The BEST Dreamcast homebrew/ports from 2024

[@gsvincze]

Lego island on Dreamcast when?

[@meow.5219]

soon

[@QuinnBellmore-n8k]

I’m hoping for it on switch lol

[@meow.5219]

@@gsvincze porting rn

[@vgamonitor]

that would be a dream come true if a port to the dreamcast is successfully done

[@elshrapnel]

😆😆😆

[@cocoelacanth]

0:22 the half-life port shown here is actually official! it was being developed by gearbox and captivation digital laboratories, and was basically complete when they cancelled it in 2001 due to "changing market conditions." blue shift was originally developed for the dreamcast version, before being ported to PC. the PS2 port released later that year was based on the cancelled dreamcast version! (also pitayascastle mentioned!!)

[@PostScriptreall2]

Captivation Digital Laboratories were the primary developers of the port, Gearbox collaborated with them and made the Blue Shift expansion with the port.

[@cocoelacanth]

@@PostScriptreall2 thanks for that, edited my comment :) from what i can tell, captivation was responsible for actually porting the game to dreamcast while gearbox worked on all the new content-blue shift, HD models and such

[@damian9303]

If you realize the fact the Dreamcast was also discontinued that year, their reasoning starts to make all the more sense

[@BFKAnthony817]

Xash3d is being ported to Dreamcast as I type this. It will support HLMP and other Source engine games/mods.

[@atlev]

​@@BFKAnthony817 Xash3D is not the Source engine. It is a remake of GoldSrc.

[@meesedev]

I'm the developer behind the Minecraft-like voxel engine for the Dreamcast. I was initially hesitant to release the Gamecube port, but seeing games like Xeno Crisis legally launch on the platform has made me reconsider.

[@stellarlabs]

Yoo I'm a huge fan of your projects!

[@FR4M3Sharma]

There's ClassiCube aswell.

[@Clownacy]

There is nothing illegal about developing and releasing software for a device that you bought. Stop letting paranoia prevent you doing something that you have a right to do. Would you stop wiping your ass if you thought Nintendo didn't approve of it?

[@whompronnie]

@@Clownacy probably. they're scary

[@johnrickard8512]

The GameCube has no digital locks as defined under the DMCA. Trust me, you’re in the clear there too.

[@TheDreamcastJunkyard]

It was inevitable that the Dreamcast scene would peak like this. Thanks to the console being so easy to crack, it’s been able to live on past its 2001 cancellation. It may have died commercially but it never died in the eyes of indie and homebrew developers!

[@AmyAyre]

Another perfect video to watch while eating cereal at 2am

[@koolaid33]

Was eating cereal watching this at 4:30PM.

[@Tieigo0]

​@@koolaid33 I was Cerealing Eat in 2005 at 4:20 AM.

[@sierra991]

same but 3am

[@f4micom]

6:13 GECS REFERENCE

[@oli_gordon]

When new video about obscure technology

[@AntoniNowak69]

REALLY?

[@tSunrise_]

ayyy its the Weed Mario Lady.

[@simplyalonso]

HEY FAMI :F

[@harrynoodlemeyer4450]

Pig cube

[@HollyDrew-bf7zx]

Lego Island on Dreamcast?

[@BlackravenX9]

When you said Minecraft, I thought you were going to talk about the Dreamcast port of ClassiCube.

[@WedgeStratos]

Must concur, ClassiCube is far closer to replicating early beta Minecraft with building as its main pitch. Still, it's highly multiplatform, working on 9x PCs and early Macs, as well as Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS2, Xbox, 360, PS3, Wii, and beyond. There's even netplay (with Dreamcast dial-up support) for building with others.

[@mryoshii]

sadly that you didn't talk about classicube. dreamcast have a really good port with MULTIPLAYER support

[@Omar_ZX]

The dreamcast was unbelievably powerful for a console from 99

[@Turbulation1]

And 98

[@DontKnowDontCare6.9]

But unbelievably dumb in its marketing. Only Sega can spit on its customers' collective face and shove another console in the market thinking it will eat the market share of competitors like they did with the Genesis.

