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It felt like such a missed opportunity. It was network capable, but that 'network' was dialup. The Dreamcast launched at the very beginning of the 'broadband'
by mjevans 5y ago
It felt like such a missed opportunity. It was network capable, but that 'network' was dialup. The Dreamcast launched at the very beginning of the 'broadband' wave and had missed catching it.
It was also sadly (in the US at least) against PS2s which could play DVDs; which was also (IIRC) one of the less expensive DVD players of the era.
- toast0 5y agoThere were two ethernet modules available, a 10M one released in Japan and a 10/100 that was available in the US and I think the rest of the world. Of course, they were costly, and there was the issue of software support; I think most games with modem support didn't support the network adapter. The PS2 and gamecube both had network adapters too, and not much software support (the ps2 network adapter comes with an IDE hard drive interface which opens up interesting possibilities though)
- Melatonic 5y agoI vaguely (I think) remember buying the ethernet adapter in the US on a big sale. And as far as I know it worked great with Phantasy Star Online (I could be misremembering). I suppose it's also possible I was just doing dialup with one of the free providers at the time. You could also buy an official dreamcast keyboard which plugged into the normal controller port which was HUGE for online games at that point since voice chat was non existent. Trying to trade with people using a controller was awful. A keyboard made you amazing at it.