The Xbox had analog triggers too.

Xbox came out almost a year after the Dreamcast was already dead. I don't consider them part of the same generation. But yeah agreed.

What adapter do you guys use to get audio onto your tv? Hopefully my local radio shack has one up for cheap.

What generation do you consider it? I'd say most people lump Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, and XBox together.

I dunno, but it kind of came in between the two. I guess it doesn't really matter.

The bottom line for me is that if you wanted to play a racing game on a console in 1999-2000, Dreamcast was the best way to do it. Racing with digital gas and brakes sucks.

Microsoft helped develop the Dreamcast controllers...

I really, really loved the Dreamcast, and I still have mine. I love my 360, but I always maintain that the Dreamcast was the last console to really feel like a "true gaming console". I know that sounds strange, but that's just how it feels to me.

The controller was great for me - I have big hands, so I never had issues.

I agree that the lack of a DVD player hurt it. I also think that having the games in CD cases made it seem inferior to PS2 games which came in DVD cases.

Also, they always had to deal with the swarm of "Fuck Sega - they screwed me over with the Saturn" guys, who never let it rest.

The Dreamcast was awesome. I didn't mind the controller.

The only game I bought that sucked was Soldier of Fortune. I remember the damn loading times on that thing were horrendous.

Fire Pro D 4 LIFE!

= J

I always felt Sega gave up too quickly on the DC. I would rather played the DC anyday over the PS2. If only Sega had put in a dvd player inside the Dreamcast. Who knows what the gaming world would look like now if they did?

I just hooked up my DC again this week in the bedroom. What an awesome system. So much potential that was wasted because of the idiotic strategy of launching the Sega Saturn early.

There is a site dcforums.co.uk that have DC Fans and homebrew stuff. They have managed to get MarioKart64 running on the DC also a low resolution Divx player.

Do you guys know what type of audio cable will be needed to get audio from the VGA cable?

People who bitch about the 360 being too loud never played the Dreamcast. ;)

It will just be L-R audio - the Dreamcast had no digital audio out or anything.

For what it's worth, I've got mine hooked up via S-Video...

Correct, but I see that it only has 1 hole for audio out?

Oh, if you're talking about that VGA cable linked earlier in the thread, it looks like a regular Stereo out Jack that would split in to L-R...

ah ok. Do you have it hooked up to your PC? Cause I will be playing this on my pc as I only have VGA input on for my 360. Since I have speakers to connected to the audio in on my pc would I need a special wire to connect to another port on the computer? Mic maybe?

Y-Splitter

Depends on what type of sound setup you're hooking it to. If you're just plugging in PC speakers, and they have a mini stereo jack, you'll be fine. If you are going to a surround receiver or something of that nature, you'll need a Stereo Mini jack to L-R RCA cable (y splitter as martin said).

Still have mine and enjoy it regularly via the VGA output.
Favorite games include:

Shenmue I and II (import)
Skies of Arcadia
Crazy Taxi
Fire Pro D (import)
Ikaruga (import)

I'm going to call you on that. I've never heard anything even remotely close to that about the Dreamcast's controllers.

I like how everyone points out how big the Dreamcast controller was, but always forget to mention how huge the original Xbox controller was. Yes they changed to a smaller controller later in the console's life, but who's to say Sega might not have done the same if they kept the Dreamcast around?

^--- It's not the size of the controller that people complain about, it's the design/ergonomics of it.

Nah. Hate 'em both. Wasn't a fan of the Xbox "Duke" either. The Wavebird was the best last gen with the Xbox-S a close second.