Dreamcast returns!... to PSN/XBLA

GothPunk

As hinted before in leaked documents, Sega will be releasing Dreamcast games over the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. The games will include improved resolution, surround sound, and modern amenities like online leaderboards and Achievements/Trophies. The first two games scheduled for release ('this fall') are Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi. Full story here.

What do you hope to be re-released? I'm hoping for a chance to play Skies of Arcadia.

K.O.Kiki

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.

WolfForager

I think a "Yay!" is in order.

Fnz

Jet Set Radio - Double pack would be nice but the original will do.

Burning Eclipse

Skies is a gem, GothPunk... a must-play imo.

I'm hoping for Shenmue 1 and 2, then when they sell millions more than any other XBLA/PSN ever, I'll finally get the sequel I deserve.

What? It'll happen

As an aside; I love my Dreamcast, this is brilliant news.

Jazzy

either Powerstone game will do me

Professey Chin

EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! *within reason*

calex71

So the crazy taxi screens leaked a while back were indeed the real deal !!!!!!!!!

cherryghost

Shenmue or Trickstyle pleaaaaaase

Retr0gamer

Would like to see some shmups like Border Down and Under Defeat. Somuch good stuff on the DC for a console that only lived 18 months. Wouldn't mind Napple Tale reaching a wider audience either.

johnny_ultimate

I've never played a Dreamcast (yup, never) so there's plenty I'd love to play, Shenmue being the main one. Jet Set Radio would be nice too, and Powerstone. I played a helluva lot of Crazy Taxi on PS2, but if the sequel was released I'd pick that up too.

Retr0gamer

Crazy Taxi was better on the Dreamcast. The Offspring soundtrack rocked as well.

Professey Chin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Crazy Taxi was better on the Dreamcast. The Offspring soundtrack rocked as well.

YAH YAH YAH YAH YAH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G91ziPCo39k

johnny_ultimate

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The Offspring soundtrack rocked as well.

Good, yes, but shame there was like two songs I vaguely remember a Bad Religion song too, although that might have been Tony Hawks.

Burning Eclipse

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Good, yes, but shame there was like two songs I vaguely remember a Bad Religion song too, although that might have been Tony Hawks.

from the wiki

Bad Religion – Inner Logic
Bad Religion – Ten in 2010
Bad Religion – Them and Us
Bad Religion – Hear It
The Offspring – Way Down the Line
The Offspring – All I Want
The Offspring – Change the World

Played that game to death. The Dreamcast (and previously the N64) was my era in gaming where I did everything in every game I owned.

I really do love this news. Unless I hear that Demon's Souls 2 is in the works this is very likely my gaming news highlight of the year.

johnny_ultimate

Huh don't remember that many songs, for some reasons I thought it just kept on repeating the same two Offspring songs over and over!

****, now I'm going to end up spending tonight playing Crazy Taxi.

Burning Eclipse

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Huh don't remember that many songs, for some reasons I thought it just kept on repeating the same two Offspring songs over and over!

****, now I'm going to end up spending tonight playing Crazy Taxi.

Think some of them were in menus/credits etc... But some are etched in my memory for sure. All I Want, Ten in 2010 and Inner Logic most of all.

johnny_ultimate

Burning Eclipse wrote: »

Think some of them were in menus/credits etc... But some are etched in my memory for sure. All I Want, Ten in 2010 and Inner Logic most of all.

Listening to them again on youtube and it's all starting to come back . I used to know where every potential customer was in that game, and the ideal order to pick them up in. Also remember the 'bonus' city on the PS2 (maybe Dreamcast too?) was glitchy as hell compared to the arcade one.

rizzla

CHU CHU ROCKET!

2 launch games don't interest me.

corcaigh07

fecking awesome, i was part of the dreamcast 33k modem era and it was my first foray into online gaming. i dont know what would happen to me if the likes of PSO and quake 3 arena were re-launched on LIVE.

also, i really hope shenmue 1 and 2 can grab a decent audience to enhance any chances of shenmue 3, the game I want more than any other.

drool, Jet Set radio(feck Future, not a patch on the 1st game) in HD would be so sweet.

johnny_ultimate

Had a spin of Crazy Taxi this evening, **** me the product placement is shameless in that game :pac: One thing I realised while playing (and trying to readjust to the uber floaty physics) is that online leaderboards will add a lot to this game.

Vyse

This is definitely good news although I'm undecided whether or not I can justify forking out for the same game twice.

I don't know how likely we are to see the likes of Shenmue, Skies etc coming to Live/ PSN given that they were multiple disc releases but you never know.

Vyse

corcaigh07 wrote: »

drool, Jet Set radio(feck Future, not a patch on the 1st game) in HD would be so sweet.

Have to disagree with that one, thought that Future was as good as, if not better than, the original. The tagging in the original was a bit naff. Soundtracks for both games were pure class. I have them on CD.

Kiith

I'd love if Skies of Arcadia and Shenmue were released. I'd prefer the Gamecube version of Skies though, to cut out some of the insane amounts of random battles.

Burning Eclipse

rizzla wrote: »

CHU CHU ROCKET!

2 launch games don't interest me.

Great call on Chu Chu Rocket! I got it free in the post. Imagine that now!! And played it online... that and PSO were the big two online for me.

Gunmonkey

Vyse wrote: »

This is definitely good news although I'm undecided whether or not I can justify forking out for the same game twice.