[@LoganE01]

Yea they chose to let it die. A second analog stick and 6 face buttons on a controller revision would have kept it going for probably another 3 years

[@MarginalSC]

⁠@@DontKnowDontCare6.9It could, but developer support wasn’t really there. That much was abundantly clear by E3 2000.

[@SometimesBadYT]

MattKC posted?! Yet another video to watch 20 times! (I unironically do so)

[@an2thea514]

Finally, someone as crazy as me!

[@SometimesBadYT]

@an2thea514 Finally, I knew i wasn't the only one!

[@BatZupper]

Wait I'm not the only one?

[@zaver_4335]

Same, not 20, but probably a dozen times.

[@cdkw2]

Guys we all have so much in common, we should be a group.

[@BenceNyitrai-df2tt]

there is an official port of classicube (minecraft classic but c) on the dreamcast complete with online functionality and split screen multiplayer (and also keyboard and mouse support)

[@ratoon255]

6:13 100 Gecs jumpscare

[@freakdave]

There's also a game jam going on called DreamDisc '24, so there's even more Dreamcast greatness heading our way!

[@brucefields7009]

THAT'S the name of the game jam! Thanks for the reminder about DreamDisc '24, I forgot what it was called 😅

[@goclunker]

What's crazy is I bought a dreamcast in high school because of the half-life screenshot on the box. I never got to play the game till about 2014 on my dreamcast. Crazy times I love my DC still.❤

[@WigWoo1]

hope my CD drive never goes out. Part of the Dreamcast charm is the sound of that loud ass laser grinding back and forth

[@imalsoTOMATO]

When I saw Halo CE, I couldn't believe it. But then I actually looked it up and it actually doesn't exist, just a Quake conversion mod for the dreamcast 😭.

[@FAKEAXIS]

Hope one day someone decompiles halo ce

[@SpartanX360]

Someone already did it but slowly it’s Halo Revamped.

[@andyk5572]

That "pregnancy test DOOM" is just the plastic shell, gutted and with entirely custom hardware glued inside of it. It's in no way playing on the pregnancy test. 5:49

[@jdogthegreatone8700]

looks like it's playing on the pregnancy test to me dude

[@atlev]

​@@jdogthegreatone8700 looks like you lack any form of reading comprehension.

[@giwake]

if you read the thread the creator posted, the TL;DR of it is that the game is being played on a machine external to the pregnancy test. the actual pregnancy test *did* have that display in it, and foone hacked it so it could display external images thanks to a custom arduino program. the test isn't running doom, but it is *displaying* doom with minimal changes to the hardware.

[@gazehound]

Read the tweet, dude.

[@jacobreveles7222]

It's a testament to the Dreamcast's legacy that fans are still dedicated to make games and ports for the system, given such a very short shelf life and paltry sales to other consoles at the time would've warrented it as forgettable shovelware

[@EWARS_2]

I just don't understand how ClassiCube continues to fall under everyone's radar...

[@arawndavies8525]

This video introduced me to 100 gecs Thank you based MattKC

[@Ganx_Gooshers]

When I started collecting game consoles the dream cast was the first Sega console I got in my collection. (I even have the box though I'm missing a styrofoam insert) I had fun with it for a few year and haven't touched it since. I'm really tempted to show it some love and do some mods to it.

[@ifrit05]

9/9/99 - It's still dreaming

[@Vermillion_Skies_]

New MattKC, great start to 2025

[@TheKey32]

The GDEMU is actually pretty cheap! You can find clones of it on AE for as low as 45 euros, thats how i got mine, i got the V 5.15b Which is not the latest but plays 99% and even the ones that were buggy have a patch like code veronica and skies of arcadia. Also GTA 3 was actually supposed to come out on the Dreamcast and the game did start developement for the Dreamcast but was scrapped in 2001 and developement moved to PS2.

