2mo ago

Anyone have their Dreamcast connected online yet?

This is how I connected for PSO.

I’ve mostly hunted on Ragol years ago when lately I decided to start over to avoid playing the Ultimate difficulty at level 74 to 75.

Click here to see any games online now: https://dreamcastlive.net/games/

I also appeared on the DreamcasticChannel a couple of times myself years ago on YouTube:

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Thats so cool! I love seeing projects to bring old consoles and emulators online. Whish i still had my dreamcast.

My dude, for the love of Christ, do something about those cables
- He could just pull out that dresser a couple inches and stick it all back there
- Easily accessible, not too tangled, can literally look and see if something is unplugged...I see no problem here

Back in the day (before third party hardware to do this) the only way to get Dreamcast online was to Dialup or the very rare and expensive broadband adapter.
Seeing as the Dreamcast shipped with a dial up modem, it was possble to set up your PC (also with a modem) and with a a couple of resistors, make a type of "dial up crossover cable". You would set up your PC to "answer" the call from the Dreamcast, then route the traffic to the PCs broadband connection. Zero phone line needed!
- That's how it's done here as well. A USB modem attached to a raspberry pi (or just any pc) which answers the dial up connection from the Dreamcast, routing it through broadband.

Can people playing on an emulator play online with people connected with genuine hardware?
Might get to see more players online if that's the case. I think the Xbox Live reimplementation works that way.
- Saving this post in case I ever get a Dreampi or whatever it's called and can test it. Or in case someone has an answer.
- Maybe.

I don't see how I would be able to since the broadband modem never came to NA so mine just has the dial-up one. Even if the tools linked here would work with dial-up, somehow: I don't have a landline to make the call. 😩
Edit: Needs a Raspberry Pi but doesn't need a landline. Interesting... Just need a raspberry pi and an RJ45 cable. $40-50 and I could play Chu Chu Rocket against other people again! 😃
- There you go.

That's awesome. The Dreamcast was the first console I played online.
Ooga Booga was a great game, and would probably still be fun today if it had some players.
- https://dreamcastlive.net/ooga-booga/
  Here you go.

I love projects like this and I have connected my Dreamcast, but never when I went to play has anyone actually been online. (anyone can check who's playing online with their Dreamcast here: https://dreamcast.online/now/ )

I'm very surprised to see Alien Front Online in that list, for reasons. It was unceremoniously taken offline when the hardcoded IP of the bootstrap server was taken back by the telco when we switched providers.
Ahh, memories.

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