Ecco would be sweet.
Depends on the average attention span of people using that feature.
Long live the DC.
[quote=“Geoffrey Duke”]Ecco would be sweet.
Depends on the average attention span of people using that feature.[/quote]
The original Ecco is already on Xbox Live Arcade, so that hopefully shouldn’t be a problem.
NiGHTS fans are pushing to get NiGHTS into Dreams onto 360/PS3. This is something that really needs to happen. I feel like NiGHTS is popular enough to be a hit on XBLA/PSN - plus it would open the door for other Saturn games (like the PD trilogy). CLICK THAT “FANS” button to vote!
There are tons of Saturn games I’d love to see on Xbox Live Arcade/Playstation Network. Panzer Dragoon trilogy, Shining the Holy Ark and Force III, NiGHTS, Guardian Heroes, Radiant Silvergun, the list goes on. Maybe they could emulate the games and “hack” in things like achievements for the games that no longer have source code available.
Speaking of Dreamcast games, I recently purchased the Xbox Live Arcade version of Soul Calibur. Somewhat disappointing compared to the Dreamcast version. Everything is already unlocked from the get go, and Mission Battle mode is absent. It may have been based on the Arcade version, but the Dreamcast version was clearly the better of the two since Mission Battle added a lot of variety to the game. Lets hope the Dreamcast titles from Sega live up to their original counterparts.
When I tried the Soul Calibur trial I just didn’t like the way it looked anyway. Dreamcast’s video output had a special quality, and it seems clear to me a linear port of the bitmap and lighting values just doesn’t work for the 360 and most digital TVs. Virtual-On as well, another game that used to mesmerize me, but just falls flat in the conversion, the color just isn’t hot enough. Whereas Rez HD clearly got reworked so the gamma feels true to the original aesthetic.
But I think I’m resigned to certain truths concerning Saturn games. In the first place the architecture was esoteric enough that even if a port up is viable it’d still be a much bigger headache than for almost any other system’s games. And secondly, aside from the existing faithful, the legacy opinion of the Saturn is that while the games may have been great the graphics were just “bad”. Regardless of the objective or even theoretical truth of that, I think there’s simply zero confidence in how a straight Saturn port may be received.
nowgamer.com/news/3583/sega- … oad-titles
“It’s not that we have no intention of porting Saturn titles, so please share your requests.”
Yep, NiGHTS and Panzer Dragoon were ported, not to mention graphically enhanced . . . for Japanese PS2s only. [shakes fist]
The head of nightsintodreams.com flat-out asked the guy on Twitter about his response was basically that he would be “up for the challenge” of porting NiGHTS for the West.
OUTLOOK GOOD!
To be honest, it’s been so long since I’ve played Soul Calibur on Dreamcast that I didn’t notice the colour differences.
I think Saturn games will undoubtably look bad in comparison to newer titles, but if they’re classics people will play them regardless. A number of classic NES-era games have made it to Xbox Live Arcade, so maybe people will be willing to look past the “ugliness” of early 3D if the gameplay still holds up.
[quote=“Nemoide”]http://www.nowgamer.com/news/3583/sega-considering-saturn-download-titles
“It’s not that we have no intention of porting Saturn titles, so please share your requests.”[/quote]
How do we share our requests? It would be worthwhile creating an awareness that we’d like the Panzer games rereleased.
THAT is a good question. I know the Panzer community is pretty isolated - but Sega does keep tabs on fan sites.
I hate to suggest ripping off NiD15.com but any sort of page dedicated to promoting PD on XBLA/PSN would hypothetically get noticed.
Or if you have Twitter, send Tweets to Sega and/or comment on the Sega blogs? (Basically, I don’t know. :anjou_embarassed:)
You mentioned that the owner of nightsintodreams.com contacted Yosuke Okunari
on Twitter. Was that through @SEGA or through Yosuke Okunari’s personal twitter account?
It wouldn’t be much of a ripoff seeing how NiD15 isn’t exactly a new concept. Like I said in another thread, I’d do something more than just let people “push a button”, so that you can at least show the first name, e-mail and optional comments from the people that already voted. I do think it’s a good idea that they used a dedicated webpage and domain. Finding ways to integrate the page with Twitter and Facebook would also be helpful. I’ve been planning on looking into this but I have a bad habit of not finishing the projects I’ve started on (I should have completed a project for TWOTA *ages *ago, it’s almost finished though Solo :anjou_embarassed:).
Thanks, although I guess someone who understands Japanese may need to ask instead.
No worries, D-Unit. 
A site like what you described would be worthwhile, maybe as a subdomain on TWOTA? It would save buying a new domain anyway…
I’d probably get a new domain just to make it stand out a bit more, similar to what they did for nid15.com. I’m not a fan of Facebook, but Twitter integration would probably be important as well. I think nid15.com could go a lot further in using Twitter then they are doing now, given the number of Twitter plugins that are available.
Makes sense. Well, if you decide to go ahead with it on a separate domain, I’m more than happy to provide hosting. Just point the domain to webfaction’s name servers and I’ll do some configuring at my end.
Twitter integration sounds like a good idea, the PD feed is quite active.
It arrived at my house this morning after ordering it on ebay and i have to say its a shame Sega no longer make games consoles.To be honest the only reason i bought one was to play Shenmue 1,Crazy Taxi and Metropolis Street Racer does any other DreamCast owners have any recomendations on other games to buy for it?
Jet Set Radio, Skies of Arcadia, Daytona, AeroWings 2, Armada, Power Stone 2, maybe even stuff like Evolution, a JRPG I don’t think many noticed at the time. There are plenty great DC games but some are perhaps easier to acquire on other platforms, like MvC2.
Jet Set Radio
Sonic Adventure
Chu Chu Rocket
Phantasy Star Online (maybe not as fun these days now that the servers have gone down)
Skies of Arcadia
Powerstone 1 and 2
Ikaruga (Japan only - also on Gamecube and Xbox Live Arcade)
Ecco Defender of the Future
Rez (the Xbox Live Arcade version is better though)
Soul Calibur
I’m sure there are others that I can’t think of right now. Welcome, by the way. 
Shenmue 2!