> > Yes that was another mistake they made. And yes to much crud on the system,
> visually
> > they could of done much better with a lot of them, it would of been nice if they
> > developed a racer with roads over 2 metres wide and mountains over 8 ft high.
>
>
> VMU. When I had my DC, and the VMU battery started to die - my first thought was that
> I'd have to replace the battery to keep my game saves/stats, etc. A battery wasn't
> needed actually. It's only or main advantage was portability.
>
> Speaking of batteries, the system clock battery seemed to go bad rather quickly...
> And I think you have to actually open the system up, de-solder the battery and put a
> new one. Maybe soldering isn't involved, but it's still a hassle.
>
> The D-pad on their controller. IMEO: the Saturn D-Pad is the Gold standard for
> D-Pads. Why they downgraded it - ...just another great mystery of the universe
> man-kind will probably never know the answer to. Or perhaps it was a patent issue.
> That's the only reasonable excuse. But anyway........
>
> DC vs PS2.
>
> To me this is a throwback to the Genesis/MD vs SNES time.
>
> SNES came out later and had higher specs overall. PS2 also came out later.... & Like
> Smit said. Newer = "Better".
>
> Oh yeah, I recall reading something about the PS2. To sum it up it was said that the
> PS2 was like the Sega Saturn in how games were written for it. I know at least one of
> the Saturn's issue was with syncing the 2 processors, but the PS2?... I'm not sure. I
> just recall finding it ironic that part of the Saturn's failure was due to it's
> 'difficult' programming language, and PS2 had the same programming language
> (according to what I read back whenever) -yet the PS2 was, pretty much, a success.
>
> If I'm mistaken on that ^last part - then I apologize for my error.
>
>
> IMO: the XBOX is carrying on the (console) legacy for Sega. And that
> turn-over/passing of the torch was with the DC. There are a couple reasons why I
> think this....
The art in PS2 was always much better, occasionally they produced a quality game for Dreamcast but Dreamcast was for the most part sh.t mate, admit it.
Early PS2 Racer
Dreamcast
I am the original retro game dork.
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