[@mmpsp693]

Yeap, no longer expensive. And the installation is very easy, so you don't have to pau anyone to do it

[@Dmar-ih7kr]

I was just about to say the same thing about gdemu being affordable these days. I got the same 5.15b version for $39 US dollars. I read through a few forums and plenty of homebrew devs felt that that was the version to own over version 5.20 since most of them think that updating the gdemu is unnecessary. And I don’t even have the plastic cover that goes over the gdemu, but I do have a DreamPSU power supply with a separate laptop power cord to plug into it for lower power wattage

[@adamsfusion]

The worst part about the GD-EMU isn't even that the original is expensive. Rather, it's that the creator of it is really bad about keeping stock and letting people know when restocks happen, leading to it getting cloned basically perfectly and sold for pennies on AE to meet demand. There's also the TerraOnion MODE which is pretty good, but it's also a TerraOnion product making it both expensive and a bit iffy.

[@adamsfusion]

Kinda funny at 1:14 to say "Why did the DC have no copy protection when the Saturn had intense copy protection" when the Saturn had some of the worst copy protection. It was easily bypassed with a CD swap at the SEGA license screen.

[@maddog2437]

Doom64 on Dreamcast is the best version of the game you can currently play.

[@wizardoferror9942]

So glad I got a Dreamcast for Christmas!

[@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701]

We Gamers just did Not *Deserve* the Sega Dreamcast in 1999 😑

[@ezyto]

can’t wait for the following short talking about classicube great video matt

[@ReviewStation1]

I had to do a double take after seeing you gave me a shout out for the blank gdr video clip thanks a lot I enjoyed the video a lot!

[@tSunrise_]

5:50 fun fact: you don't even need a screen. Some dev ran doom on a space satellite.

[@FarmYardGaming]

I remember seeing that Minecraft Dreamcast tweet and being stunned.

[@maxrichards5925]

So happy to see an overview of the Dreamcast homebrew from last year. It’s amazing what people have brought to one of my favorite consoles of all time. I might actually try burning a few CD-r discs since so far I’ve only used them on the Saturn.

[@zigafide]

its such a shame we will never actually get the minecraft one. it's still super cool tho

[@forfox]

well,ther is classiccube on the Dreamcast including Multiplayer Support

[@vvgr409]

Yeah, I hoped for open source Minecraft Beta 1.7.3 implementation but it seems this is not it.

[@JarrydHall]

2:52 RIP my ears. But seriously always love your videos. I still want to see other consoles being under powered - but captured through a retrotink which has an excellent timebase corrector for when the video signal inevitably goes out of spec 😂

[@laura9x64]

the GDEmu might be expensive but GDEmu clones are actually super cheap

[@beegyoshi6525]

the thumbnail confused me i thought it was a modern vintage gamer video

[@nadirafurry]

fromage psx + bleem = minecraft on dreamcast.

[@itsMKiAM]

Look Gary, there I am!

[@johnatkinson1111]

I wonder how much better the dreamcast might have done if the indie scene was able to thrive officially, like Indies have been some of the most successful games in recent years that I can fully imagine a world where if Saga had an indie publishing arm and made development of dreamcast games easy for the average person we might be in a different position where Saga is still a major competitor, maybe xbox wouldn't have hit off with Saga still in the race or maybe we'd be in a four way market rather than the three way market we're currently in.

[@timr.2257]

A new video without waiting for months?!?!

