
I never hear it mentioned

[Anonymous No.9748640]

>>9748148
also the use of fake parody adverts like the ones you'd see /hear later on in GTA games

[Anonymous No.9748642]

>>9748186
also the use of fake parody adverts like the ones you'd see /hear later on in GTA games

[Anonymous No.9748690]

Do you ever startup RE4 on the Wii and think,
>This would've looked better on Dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.9748781]

>>9738041
Is this the best racing game on DC? Or are there other racing games that are just as good?

[Anonymous No.9749045]

>>9742442
>illbleed
My absolute nigga.
Played this with my dad and a friend back when. Good shit.
Also d2, except the last boss who I quit at because blindly making buttons isn't a game anymore.

[Anonymous No.9749202]

Is GTA 2 really good for Dreamcast or should I get it for PC and try the Community and Widescreen Patches?

[Anonymous No.9749243]

>>9736857
Crossed Swords 2
Ecco
Grandia 2
star wars demolition derby

[Anonymous No.9749476]

>>9749243
>Crossed Swords 2
That's not a DreamCast game.

[Anonymous No.9749623]

people never talk about this sequel

[Anonymous No.9749884]

>>9749623
It's far better than Crazy Taxi 1.
The side games are much better fun too.

[Anonymous No.9750017]

>>9749884
N.Y map suck. S.F maps of first game is better.

[Anonymous No.9750025]

>>9748781
every racing game (appart from maybe 2) on the dc is good, depends if you like sims or arcade racers

[Anonymous No.9751257]

magazines liked this game back then

[Anonymous No.9751261]

not as fondly remembered as its two xbox sequels

[Anonymous No.9751263]

people only parroting about the two adventure games.

[Anonymous No.9751270]

I played this one on psx and I enjoyed

[Anonymous No.9751272]

fighting games outside the big names

[Anonymous No.9751276]

>>9751270
Game fucking sucks.

[Anonymous No.9751310]

>>9751263
I have all 3.

[Anonymous No.9752609]

[Anonymous No.9752985]

The Dreamcast version of Soul Reaver is the definitive edition. The PC port is a shoddy PS1 chop job, with lower framerate and lower-res assets.
Just make sure to get a proper GD-ROM rip, not one of those compressed isos for CD-ROM burning.

[Anonymous No.9753002]

>>9751261
shame because its good but you need skills, something normalfags don't have

[Anonymous No.9753119]

>>9743330
Playing this now, you weebs weren’t lying it’s gud

[Anonymous No.9753121]

>>9738128
Really underrated rail shooter.

[Anonymous No.9753139]

>>9743780
not really, that's retarded

[Anonymous No.9753291]

>>9738467
I miss arcades. Barcades aren't the same.

[Anonymous No.9754712]

Not exactly lesser known and if you don't know Japanese don't bother, but Sakura Wars 3 is really good.

[Anonymous No.9755648]

>>9737528
>Cannon Spike
add my vote to this one

[Anonymous No.9757458]

All of the visual novels. Aside from the ones by Key and KID, most of them have only a few ratings on VNDB, so they're basically uncharted territory as far as the west is concerned.

[Anonymous No.9757480]

>>9757458
Keep in mind that most of them, except for AIR/Kanon/Ever17, are probably pretty bad. But who knows? You would be one of maybe 10 other English speakers to play the obscure ones.