It's an email service. So if I were to register I would get the email jeffpaine@user.dreamcast.com

It seems that's it, at least for now

Sega should never have left the hardware market. They are a GAMES company, MS and Sony are not and should GTFO.

ErskinPig: That was the most ignorant post I've ever seen. Sony and Microsoft wouldn't be a console company if it weren't for Sega's weak console, and Sony's dominant PS1.

Hmm, don't have my DC with me now, but it was a fine system. This is interesting news though. Living in Japan I still see lots of systems and games on sale, and it still looks like a popular gaming rig on, at least among the collecting scene.

Yes but no wires

making new games for old systems have always been a dream of mine.

i would really like to play new games on my NES.

@Al2x: The most ignorant? Surely not! :P

Why are they asking? Is it a retro-active survey to gauge how well the DC2 would sell?
Now all we need is EA to launch the "EArth", and we have a 5 console market. CRazYY!!!

Hell fucking yes. Actually, it gets more play time than any of my next gen consoles.

So I can get my e-mail to say shinjikinomoto *at* dreamcast.com ? Sweet! /goes to sign up/

@ErskinPig: I have seen much more ignoranter posts than that.

@Al2x: What he means (I assume) is that sega has a rightful place on some weird pedestal because it was sorely a games company. MS and So were hardware and other stuff. Elitism at work, it seems.

Playing it as we speak. And lets hope this means a full on Dreamcast revival. maybe even Shenmue 3. oh and Blue Stinger still kicks the shit out of RE.

Okay, done. I've pulled my dusty little Dreamcast out from under the TV, flipped it over for the serial number, and registered.

Hmmm, maybe I'll see if it actually still works... where did I put the controllers?

That kind of sucks that it's serialnumber@ and you can't pick your own, but still... *hugs his Dreamcast*

The Dreamcast made white-colored consoles cool, even before white-colored consoles were cool.

@TinyLightning: No, no it really doesn't :P

@MasterOfPastures:

"MS and So"

That made me cringe So hard. Must be a new thing with all the kids these days and I've been missing out! D:

hmm sold mine last month.. oh well. Probably nothing much

I love my Dreamcast, it is the only console I still have around that isn't from the current generation of systems.

I just can't abandon Marvel Vs Capcom 2 & Crazy Taxi!!!

I still have my Dreamcast!

Wow. Too bad my Dreamcast is hidden somewhere in my parents basement in a whole other time zone.

Crap - mine is still packed away from when I moved. I'll have to dig it out of the box and register for this too.

Anyone got this to work with a US DC? I don't want to get mine out of the Boxes in the basement unless I have too.

mine dreamcast sitting on display like a trophy on my mantle next to my large collection of severed animal heads.

yay for me.

@ErskinPig:

And Nintendo was a hanafuda card, love hotel and taxi company, so they should gtfo too?

Dreamcast 2 slowly being developed secretly in an underground facility by a dozen people, who haven't seen the sun for the past 3 yrs...

2008/E3 = Announcement of Dreamcast 2...

....
Would be cool aye?

Once you register, you have to wait for an admin to approve it, then you can access the email account through gmail. I guess that's how they figured they would weed out fake serial numbers.

*turns house upside down looking for Dreamcast*

I still have one. It's right next to my Genesis and not far from my Saturn. My SMS is no longer working. =(

@RBecho: Works for US/Canada

I do still have a Dreamcast and I like it better than my Wii.

really interesting...I'd love a dreamcast 2

I totally just registered mine, and I feel ALIVE!

My inner Sega fanboy just rose from the grave, even if it was just to gasp for air.

Well the Dreamcast was not as powerful as PS2 but it was close I think. Maybe since the Wii and PS2 are still getting alot of love, maybe they are thinking about releasing some of these games on the Dreamcast?

I have one, and it's got a mod chip from Lik Sang.

A mod chip honey!

Dreamcast was an awesome little system with awesome early features like online gameplay, internet browsing, and so forth. I loved the hell out of my Dreamcast and some of my favorite games appeared on that platform. If Sega entered the hardware market again, I think they're capable of doing a good job.

dreamcast... RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!?

I think it's funny to note that, although the dreamcast has been gone for ever, and although it still rapes; it has still been in demand solely for competitive MvC2. >.>

Sega would be really stupid to get into the console race again (which they obviously aren't doing, but for the sake of wild speculation...)

I'm sure neither MS or Sony are going to be leaving anytime soon and a 4 console race would be absolutely bloody. There's no way Sega has enough money to build some ridiculous console that they'd have to sell at a loss to compete the way Sony and MS have been doing to try and stay in the race.

And if they tried to build a "less powerful" console and compete in the Wii's market...well they'd be totally pwned so bad we'd all forget the Dreamcast even existed.

