Reprise

@johnvboy I just don't see the issue, to be honest. As someone else mentioned, the same-sex couple were gamers and the non-binary contestant was a games tester, so it didn't feel particularly forced to me. And even if the diversity angle is forced, I just don't know why people get so angry about it. Imagine getting so worked up about a same-sex couple or someone who identifies as non-binary appearing on a TV show. Someone seemed to suggest that the show went out of its way to mention the two women were a couple. Why wouldn't they mention that they're a couple? There's nothing unusual about that.

@johnvboy What direction is that?

@impurekind Zzzzzzzzzzzz Zzzzzzzzz You're boring, dude. Go listen to Kid Rock's new song or something.

I knew it wouldn't be long until the predictable, cliched "it's trying too hard to be woke" brigade waded into this comment thread. Yawn.

Agreed! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think the co-hosts are the weakest links... They come across as cringe (but maybe the original hosts did and I'm blinded by nostalgia... Still love Dominik Diamond though!) and the commentary was pretty weak. However, regardless, I thought the show was great. It really nailed the tone and style I wanted from it and Trevor McDonald is perfect as the new GamesMaster.

@impurekind Yeah, that's a great point actually. I forgot about that! I always did it the C stick way round, but only because that was what I was used to at the time.

@Damo It might not be common knowledge now in 2020 (especially as you might have some younger people within your audience), but I THOUGHT it was common knowledge in the 90s when it came out. I might be wrong, but I do seem to remember it being mentioned in the UK's N64 magazine. And as someone else stated, it is right there in the settings... then again, it wouldn't surprise me if many people did miss it since nearly all my friends played with the default controls instead of switching to the superior configuration that mapped forward/backward movement plus strafing to the C buttons, and 360 aiming to the stick.

Yes, I knew. I'm going to sound like a smart alec now, but I thought it was common knowledge?

@X68000 Really? I've never heard of any of the clone devices damaging Dreamcasts. Do you have a source on that? You can't update them, but games compatibility is already at 100%

@Zeropulse @Damo Thanks both for the replies. I have both a Saturn and Dreamcast, so at some point down the road I hope to pick up something like this. I do have three working Dreamcasts lying around, but you never know when all those disc drives will begin to break (I already had my launch model die on me just over a decade ago).

It seems like a bit of a pain swapping this out of the Dreamcast and Saturn and switching between them though. I'd probably rather just have two and have them fitted in seperate consoles with seperate hard drives. But yeah, that would be pricey... Fortunately more of these alternatives are turning up and they are slowly getting cheaper. A GDemu isn't too expensive these days, for example.

What are the benefits to this over the GDemu? Is it just that the latter just uses an SD Card, whilst with MODE you can connect a hard drive? Or does the GDemu require soldering skills?

(Sorry for the noob question, I don't have either)

@TG16_IS_BAE No, it's physically a different thing. It was a proprietary format exclusive to the Dreamcast. It stands for Giga-disc as each disc holds 1.1gb of data (if I remember correctly). Sega opted for it as, at the time, it was much cheaper than the DVD format, but still provided more storage than a standard CD.

GD-Rom drives were only used for the Dreamcast as far as I know. The Dreamcast's discs cannot be read by a standard disc drive. Hence ripping games was always more complicated than it was on other disc based formats.

@TG16_IS_BAE @Damo Surely there's no possibility of Dreamcast ever being supported? It would need a working GD-Rom drive, if they aren't going to support piracy...

@commentlife Agreed.

How does it handle the whole 50hz/60hz situation? Can you play unoptimised 50hz games in 60hz? Is there an option to maintain 50hz for the optimised games that mess up if you force them into 60hz?

@FourBs As someone who owns this, a Mad Catz Dreamcast controller from the year 2000 and the original controller, I can assure you, fortunately, it's nothing like a Mad Catz controller 😂

@RushDawg No, it's mostly just designed to feel like a modern controller first and foremost. They wanted it to feel more comfortable to hold and create something similar to current pads, with a nice modern analogue stick. The D-pad and face buttons are improved too. The shoulder buttons are better than the original controller's analogue triggers for fighters, but obviously not as good as a 6 button set up.