Gaming Chat

[Dirty Duck]

Oh yeah the internal clock being dead is suuuper common. It's dead on mine too. Annoying but I eventually just boot it up without changing anything if I'm playing something like Sonic. I've grabbed a few bits I could find for cheap too, Shenmue, Jet Set Radio (no case), Maken X (Japanese copy), Sonic Adventure, Chu Chu Rocket, a fair few others that are likely eluding me right now, unfortunately my copy of Tomb Raider doesn't work but I got it in a job lot I haggled for so didn't kick off.

I'm at the very tail end of my Sonic Adventure playthrough (E-102 Gamma's adventure, if you're familiar) and it's definitely got some jank but I think you get used to it. I've really enjoyed my time revisiting it, I think it's a game with a lot of heart and ambition. That being said there were several times when I thought my copy was glitching during a cutscene only to find out that's how the cutscene is on all copies, and that they just shipped it like that! You should get a battery for your VMU and send a Chao to it! Super novel to have it just show up to take around with you. VMU was so cool.

I want to go straight onto Sonic Adventure 2 afterwards but sheeeesh is that game expensive-far more than the first!

Are you aware that you can play games burnt onto CD-Rs right on your Dreamcast without modding? Obviously having a disc tray in this day and age is a rarity but it works amazing, just burn the rom onto the disc and pop it in and it just plays it no problem. Using that I've played Rival Schools, Power Stone & Power Stone 2, and I've used it to play the English version of Maken X since my copy's Japanese.