Does anyone play Dreamcast online?

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#1  Edited By Belonpopo

 So I was at my friends house and we were playing DOA 2...the greatest fighting game ever. I looked over at his stack of games and you'll never guess what I saw: Alienfront Online and Phantsay Star Online. I wanted to hook the bad boy up to the internet. He said no ones online, I said "bullshit, theirs always some one grinding games out online." Has anyone recenlty play PSO or AlienFront recently?

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#2  Edited By Video_Game_King

I think Sega stopped supporting SegaNet (or whatever it was called) years ago. Fan servers are still up, but I've only heard of this for PSO.

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#3  Edited By EpicSteve
@Video_Game_King said:
" I think Sega stopped supporting SegaNet (or whatever it was called) years ago. Fan servers are still up, but I've only heard of this for PSO. "
True. Do some research and see if you can get in on some weird fan-servers.
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#4  Edited By CornontheCobbe

I didn't even know the DreamCast had an online feature :S

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#5  Edited By SamStrife

I'm now thinking about joining a PSO fan sever.... Cheers Giantbomb.

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#6  Edited By august
@CornontheCobbe said:
" I didn't even know the DreamCast had an online feature :S "
It was the first console with online multi I think.
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#7  Edited By Video_Game_King
@CornontheCobbe said:
" I didn't even know the DreamCast had an online feature :S "
I want to hit you so hard, but there's no punch button on my keyboard. Damn you, Microsoft! WHEN WILL YOU PROVIDE US WITH A PUNCH BUTTON!!!
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#8  Edited By CornontheCobbe
@Video_Game_King: Haha, I'll hit myself for you.
 
I had the DreamCast for years, however never knew it had on-line. Well, i got it cheap at a garage sale when it first came out, and there was no manuals or anything included, so i guess you can't blame me for not knowing.
 
Also, the games i had probably did not have an on-line feature. Spawn, Resident Evil: Code Veronica and Crazy Taxi. Or maybe they did. Oh well.
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#9  Edited By Driadon

There are fan servers that are in full force. I've only seen a PSO one in full working order, but I would not be surprised if just about any online Dreamcast game has some sort of community still going strong.

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#10  Edited By CABBAGES

im sure you need to use the broadband adaptor wich is very rare and expensive now, Or there was some weird way of doing it through the pc im sure but this was years ago i was looking into it so maybe its alot easier and cheaper now ?
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#11  Edited By Valkyr

The sad thing is that the Saturn was the first multi cpu console and the Dreamcast was the first with an online service, why Sega is not around anymore as a console maker, WHY???,WHY???????????????

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#12  Edited By SamStrife
@Valkyr: Lack of third party support.  And when I say that, I mean EA.
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#13  Edited By Valkyr
@SamStrife: Yeah I know, but there is a serious hole in the gaming industry right now, nobody is covering the crazy japanese arcade games that were only available on the Sega consoles or the Neo Geo, not even PSN or XBLA games, that's why I freaking loved Bayonetta
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#14  Edited By Pepsiman
@august said:
" @CornontheCobbe said:
" I didn't even know the DreamCast had an online feature :S "
It was the first console with online multi I think. "
This is technically true from an official standpoint of console manufacturers actually deliberately inserting hardware that could connect to the Internet right into the system. Otherwise, online multiplayer in general was around even during the SNES and Genesis days if you had the right third-party hardware and were willing to fork over money for large phone bills. Prototypes existed even as far back as the NES, although funding and manufacturing support meant that they never made it to market.
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#15  Edited By ArchScabby

I tried 3 different original xbox games last night, and no one was online.  Let alone the Dreamcast

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#16  Edited By Belonpopo
@ArchScabby:

I tried 3 different original xbox games last night, and no one was online.  Let alone the Dreamcast  
 


There might be a reason agianst this. There hasn't been a good PSO game recently and their are some other exclusives people might wanna play once once a week for memories or what not.
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#17  Edited By Daryl

Rather use a headset. 

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#18  Edited By Chyro

That's one of my favorite things about PC gaming.  I still play Jedi Academy.  A game that came out 6+ years ago and there is still a ton of people that play online.
 
And there is apparently free servers running for PSO.  Though you will have to google it yourself as I don't know giantbombs rules on linking quasi illegal type stuff.

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#19  Edited By ToadRunner

some games for the dc use the pc servers. like quake 3. and there are some PSO fan servers up you can connect to.
 
UNFORTUNATELY NO CHU CHU ROCKET!

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#20  Edited By fakemeat

Alien Front Online even had voice chat. It was hilariously bad, but it was there.

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#21  Edited By CABBAGES
@ToadRunner:
Chu CHu rocket was my first online game i ever played as i didnt even have a pc back when i got  my dreamcast. 
 
I would love to get back on PSO on the dreamcast. I hope there are servers for playing it properly and also ones for doing crazy stuff with codkebreakers and stuff too .
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#22  Edited By K0rN
@august said:
" @CornontheCobbe said:
" I didn't even know the DreamCast had an online feature :S "
It was the first console with online multi I think. "

I thought that was the Xbox.
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#23  Edited By Synthballs
@K0rN said:
" @august said:
" @CornontheCobbe said:
" I didn't even know the DreamCast had an online feature :S "
It was the first console with online multi I think. "
I thought that was the Xbox. "
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