don't have my dreamcast anymore but still have the saturn!!!!!

freespeech

@futurebiblehero:

Apparently you've never heard of Isao Okawa.

In it for the loooooooove.

Billkwando

@Molbork: too true, too true.
lots of ppl were suckered into this one i bet. funny that as soon as the news it is fake it public, the site actually has a working registration form up instead of the "down due to too many requests" message

elislider

@jamar0303: Read the new Dreamcast post. lawl.

Billy Bob Joe

Somebody set us up the bomb

Molbork

[www.joystiq.com]

dzaussome

So... Fahey do you still have your bank account?

laws... phishing is teh sux

Jabbertrack

@Sailorcancer: didn't need a chip for that either, actually. dc mod chips were such a scam. it's like selling a freeloader for the game boy. or a mod chip for pc games.

MobileMilitia

Damn it. I just registered mine this morning and just found out that it is fake.

GC

@HJungle:
[translate.google.com]

that's the google translation, hard to understand though

scaredDC

@jamar0303: Is there a translation available?

HJungle

@RazorandBlade: Engadget's covered it and got an official respose from Sega.

jamar0303

I doubt its fake but the site is still down... for like a whole day now. When I read this I looked at my dreamcast and it perked up like a puppy! I fed it a ps3 game and it was happy.

RazorandBlade

Question- if it's so bleedin' "obviously fake" why isn't Sega doing anything about it? As it stands it's no-lose for them- if they're really planning to do something more with the Dreamcast then everyone can say "ooh, I knew it" because of the site and they have millions of fans lined uo for it. If they change their minds or decide not to proceed Sega can then wash their hands of it and say "well, that wasn't any of our doing, sorry".

jamar0303

Dreamcast 2 would be cool... or Dreamcast 360

reptile168

I would buy Dreamcast 2 just like I bought Dreamcast 1... Day one. 9/9/99 oh how i miss yea.

orionzdrm

I still have my American Dreamcast sitting in the bottom of a drawer ... I still play it sometimes, I wonder if they're planning a revival?

kupoporo

I sold mine years ago durring my high school daze and i wish i have not done that cause it had all the best fighting games on there. Iam still glad that i have a PSP for Powerstone. Now if they could only make Zombie Revenge for the PSP.

MURDERFACE

Looks like a fake, quoted from another forum;

"I forgot to to the most basics of basics when looking into this, I didn't check if this site was still hosted by SEGA. So I pinged dreamcast.com and lo' and behold IP 72.29.74.51 was the IP I got. It links to a cPanel set up page. I then pinged SEGA.jp and got the IP 210.174.184.7, SEGA.com: 204.155.67.210, Sonic Team: 202.3.142.231. All SEGA sites are no where near the IP range of dreamcast.com. Running a trace on this IP brings us right back to square one with DimeNoc/dizinc. SEGA.com is run from San Francisco under their own, internal servers. SEGA.jp and Sonicteam.com are run from inside Japan, as you'd expect.

So to sum up, it's a site not on ANY of SEGA's servers, it's supposedly a Japanese site running on a shared server in Orlando, emails set out are from a dizinc email address, uses Gmail as a front for a Dreamcast email address, the site poses as an official website (including copyright marks from SEGA). It's fake, don't use it. If you have used it, as a few of you have, hope this comes to nothing.

Emails sent from dreamcast.com are emails actually sent from a dizinc.com email address, which forwards instantly to DimeNoc. I believe DimeNoc are a hosting company and are actually just the service provider for this scam."

[www.dcemu.co.uk]

Kevyn

You are all wrong.

It's a retro-active survey to gauge how well Shenmue 3 would sell on the DC1.

Go ahead Sega, my save game is hot and ready.

Kaminari

I'll be honest -- I got chills when I read this article... Dreamcast 2? Can I dream?

Shadowstitch

@Karlott: It really isn't as black and white as simply checking the WHOIS information. That can be faked. I can literally change mine to whatever I want. I could, for instance, change my own domain name's information to make it look as though it's registered by Sega, but I won't, as it's illegal and stupid. Honestly, that domain doesn't "still" belong to Sega, because it's only been registered since 2005 through this particular individual/company.

What's important is the server information, as well as how the site is served. I highly doubt that Sega of Japan would host a site on a shared server out of Florida.

kubevubin

This is a scam site. SEGA let the domain registration lapse for Dreamcast.com and a scammer bought it, put up some poorly formatted code (just check the source) with convincing images, spammed the link to everyone and tossed a bunch of GoogleAds (which no major site would have) and Sega Direct referral links to make a bunch of quick cash. Sega Direct won't even exist for much longer and Sega wouldn't advertise it on their own site.

On top of that, you can enter any serial number and it will accept it. The site is taking 1000's of valid emails and selling them to spammers. By signing up you are simply signing up for mass amounts of spam. Thankfully the site is 'temporarily down', which hopefully means Sega found out about it and is having it shut down.

KirbyMorph

*realisation dawns*

wait a minute!

......apple was rumoured to be doing a project with sega..
....apples just getting into videogames like microsoft did with the xbox....
....tenth anniversary of the 'cast coming up...

OMFG!, IS APPLE MAKING A NEW DREAMCAST?!?

-probably not but a dude can dream.

underground_slacker

My 'cast is plugged in and running my mint condition skies of arcadia, and still loving the console.
Who knows, maybe there gonan restart the franchise as a retro thing, maybe get the online stuff back, i missed out on phantasy star online but from what ive heard form the likes of gabe and tycho it looked pretty bitchin'

underground_slacker

Site is down due to high volume, can only be a good thing right?

