How Powerful was the Sega Dreamcast?

Hello and Welcome to a Very Special Retro Budget Builds Video where today we'll be taking a look at the Sega Dreamcast, a console that kicked off a generation of consoles, yet couldnt linger on long enough to take advantage of them...But what was life like back when this was the ultimate console on the market. Join me today, well 21 Years ago, as we take a fun little look back at when this was the peak gaming experience you could get in console form.
We're going to take a deep dive into the specs, what the best titles were, the performance, and see why it was such a big deal compared to the N64 and PSX it was up against at the time...The start of a generation, and the end of one. So sit back relax and enjoy with this very special retro episode.
Behind the Scenes making of: • The Sega Dreamcast - B...
Full Quality Version (For those who dont like VHS Quality, still 4:3 though): • How Powerful was the S...
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Shenmue II beat loop 2
Sega GT Grand End Theme
Sega GT Garage Theme
Half Life 1 Dreamcast OST
Virtua Tennis Staff Select
Big Bass Fishing OST
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[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Hello everyone, spent a lot of time making this video, and i think it turned out awesome. If you check the description there is a full HD Version, and a Making of behind the scenes special This was originally an April Fools day video, but sort of got extended, and made into this. So please fellas do enjoy, as i really like how it turned out. Also huge thanks to everyone who helped make this possible, and a huge thanks to Jeff the Fable Historian who helped voice over the advert from Phantasy Star Online.

[@Fee.1]

I’m confused as to how it Could’ve been an April fools video can you explain what that would’ve looked like

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

@@Fee.1 Cause of the 90s Style, and the content just being a bit out there and whacky

[@Fee.1]

I see a bit at the end I guess

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

@Nep Nep Nep Nep It's why most people skipped the dreamcast

[@X-i_i-K]

But what does it actually mean?

[@TheCatpirate]

Holy crap, quarantine really tripled this guy's editing quality.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

I havent gone to sleep this week

[@bigpierogi]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial can confirm, you were in vc at like 6am

[@HappySlappyFace]

@@bigpierogi can confirm that too

[@bigpierogi]

@@HappySlappyFace i will ping you when its 1:22 pm est

[@TheCatpirate]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial As a wise German once told me "Sleep is inefficient".

[@Vranish76]

I love how you put it through a real VHS, most VHS filters just over do it and it just looks wrong

[@Phenom98]

Those are meant for 14yo kids on tiktok

[@RaysGamingChannel2003]

@@Phenom98 or on KZbin

[@RaysGamingChannel2003]

Yeah I’m 19 and I know what a VHS is and I still use a VHS Tape Btw I have a Dreamcast

[@azurehaiku]

are you sure thats a cpu at 2:00 and not a blurry line

[@Techwen]

Incredible, this has got to be the most refined Budget Builds video to date. It's nice to see a breakaway from the typical PC content on the channel, but man you blew it away with this one. Well done.

[@13Stewartc]

Love how this video is in 4K Quality

[@eightyd2554]

That intro had me running in the 90s

[@agent1787]

eighty D I got a deja vu

[@KoolKeithProductions]

​@@agent1787intro theme name? 😮

[@computercatgaming02]

The Dreamcast pretty much laid the path for the Xbox, having network functionality, easy to port games due to DirectX, strong for its time being.. Still Dreamcast had some qualities that later consoles forgot about, nonetheless it was a innovative console.

[@doolbedolc]

Microsoft should have bought sega,when they had the chance.

[@Fee.1]

Dreamcast was the first console I lusted over after seeing the graphics and just the console and the controller with the screen etc. in a magazine as a kid. I bought some magazine with it on the cover

[@zosxavius]

@@doolbedolc they didn't have to. They bought plenty of talent. Sega seems to have lost a lot of it's mojo post Dreamcast too.

[@zosxavius]

For what it's worth I believe very few games actually used windows ce and direct x. Most developers ran directly on the hardware. It definitely gave Microsoft a lot of experience though and the Dreamcast has a lot of design input from them. Compared to the PS2 it was also easy to develop for since it had a straightforward GPU that supported opengl out of the box.

