The BEST Dreamcast homebrew/ports from 2024

The Dreamcast homebrew scene has been popping off recently, let's see what progress has been made in the last year!

▶"Minecraft"

▶Grand Theft Auto 3

▶Doom 64

[cocoelacanth]

0:22 the half-life port shown here is actually official! it was being developed by gearbox and captivation digital laboratories, and was basically complete when they cancelled it in 2001 due to "changing market conditions."

blue shift was originally developed for the dreamcast version, before being ported to PC. the PS2 port released later that year was based on the cancelled dreamcast version!

(also pitayascastle mentioned!!)

[meesedev]

I'm the developer behind the Minecraft-like voxel engine for the Dreamcast. I was initially hesitant to release the Gamecube port, but seeing games like Xeno Crisis legally launch on the platform has made me reconsider.

[Gundawggggg]

Another perfect video to watch while eating cereal at 2am

[BlackravenX]

When you said Minecraft, I thought you were going to talk about the Dreamcast port of ClassiCube.

[TheDreamcastJunkyard]

It was inevitable that the Dreamcast scene would peak like this. Thanks to the console being so easy to crack, it’s been able to live on past its 2001 cancellation. It may have died commercially but it never died in the eyes of indie and homebrew developers!

[mryoshii]

sadly that you didn't talk about classicube. dreamcast have a really good port with MULTIPLAYER support

[SometimesBadYT]

MattKC posted?! Yet another video to watch 20 times! (I unironically do so)

[BenceNyitrai-dftt]

there is an official port of classicube (minecraft classic but c) on the dreamcast complete with online functionality and split screen multiplayer (and also keyboard and mouse support)

[goclunker]

What's crazy is I bought a dreamcast in high school because of the half-life screenshot on the box. I never got to play the game till about 2014 on my dreamcast. Crazy times I love my DC still.❤

[freakdave]

There's also a game jam going on called DreamDisc '24, so there's even more Dreamcast greatness heading our way!

[WigWoo]

hope my CD drive never goes out. Part of the Dreamcast charm is the sound of that loud ass laser grinding back and forth

[imalsoTOMATO]

When I saw Halo CE, I couldn't believe it. But then I actually looked it up and it actually doesn't exist, just a Quake conversion mod for the dreamcast 😭.

[andy]

That "pregnancy test DOOM" is just the plastic shell, gutted and with entirely custom hardware glued inside of it. It's in no way playing on the pregnancy test. 5:49

[adamsfusion]

Kinda funny at 1:14 to say "Why did the DC have no copy protection when the Saturn had intense copy protection" when the Saturn had some of the worst copy protection. It was easily bypassed with a CD swap at the SEGA license screen.

[tSunrise_]

5:50 fun fact: you don't even need a screen. Some dev ran doom on a space satellite.

[Mylo-aq]

It's a testament to the Dreamcast's legacy that fans are still dedicated to make games and ports for the system, given such a very short shelf life and paltry sales to other consoles at the time would've warrented it as forgettable shovelware

[SirJosephWindsor]

The GDEMU is actually pretty cheap! You can find clones of it on AE for as low as 45 euros, thats how i got mine, i got the V 5.15b Which is not the latest but plays 99% and even the ones that were buggy have a patch like code veronica and skies of arcadia. Also GTA 3 was actually supposed to come out on the Dreamcast and the game did start developement for the Dreamcast but was scrapped in 2001 and developement moved to PS2.

[EWARS_]

I just don't understand how ClassiCube continues to fall under everyone's radar...

[Ganx_Gooshers]

When I started collecting game consoles the dream cast was the first Sega console I got in my collection. (I even have the box though I'm missing a styrofoam insert) I had fun with it for a few year and haven't touched it since. I'm really tempted to show it some love and do some mods to it.

[maddog]

Doom64 on Dreamcast is the best version of the game you can currently play.