I would love for them to re-release some old games, but really cheap :)

gmanisme

I still own a dreamcast and still functioning!!!!!

Video

It would be pretty cool if they did come out with games for DreamCast again. Kinda like how the Wii is all about fun and not CPU power... or maybe something like a broadband adapter. Unless they have one already. Its been a while since I powered up the DreamCast.

randomshagz

Dreamcast stabbed me in the back the day I got caught in an eternal black loop screen on Skies of Arcadia. Apparently, according to gamefaqs, I completed a quest I wasn't suppose too before I went to this town. Up until that point it was a great system. Crazy Taxi, Code Veronica, MSHvCap2 and the rest. Ever since then though I'm all about die dreamcast die.

Pornosaur

@Karlott:

Sega have not owned Dreamcast.com for years actually... Check these out:

[web.archive.org]
March 16 2005 - Last known date it still pointed to Sega.com

[web.archive.org]
August 28 2005 - Generic shitty search page

[web.archive.org]
April 24 2006 - To a different site...

[web.archive.org]
Feb 16 2007 - Current location?

Looks to me Dreamcast.com hasn't been owned by Sega for 3 years... Anyway, why would Dreamcast.com point to SOJ? Dreamcast.com always was for SOA. Oh and even though the WHOIS says Sega, it's easy to enter fake details!

FAKE! GET OVER IT!

SegaMark

@kubevubin: Sega of Japan still owns the dreamcast.com domain name. So regardless of where the server is based, it's not fradulent.

Hopefully this is up tomorrow. I'm in. I love my dreamcast...the last console I owned, and really, planned to own.

Karlott

ARGH!!! They suspended new account creation.

I will have to go sulk in my Dreamcast t-shirt now.

lilibat

For the love of God, please update this post, stating that the site is fraudulent. The server's IP is based in Florida, for Christ's sake.

kubevubin

Please Microsoft just buy Sega already.

ese_incoherent

After several years of owning a broken Dreamcast, I decided to use my birthday money to buy a used one and some games. I was also able to pick up a PAL controller and VMU from play-asia.com's sale, and they work great. With a VGA adapter, I've got it sitting atop my desktop ready to plug into my PC monitory at a moment's notice. I love it.

I'm loving MvC2, as I never owned it, and though I've yet to try it, I also got Skies of Arcadia.

I would have gladly signed up for...whatever this thing was but the service is suspended now.

KenzinFive

My Dreamcast doesn't have a serial number on the bottom..it got taken off somewhere along the line

LucasKane

So I guess you can only register one Dreamcast per email address. I have 3...and I'm getting a fourth.

So how do I get this to work with Gmail? I went to the Gmail login then put in my serial number and password, but nothing happened. I received the confirmation email, but nothing else like related to Gmail. Details anyone?

molotovwars

we dont need any more consoles, it sucks to buy more consolesto play the good exclusive games, fewer consoles are better for consumers, as long as it's not monopoly

insomniac

@V1L3: In other words, after having already been killed off by the PS2 once, you think that Sega should try again, only this time the PS2 will have a headstart of ~7 years worth of games on the market?

Torgen thinks AAA means “Costs $60”

Well, obviously Sega aren't going to re-enter the hardware market with a serious competitor to the 360/PS3. But there's absolutely no reason that they couldn't modify the original Dreamcast hardware and release it alongside (not against) the Wii.

Nintendo have proven (twice) that consumers will purchase a less powerful system that's being sold at a profit. It began as a safety net for Nintendo, whereby even if they'd only managed to sell a few million units, they'd still be in the black.

Sega could quite easily re-release the Dreamcast at $100-$200, and at that price, it'd be picked up by hardcore gamers and casuals who already own another console.

The market has been split - 360 vs PS3 and Wii vs nobody. Competition abhors a vaccuum. And, frankly, if it isn't Sega, you know damn well it's going to be Apple.

V1L3

They will have to pry my Dreamcast from my cold dead hands!

-EDGE-

I still play my dreamcast. Mainly for emulation, but Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Soul Caliber still get a lot of play.

I actually had a Chu Chu Rocket game with friends the other day. That game gets so intense it's scary. ><

Atomicvege

@chiefpoopingpants:

Wrong, they aren't using SOJ's name servers.-.

Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.dreamcast.com
ns1.dreamcast.com

A DNS whois gives me...

Server Name: NS1.DREAMCAST.COM
IP Address: 72.29.74.51
Registrar: DIRECT INFORMATION PVT LTD D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Referral URL: [www.PublicDomainRegistry.com]

I'm as big a Sega fan as anyone, heck I run to Sega fansites, but I'm a realist who realises that Sega ..SAMMY doesn't care anymore. I smelt bullshit right from the start.

SegaMark

You've all been had, hook line and sinker!

Dreamcast.com is not owned by Sega, a WHOIS may say so, but it's easy to enter false information, the site is NOT on SEGA's servers (SOJ and SOA have dedicated servers in the cities/area where they have their HQs). The actual register form has NO Japanese on it. It has Google Ads. It has a Play-Asia ad, it's hosted on some cheap shared hosting site and the site is only there to harvest people's email addresses, well that's what we all think as there would be no other reason, unless it's one big horrible joke like the Shenmue.com mess.

On multiple forums we're discussing this and we're doing a lot of digging to find out stuff, and it just isn't true. The confirmation mail even comes from shenmue@pass17.dizinc.com! If the confirmations really came from Sega it would come from their domain.

[www.assemblergames.com]
[www.rllmukforum.com]

This is just Shenmue.com all over again. At the end of the day, Sega have not done this, and unless a press release can be obtained proving otherwise, this is just bullshit. You've all been had. It's quite funny really....