[@doolbedolc]

@@zosxavius no I'm talking about back then in the 90's,because sega had and still has giant library of games.and it would have helped microsoft established itself,it would have been a win win for both.

[@kacperkutarnia7322]

"D'yer like Oasis?"... Amazing

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

7:40 this is the Pinnacle of gaming.

[@ysgramorssoupspoon]

this is why I love this guy because oasis is my favorite band lmao

[@Doegiz]

Still my favorite console growing up and the dreamcast is literally almost just as old as I am only a few months apart. I've played the dreamcast since I wasn't even old enough to make it two seconds through a video game all the way through to today it still holds a place in my heart haha. I have 4 dreamcasts just to prepare for the day that the hardware may fail on me and the hardwares only gonna become more increasingly rare as time goes on. However these dreamcasts are built really solid almost as solid as a gamecube of the era none of them have failed on me yet.

[@carltonleboss]

Cross-system play? Keyboard and mouse support? Damn, Sega were 20 years ahead of their time!

[@jz4697]

Man the guitar solo montage at the end with "farewell Dreamcast" gave me big nostalgia

[@BeefLettuceAndPotato]

This gave me early 2000's Top Gear vibes. Loved it.

[@nopenop1495]

I still have a bunch of episodes recorded on VHS.

[@UKVampy]

Oh the throwbacks to old tech, too many memories. Also good to pass on old tech info to the youngsters, like the tabs on VHS tapes.

[@DrazenX195]

I still play my Dreamcast on my Dell monitor with a VGA box. Brilliant little system. No one ever really had SEGA's ambition. They'd think of things way ahead of their time and just fucking go for it. It's a shame that they're not making consoles any more.

[@DrazenX195]

@@wayn3h That's why I had gotten an Xbox back in the day to keep playing Sega games. Even now it's really cool to have a way of playing Panzer Dragoon Orta in 4k on Xbox One

[@sjogosPT]

Salad Snake nah. Dreamcast is dreamcast, xbox is xbox. Don’t mix it.

[@LuanRNunes-zb9pg]

OMG this video is so genuinely 90s, i have tears on my eyes. Thank you!

[@she1by]

I love this. Tim James needs to watch this.

[@MrVolksbeetle]

Ha, I still have one of these. What's amazing is how close this vid looks to one hooked up to a CRT via composite. Great stuff!

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

There is a video on how I managed to get this as close as possible to that quality. It's linked in the description.

[@wyterabitt2149]

Luckily here in the UK SCART is pretty much in every TV at the time, even much older ones. The picture quality from SCART was actually really good.

[@sjogosPT]

wyterabitt for dreamcast you could use a vga box and a vga CRT computer monitor. I have my dreamcast connected this way and its much better than scart rgb.

[@bullseyestrat]

Man you really made my Saturday. Love the VHS recording and editing with period correct dialog but then changing it up slightly at the end. I remember getting my first DC back around March of 2000 when I was an 8th grader. Easily the first time we all got arcade perfect ports that still hold up rather well today. Such a shame Sega as a company was hemorrhaging money at the time and had to kill it off a very early death. So many good times at my high school electronics shop connecting it thru the vga port on the spare PC monitors we had. Still own one of the earlier models from then today and it still works. Great console for collectors since the games everything is cheap, plentiful, and you can still get a good picture on a modern tv using the vga to hdmi or something similar. Great job man keep up the good work.

[@jsc315]

I'm watching this in 240p as it was intended, or at least my ISP deems it so.

[@Omabatfartsbruh]

this is your magnum opus here!

[@Trick-Framed]

LOVED the way you made it look like a video from 1999. If it weren't for the games released years later at the beginning, I would have believed it was all 1999! Kudos!

[@RaysGamingChannel2003]

Or 2000

[@MisterRorschach90]

Growing up I got a genesis as a hand me down. Then for my birthday I got a snes and ended up trading the genesis and games for more snes games. I never had enough money to have the best consoles but I got to go to a wealthier families house and play as ps1 for the first time. I was blown away. Not long after that during the summer that Star Wars episode 1 was out a friends rich grandma bought him a Dreamcast without knowing what it was and I’ll never forget playing that thing for the first time. I was convinced the world was about to be like Star Wars.