[@OvercookedChips]

we love meesedev

[@ShadyHero]

raining blood from the lacerated sky

[@Majimba_Enjoyer]

Honestly I would be really excited if someone tried porting sonic heroes to the dreamcast

[@travisbowmanmusic]

Hey that's me at 2:43 😎

[@ThyVeeetus]

oh my god that minecraft music scared the hell of me☠☠

[@modemcat98]

100 gecs? dreamcast? doom? this really is a video for me

[@LampHatScott]

Matt K(ansas)C(ity)

[@iDUMB]

Matt k(entuckyfried)c(hicken)

[@General12th]

Hi Matt! I can't wait for you to try to backport Halo 12 to the Switch in another 25 years.

[@playbookshowme484]

best machine ever by far

[@LoganE01]

Dreamcast is still DREAMING

[@GlaceTheAce2222]

WHAT YOUR ALIVE I’ve been watching you for so long just to find out you have a second channel?!?!

[@borrisg4972]

Postal clip at the very end. If Postal2 were ever ported to Dreamcast not only would I shit my pants, I'd proceed to shit the pants of everybody in the room. I'd get a Dreamcast just for that, and if it had the Fudge Pack I'd get the most expensive special edition Dreamcast I could find. It would literally be the killer app.

[@DoritoDuck]

I wonder what dreamcast graphics will look like in 2026

[@thelemonman03]

The 100 gecs segment was very painful on my ears but y’know I think that I’d love to see Skyrim on Dreamcast

[@banish4cost]

i played so much sonic on that thing

[@Mempler]

Dang, a video once a year

[@Axpo25]

I do have the DC console. The problem is, where I can find a shop which sells DC spare parts. Mine is very old and its internal parts probably need to be replaced. And I'm more thankful if the said shop also sells the accessories like gamepad controller, VGU memcard, and more stuffs.

[@adamsfusion]

It's highly unlikely you'll need to replace any part other than the optical reader. In a couple decades you'll need to recap it. The Dreamcast, like the Saturn, was built like a tank and is unlikely to need servicing any time soon. For the gamepad, second hand ones are in great supply and you can easily get third party modern units that are high quality. The VMU has been replaced with projects like the VM2, which are superpowered VMUs.

[@Dmar-ih7kr]

If your disc drive is going out, you might as well get a gdemu. They’re really not expensive like the video says. And replace the power supply with a DreamPSU to prevent any overheating

[@bpm3858]

6:13 destroyed mt freaking ears 🤣

[@m3nmin]

i thought this was a mvg video with that thumbnail 😭😭😭

[@MrSamPhoenix]

Would love to see someone port Mortal Kombat Trilogy on the Dreamcast with exactly the same graphics as Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.

[@journie3042]

We need actual SEGA games on Dreamcast past the console's lifespan, I want to see Virtua Fighter 4 to be on Dreamcast cuz it was originally gonna be on that console.

[@Crazy-qi1gw]

3:38 I mean in some regards, it'll probably be forgotten about

[@RavenShinyThings]

Shenmue 3 using shenmue 2 engine on 32mb ram upgraded Dreamcast when my pipe dream

[@ripoutyourprejudice]

I still love my DC. It's never let me down.

[@harrynoodlemeyer4450]

3:55 a cube of pig

[@vvgr409]

I'm quite disappointed with that Minecraft. I hoped it could evolve into open source Minecraft 1.7.3 implementation (the last version before Adventure Update) but it seems that won't be the case.

[@firstnamelastname4752]

God I love your voice Matt. Just make videos about anything please. Pick a random N64 game and talk about it.

[@charlesworthless]

Am I going insane or was the intro to Doom 64 a midi version of Raining Blood?

[@avanillagarden]

that's what I was thinking too lol

[@21stCenturyGuy]

It is

[@ldisc66]

I've purchased over 70 games for the Dreamcast before the dark times (Sega ditching DC). About 25 for PS2, 6 or maybe 7 for PS3. 5 for the original Xbox (mainly purchased for Knights of the Old Republic). Still play DC games though on my smartphone with a Kishi.