SegaMark

"Due the high volume of account requests, the service will be temporally suspended."

This is awesome. There are enough Dreamcast lovers out there that they crashed the "Do you still own a Dreamcast" webpage.

kylenalepa

@ShinjiKinomoto:

The Dreamcast was a superior system but Sega bled shed loads of money from all those pointless Gensis add-ons and that also killed their rep. Not having a lot of money and a crap rep isn't a good way to take on company as big as Sony or even Nintendo.

chiefpoopingpants

I do but mine is broken. D:

Thanks SEGA for stopping the repair service.

Witzbold

@Segata Sanshiro:

You can enter fake details but you can't enter a fake name server if you want it to work and the name servers are sega.co.jp.

chiefpoopingpants

@ErskinPig:

You do understand that Sony has the biggest software development department in the industry. But do I agree, I want Sega back.

Strider-No.9

Dreamcast 2 would mean epic fail for SEGA... SEGA doesn't have hardly anything that'd be worth getting on their system unless companies port Wii games to it since some look fit for the Dreamcast unless it's being made like the system isn't a joke. PS2 to Dreamcast ports probably will happen too.

Shaoko

I still own mine.

KM91

DAMMIT! Temporarily suspended!! BLEERRRRGGGGHHH!!

Knoxximus (360/PSN)

I not only still own my Dreamcast, I've been playing Jet Set Radio, Daytona USA, Soul Calibur, Fighting Vipers 2 and a spot of Propeller Arena on it this weekend. Hopefully Sega will bow to the pressure and start making Dreamcast games again! Shenmue III confirmed! :)

photoboy

@The Amazing Exploding-Man: Ahhh, I see... I was looking through my America Goggles...

Still, 9 is better...

DFS

My money's with NoBullet and Segata.

Sega's hit a low in recent years, but "slammed servers" and Google ads? Come on. I don't care if the domain is registered to Alex Kidd. That's fishy.

futurebiblehero

@DFS: It was released on November 27th, 1998 in Japan. It was 9/9/99 here in the states. So you are right it would be the 9th here in the states, but it will be the 10th in Japan this year.

(Oh and sorry if this wound up a double post. I tried posting a couple of minutes ago and it never showed up.)

The Amazing Exploding-Man

@bigmil87: Yeah, I knew the date, that's why my brain is on the verge of exploding...

Of course, since the Dreamcast and the number "9" seem to go hand in hand, celebrating the system's 9th anniversary would be far more awesome. Maybe that's what they're doing?

DFS

@DFS: Think Japanese release dates. It was 9/9/99 here in the States. It was released in Japan on November 27th, 1998.

The Amazing Exploding-Man

@bigmil87: Yeah, I knew the release date, that's why my brain is on the verge of exploding...

Of course, since the Dreamcast, and the number "9" seem to go hand in hand, celebrating there 9th anniversary would be pretty awesome.

DFS

@DFS: Yeah it was 9/9/99. My cousin got his on the release date.

bigmil87

Wow 10 years since the Dreamcast..
Whoever said time flies was actually right

KEELr

Uhhhh... Wouldn't August of this year only be the 8 and 11/12th year anniversary?

Unless I'm doing something wrong here, the 10 year anniversary would be September of 2009.

Thank you Kotaku, for you have caused me to question my sanity...

DFS

I went to go say that yes, in fact I do still have and enjoy my Dreamcast but this page came up...[dreamcast.com]

- Due the high volume of account requests, the service will be temporally suspended.

That means lots of people are doing this obviously so maybe Sega will revive the DC. One can hope.

bigmil87

Holy Cheese & Crackers! Has it really been 10 years already? Whatever Sega is planning, I'm game.

xiphos

@x3sphere: Your logic is flawed. Companies pay for server hosting half way around the world on a regular basis, for many reasons. And even though the Registrant Whois data can be faked for "privacy", the technical contact data for Brights.jp is most likely genuine. So we can determine a real Japanese company (Brights) is using a very large TLD registrar in Florida.

Why is this odd? Sega stopped making their own platforms to focus on content (games). Why wouldn't they outsource their internet hosting? And if their hired shop is happy using Google Accounts, that's exactly what Google is about. Affordable enterprise solutions.

I'm not saying I believe it's legit or hoax or whatever until Sega issues a statement, but you can't look at a whois record and cry foul. Good scam artists won't be that sloppy, and legit businesses won't give a damn how it looks.

Brackynews

This has got to be fake. Look at what the site has looked like since mid-2005 until recently:
[web.archive.org]

Classic cyber squating site.

Radiogaga

@Tcata:

The disturbing part is that they did in fact compress data whenever they can, and they still filled the disc.

LPCM audio present in some PS3 games isn't necessarily lossless, so added compression (like GT5 Prologue) won't hurt.

SG79

YES! I DO!

Afterall, i still haven't finished Shenmue II.

I'm just pacing myself until Shenmue III comes out!

;_;

Onizuka-GTO

If they bring back Dreamcast in any way, Segata Sanshiro must come with it.

HE WILL CRUSH ALL COMPETITION.

+ Watch video

NattyIce

Well the site is down due to traffic, which I think is a good sign. I still have my dreamcast so when the site goes back up I am totally throwing my serial in there.

Lotharian

@Yeux de nouilles: I wish there was a mod chip that i could pu tin one of my dreamcast's that would emulatet the saturn...both of my saturns are starting to act weird.