[@thedungeondelver]

Dude this is ART. You nailed it from the 3 point line.

[@karadanianoI]

you verbalized with each word you sayed everything we felt made the dreamcast special. its truly a console everybody enjoyed on their homes or with a friend, looking at those games, their definition, the quality, the lighting, it was the new generation! that's what the dreamcast is for us, a proof that stars shine brighter before they die

[@nocturnalnights27]

They are already 20+ year old hardware and won't last forever. My Dreamcast's disc drive sounds like a chainsaw now lol. I'm glad to see you keeping the dream alive

[@Kumimono]

Luckily, the enthusiast fanbase is, well, enthusiastic. All sorts of ways to use SD cards, HDD/SSD on it, connect to the Internet, and ways to use new power supplies in place of ailing old ones. Lovely stuff.

[@TinyTitian]

Dreamcast wouldn't of been sega last console with this guys advertising lmfao.

[@NuclearTopSpot]

Lma *of o

[@mechanismeight9565]

I love the Dreamcast so much! I just recently bought one with a controller and Sonic Adventure 2, and I'm amazed by what this system pulls off! 60 FPS all the time, on a console?! Like, that's some impressive stuff, Sega. I don't think the Dreamcast will ever truly die, it will always Still Be Thinking.

[@slinktv8827]

Please make more video's like this. It's just very pleasing to watch in a dark room with a drink while the world burns down outside.

[@Hwi1son]

I love the Dreamcast. Still play it to this day

[@crysomemoreee]

When the editing is so good you time travel.

[@KK-eg3em]

Within 6 months of me getting my dreamcast, it was discontinued. I was so disappointed. I loved that thing. Great video !!

[@DJS4000]

well done, i didn't even notice the 4:3 aspect ratio at first ^^ always wanted a DC, but we were too poor back then. also: > drives a Vauxhall MY MAN

[@joeynebulous816]

As soon as I saw that centre screen in the first few seconds, I thought that's definitely a 98-06 vauxhall. Thought it was a corsa until I saw the speedo My first 2 cars was a 1.2 Corsa Club on a 52 plate and then a 1.4 Corsa SRi on a 54 plate, both 5 doors

[@MattyStoked]

This is UNREAL. I saw the notification come through yesterday and I'm sad I didn't jump on this sooner. FANTASTIC concept and execution.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Heyo, cheers man, really happy with how this one turned out

[@neurobioboy]

Maybe the best console of its time ever.

[@eponymous7910]

Yep, for a machine released in 1998 it was an absolute powerhouse. I can't really fault anything about the hardware given its retail price, never liked the controller though. People who weren't around during this era have no idea of the scale of the sony hype machine leading into the ps2 launch, it was completely off the charts. Sega never stood a chance unfortunately.

[@neurobioboy]

Edward H totally! Because it was not Sony I did not get hyped when it came out. I was 11 yo or 12. All I wanted was a PS2... What a mistake!!!!

[@neurobioboy]

Johnny Deep I will never say the PS2 was bad, I played the heck out of it for years, and FFX is in my top 10 of games I enjoyed the most. But Dreamcast had Shenmue, and so many original games that would have blown me away. All my friends and I just get hyped by PlayStation product, and that hype surrounding the PS2, and lack of interest for other products was unfare to the Dreamcast who was a real masterpiece and deserved to be bought day one and to be hyped as well if not more. Sure Sony had a fantastic catalog of games, but the Dreamcast was more powerful, was able to connect on the internet at a time where not everyone had a computer at home, had a unique controller, and had fantastic games taking full advantage of the power of the console.

