Post 4 » Fri Jul 26, pm. Post 5 » Mon Sep 15, pm. Post 6 » Thu Oct 02, am. Post 7 » Thu Oct 02, pm. Post 8 » Thu Aug 23, pm. Post 9 » Thu Aug 23, pm. Post 10 » Thu Aug 23, pm. Quick links. HST Serial No. My Dreamcast: Manufactured: October Serial number: DU Made in Japan. Awesome, the entries are much appreciated. List updated. Strange how neither the European or Japanese systems mention their manufacturing date.
The only other way to check would be to open the system up and inspect the plastic shell halves and the motherboard for signs. And so far AlecRob has the oldest Dreamcast. I was told before though I question the accuracy , that the number in the circle in front of the NTSC is part of the revision or manufacture batch or something.
I was told that the Dreamcasts which have a 2 or 3 I can't remember which are the last ones produced and are those that can't play backups.
None of this has ever been substantiated by me but it's still an interesting hypothesis. Though I have heard one of them has an issue playing Space Harrier. Though it'd be nice to know the technical significance of that number.
Can't remember for certain and I'm not sure how reliable that information is either. That's why it'd be nice to have a Dreamcast registry to find out for ourselves where that turning point is in Dreamcast production. Okay, thought so. Interesting you imported one though. It corresponds to mobo version. I'll tell you why. Some years ago, Lik-Sang had received a bucketload of refurbished and modded US Dreamcasts that they were selling for cheap.
At the time I was pretty fed up with European consoles, mostly because of poor PAL conversions and late releases neither of which are really a problem for the Dreamcast, but whatever , so I liked the idea of having a Dreamcast that would eat everything I'd throw at it guaranteed. But I can't say I've ever regretted buying this baby. Saturn Model 1: Serial No. TmEE: Thanks for the information. I've never imported a console before.
So far you have the oldest Model 1 Saturn and Dreamcast. I though the latter was released in Fall ' About the modem, does it still have the port for the Modem or is that whole corner filled in? In fact, although Dreamcast was officially discontinued in January , Sega continued to produce the console for a short time afterwards due to rising demand, especially among collectors and hardcore fans. Several Dreamcast emulation projects have emerged after Dreamcast's end of production, with Chankast being the most notable, along with the recently released nullDC.
One has controller ports sticking out from the sides of the console and the disc drive was on the top. Another Dreamcast looks Very similar to the normal Dreamcast. There are holes in the back of the console. They were in-built-speakers pretty cool right? And it looks a lot similar to the Sega Saturn too. There are alot of cotroller prototypes. Some look similar to the Sega Saturn Some look like the exact same as the final controller!
On February 16, , Sega once again began selling Dreamcast consoles through its online store, Sega Direct of Japan.
The package deal included a refurbished Dreamcast, a cell phone card, and Radilgy — a new 2D shooter game by developer Milestone. A short time later, developer G. Both releases were for the Japanese market alone. While the refurbished package has been discontinued, Sega Direct does still sell several Dreamcast software titles. A translated excerpt from the article reads, "I would like "Phantasy Star Online" to play forever in users.
On May 30, , the gaming website IGN officially relaunched IGN Dreamcast with the goal of revisiting the North American-released Dreamcast games and give "new impressions, screens and videos" and compare them to the gaming experience provided by PlayStation 3, Xbox , and Wii games.
The GOAT store has planned other games which would be released in the year On February 22, , a port of the Naomi powered 2D shooter Trigger Heart Exelica , developed by Warashi , was released on Dreamcast for the Japanese market with both a current and a limited edition release.
Despite rumors that went around the internet, the game was not retitled to Trigger Heart Extension for the Dreamcast release.
In addition, Dreamcast continues to have a modest hacking enthusiast community. A homebrew minimal operating system named KallistiOS offers good hardware support. Many emulators and other tools such as MP3 and DivX players and image viewers have been ported to or written for the console, taking advantage of the relative ease with which a home user can burn a CD that can be booted by an unmodified Dreamcast. Sega wanted most of their games on Xbox because of how popular it was.
The standard Dreamcast unit was made of white and grey plastic. The power light, like the Dreamcast logo in NTSC regions, was orange this color was chosen because the Japanese consider it to be lucky. Games were sold in jewel cases.
In North America, these initially had the Dreamcast name and logo on a white background, but later games used a black background. Japanese games used an orange-and-white scheme, and European and Australian games used blue. The unit was packaged with a video cable which supported composite video and stereo sound. Although there was no reset button on the Dreamcast system itself, there was a way to reset a game during play.
If the player wanted to reset a game, they would have to press the A, B, X, and Y buttons altogether and then press the start button. This would then take them to the game's main menu. If repeated, it would take players to the Dreamcast menu. In North America, a black Dreamcast was released in limited numbers with a sports pack which included two Sega Sports titles.
Electronics Boutique offered a blue Dreamcast through its website. Similar offerings were sold through the Lik Sang website. Cases of different colors like blue, red, orange, and green were sold for replacements of the original casing. In Japan, Sega released many varieties of the system, including a limited edition Sonic anniversary version, a pink Sakura Taisen version, and a Hello Kitty version released in in Japan which, due to its limited production, has become an extremely rare collector's piece.
The console and accessories came in both translucent pink and blue in color with some printed designs. The Brazilian version, manufactured by Tectoy under license, was essentially the same as the North American version, but its video output was converted to the PAL-M standard and did not come with the modem, which was available separately. Dreamcast in Europe had a blue spiral logo, similar to the logo on earlier Sega systems. This change is thought to have been for copyright reasons.
The Saturn squandered that goodwill and brand recognition. Its hardware was challenging to manufacture and even more difficult to develop for, and Sega failed to produce an original, 3D Sonic platform game to serve as a system-seller.
The only options were to go big or go home. The Dreamcast first launched in Japan, where Sega had historically struggled to compete with Nintendo. And we knew we had a huge opportunity on our hands if done right.
And it also played a little bit more on the technology than I think previous campaigns had done. In , the notion of a console becoming sentient and seizing control of vital technology was, perhaps, more exciting and less scary than it is today, decades into the privacy-sapping, sense-of-safety-disrupting internet age.
Online was most important to me. So, I chose that over DVD and internal storage because my plan was to add those later. Stolar believed that DVD was only a stopgap in gaming.
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