Sinnbox

Apparently due to the high volume of traffic, the site is 'temporally unavaliable'. Yes, TEMPORALLY. Eh? Anyway, as soon as it's back up, I'm hitting in my serial number- second console I ever bought. I remember the day fondly. Ah, Sega Bass Fishing. This response to the site could surely mean a considering of a Dreamcast 2 maybe? I live in hope.

Krondonian

@ShinjiKinomoto: Ugh, Sonic CD was terrible and couldn't possibly ever begin to compare to Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

The Dreamcast was alright, but I'm more of a Saturn man. It seems most kids these days praise and hail the Dreamcast as one of the greatest systems ever but don't even know what it looks like or who made it.

Yeux de nouilles

Shame the Dreamcast died so young. It was a far superior system then the PS2, Xbox, and GCN at the time of release. How I played Soul Calibur and MVC2 to death...actually I prefer Soul Calibur on the DC over the new ones.

Just wish they made more quality 2D sonic games. Sonic CD was the last great Sonic title IMO.

ShinjiKinomoto

Screw the Dreamcast. Bring Segata Sanshiro back!

GranzonTotoro

@Goemon: Sometime in the future, but I don't think now is the right time. They need some solid titles to sell well. get some titles that are musthaves lete everyone have a taste via teh 3 consoles we have now then put them all on an exclusive platform.

Sinnbox

Oh man, I was just about to pull my DC out of mothballs and give Shenmue another go. I know that this is all much ado about nothing, but I can still pretend....

RandalGraves

I was excited until I read the: I now have an email account part.
So maybe I'll grab my DC out of storage. But I'm not making a special trip to do it.

CaptCaveman

@Dir_en_grey:
thanks! keep us posted.

scaredDC

Contacted Sega of Japan about this possible Phishing Fraud. Hopefully it gets through and I get an email back to clear this up. If it is in fact fraud, hopefully they would take steps to send the crook to jail.

If this is legit though, somebody at SEGA needs to be hit in the head for designing the Dreacast site... (And a advertisement link to Play-asia.com up until a while ago according to other forums???)

Dir_en_grey

can somebody figure out if this legit or not, i stupidly signed up before they stopped registration and am nervous and fearing that someone is feasting on the info of nostalgic sega fanboys.

scaredDC

@Snowrunner:
Dunno much about running a website, but why is it the Technical contact and Billing contact is to somebody else (A Domain Brokerage Company)? Maybe it's irrelevant, but I just found it weird that you didn't also post those information when you did a Whois on the domain:

Technical Contact:
Brights Consulting
Domain Administrator (domain.master@brights.jp)
2F Kyodo Bldg, 4-3-11
Nihonbashi-muromachi
Chuo-ku
Tokyo
null,103-0022
JP
Tel. +81.33231507

Billing Contact:
Brights Consulting
Domain Administrator (domain.master@brights.jp)
2F Kyodo Bldg, 4-3-11
Nihonbashi-muromachi
Chuo-ku
Tokyo
null,103-0022
JP
Tel. +81.33231507

Dir_en_grey

@Tcata: So they cant fit the game on a Blu-Ray disc but if they compressed the audio it could fit on a DVD9? I dont think so.

Swarm19

Still playing it too.

harold

@NESWizard: I want one.. Jersey isn't too far :)

xpnet

Wii Dreamcast Emulator with Online.. It will be done!

xpnet

"Due the high volume of account requests, the service will be temporally suspended."

hahaha, Dreamcast fans have flooded the site.

NPC

i was going to own one but my "considerate" older brother had to inform my nan that the dreamcast was going to that special place in the sky, even though he knew how much i wanted one. i ended up with a bloody N64 and a gameboy colour (that reminds me...."grabs axe and bottle of whisky and heads off to loving big brothers house")

Goron2000

I hope SEGA have seen what a low spec innovative console (Wii) is capable of. The base work is done. Sega have made some sereous money on other consoles and have got some rep. back. I hope we will see a Wii like console from SEGA in the not too distant future.

GOD

@Bruticus:
Japanese saturn was white first

blizzardjesus

This secretly seems like some sort of evaluation as to how many people are actually keeping their Dreamcast systems...

SaxxonPike

@ErskinPig: Nintendo is one of the worst and most restrictive game companies to have ever existed. Even Sony hasn't been able to match their restrictive policies.

I like their consoles and some of the games, but that doesn't mean I have to ignore the harm they did to the industry.

Regarding MGS4, it has easily passed the 50GB dual layer BR mark. Remember that MGS' space is mostly the audio, or rather, the 7.1 surround sound uncompressed audio. With hundreds of codec calls it easily passes 50GB. A bit of compression could squeeze it to a smaller format (say, DVD9), but they were correct in saying they passed 50GB.

Tcata

yeah but still doesn't explain the need for a serial, it just deters non-dreamcast owners and why limit your audience/targets to just them? just doesn't make sense to me. anyway, does anyone know if a fake dreamcast serial or even something like OMGPONIES will work in the form? cause if it won't then odds are good it's legit.

jamesb2147

@ErskinPig: That's nothing. It was so easy for a while. They were like $50 bucks at Best Buy, I bought one for every one I knew that wanted one. Sometime I would find an eBay lot that had one or two games I wanted with the system and it would be cheeper than buying them separately. I ended up with eight dreamcast that way. Now I am down to just two, every time I find someone interested I would just give them one. Spread the Love!

NESWizard

Ah. Scammage, that's why

Zero000

@Swarm19:
No, they have your email address, and I'm guessing a password that you entered for your new "dreamcast account".

They can simply sell e-mail addresses gathered, or try out the password for your current e-mail address to find valuable information like other account passwords and such.

I never got to see the sign up page, but they could've asked for your name, address, phone number or any other information that could be SOLD.