[@sanicsanic6890]

i think the GTA trillogy wouldn't release on the dreamcast for a similar reason they were never ported to Gamecube: Disc space. rockstar north most likely wasn't willing to give some players a compromised experience, like compressing the textures, dialogue, etc. that or Rockstar themselves didn't want to release a Gamecube version for whatever reason

[@Johnny362000]

They certainly gave PC and Xbox players a compromised experience of San Andreas

[@sanicsanic6890]

@@Johnny362000 how so? for 360 i understand but pc?

[@Johnny362000]

@@sanicsanic6890 the PC and Xbox (original xbox, the 360 version is another whole can of worms) lack a lot of graphical features of the PS2 version, and a lot of map details were removed. The ports also have new bugs and the Xbox port has pretty bad performance. Content-wise they're more-or-less the same (PC lacks 2-player mode, PS2 lacks replays and user track player) so they're not compromised in the sense you were talking about

[@sanicsanic6890]

@@Johnny362000 fair. also san andreas has multiplayer?

[@Johnny362000]

@@sanicsanic6890 in the PS2 and Xbox versions there's locations on the map that let you enter a 2-player mode (not online, in case that's what you were thinking). There's general freeroaming and rampages. It's not split-screen so you have to stay near eachother. It's quite limited and a bit rubbish to be honest but it amused me and my brother enough as kids.

[@The_orig_bazz0]

Is it true? Has matt fixed his upload schedule?

[@poiitidis]

😇

[@ItsCOMMANDer_]

I swear in some video you said you're done with the Sponsor and Deadline game yet here you are, getting sponsors. (not to hate, just found it funny)

[@BJDMmarv]

When is the Wii U video coming?

[@CircularMirror7]

Just found mine that I got for 2$ at yard sale.

Technically, could PS2 games be ported….or was the Dreamcast vastly less powerful?

[@c5cha7]

The GTA port didn't hit 30fps in the alpha build, if you check MVGs video its usually stuck at around 20fps

[@Onikombi]

What is the game at 7:04 ?

[@unsavourylittlerunt]

Pretty sure it's postal

[@scotdotwtf]

6:13 LOL 100 GECS

[@MultiQuad]

MY EARS!

[@MVBT05]

Me and your mom in the Dreamcast when?

[@icebaron2948]

Yo, he's alive???

[@GeoffGerber521]

How are people playing these FPS games with one analog stick? do they play like goldeneye?

[@jordychinchin]

Dreamcast can run Halo CE???

[@Nukle0n]

You talk about Doom running on everything with a CPU and a screen and then show the pregnancy test.. with text on screen saying that it's not running doom, just acting as a screen. Not sure if that's your attempt at saving it in the edit, either way i feel kinda bothered by "doom runs on everything" and then the examples people give are either where it's just using something as a display to run it in from a computer, or the calculator Doom which isn't actually a port of Doom.

[@Grandmaquil]

MATT KEY CEE

[@Mandarin9900]

Shouldn't this be a main channel video?

[@gattodev_real]

infinite ponder

[@Visuwyg]

0:20 Wait huh what they ported Halo to Dreamcast? Edit: Apparently it was a Quake Mod 7 years ago. Looks nothing like the clip shown in this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXWsdnmfprCMqbM&si=QlE60lSSIhcFZ98e

[@qwerty_studios]

real

[@bundrink]

Nice

[@JoshuaPeisach]

5:52 WAIT WHAT

[@markusTegelane]

yeah, it's real

[@DigiSpaceProductions]

ClassiCube for Dreamcast was NOT mentioned.

[@iFlxy]

6:10 100 GECS MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥

[@DontKnowDontCare6.9]

What the Dreamcast is actually thinking: eff Yuji Naka, eff Stolar, eff Nakayama and eff Sega of Japan and its effing... Read more

[@TreatsForZilth]

wtf 100 gecs

[@Kdot98]

Quick Someone port little big planet to ps2. Idk why but I just wanna see it happen lol. PSP version could be somewhere to start

[@TheRealMangoDev]

hi