18 Jun
2007
18 Jun
'07
1:56 p.m.
No, the Dreamcast was ditched by Sega officially in 2001. Sega quietly supported alot of
the online games, in Europe atleast, due to some contract or legal jargon somewhere that
stated the servers would be up for 7 years.
Whilst the remaining Dreamcast servers closed back in Feb this year in Europe, the US
servers were switched off around 2004.
One of the most recent arcade ports is Last Hope which was out earlier this year in
Japan.
Regards
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote: Zane H. Healy wrote:
And this is why some games are *still* being released (in Japan) for
Dreamcast, because they keep making NAOMI arcade machines (shooters,
mostly). The release schedule is once every 18 months or so, but that's
not bad for a system that was declared dead in 2003.
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Sega still
uses a lot of SuperH-based systems (particularly NAOMI,
basically
a Dreamcast on steroids).
This is what made the Dreamcast such a great system for Arcade ports.
You basically had the port done when you released the game in the
arcade. Name any other console with that many *good* arcade ports!