[@neurobioboy]

@Johnny Deep I understand you felt angry with Sega, probably rightfully. I never own a SEGA console. My father (and I) had the NES, SNES, GB, GBC, Gamecube, PS1, PS2. So Nintendo & Sony fanboy here! In my country, SEGA was successful but far less than Nintendo or Sony. So the Saturn and DC were not really hyped at all. No one really tested the DC in among my friends. I think it was the same in most countries in Europe. Do not know about North America or Asia. But the sales were not very good. And that by itself can explain the lack of new titles after 3 or 4 years. If you are a developer and had the choice of releasing a game on a 50% market share platform, or on a 10% one, which one are you gonna chose? Sony only had one major failure, the Vita. Even PS3 was not a big failure, it was just not a success. In terms of sales. Sega had several failures in a row... that drastically lower their ability to support their own platform. The last console I bought since PS2, is the switch, and I love it! But it came just after a critical failure for Nintendo, the Wii U. If the switch was also a failure, I guess Nintendo would have gone the same way than Sega. And that is also to be taken into consideration. Back in 1998-2000, Sony was THE video game company, the PS1 was a major HIT... Nintendo was in trouble, Sega was in deep struggles... that explains also why the DC wasn't taken seriously and didn't have more games or support. Pitty, I really think it could have changed in a good way the entire video game industry if customers were there. Again, PS2 was a great system, I loved it and I still love it, and it deserved to be successful, maybe not that much in my opinion.

[@timkasansky2528]

both PS1 and 2 have serious issues, but they had what Sega absolutely failed to deliver : tons of quality games to every taste. Dreamcast has way too many niche games considered killer apps, Sega wasn't on a good moment with it, both financially and on the artistic and creative side. You will never sell millions of consoles with games like Seaman and Shen Mue, that appeal to a very tiny portion of the market.

[@Wourghk]

Hearing "HD" and "Electronic Mail" in the same presentation is a unique flavor of anachronistic.

[@MrReddragongamingHD]

You weren't lying when you said you were working on a big project, awesome video!

[@The905Studios]

Was VHS really this blurry? In my 31 year old mind it was not! Crazy how things have changed to almost photo realistic. Great video. Keep the hustle.

[@g_unkn0wn525]

I came to this channel watching once watching the Xbox Thingy and then I became hooked and watched all your tech vids. This Is Amazing I hope u can check out more older Consoles :DD

[@pcm720]

Great video! The difference between real VHS recording and VHS-like filters is very noticeable. Mad respect to you for actually transferring digital video to VHS and back!

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

There is a video explaining how it was properly done in the description

[@pcm720]

​@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Thanks for making behind the scenes video. That was a quite complicated setup, glad it worked out for you in the end. Analog video is pretty hard to deal with nowadays, especially if you don't have something like the Framemeister...

[@jamesburke2759]

Holy Shit! I'm not quite sure if you or anyone else realizes the significance of what you have achieved here. Especially in the shots of you cleaning up the dreamcast console and the specs page look 100% like it was filmed and made in the 90s. Not even movie studios, youtubers, Tv stations or myself have been able to achieve this effect using analogue to digital devices. I guess it was the addition of the analogue TV tuner and possibly the high quality tape that made it look as authentic as it did. I watched both versions of this and with the HD one it was like a different video altogether.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Cheers man, glad you liked it, a lot of time was spent trying to get it to look right.

[@thedandyp]

The tone, editing, and presentation of this is perfect, well played sir.

[@kingjoe3rd]

Good stuff my only criticism is that the Dreamcast came out in 1999 which means that the whole 1980's/early 90's feel to your video seemed out of place for a console that I myself owned and played in the early 2000's, 2001 and 2002 to be exact. My love for the system was that you could play burned games with zero modification which was awesome to my 16 year old self who had a job but very little money. The games were fantastic as well. Soulcalibur, Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio were some of my favorites. I also got in to the homebrew scene for the DC and was active on the ISOZONE website which was another great time.

[@vulcanitu2578]

VHS. In 4K. Trully feels like 1999

[@oleo007]

Recently I bought a dreamcast HKT3000 Yukawa editon, this console is amazing, it's a dream become true. The blue, swirl identify a euro version of dreamcast. Metropolis street racer has opel astra G, I buy this game because has this great car.

[@altair1337]

Watching a video in 4k, recorded in 240p, God bless technology.

