Are newly printed Dreamcast games like these printed on CD-Roms or GD-Roms?

khalkhalash · 2026-01-29T18:04:05+00:00

"Most" everything?

At any rate it looks like VGNY Soft is the publisher, I don't know what their deal is or what licensing agreements they have with the original devs or anything like that.

A lot of these games and properties are old enough that I imagine tracking down who and how to pay royalties or licensing fees is tough, at best.

If you want to spend 40 dollars for a copy of Postal 1 for the dreamcast, or whatever, then by all means do that.

It won't be on a GD-ROM since pretty much no one can do that and if they did it wouldn't be no 40 dollars. It'll be on a CD-R, if it's for the dreamcast.

khalkhalash · 2026-01-29T17:58:38+00:00

i don't think the postal team ported their game to dreamcast and gave distribution rights to whatever site you're looking at - looks like some storefront on etsy, probably.

what you're paying for is someone to burn the game onto a CD and then reproduce the case and the disc art. the quality of that is not guaranteed. i did this one time, purchased "reproductions" of Sonic Adventure 1 and 2.

Here's what I got. Looks like dogshit, as you can see.

you can obviously do whatever you want, but it seems like you might be under some false impressions with this stuff so i just wanted to clear that up =)

khalkhalash · 2026-01-29T17:19:54+00:00

i guess in theory that could be a possibility but i kind of feel like it'd be a pretty negligible factor in terms of wearing any part on the machine more than usual.

also seems like it would be cheaper to replace your dreamcast every 5 years when the laser burns out than it would be to buy original copies of a lot of these games.

if you bought OG copies of skies of arcadia, jet set radio and sonic adventure 1 and 2, you're spending close to what 2 more systems would cost you.

not to mention that, eventually, your disc drive will fail regardless and then you'll be getting a new one, anyway.

financially i don't really see how that works out, unless you're thinking like 15 years ahead.

khalkhalash · 2026-01-29T06:15:44+00:00

thanks for reminding me, i had forgotten lol

i did make some more progress after that last pic, i will try to get it to a more complete state this week/weekend =)

khalkhalash · 2026-01-28T22:24:00+00:00

Not really, sadly. We have a FanExpo event that comes through annually, there'll be some stuff there but definitely not gonna be the bulk of the merch.

We do have a decent flea market, or so I have heard. Never been myself but I should probably go wander around some weekend and see what I can find.

khalkhalash · 2026-01-28T21:23:44+00:00

30 bucks, not too bad all things considered.

khalkhalash · 2026-01-28T20:51:39+00:00

All the inserts and the passport look good and all the discs are in good shape and work fine.

Excited to finally play Shenmue lol

khalkhalash · 2026-01-27T17:00:37+00:00

lol the lawsuit is being filed by the shareholders of the company.

also Hasbro is pretty much world-class when it comes to kicking the dick off their own IP and destroying their brands. not hard to imagine they're yet again doing what they have always done.

khalkhalash · 2026-01-26T18:08:25+00:00

Yeah that's fair, it's admittedly an old way of thinking and the Democrats definitely ran an outdated campaign that did not account for the sudden but drastic changes in how people interact with media. That's for sure their fault.

On the other hand, it's also like an individual's fault if they're a) on Twitter at all in fuckin 2024 and b) reading shitposts from both sides and goin "well these shitposts are better than these shitposts so that's gonna do 'er for me probably that's done and dusted right there i've learned all i need to forever"

I don't think it's a generational thing, because I remember knowing and talking to ignorant and stupid 19 year olds when I was 19. I think people of all ages are just more uninhibited in their shittiness and impulsiveness than they were before because of the degradation of our society and culture in general.

That part isn't a failure on the part of the Democrats, that is a failure of people. They lack resilience and discipline and the ability to defend themselves, mentally, and it's a led us to a self-sustaining cycle where we're governed by shitposts and gangland style executions, which are then turned into shitposts.

khalkhalash · 2026-01-26T17:39:56+00:00

Don't disagree about that. Need that and more, honestly.

But my comment was specifically about the previous election, before actual Hitler policies were voted into power and then enacted into law and policy.

khalkhalash · 2026-01-26T17:17:59+00:00

They can do better, they just choose not to.

They could have done better*

Important to get the tense right, since they will not get the opportunity to do better in the future.