"So why do I care if they sell my e-mail address?" you ask? Well if you still can't figure that much out... -_-

Dir_en_grey

What the? I try to click on the Segafourms thing and it just tells me that i'm banned. Never even been to that site before

Zero000

@Dir_en_grey: So if it is fake they have my Dreamcast serial number? who cares lol, its useless.

Swarm19

@TheIrishNinja: Well you cant trust these people to stay on topic, its beyond their mental capacity. Im suprised they can stay focused long enough to finish typing up their comments.

Swarm19

@NoBullet:
@Segata Sanshiro:

F A K E ! ! !

totally looks FAKE!

I would've signed up I saw it before the sign up went down without even bother to question if the site was legit or not. Good thing I saw your posts after I couldn't link to the site, took a look, and the main sites links looks totally ridiculous.

Just want to thank you guys for the heads up anyway!!!

Dir_en_grey

@Marcus Fenix: yeah, its such an unforeseen direction for discussions these days, eh?
seriously, check the next dreamcast-related post. It'll be ten posts in of sega-love before someone says "fuck sony for killing my baby" and eventually someone blames peter moore and it just spirals down to blu-ray talk from there, while baby dreamcast hides in the closet.

TheIrishNinja

I have mine, but the disc drive hasn't been reliable for about 7 years..

bluesquareapple

I do I do own a Dreamcast!!

FelicioLostHorizonPT

@TaMs: C'mon! Note the typo: temporally. Dreamcast stops time.

humorbot

@exo: I dont think this guy is old enough to know who doogie howser is. Not even my 19 year old gf knows who doogie is

fyrtoes

"Due the high volume of account requests, the service will be temporally suspended."
Millions of Dreamcast users are killing the registration. :/

TaMs

The Dreamcast had some of my favorite games. It's in the basement at my mom's house. I don't care what anyone else says I think Skies of Arcadia is the best JRPG ever!

TheDollHouse

@TinyLightning: Yeah I get the Blue Stinger Christmas shopping music stuck in my head all the time.

The gatling gun in that game is the first time I truly appreciated and understood the immersiveness of controller vibration.

Billkwando

I really wish I would have bought Spawn: In the Demons hand, Powerstone whatever, Ready 2 Rumble, and Sword of the Berserk.

Swarm19

@x3sphere: Good point. Not to mention the google ads and why on earth would any gaming company give you a email address?

I like how this discussion about Dreamcast has become a PS3 vs 360 flamewar.

Billy Bob Joe

oh, one last thought. anyone speak japanese and care to give these dudes a ring to verify this in a couple hours (when it's not 5:30 there)? actually, when did the site start looking like this? i mean, what time was it in japan? anyway, here's the numbers:

AdminContact

Name
Kanji Omatsu
Address
1-2-12 HANEDA
Address
OHTA-KU
Address
144-8531
Address
TOKYO
Address
JAPAN
Email
omatsu_kanji@sega.co.jp
Phone
+81.357367320
Fax
+81.357367321

TechContact

Name
Domain Administrator
Address
2F Kyodo Bldg, 4-3-11
Address
Nihonbashi-muromachi
Address
Chuo-ku
Address
103-0022
Address
TOKYO
Address
JAPAN
Email
domain.master@brights.jp
Phone
+81.332315075
Fax
+81.332315076

jamesb2147

@Snowrunner: Casuals aren't gonna buy two consoles. Especially a Dreamcast 2, which would be relying on the niche Dreamcast name to sell copies.

dowingba

I beleive sega will come back with a new gameing system mark my words people.

Goemon

ignoring most pointless comments -- it may or may not be real. my biggest question would be, why? as in, why target DC owners? why require a serial? ooooh, look at you, you can claim my 8-year expired warranty with Sega now!! no, if we're gonna have a REAL debate about whether it's real we need to address more than just suspicious looking whois and domain lookups. i'm not expert but the only suspicious looking thing in the source is this line:
google_color_url = "666666";
the best conclusion of which i can draw is OMGGOOGLEISSATAN!!!!1!

ps- anyone else notice mgs4 is released same day that the dreamcast.com domain expires?? ;P

jamesb2147

@liqideos: The Xbox used 9gb DVDs. Same as the 360.

dowingba

@ErskinPig:

LOL, classic. Corporation trying to make as much money and dominate, that's unheard of. Sega and Nintendo literally gave out games and weren't trying to do business in the 80's and 90's.

Take a seat and read over your post and have a chuckle.

SG79

@ErskinPig:

No, UMD is proprietary, BD is not. BD is co-developed by Sony and there are other 7 consumer electronics companies that claim a piece of the pie.

@Snowrunner:

Price was not the main factor, it's the controller. If price was the main case, the DC and GC would've obliterated the more expensive PS2 and Xbox.

On the post itself, this is bogus and the chances of Sega reviving the nearly 10 year old console in some way with the competition out there is zero.

SG79

@exo: lol agreed.

17 and every console since NES? You didn't play your NES then. You were born after Super Mario World came out!

blacksamurai87

Sure do! Just got it out of a box in the basement, bringing it back to college with me. Already bidding on a few extra games and controllers on eBay.

Siegeman

Do we really need a FOURTH choice when buying a console? I can't afford three, let alone four. Love my DC, I still buy games for it, but Sega should stick to software.

