Vice City Dreamcast Port

[Miles]

GTA Vice City now has a Dreamcast port! It's still in development, but it's still insane that we can now play GTA 3 and Vice City at all on the Dreamcast!

https://dca3.net/

 

[KittenLikeYou007]

I heard about this project a few weeks ago and even watched some videos on YouTube — so cool to see it’s still going! Huge kudos to the team, because getting GTA Vice City to run on a Dreamcast is quite the challenge. This game was my very first GTA on PS2, so it holds a special place in my heart. I don’t own a Dreamcast and the PS2 version works perfectly for me, so I’m not waiting for this version on that platform, but I’m following the project with passion, because it’s fascinating to see what the developers can achieve on such different hardware!

 

[Miles]

I heard about this project a few weeks ago and even watched some videos on YouTube — so cool to see it’s still going! Huge kudos to the team, because getting GTA Vice City to run on a Dreamcast is quite the challenge. This game was my very first GTA on PS2, so it holds a special place in my heart. I don’t own a Dreamcast and the PS2 version works perfectly for me, so I’m not waiting for this version on that platform, but I’m following the project with passion, because it’s fascinating to see what the developers can achieve on such different hardware!

If it weren't for the GDI storage limitations, I think a San Andreas port would also be possible.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Those two and Half-Life SHOULD have been part of the original line-up.

Better late than never, I guess.

 

[Miles]

Those two and Half-Life SHOULD have been part of the original line-up.

Better late than never, I guess.

Yeah the Dreamcast REALLY needed those games. Those games might've been enough to save it!

 

[KittenLikeYou007]

Yeah the Dreamcast REALLY needed those games. Those games might've been enough to save it!

Without wanting to beat a dead horse, I’m afraid that even if GTA and Half-Life had been released on the Dreamcast, it probably wouldn’t have been enough to save it. The PS2 had a DVD drive and was more powerful, and considering the success of the previous generation with the PS1 compared to the Saturn, the Dreamcast was at a disadvantage from the start

 

[Miles]

Without wanting to beat a dead horse, I’m afraid that even if GTA and Half-Life had been released on the Dreamcast, it probably wouldn’t have been enough to save it. The PS2 had a DVD drive and was more powerful, and considering the success of the previous generation with the PS1 compared to the Saturn, the Dreamcast was at a disadvantage from the start

Sadly I think you're right. The good news is that the Dreamcast probably would've had an extra couple years on the market.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Yeah the Dreamcast REALLY needed those games. Those games might've been enough to save it!

Wasn't Half-Life even finished and ready to be released before being scrapped altogether? I'd have bought a Dreamcast much sooner if it included those titles.

I think that the true dagger to the Dreamcast's heart was the fact that very few of its games were known outside the system -- I didn't know what PowerStone was until I got a copy bundled with my console, for example.

 

[Miles]

Wasn't Half-Life even finished and ready to be released before being scrapped altogether? I'd have bought a Dreamcast much sooner if it included those titles.

I think that the true dagger to the Dreamcast's heart was the fact that very few of its games were known outside the system -- I didn't know what PowerStone was until I got a copy bundled with my console, for example.

It's cool that you had a Dreamcast back in the day! What made you decide to buy one?

 

[drizzes]

I wonder how 3 is currently doing in development. I haven't heard or seen anything since the first release that wasn't emulator compatible.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

It's cool that you had a Dreamcast back in the day! What made you decide to buy one?

I basically bought it off a friend after convincing him of buying it over the PS2.

Here's the full story: https://retrogametalk.com/threads/p...mories-of-a-night-playing-the-dreamcast.1529/

 

[Miles]

I wonder how 3 is currently doing in development. I haven't heard or seen anything since the first release that wasn't emulator compatible.

Hopefully an emulator compatible version will come out eventually.

 

[irkella irkella]

Without wanting to beat a dead horse, I’m afraid that even if GTA and Half-Life had been released on the Dreamcast, it probably wouldn’t have been enough to save it. The PS2 had a DVD drive and was more powerful, and considering the success of the previous generation with the PS1 compared to the Saturn, the Dreamcast was at a disadvantage from the start

Yeah, a lot of people seem to forget the fact that the PS2 not only had a DVD drive, but it was often even cheaper than a standalone DVD player when it released.

A lot of families justified the purchase partly on wanting to get a DVD player, and it actually being a relatively affordable option considering that it also played games for the kiddos. Sony definitely pushed the feature well.

The playback quality wasn't the same, but that didn't matter all that much for the average consumer with a CRT. There's also studies out there pointing to the fact that people will tend to buy a product based on its number of features or functions, even if they don't plan to use them.

Perfect positioning for Sony, bad timing for Sega.

Fun thread still kicking around from 2001 with tech enthusiasts discussing buying a PS2 vs DVD player: link

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Also yeah, the Vice City port has been in beta for a while now, pretty cool!

 

[semyaza]

dreamcast will soon run crysis and well still be like but muh dvd

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

A lot of families justified the purchase partly on wanting to get a DVD player, and it actually being a relatively affordable option considering that it also played games for the kiddos. Sony definitely pushed the feature well.

Well... the Dreamcast could play VCDs as well, but I'm not naive enough to consider that an advantage.

What perplexes me is the fact that Nintendo never even considered something like that for the GameCube, even when they KNEW they were the underdog on that race -- Panasonic had to step in and license the whole thing just for the GC to even stand on the ring. It's mind-blowing in a way.