Dreamcast revival as an arcade only platform?

[voltz]

*Random thought

I really don't care if this wasn't able to compete head to head with sony's PS2, but if you look at how loyal SNK's fanbase was, I could guess that support for the arcade industry and titles in relation + cheaper costs to developement would be in the cards for sega if they wanted to seperate their platform from the mainstream. It would make a difference for making games that were strictly about gameplay more then the graphics show everyone else is coming out with.

[dog$]

From reading that I'm reminded of the follwing -

- The arcade market is virtuall nonexistant in NA and fickle in Japan. It's very difficult to know a game's going to guaranteeably generate any income today.

- There's already plenty of other hardware to choose from in the current (at least post-System 246) generation. Triforce, Chihiro, and Atomiswave are all recent examples and I think Sega is still putting together Naomi 3 for some reason.

- Speaking of which, what ever happened to Triforce?

So it's from this basis that I'm saying "I don't think it'd make a lick of a difference, anyway."

[Hero]

I wish I knew what happened to Triforce. We got F-Zero on that thing, and then...what? I remember Namco and Capcom were backing the hardware too, and then nothing =(

And yeah, arcades these days suck. There's not much room for the hardware that's out there, let alone a 'revival' of hardware that's dated, compared to the competition.

[Opaque]

I've never found an F-Zero cabinet anywhere near me, which is the main reason I never got to into the GC version. Are they really hard to come across, or am I just in a shit location?

[voltz]

I think starfox was supposed to be in developement for triforce, but I've heard nothing new lately.

I agree that bringing back DC would be a pretty hard effort, but to see it seperate into a market of it's own would be the best way to milk whatever potential is left from the system. Didn't I recall both Sammy and SNK putting their work on atomswave? That being the DC in arcade hardware would make ports cheap and easy and for SNK, they could double up on this as the next gen NEO-GEO platform without jacking the price up for everything.

I've never found an F-Zero cabinet anywhere near me, which is the main reason I never got to into the GC version. Are they really hard to come across, or am I just in a shit location?

You're in a shit location, move to Japan.

[lithium]

I don't understand why. In the case of the MVS, it's unique and stands out. Neo games have a certain feel to them. I don't think that's true for Naomi games, they could have just as easily been put on any other competent 3D board. Why do you care what hardware your arcade game is running on? I'm more concerned about there just plain being arcades, let alone details like this. There isn't a single arcade anywhere near where I live

[Shapermc]

I just wanted to make sure that you all know that an Atomiswave IS a Dreamcast, right?

This is a standard dreamcast type spec, so has less power than the Sega Naomi.
Inputs : Supports various types of input such as joystick, light guns, and track balls via a common interface.

http://www.system16.com/other/hrdw_atomiswave.html

dog$: Your too bitter to be a gamer. I don't belive you play games anymore.

[Rocca]

I've never found an F-Zero cabinet anywhere near me, which is the main reason I never got to into the GC version. Are they really hard to come across, or am I just in a shit location?

No, they are hard to come across, of all the arcades where I live, there are a few, only one had 2 F-Zero AX machines. Worst news about this, there not even used. And I'm afraid of putting my mem card in a slot that a million people threw their bubble gum in.

[voltz]

Worst news about this, there not even used. And I'm afraid of putting my mem card in a slot that a million people threw their bubble gum in.

These kids do that? Selfish little bastards have no shame!

[jarrod]

I wish I knew what happened to Triforce. We got F-Zero on that thing, and then...what? I remember Namco and Capcom were backing the hardware too, and then nothing =(

Tri-Force
-F-Zero AX (Amusment Vision)
-F-Zero AX: Monster Ride (Amusment Vision)
-Gekitou Pro Yakyuu (Wow Entertianment)
-The Key of Avalon: Summon the New Monsters (Hitmaker)
-The Key of Avalon: The Wizard Master (Hitmaker)
-Virtua Stiker 2002 (Amusment Vision)

...Namco was working on a Smash Bros type game and planning an arcade release for Starfox 2 but it was all canceled when they started scaling back AM resources. Capcom pledged support early on, and rumor has it Z-Gundam started on TF, but they've gotten out of arcades completely. Sega still uses TF for select games but that's about it.