AcidFaux

@Snowrunner: So? If you own a domain -- you can change the WHOIS to anything you'd like (even though it's not legal to do so).

x3sphere

@x3sphere:

If you look at the Whois though it is registered to Sega, albeit only since 2005:

Checking server [whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com]
Results:
Domain Name: DREAMCAST.COM

Registrant:
SEGA CORPORATION
Shoji Takamitsu (Shoji_Takamitsu@sega.co.jp)
Haneda 1-2-12, Ohta-ku, Tokyo
Tokyo
null,1448531
JP
Tel. +81.0357367080

Creation Date: 12-Jun-2005
Expiration Date: 12-Jun-2008

Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.dreamcast.com
ns1.dreamcast.com

Snowrunner

@dowingba: Dunno, the Wii has shown that a cheap console can steal the show. The big two (Sony / Microsoft) seem to be more concerned with convergence, which results in me using my PS3 mainly to play movies, play a bit on the XBOX 360 (and Dreamcast).

I haven't bought a Wii yet, though I AM tempted I must admit.

Sega could probably update the Dreamcast to compete with the Wii, aim it at casual gamers with short, fun games (ironically enough I have lately played more in the XBOX Live Arcade than anywhere else).

Now if they could revive the Registration Process I may actually get into the fun.

*pats Dreamcast*

Snowrunner

Yeah, I'm assuming it's bull.

SpartanQ77

Nope, but even if I do get one, I can't find one new and get a serial code.

Still, interesting. You guys sure it's sega who made the site?

SpartanQ77

Maybe when Sega hear there's so many DC's in the wild they can activate the final phase of the great Dreamcast plan...

...Profit!

TokeYo

This is likely bull.

Check the IP - 72.29.74.51

That belongs to a hosting company based in Orlando, Flordia

Why would SEGA Japan host this site there? Not to mention -- it's on a shared server with dozens of other non-SEGA related sites.

Looks like someone somehow snapped up the dreamcast.com domain.

x3sphere

Time to dig out to good old Dreamcast to find my serial number. Kinda exciting to see what Sega's planing.

Santar

Of course, I do along with Power Stone 1,2 and the rest.
Best games ever on the Dreamcast. It really fullfilled its name.

Wait

@ErskinPig: Man you do not know your history. Ever heard of the MSX 1/2. It was a unified computer platform developed by Microsoft and other companies (Sony made their own model as well) that came out even better Nintendo got into the home console market. The first two Metal Gear games were released for this platform.

It's funny that the topic of a unified gaming platform is a hot topic now, when Microsoft was doing this (although it was a unified PC, not just for gaming, although look at the PS3... dunno if it's a gaming platform to many - and this was almost 30 years ago).

DeeBG

@exo: Yes, my parents did buy all of the consoles I played. For a while, at least. Actually, up until I got my Gamecube.

Then, through multiple break ins, I lost all of them (except the NES). So, for the past few years I've went back and rebought every console my family owned or bought me because, well, I wanted them back.

I always seem to get money randomly, so it's been a long, drawn out process. I'm almost back to owning every console we/I lost, except the Gamecube. Everything PS1 and back I was able to find relatively cheap, but once I got back up to the last generation's consoles I hit a roadblock of never having enough money. A job helped - the last one I got back was my beloved Dreamcast.

Just have to get a Gamecube now.. well, now that I have a Wii, I may just not rebuy it..

Heiae

Certainly. Actually, I own 2 of them (the launch machine, which is still hooked up and going strong, and the backup, just in case I lose the other one). Maybe I will play some Bangaio later on, since as I look out the window and it is near whiteout conditions...frosty ^_^.

relic1980

I just bought a VMU at the used CD store yesterday...

Billkwando

Le sigh
"Due the high volume of account requests, the service will be temporally suspended."

dreadwing

WTF is Sega up to???

One thing's for sure: I'll be registering mine tonight...

jinpei05

I have 3 Dreamcasts. I will register them all.

bradido

"Due the high volume of account requests, the service will be temporally suspended."

Ha! "Temporally"

yournewbuddy

I still own my dreamcast. Hell, it's the ONLY console I own, and I still play it all the time. :)

Veloxi

What do you mean A Dreamcast? I own like half a dozen!

L_K_M

@The Amazing Exploding-Man: Anyone can enter fake whois data. Would you trust an email sent by "Bill Gates" from "billgates@gmail.com"?

I can be wrong, but I'd just hold on until Sega clarifies this.

This is not new, it has already happened before.

Segata Sanshiro

yeah i do and i play it to!

maiky-nisute

@BobbyMcPresscott: no, it wouldn't, everyone can get excited and make a mistake.

This is a SCAM and a case of PHISING at worst. Yes, I'm trying to get people's attention so the initial post is modified and the links removed.

The guy behind this just wants to make money through ads and get playasia affiliate points. Just check the web source. Heck, just calm down and have a look at the site! It just looks slightly better than the average scam.

Segata Sanshiro

@For_the_lulz:

Yeah fuck them for donating your shit. Fuck charity! Fuck giving to those less fortunate than yourself>:(

silkylove

Dreamcast.com whois:

[www.networksolutions.com]

Not a fake.

The Amazing Exploding-Man

@dowingba:Actually, XBOX 1 used 4 gb DVD's, while the XBOX 360 uses dual layer DVD-9 discs. The 360 disc's hold roughly 7.5 gigabytes of game data after security files, RCE are taken into account.

Thus, the same medium yes, but a different format of said medium.

Or something like that.

Either way, FUCK YEAH DreamCast! It looks like Sega has netted so many requests for accounts, that they are temporarily suspending the service.

I think Nintendo has proven that there is a new market out there. Who's to say that they wouldn't be looking at this as a way to poke there heads out there with their Sega brand as if to say:

"Hey...remember us? Remember how Sega does what Nintendon't?"