[@alikhaja23]

I don’t know how an amazing channel like this doesn’t have more views

[@yannikau4521]

Ok, I really enjoyed this. This looks amazing and will definetly be one of those videos I will be rewatching for years to come :D Also I never looked that much into the Dreamcast (aside actually owning Sonice Adventures lol). I definetly will look more into this amazing console in the near future :D

[@maciekty5758]

This is most beautiful dreamcast related video that i seen in my life

[@cd-rommasterclass19]

A dream box of wonder that had it all. Unbelievable lookers, stellar catalogue, online and arcade & perfect PC ports. AirForce Delta, it's like Ace Combat 2 and 3, only better. Incoming; one of the most spectacular lookers of 1998 perfectly ported over. Quake 3, the PC experience, on a console. Jet Set Radio, and its fully dynamic shadowing that never gets any credit... Red Dog, lighting fast vehicular combat, and quite the light show. Sega GT, handeling some beautiful lens flares. Shenmue, rocking some of that unparalleled photorealism. Sonic Adventure and it ambitiously varied gameplay... Man... This thing had potential; It had the games and the hardware to go on... I can only imagine how brilliant its future would have been, had it not been discontinued so early.

[@_CrescentMoon]

I'm watching a VHS tape in 2160p because no one can stop me

[@TheRealDustinNunn]

We need a Sega Dreamcast 2 in the works.

[@anasevi9456]

one of your bests, thanks mate! Give Tokyo Extreme racer 2 a go if you can, even to this day after all the Horizons and Drive club types; it is still hands down my favourite racing rpg, rivaled only by Test Drive Unlimited. Stunning graphics for the system too.

[@peterweber79]

Around the year 2005 together with a Sony Vph-1031qm over VGA it was still a blast to play games on. Too bad that only the dreamcast has been preserved.

[@jose-qh4tc]

I got one from my cousins last year, turns out that the day after I brought it home the Dreamcast turned 20. I've been building a small collection of DC games slowly but steadily , I got House of the dead 2, Sonic Adventures, Crazy Taxi, 102 Dalmatians puppies to the resucue with some others one the way. But PSO truly has to be my favorite of the bunch, I like the DC version a lot more than the BlueBurst PC version, well except for Mome in "The Unsealed Door" quest, who keeps dying during the mandatory boss fight (on PC GCN and XBOX it's fine if he dies on the boss battle, but not on the DC, that's a game over). I'm glad I got it, despite not being able to carry Mome with an overleveled character sotcked with the best healing items. Shame it's hard to connect it to the internet nowadays, I would love to give PSO a try but on the online mode. That game got me hyped for the western release of PSO2 :D

[@Nimta]

Wow, amazing that your video editing style hasn't changed much at all in the past 21 years.

[@mattalewis13]

These animations are so 1990s i love it

[@lucasward9506]

The quality of this video blew me away. Rarely do youtubers put this much effort into they're content. Good job.

[@ldjg-wb4mt]

Man i put some serious time into MSR. Actually the dreamcast remains my biggest WOW factor in all my 35years of gaming, and that was seeing soul calibur for the first time. Such a jump from ps1 or N64, i still remember the feeling now.

[@TheInfamousLegend27]

One of my favourite channels making a video on my favourite console. This is what I've been waiting for!

[@2handsome398]

I love that you did this through an actual VHS it makes for a fun view into what it was like in the 90s. I do appreciate the HD version though, as this is definitely not kind to my eyes, even if it is nostalgic.🤓

[@Dex99SS]

You fail to mention, that with the latest update and an insignificantly tiny small XL dollop of solder over a thermal transdermal thermdermal resistometeorite, that ray tracing is now possible with the dreamcyst, it's incredimazing.

[@KOSMOS1701A]

PSO was amazing back in its day, and the dreamcast was an amazing system and it sucks that it died at the hands of the PS2 and SEGA mismanagement at the time

[@FullyBuffered]

Wow, amazing work man! Because of my finals I've been very late to the party here, but I'm glad I have now watched it. Really enjoyed the narrative you put in here along with the editing work and background music, top notch stuff. Hope to see more videos like this in the future :D

[@neurobioboy]

Awesome video dude! Really awesome hommage to an absolute legend of the video game industry.

