I think most console shops should be able to repair a PS2, given time. They will most likely just change the lens after all.

My favorite games on Dreamcast are always the fighting games. The only console ports of Street Fighter III, Marvel VS Capcom, and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure to retain its original frames of animation are on Dreamcast. SFIII was never ported to other consoles until Dreamcast died.

Then there are the non-traditional fighting games like Power Stone 1 & 2, Tech Romancer. The awesome Soul Calibur of course. Capcom VS SNK 1 & 2. Maybe the arena fighters like Spawn and Heavy Metal Geomatrix.

Shmups are also plentiful on Dreamcast. Gigawings, Gunbird, Ikaruga, Border Down, Under Defeat. I had a lot of good memories playing Dreamcast. But I only bought it after SEGA announced it will be exiting the console business. I was afraid I will never get the chance to own a SEGA console if I didn't act quick.

Capcom and Sega were bed buddies right?

What is the purpose of gdemu? Why not just get a dc console?

Opened up my phat ps2 and clean the lens and some dirt around the disc area. Eventually some can read and some cant. Well thats the bad about playing bootleg, but no complaint, at least the ps2 still running good besides certain disc

Now to get a new analog and memory card

for me Marvel vs Capcom was at the peak of their renaissance.

for me Marvel vs Capcom was at the peak of their renaissance.

I can't really choose a single game from those golden years of Capcom. Most of their output were so awesome. Even their licensed games like Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Punisher, Alien VS Predator were awesome. You know, unlike Acclaim.

Try tilting the PS2 , 90 degrees or 180. Works previously for PS1

Most of the fighting game you guys agree to get the dreamcast version better than ps2 version? Like Snk vs Capcom, kof 2000? Of course looking for 3rd strike as well, that is why I am looking for a stick as well. Still wondering how you guys convert ps1/ps2 stick to play on dc? How do you even save the game?

And I thought I can play imports for my US DC via bootdisc. Man I was wrong. Cant run at all. Sad.

You're trying to run Japanese games using the Utopia disc? Nope that won't work. What you need is either a Gameshark CDX or  a utility disc like Action Replay. Trust me, it works.

Crap man. Now need to do some trial and error on CD-R and burn some cdi iso to try. How can I get those Gameshark or utility disc now? Man was so happy brought a light gun and Japan HOTD 2 to shoot some zombie until this obstacle.

Dreamcast was part of the 6th generation of videogames consoles, same as PS2, Gamecube and Xbox. It was earlier to market by 1 year compared to PS2. And close to 2 years if you consider the original 1998 Japanese launch. Dreamcast was supposed to be SEGA's big savior. Where Saturn was a nightmare to program for, Dreamcast is very programmer friendly. Where Saturn had good 2D capabilities but poor 3D capabilities, Dreamcast was good at both. And it was a pioneer of mass market online gaming for consoles, which was an important milestone. I think SEGA was too early for their own good, when broadband Internet wasn't very common yet. It was Microsoft who improved on SEGA's online service and created XBOX Live.

As for SEGA hardware, I think it's mainly because the Saturn was the king of 2D graphics. Try comparing any of the 2D Capcom games on Saturn and Playstation. All of them were better on Saturn. And in the case of X-men VS Street Fighter and Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter, only the Saturn version had the tag-team mechanic still intact. The Playstation version couldn't store all the character data for 4 characters onscreen. And it STILL had to drop framerates to make it semi-playable. The Dreamcast was even better. SEGA had an idea where you can carry your game progress from the arcades into your home console. Just finished a session of Marvel VS Capcom 2 at the arcade? Save your progress on a Dreamcast VMU, then import it to your Dreamcast and continue your progress. You can't get more "arcade perfect" games than on Dreamcast.

The Dreamcast hardware was actually used as the basis for the SEGA NAOMI arcade board, which was more or less a Dreamcast with more RAM. The base arcade board was upgraded for more complex games later on, like the Star Wars Episode 1 Racer or Ferrari F355 Challenge, which ran on the Hikaru board. And later on, it was revised to NAOMI 2, where it powered games like Virtua Fighter 4. Just remember, when you look at Virtua Fighter 4, at the heart of the hardware there still exists traces of the original Dreamcast.

Capcom and Sega were bed buddies right?

I can't really choose a single game from those golden years of Capcom. Most of their output were so awesome. Even their licensed games like Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Punisher, Alien VS Predator were awesome. You know, unlike Acclaim.

Most of the fighting game you guys agree to get the dreamcast version better than ps2 version? Like Snk vs Capcom, kof 2000? Of course looking for 3rd strike as well, that is why I am looking for a stick as well. Still wondering how you guys convert ps1/ps2 stick to play on dc? How do you even save the game?

Btw anyone have front mission 5 and lament of innocent? I miss those game that I wanted to play now? Damn all those classics.

•Supports Playstation and Playstation 2 Controllers
•Supports racing wheels
•Supports PC Keyboards
•If a Dual Shock or compatible Controller is used, it will rumble
•4 different modes