And how could someone within Sega (or Sony or Microsoft), not see that the Wii market is so successful because it's literally been the Wild West of consoles this cycle. Their market is fresh to gaming for the most part, and the Wii does so well because it's the only console of it's kind out there. This has lead to the console being sold out consistently for over a year now.

HOW could someone in the industry not be designing a home console in the same style as the Wii? And HOW could Sega not be the one's doing it? Just like Nintendo, they have a stable of established franchises, and one flagship character that is as recognizable as Mario.

If I were behind the wheel of any console manufacturer at the moment, I would have to be proposing the idea at the very least.

Also, wouldn't it ALSO be feasable for Sony to see the same success as the Wii be redesigning the PS2, introducing a motion controller similar to the Wii remote, and bringing out a line of games that will work well with the Wii crowd.

It's almost as if everyone in the industry is just allowing Nintendo to run away with an entire market with no competition whatsoever.

liqideos

@AlanIn4D: Correction: This can keep dreamcast alive and well and give SEGA** extra subsidaries, hopefully to make a sonic adventure 3 (I'm sure anyone would agree with me that Sonic adventure 2 was the last best sonic game).
@ErskinPig: You're right, my bad. I exaggerate too much sometimes hah.

AlanIn4D

@ErskinPig: lol its not 70% now you are pulling stuff from your ass. 1 its 50%, and thats because they take care of all the otehr stuff like getting it rated by esrb and advertise it.

have fun not playing all the best games of this generation

kommanderk

Actually Sega Saturn was the first system to have online play... Asides from computers :P. And I wonder if Google and Sega will make a partnership for the new googlephone. Dreamcast on the Googlephone?

TWEEDLEDEEZNUTZ

I am not going to even entertain the idea of it being fake, because Kotaku would be lit on fire and sodomized if it turned out everyone here with a DC was manipulated into sending some random person their DC serial.

Bobby McPresscott

UGH, my parents donated my fucking console. FUCK THEM!!

For_the_lulz

@AlanIn4D: I dunno about massive royalties. Hear about MS allegedly demanding a 70% cut of royalties from XNA games published through live? "OOh, we host the server space so yeah, 70% sounds about right". XBL, don't even get me started on that. Ugh.

ErskinPig

@ErskinPig:

Blu-Ray is merely a high-capacity storage format that allows for more game/movie/whatever content in a single piece of media. Sooner or later, no matter who'd have created it, the world would progress to a larger storage format, whether magnetic media or otherwise. Plus, more storage doesn't have to mean better graphics-- it can mean more vehicles, a larger world map, a longer story-- more of anything, really.

The same thing could be said about the use of CD's in the Sega CD, which was basically more storage for the Genesis, along with some planar texture manipulation comparable to the SNES's 'Mode 7.' Yes it was optional, but that led to little development for the device, resulting in few games actually utilizing the storage to its full potential.

As for non-games companies making game hardware? The Coleco in "Colecovision" meant Colorado Leather Company. And that was a great system!

A quick note about Nintendo focusing on gamers... They've put their focus on the casual and not the core audience, with some irritating end results... They've excluded voice and even free text chat from Mario Kart Wii, presumably to avoid and objectionable content online. I love my Wii, but it could be so much more than what Nintendo is doing with it.

All I'm saying here is that every company has an agenda, and that's to make money. They've all screwed at least one consumer over in some way, shape or form at some time.

* looks at Sega Genesis with sadly underutilized Sega CD and 32X attachments under television *

Anyway... I registered my DC.

My wild, improbable speculation? ChuChu Rocket 2!

KapuKapper

I still have mine with almost all the accessories but that stupid fishing rod.

Dreamcast is definitely my favorite system of all time, and if they made another, Id buy it in a heartbeat!

Kenoji

My DC is over my mom's house. It was a console well ahead of its time. I would like to see Sega re-enter the market but please..let an electronics manufacturer make the system. It's all about specialization of labor. I loved the system but picked it up long after its demise. I would change my behavior this time around.

bluemanrule

Sega doesn't have a chance building a console up against the biggest hugest corporations such as Nintento, Microsoft and Sony. They should EMULATE dreamcast with an emulator and get MASSIVE royalties from offering the emulator downloader on xbox and playstation live. Before you know it discs are being re-bought online (such as ebay) and sega will make additional money off the virtual copies available on the console's own game downloading services. This can keep dreamcast alive and well and give sony extra subsidaries, hopefully to make a sonic adventure 3 (I'm sure anyone would agree with me that Sonic adventure 2 was the last best sonic game).

AlanIn4D

@NoBullet: At least someone noticed.

Do NOT do this. Do not visit that site and "register" anything. Some time ago Sega let the shenmue.com domain expire and it was registered by someone not related by Sega who pretended Shenmue Passport (Shenmue's online functions) were making a come back (regular visitors of Shenmue Dojo will remember).

I did a whois on that site some time ago and it was not owned by Dreamcast but by the same guy who pretended to be Sega with the whole Shenmue Passport drama.

Just check Yakumo's post on assemblergames (link on NoBullet's post earlier on this thread). He knows what he says.

Segata Sanshiro

@Doomstink: Five?! lol, that's hardcore..and insane :P

ErskinPig

@exo: Pure PR & hype.

ErskinPig

hey thats weird, Ive actually dusted off my dc last week, played capcom vs snk 2... ahh the good memories

7th_Ronin

Doh! Just sold my Dreamcast last week. Hmmm... I have a backup unit somewhere, though. Time to dig it out.

evilmregg

Should I register all five of mine? Including the sealed one I've tucked away in my attic?

