360 - dc resembelance

[quzar]

well mario had at least 3 of his own TV shows going on a seperate times, some mcdonalds toys, and a number of best selling games. not all at the same time, but he did it.

http://www.nintendoland.com/funfacts/merchs/mcmario.htm

Yes, but the sonic thing happened afterwards, hence the whole surpassing. Sonic has been the only mascot able to even match mario.

[NiGame]

Not true. The Dreamcast has no Operating system. There were two development kits readily availible for it, one made by Sega: Codename Katana and the other by Microsoft and Sega: WinCE. The Windows CE kit was only used for a handfull of games (under 5% iirc).

Also, Microsoft had previously released a full set of consoles, the MSX and MSX 2.

As this site points out the CE was the core and how all online content was used via the dreamcast - yes you could change the OS but it was shipped with CE
http://www.teenink.com/Past/2001/May...mes/index.html

Second paragraph here tells you why they did it so people could program on a PC easier and transfer it across plus the use of directx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p.../Segagmpr.mspx

[Darksaviour69]

no that article on teenink is wrong, actually there are a lot of articles about the DC saying it ran on CE, but they just did not do thier research. The fact is that 95% of dreamcast games used Katana and only about 5% used CE. (as quzar said

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast#Technology

Microsoft co-operated with Sega in hopes of promoting its Windows CE operating system for video games. Windows CE offered easy porting to the Dreamcast of existing PC applications, but offered limited capabilities relative to the Dreamcast's native operating system. When developers took advantage of the easy development time offered by Windows CE, the resulting games (e.g., Sega Rally 2) lagged in performance and framerate. The only Windows CE application most users saw was the pack-in CD containing a CE-based dialer and web browser.

actually here is a list of all games that used wince
http://boob.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard3...;hl=wince;st=0

4x4 Evolution(PAL, USA)
Armada(PAL, USA)
Atari Anniversary Edition(USA)
Space Griffon Blue Steel: Variable Formula(JAP)
Densya de Go 2(JAP)
Get!! Colonies(JAP)
Hidden & Dangerous(PAL, USA)
Jimmy Whites Snooker 2(PAL)
Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Vol 1(PAL, USA)
Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Vol 2(PAL, USA)
Nightmare Creatures II (PAL, USA)
Puzzle Bobble 4(AKA Bust-A-Move 4)
Railroad Tycoon II(PAL, USA)
Resident Evil 2
Sega Rally 2
South Park: Chefs Luv Shack(PAL, USA)
Spirit of Speed 1937(PAL, USA)
Starlancer(PAL, USA)
Super Runabout(JAP)
Super Runabout: San Francisco Edition
Super Robot Wars Alpha(JAP)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six(PAL, USA)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rouge Spear(PAL, USA)
Tomb Raider Chronicles(PAL, USA)
Virtua Cop 2(JAP, USA)
Who Wants To Beat Up A Millionaire(PAL, USA)
Wild Metal(PAL, USA)
World Neverland Plus: The Olerud Kingdom Stories (JAP)
World Neverland 2 Plus: The Waktic Republic of Pluto (JAP)
Worms Armageddon(USA)
Worms World party(PAL, USA)


Unreleased Games:
Half-Life
Quake(Titanium Studios Port)
Defense COmmander(Titanium Studios Demo)
PBA Bowling 2001

[Dull Blade]

Did you get this whole dc-360 thing from this site?

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3145154&did=1

Seems very similar.

Wow that is wierd. I actually didn't, a day or 2 ago i was playing a game of SMB3 thanks to nesterdc se with a friend at my house, then we went to his house for a few rounds of PGR3 and thats when i noticed the resembelance.

sorry about the delayed relpy, my router had reset and I didn't reconfigure it for about 2 days.

[quzar]

As this site points out the CE was the core and how all online content was used via the dreamcast - yes you could change the OS but it was shipped with CE
http://www.teenink.com/Past/2001/May...mes/index.html

Second paragraph here tells you why they did it so people could program on a PC easier and transfer it across plus the use of directx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p.../Segagmpr.mspx

There is a reason the Dreamcast only says "Compatible with Windows CE" on the front (although some say "Developed for Windows CE") and not "Powered by Windows CE". There is absolutely no windows code on the console itself, all that it has is a BIOS, no OS at all.

[Mr_Biggs]

i think this thread should be closed before words are said, and flames break out.