Ian Micheal wrote:if the current owner of SEGA wanted, he could sue any indie developer, because absolutely everyone uses a piece of code from SEGA
Still true right now
Cass wrote:
5 We"ll all be disappointed when the Dreamcast mini launches but we'll still end up buying it :p
Said it before the value the Homebrew and Indie developers have added to the Dreamcast brand in the intervening twenty years is considerable and probably quantifiable. It would run into millions. I'm pretty sure that's not lost on whoever is doing the horizon scanning at Sega
Sega couldn't pay a PR agency to generate the positive news coverage and engagement that that the Dreamcast scene has been responsible for.
Whatever the reasons the for the failure of the Dreamcast we can all remember how it felt when Sega pulled the plug. The Dreamcast had lost and it was a failure.
Fast forward twenty years the narrative has changed it's viewed very positively, Sega's glorious last stand, way ahead of its time etc.
Now nostalgia is a powerful factor and the reimagining of how the Dreamcast would be viewed was probably inevitable but nostalgia alone isn't responsible.
A long list of Indie Devs, Homebrew coders and many regulars on this forum have played a role in this. So what I'm saying is when they release the DC mini - you're all partly to blame :p