[@bryantallen703]

The Dreamcast had a (IMG Tech) "Imagination Technologies" (PowerVR2 GPU) Its the same exact GPU that SEGA used in there Arcade cabinets at the time. I guess NEC had a partner ship or licensed the GPU tech from IMG Tech PowerVR. Another name they called it was a (NEC-VideoLogic 250nm PowerVR Series2 CLX2) Cool video though. I remember playing HALF LIFE off of a CD-R disc a buddy of mine gave me. Soon as i saw the expandability of the Dreamcast, i was hooked from day one. Its hard to believe that happened 20 years ago. Ouch! I'm getting old.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

I can only imagine Quake 3 players on Dreamcast got slaughtered by their counterparts using PC.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

They did indeed

[@cheapshot777]

You can use a mouse and keyboard on the DC version, to be fair.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@cheapshot777 I'm guessing probably only the more extreme end of the market used those though, not to mention PC gamers running higher system specs giving more responsive gameplay, etc.

[@BlownMacTruck]

Flyboy Not really. There were a surprising number of people with those peripherals, especially if you played PSO, which wasn’t exactly a niche title.

[@1010thechamp]

Oh yes I been on both sides, on the dreamcast even with it's very poor mouse and keyboard for some reason (poor hardware, low res TV, poor frames etc) I always got slaughtered by PC players BUT when I used my PC with high res fast monitor, headset, decent mouse and the state of the art 3DFX graphic card we just had to download the dreamcast exclusive maps and on the PC easily smashed Dreamcast kids with their controller struggling to look around, it was well funny.

[@enzomeister]

Wow I’m very impressed and i feel nostalgic asf, very nice video

[@feliciakrisable]

Great content I really felt like I was in the 90s with this video. Thank you. Now I'm going to go play some Sonic.

[@ahuman9864]

Thegreatest console ever made. Based on its merits and the time it was released, it really was a revolution. The PS2 didn’t pick up steam until 2002. The PS2 really only picked up steam when GTA came out. Fun fact, Rockstar was developing GTA for Dreamcast which would have probably looked better on Dreamcast because of its VGA capability.

[@Parthemonium]

Man, the Dreamcast was my first console, good memories.

[@TDMicrodork]

the opportunism for the Sega dreamcast in this video kind of reminds me of the classic game room videos from around this period. theirs not that many and the one i remember isnt even complete but of all the consoles around this time the dreamcast is the only one still relevant weirdly.

[@Briggie]

This is awesome. The 4:3 aspect ratio and VHS quality effect are nice touches.

[@SpartanX360]

The Dreamcast was ahead of its time, online features, arcade gaming at home, games that looked better than outdated N64/PS1 and pc games that looked better. Still have mine and playing religiously.. _ITS STILL THINKING_

[@Metal555Fan]

So many great memories playing on the Dreamcast with my cousins, when we were little. Awesome video man!

[@holliday72889]

I forgot all about how good Sega GT was. I remember grinding all night to make my own car. I wish newer games would let you make your own car. Of course the car body options were limited on Sega GT but still unique.

[@EdvinEdward]

Dreamcast and memories ah! I wish i could go back to 1999

[@SianaGearz]

Best first person shooter on Dreamcast is SEGA's own Outtrigger. It runs at smooth 60fps with screen filling explosions. Also i feel Dreamcast exclusive game series Power Stone would have been good to remember. It's incredibly fast, and it's incredibly fun, and the next closest thing to that is Smash Bros but this one is in 3D and has in its second iteration shape shifting active stages which try to kill you, so there's nothing else quite like it anywhere else. Actually in spite of console's short lifespan and compact library, you'll find many unique titles, but this is the one i wanted to highlight because it's kind of widely known and also symbolic of both first and third parties contributing to system's uniqueness.

[@bigpierogi]

1999 hamish 1999 hamish

[@KleinMeme]

Imagine something like KZbin in this amount and the effort and technique to analyze things would have existed back these days. It would have had this videos. Awesome made, just amazing nostalgia feeling incoming. Feels like an alternate universe but in such a good way.

