For those who don’t know, click here: https://dreamcastlive.net/dreampi-tutorial/
This is how I connected for PSO.
I’ve mostly hunted on Ragol years ago when lately I decided to start over to avoid playing the Ultimate difficulty at level 74 to 75.
Click here to see any games online now: https://dreamcastlive.net/games/
I also appeared on the DreamcasticChannel a couple of times myself years ago on YouTube:
Thats so cool! I love seeing projects to bring old consoles and emulators online. Whish i still had my dreamcast.
I love projects like this and I have connected my Dreamcast, but never when I went to play has anyone actually been online. (anyone can check who’s playing online with their Dreamcast here: https://dreamcast.online/now/ )
I’m very surprised to see Alien Front Online in that list, for reasons. It was unceremoniously taken offline when the hardcoded IP of the bootstrap server was taken back by the telco when we switched providers.
Ahh, memories.
Back in the day (before third party hardware to do this) the only way to get Dreamcast online was to Dialup or the very rare and expensive broadband adapter.
Seeing as the Dreamcast shipped with a dial up modem, it was possble to set up your PC (also with a modem) and with a a couple of resistors, make a type of “dial up crossover cable”. You would set up your PC to “answer” the call from the Dreamcast, then route the traffic to the PCs broadband connection. Zero phone line needed!
Can people playing on an emulator play online with people connected with genuine hardware?
Might get to see more players online if that’s the case. I think the Xbox Live reimplementation works that way.