I don't know how likely we are to see the likes of Shenmue, Skies etc coming to Live/ PSN given that they were multiple disc releases but you never know.

SO? The PSN has multiple disc PS1 games, plus you can download full 360 games through XBLA, so its not gonna be a problem multi disc-wise or file size-wise.

Just SEGA or whoever published the games dragging their heels :mad:

Dr Bob

No idea how things are on the xbox side of things but hopefully this isnt like the PS1 games on PSN , US and Jap stores have over 200, EU has...about 50:(

00sully

ahhhhhhh Toy Commander the ultimate 4 player dog fighting game! the only dreamcast game I ever played in abundance! wicked. *hope*

Vyse

Gunmonkey wrote: »

SO? The PSN has multiple disc PS1 games, plus you can download full 360 games through XBLA, so its not gonna be a problem multi disc-wise or file size-wise.

Yes I know but there was always a limit to the size that a XBLA titles could be (this is with respect to Arcade games only):

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/20/xbla-file-size-limit-increases-to-350mb/

Don't know what the limit is now but I'm sure that the likes of Shenmue 2 would be well over 1GB seeing as it comes on 4 GD-ROMS. Could be a factor for Live, maybe not for PSN.

Kiith

They used to have XBOX games available for download too though (not sure if they are still available), so it shouldnt be that much of a problem.

GothPunk

If you guys remember there was a leaked Sony/Sega document that contained this information about the release of DC games:

DC Digital Titles

If we provide a list of DC titles SCEA will let us know which ones they're interested in having exclusively.
If we give them a long period of exclusivity they'll give us more marketing support.

It is possible that some games will be exclusive to PSN or XBLA, which may come about naturally due to the file size limitations of XBLA. Who knows. I would hope that everyone would get to play the games though.

Swarlez

this is fantastic news!

Shiminay

I'd love to see Powerstone, Toy Commander and Chu Chu Rocket making an appearance on my XBox alright, they'd be snaped up

corcaigh07

Vyse wrote: »

Have to disagree with that one, thought that Future was as good as, if not better than, the original. The tagging in the original was a bit naff. Soundtracks for both games were pure class. I have them on CD.

wrong! imo the tagging in the sequel was worse(no challenge or threat of getting caught by the cops) and there was no flow to the levels unlike the original. also JSRF feels like a remix of the first game which is lame eg same bad guys, same situations etc even the soundtrack to Future is mainly a remix of the first games OST.

wish there was a true sequel to the first game and im surprised the wii hasnt seen a JSR by now, its a good fit!

Mr Trade In

Grandia 2, REZ, Evolution 1 and 2, House of the Dead 2(Finally a use for the GCon) and Timestalkers are what I would like to see along with the obivious MSR,Shenmue 1 and 2,Skies of Arcadia etc.

o1s1n

Ikaruga, Under Defeat and Shikigami No Shiro in HD? Yes please! And here was me thinking they looked pretty with a VGA box.

Fingers crossed this leads to some Saturn releases too! :eek:

Vyse

Mr Trade In wrote: »

Grandia 2, REZ, Evolution 1 and 2, House of the Dead 2(Finally a use for the GCon) and Timestalkers are what I would like to see along with the obivious MSR,Shenmue 1 and 2,Skies of Arcadia etc.

REZ is already available on XBLA:pac:

Vyse

corcaigh07 wrote: »

wish there was a true sequel to the first game and im surprised the wii hasnt seen a JSR by now, its a good fit!

Preliminary work was done on a JSR for the Wii but I think it got scrapped fairly early on in development.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=194446

It's unfortuante that Jet Set Radio 2 never appeared on the DC. It was in development but drifted into obscurity once JSRF was announced. As far as I can recall Sega never offically cancelled it. On numerous occassions they actually re-affirmed its release despite JSRF.

http://www.consolecity.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=8682&highlight=De%20La%20Jet%20Set%20Radio

It still is one of my favourite DC games (despite the sequel being superior :P)

Retr0gamer

Screw Powerstone. Powerstone 2 was infinitely better than an already amazing game.

Minstrel27

I will be having some Crazy Taxi when it is released.

Vyse

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Screw Powerstone. Powerstone 2 was infinitely better than an already amazing game.

Powerstone must be one of the best fighting games ever. I don't like beat em ups but Power Stone was absolutely class. It was my second game for the Dreamcast, bought about a week after launch. The balance of the whole game would change if you got that third Powerstone.

The second was excellent too. Felt that the four player could get a bit crowded on the one screen. Would be brilliant over Live though.

All this Dreamcast talk has me wanting to take it out of my wife's attic:)

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Screw Powerstone. Powerstone 2 was infinitely better than an already amazing game.

Are you any better at Powerstone 2 than you are at 1? :P

Mr Trade In

Vyse wrote: »

REZ is already available on XBLA:pac:

I have a PS3, No REZ on PSN yet.

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

Are you any better at Powerstone 2 than you are at 1? :P

Hey I did alright by the end :P

TerrorFirmer

I know it was a PS2 title as well, but Unreal Tournament 99 - that would be amazing. No Tournament title since has been remotely as good as the original, in fact I find them distinctly boring.

Dreddybajs

Capcom VS SNK 2 all day

Nehaxak

I still have a working Dreamcast lying around along with a ton of games. I stocked up on games when it died a death and they were selling for next to nothing, still think it was a bloody good console.