[@MegaManNeo]

I always wanted one but mom got me another N64 instead so she could keep the other one to play Mario Kart 64 and Mario Party. Took until the mid 2010's for me to get one and I still love playing it! Also honestly, I have never been a fan of the PS2 and its lineup, maybe SEGA getting crushed because of it is part for why it's so. Either way, I enjoyed your video and the way you make it look :D

[@marktomlin9324]

This is probably the highest level of editing I've seen in any of these videos. Good job, dude!

[@alexandernorman5337]

Dreamcast was very powerful by the hardware standards available in late 1998 to early 1999. And it was quite innovative in the manners you say (such as online capability) and also in some that you don't mention (such as standardizing all vertex processing in IEEE 754 floating-point based math instead of the custom processing of the last generation). But it was late 90s hardware whereas all the other consoles of that generation were early 00s based hardware. By 2001-2002 game design was really progressing beyond what the Dreamcast could do well. Also, few developers used Win CE because all the files had to be burned on the GD-ROM. Most developers just used the native OS in the local ROM, figuring that additional game assets were a better use of GD-ROM space.

[@Dj3ndo]

This is great! Love the retro look and roleplay.

[@bea2488]

Love the style of this video,i think you should make a series out of it

[@fridley2263]

This is an excellent video, I've gotta be honest. I generally think your videos are pretty good, but this one is outstanding. Well done

[@JerrySM64]

I never understood, why the Dreamcast has so many fans to this day, but now I wanna get my hands onto this console so badly. You should never assess a console just by how it looks.

[@jsc315]

The load times is really it's biggest drawback, that and the controller to some extent

[@eponymous7910]

That was one of the strengths of the ps2, it looked like a serious piece of high end av tech whereas the dc looked like just another games console. The ps2 had many flaws but sony absolutely nailed the aesthetic. I still regret selling my dreamcast...

[@pnwfool6043]

Certain models can run burned games. Emulation is big too.

[@MaximumRD]

@@pnwfool6043 MOST will run burned games, it is just a very small percentage that cannot.

[@pnwfool6043]

@@MaximumRD 3 out of 5 models can do it.

[@doublecontralto818]

All this needs is that "Pirate Videos, Daylight Robbery" public information film at the beginning and this would be period accurate perfect 👌

[@lbsiuk]

Wow, the quality of the editing is through the bloody roof on this one!!!

[@estellebright2579]

I love how this video is VHS tape quality even if I pick 1080P.

[@forestdutch]

Still have my Dreamcast in great condition with 60+ games.

[@Petar321_GT]

watching on a dreamcast.

[@sgandy2989]

Very very cool, its been such a long time since I've experienced 90's video quality! You absolutely nailed it, awesome video and keep up the great work!

[@hehe42069-k]

lol the half life bit was so sad. Awesome video, so well made.

[@SEGAGuys]

As brilliant as the Dreamcast catalogue is, it’s a real shame we never got to see what it was truly capable of when developers got used to the hardware and found ways to get little performance gains here and there later in the consoles lifespan to create even better looking titles. Look at every console, the first two years are great but it’s the later years, in the systems twilight, where we see the true grunt of the system. Alas, we’ll never know just how much juice was in the Dreamcast and what it could truly deliver.

[@reaper126]

The best old tech youtuber out there

[@goodchristian9413]

mr budget builds is awesome but you do realise LGR exists right? at retro tech specifically you cant beat him

[@farstox4656]

This reminds me a lot of Green Ham Gaming, in a good way.

[@Kumimono]

Farewell? I have a Dreamcast in customs atm, about to say Hello. :) Also, I usually view KZbin at 1080p, my tv is that. For this, all the way to 4K. :p

[@xXKILLBOT27Xx]

5/10 mic quality is too good for a 90s documentary

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

I was just careful with how the Audio was put onto tape, if you go and check out the HD Version you'll hear a diffrence. Tape is suprisingly good at holding audio, it just suffers with some "smooshing" of audio in places if you arent careful

[@mystical4442]

2 videos in a single week? Quarantine's really getting to you man.