I have been completely sleeping on DC emulation for the last few years and had no idea Redream existed. This shit is dope.
I'm also discovering what an awesome game Soul Reaver is. My initial exposure to the game was my uncle gifting it to me as a Christmas present when I was a bit too young to "get it". What's the best way to play Soul Reaver 2?
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the dreamcast fucking sucks lmao
Will this thing run on my toaster?
why is the wraith blade out of his arm? emulator glitch?
Why do you want to emulate the Dreamcast? Everything worth playing has already been ported.
Is there a good saturn emulator?
Toy Commander, Crazy Taxi 2, Metropolis Street Racer, Power Stone, Cannon Spike, Bangai-O, Cosmic Smash, Tokyo Extreme Racer, PenPen TriIcelon, the SEGA sport games, a DC exclusive Cool Boarders game...
Even Sonic Adventure is worth playing on emulator because no official release ever added widescreen.
>SEGA rider
I though the Sonic Adventure HD releases on 360/Xbone were widescreen?
>official release
Technically that's right, but the PC port of Sonic Adventure has been completely overhauled and remade again by fans through 10 years of reverse engineering and effort.
There are mods and patches you can install over SA1 on Steam to restore parity to the Dreamcast release, add full widescreen support, and a shitload of new features.
>adventure HD
no, its still 4:3. adventure 2 got a proper widescreen release
Sonic Adventure 1 HD, as sold, lacks widescreen support entirely. It's an absolutely broken, garbage, pos port that Sega shouldn't be selling, but is anyways.
It's fallen to some dedicated fans oer the years to reverse engineer the game fix practically everything wrong with it.
Fully modded/patched, the PC port of SA1 is actually the definitive version now.
>It's an absolutely broken, garbage, pos port that Sega shouldn't be selling
are you sure youre not describing SA1 in general?
Only SA2. Sonic Adventure has this awful purple border.
So I never played Adventure 1 & 2 except through XBLA so that's good to know. Sounds like SA1 might be worth check out again.
>playing Soul Reava for the first time
Nice
Dunno what the best way to play 2 is, probably not playing it at all.
I'll add that the only real losses have been the original Chao minigame
(they haven't been able to recreate it; it's still the DX counterpart),
and the VMU gimmick along with world rankings (all the dreamcast dlc were retrieved and ported into SA1 pc as mods with some extra features)
Something of a compromise is a mod that adds time trial ghosts to stages in the game. You can set a best time and then race against ghosts to beat it.
There's also a mod that adds support for local multiplayer.
SA1, every release including the original PC release (not steam, this is vital to understand), has some fucked up issues. its just to be expected when playign SA1 that shit is broken. version does matter too since some bugs are version exclusive
Best version of THPS2
this
Reasons to play/emulate a dreamcast:
1) Berserk (basically the only way to experience the Flowers of Oblivion canonical story chapter)
2) Record of Lodoss War
Soul Calibur got ported to XBLA/360.
Shen Mue 1 and 2 are best played in the recent HD releases, and are not worth it given the state of Shen Mue 3.
Ikaruga has been ported everywhere and is best played on PS4 or Steam.
Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 are bad games for autistic sonic fans.
Resi Code Veronica X got HD ported to PS3, that's the best version to play, not the PS2 classics version you can get for PS4.
Virtua Fighter 3rd is dated and your better playing any more recent fighter.
The Legacy of Kain games are fucking fantastic though and Soul Reaver 1 and 2, Blood Omen 2 and Defiance are best played on GOG or Steam. PSOne Blood Omen is available on PS3/Vita virtual console too but didn't age well. Nosgoth is dead because Square Enix are fucks who are neglecting the IP.
Not to derail the thread any further, but all I can say is that the patched/modded install isn't buggy at all outside of a few rare conflicts between a few mods (and broken start menu demos).
It's extremely stable and looks about the best that the game ever will.
another pic
There's only one regression I can still spot on this level. Some objects with strut supports show black alpha masking where they should be transparent, or see-through.
the mods are fine, the core game is a mess
That's a good looking shroud
yes, atleast it runs on mine
It's a lot better when you string the levels together in trial mode and forget Amy, Big, and Gamma are a thing.
Gamma was actually okay but - only two half levels.
Even if you fix SA1 or 2, they're still dogshit games.
Dreamcast has best versions of a few games as well as some exclusives.
Grandia 2, Soul Reaver, Crazy Taxi etc
Play Daytona USA 2001.
>What's the best way to play Soul Reaver 2?
PS2, but emulation comes with an inevitable game breaking bug. So does Defiance. Neither game is very good anyway.
Go play Blood Omen if you haven't. It's the best one. Even SR1 is kind of a mess, though I love it.