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The PlayStation 2's main advantage over the Dreamcast was its DVD-Video playback capability. Sega introduced online play along with different marketing plans to counter the Playstation 2's popularity. Unfortunately, modernizing the Dreamcast's appearance, dropping costs and introducing new ways to play games was not enough. Furthermore the DVD-enabled PS2 cost less than the average DVD player at the time of its release. This fact was possibly the biggest factor contributing to the Dreamcast's demise in Japan.
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Perhaps what is most intriguing about the Dreamcast is the internet connectivity. The system comes with a 56K modem, and web browsing and dial-up software is included. Set-up for the online aspect of the system is a snap. Enter the basic information supplied by your ISP, and you're ready to go in no time. ATT Worldnet is the preferred ISP, and if you sign up with them you get a Dreamcast keyboard (a $20 value, but really worth gold when typing emails), but the unit can be configured for any carrier. The web browsing software is supplied by PlanetWeb, and is not too shabby.
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The Dreamcast has no external storage medium, and only has 16MB of RAM. As such, the Dreamcast port of ScummVM does not support The Curse of Monkey Island, nor the Dig. The resources required for these games are too great for the Dreamcast to handle. Full Throttle is not completable. Every other game supported by ScummVM should be completable with the Dreamcast port.
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After the announcement of Border Down, Dreamcast-Petition and Lik-Sang decided to have a booth at the 2003 Games Convention in Leipzig to promote themselves and Dreamcast advocacy in general. The booth ... featured the Treamcast, an unofficial portable Dreamcast and could play a number of Japanese imports.
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Dreamcast emulators have basically appeared out of nowhere. Usually as emulator projects start out, they are generally not very good at first, have little or no compatibility with commercial games, and run very slow. Such is not the case with Dreamcast emulators. On today’s PCs, the main dreamcast emulator projects such as Chankast and nullDC run at nearly if not full speed, and have a very high compatibility rate. Japan got the Dreamcast in 1998, the rest of the world got the Dreamcast in 1999. At the time of its release (at least here in America), the Dreamcast was considered to be ahead of its time and was initially successful.
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Chankast is the first Dreamcast emulator released to run commercial titles. Chankast is capable of running many commercial titles at a decent speed on a 2Ghz system or above. Currently, Chankast is still in alpha stages, so many titles will contain graphical glitches or may not run at all. Due to limitations on reading the GD-ROM format, Chankast is only able to run from backup discs and homemade binaries.
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