@ErskinPig: If sony isn't software company, why did they have the highest overall rated games last year? God of war and colossus are in house games, they are not made by separate companies that Sony just happens to own.

and since when does it mean you have to make software if you make hardware. Id rather companies do what they are best at then try to be a jack of all trades.

Sega deserved to go software only in all honesty, after the initial genesis release everything they did hardware wise failed because of poor planing.

though i never owned one myself, i've always been very fond of dc, like towards an old friend...

...time to hit up ebay! good thing this old friend is readily available and cheap, too!

The little system that refuses to die is in the news yet again. Though I hope it's something major, I can't help but believe that we're not in for something very earth shattering.

Though this questionnaire applies to Dreamcast owners of Japan, I can comfortably say I still own my Dreamcast and frequently play it when the boredom sets in. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Last Blade 2 aren't just going to play themselves, ya'know.

I just hope my registration number isn't too badly worn in case a similar survey shows up our way in the States.

@ErskinPig: Microsoft and Sony make game hardware and have divisions within their companies that produce games. They ARE a game company.

I wish the Dreamcast would have succeeded too, but to disparage two companies that created platforms for some of the best games ever made to be produced over one companies unsuccessful venture and blind allegiance, is fanboyism in it's purest form. Even if it isn't intensional.

Gamers don't need any more ignorance on their plates than they already have.

@Sailorcancer: Why would you need a Dreamcast mod chip? Mine plays burned discs without modification...

How the hell does this work? I've reg. and got the email, now what do I do with this information ?

I still play my Dreamcast; well at least more than I play games on my PS3.

@Lemming To The Sea:

I don't know, play imports? It came from Lik Sang, and it was the only one they had.

Do we know if Dreamcast.com is officially owned by SEGA?

If so. I don't know how to feel about this. SEGA's like that old girlfriend that you're still in love with, but went and had six children, lost her figure and married the jizzmopper at the stripclub she was working at.

I don't know, SEGA. Can we make it work again? Are you going to ditch Randy, or are you just making me sentimental and playing with my heart?

Just registered mine (it still sits on my office desk, hooked up to my monitor via the VGA box which has a VGA pass through for my laptop), and fired off an email to the friends I know that still have one, including my dad (he keeps his around, and the only games he owns are Sega Bass Fishing and Sega Marine Fishing and his trusty fishing rod controller :)

Actually I never owned one, the oldest console I ever got my hands on was a PS1. I'm only 17. D:

This was enough for me to dig it out from under my bed and clean the caked on dirt off of it.

10 years?!?! God Damn, I am getting old!!!!

Damn straight I still own a Dreamcast. My third one - my second North American one.

My Japanese one and my original NA console were stolen..

FUCK YEAH, DREAMCAST! I LOVE YOU!

@Vidril: dreamcast came out after ps1, its was actually on level with last gen systems like ps2, but it burnt out early

@Vidril: I'm 17 and I've owned every major console since the NES. Because I'm that awesome.

I can't see them relaunching another system. With the PS3 and the 360 there, they would be eaten alive. Maybe next gen, but really there would be too many consoles...

Sony and MS have agendas outside of gaming that they try to push on us through their machines. They've shoulder-barged their way into the industry to get a slice of the pie. They have little vision and are mostly just concerned with domination through whatever method necessary.

Sega did get complacent, but their failure is largely down to an inability to compete with the marketing machine at Sony. Everyone agrees that the Dreamcast was a great machine with great games.

Nintendo too lost their way a bit with the N64 & GameCube, but they stuck it out and have now stopped trying to follow Sony's bad example. They've put the focus back on games and have made a GAMES machine, not a pseudo-PC media centre and cynical attempt at shoehorning in a new proprietary DVD format. Unfortunately, the Wii isn't meeting its potential at the moment, but that's another story.

Sega's focus if they were to enter the hardware market once more would be on making a game machine. A dedicated, specialised GAME machine as they have no other interests that they're trying to subsidise. No hidden agendas.

I never owned a Dreamcast. I didn't have a lot of money, and the Dreamcast was one of those consoles whose death I could see coming a mile away.

I gotta get mine from my cousin.....>_<

crap, now I have to go all the way to MiniStorage to get mine... but SEGA calls :)

Would be nice if they made a limited batch of new DC's and sold them online for 100-200 bucks. Making a few modifications like Rechargeable VMUs would be nice (using Nintendo DS type batteries). A faster/quieter drive would be nice too, remove the region lockout (not that most of us don't have boot disks anyway).

Market it as the Dreamcast X (Tenth Anniversary Edition)or Dreamcast LE (Legacy/Limited Edition) . Can't really think of much else that can improve on one of the greatest consoles ever, and SEGAs best console.

9/9/99 Never forget

I have a US launch system, and it still works fine.

I've considered trying to get an ethernet adapter for it now, too... Didn't get one when the system was live, as all I had at the time was dial-up... But I think ethernet adapters are really rare, huh?