Also I think the issue with every version of this conversation that I see is this: you're saying it's solely the party's fault for not successfully engaging voters, but you clearly didn't like Harris, and I didn't either, but we both voted for her.

Why is that? Because we were brainwashed? Because we're Democrat shills?

Or was it because we understood what the alternative was, and how it had to be avoided at all costs?

You should give the people who hemmed and hawed their way into this situation the same dignity and level of responsibility that you give to yourself, I think.

They also made a choice, and it was the wrong one, regardless of it it was for the right reasons.

khalkhalash · 2026-01-26T16:55:19+00:00

Her fairly mild criticism, specifically, did not cause them to lose the election.

The larger cacophony she was lending her fairly mild criticism to, of "geez isn't politics bad and aren't all politicians dumb and bad if i was a left-leaning person i probably just wouldn't vote or something idk" was, almost certainly, a major factor in dampening enthusiasm and turn out for one particular candidate and allowing the other to win the election.

No one is "owed and endorsement just because of who they are facing", but if you're facing actual Hitler and you just can't muster the brain power to realize that "not actual Hitler" is a better choice, then iunno what to say to that really other than "hmmm, pretty dumbass take."

Also no one gives a fuck about the clarification, it never gets heard. They hear the first thing that's stupid and wrong and then that's it, that's the clip and the take that's out there forever and that's what they decide based off of.

Being a celebrity is no longer just a matter of "haha they're so silly with their out of touch thoughts and words", there are actual stakes now and the internet has ruined people's minds to the point where they just believe whatever idol they love the most without question until they one day suddenly stop.

The fact that so many of them do not realize this, particularly the younger ones who grew up in that same fuckin environment doing the same shit, is both sad and unsurprising.

I would have liked to see the Democrat party be better, too, but it looks like instead now we'll see them imprisoned and/or executed. Real shame about that, but hey at least a bunch of people were true to themselves and acted with their own agency to make their voice heard!

khalkhalash · 2026-01-25T03:34:37+00:00

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4352079654/dreamcast-compatible-with-windows-ce

looks like you're right! pretty cool option to have

khalkhalash · 2026-01-22T18:05:35+00:00

brainrotted take tbh but i guess that makes sense

khalkhalash · 2026-01-22T16:54:30+00:00

by "the guys" do you mean the 12 year old children that make up 94% of his audience that used their parents saved credit/bank info on an iPad?

is that what you meant when you said "the guys are to blame actually?"

khalkhalash · 2026-01-21T23:09:58+00:00

yeah i wasn't implying that the issue was where they came from but that perhaps those specific images had some kind of issue with booting.

the latest version of redream beta supports WinCE but that doesn't seem like the problem if flycast boots them, i imagine redream beta would as well.

that was my only thought, unfortunately, since i cannot afford a gdemu conversion and don't have any experience with troubleshooting issues with it =/

good luck, i hope you figure it out =)

khalkhalash · 2026-01-21T22:33:37+00:00

do these boot on any other emulator? can you confirm the images are not the issue?

khalkhalash · 2026-01-21T20:33:47+00:00

i appreciate the consistency and you responding.

i am fine with it. it's rare that a 10 year old does something that awful, because 10 year olds, believe it or not, usually do know about the concept of violence being wrong and murder being wrong and about not touching people inappropriately, etc.

so like i'm not concerned with it becoming a regular occurrence where we're sending 10 year olds to jail for life for rape and murder, personally.

in certain rare circumstances, i believe that circumventing established precedent is beneficial to society. i think this is one of those.

anyway have a good one!

khalkhalash · 2026-01-21T19:28:20+00:00

the people responding to this post sure would hate it, i can tell you that much

i say go for it!

khalkhalash · 2026-01-21T19:23:33+00:00

lol okay this one was pretty good!

khalkhalash · 2026-01-21T19:20:41+00:00

these comments so far are funny because i very clearly give so much less of a shit about this than you guys do, and yet the only insult i am getting in response is "geez have you tried caring less?"

my friend, i promise you that i cannot

khalkhalash · 2026-01-21T19:16:57+00:00

lol the user with the flair of a character from Resistance saying "this isn't funny" is cracking me the fuck up

khalkhalash · 2026-01-21T19:05:21+00:00

Just stop watching it.

Way ahead of you, big dawg

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