Yes, I own five. After my launch unit died (in Semptember 2004), I didn't want to risk not having a Dreamcast at any point in my life. It will always be my favorite system of all time.

Doomstink

@ErskinPig: I know your done, because you have nothing worth saying, you can't even comment back to try and suport your claims because you do in fact have nothing to back up what you are saying.

Also Sony doesnt own blu ray, they are just one of its supporters. but dont let things like facts get in your way

kommanderk

As a one-time Sega fanboy (the only company I've ever been a loyalist to), I can identify with a lot of the things that are being said. However, saying that any company is in it for the love rather than the money is comparable to thinking a politician cares about you.

Sega just happened to mine a niche of gamers with actual taste.

futurebiblehero

I got the registration info, but have no idea where to use it.

The Amazing Exploding-Man

@silkylove: Man, their servers just died faster than the Dreamcast! Burn!!

dowingba

I registered before it went down but I guess it wasnt soon enough to get the verification email

Swarm19

@Swarm19: Good.

ErskinPig

"Due the high volume of account requests, the service will be temporally suspended."

I can't register my Dreamcast:(

silkylove

@ErskinPig: You're so wrong im not even going to waste my time correcting you

Swarm19

@ErskinPig: May I point you to a very recent article on Kotaku where Kojima stated that even on the Bluray disk there was not enough room for MGS4?

[kotaku.com]

Kojima > You

exo

Sony own Blu-ray. It's a proprietary format. Jeez...

@kommanderk: We're done.

ErskinPig

YES! A Blu-Ray enabled, 802.11n capable, 256-core Super Console with full "backward" compatibility with the 360 and PS3.

elint6

So we gave the servers a heart attack.
Mission Accomplished?

patsfan07

@Heiae: Your 17 and you've had every console since the NES eh? Considering the NES was already out the door when you were born it sounds like your PARENTS have owned every console since the NES - not you. Thats like my 8 year old claiming she has had every console since the Magnovox Odyssey just because I have them.

Besides, at 17 your parents have been buying them all anyways unless your friggin Doogie Howser.

exo

Dreamcast portable?

J.A.

I have both a Japanese and an American Dreamcast, they have none working controller ports, but they both gave me equally enough times of joy. I have just have to find them for the registration.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

I'm all kinds of confused...

Woot. Dreamcast!

Old-school Sonic fanboy

@ErskinPig: I'm not failing at anything here. please tell me how this is different from DVDs in ps2. dreamcast had GD-Roms, that didn't hold that much data, yet all last gen systems after used DVD, do you see this as not making gameing better in any shape or form? and again 360 has already had multi disk games come out, so it proves its a lot more beyond just having potential for higher res textures.

May I remind you that people also said DVD wasn't necessary when ps2 came out, and they said it made the system to expensive, yet dvd became industry standerd did it not? while on the subject id also like to point out how that argument for being too expensive because of blue ray is bullshit too. look at whats in the ps3 and then whats in 360 (which mind you has no next gen optical format built in) and you'd see ps3 has a lot more built in that otherwise costs extra to have on xbox.

the last bit makes me have to laugh at you, you cant bothered to say why cause you have no good reasons. fact is Microsoft and Sony do have their own agendas, but since they have to compete against each other they have to also fight over giving the customer better choices and i hardly see how you can spin that in a bad light

kommanderk

@ErskinPig: The SNES cartridge had more space than the NES cartridge. The N64 cartridge had more space than the SNES cartridge. The Gamecube disc had more space than the N64 cartridge. The Wii disc has more space than the Gamecube disc. The Playstation 2 disc had more space than the Playstation 1 disc. And the Playstation 3 disc has more space than the Playstation 2 disc. Are you seeing a pattern here?

The 360 disc has the same amount of space as the Xbox disc.

I'm not saying games necessarily need the Blu-Ray yet but it was a perfectly logical decision on Sony's part.

dowingba

@Old-school Sonic fanboy: Please see last post ;]

ErskinPig

"Due the high volume of account requests, the service will be temporally suspended."

Bummer.

Tale

I ran downstairs to unhook my launch day dreamcast from my rig. (Note: empty spot in rig where 14 month old 360 would be if it wasn't red ringed right now!) Ran back upstairs only to find the site no longer working due to overload! Damn! Sonic speed wanning in later years. My hope is for a system supporting new cheeper games, a company supported hombrew market, releasing old games AND making an add on Hard Drive/Broadband adapter! This will work I tell ya.

NESWizard

People on this board are saying this isnt legit.

[www.assemblergames.com]

yet the site is registered to Sega.

NoBullet

I have registered and I expect my free random swag in the mail. A dorky 9-9-99 t-shirt would do, Sega.

k thx.

greyhoundbus

Apparently the registration is boned :(

Capt. Struggle Bunny

@ErskinPig: Blu-Ray disks can be used for games, and have much more space then a regular DVD. ;]

Old-school Sonic fanboy

@kommanderk: You're obviously failing to see the bigger picture.

Blu-ray is not necessary for games at this stage and is not helping make them better in any way shape or form. The graphics on PS3 are not (significantly) better than the 360 which is still running on DVD. Even if you account for the potential for higher res textures etc that can fit on the blu-ray disk, the PS3 has neither the memory nor the bandwidth required to process them so it's irrelevant.

Blu-ray is in PS3 for reasons completely outside of gaming which I simply cannot be bothered to explain to you. As a result, it's pushed the price up considerably and has added nothing to gamers.

ErskinPig

The only thing this could be is a Dreamcast 2 announcement. At least a fanboy can dream.

PurpleSpandex

Yes, I do...

Garo

Registered! Why? I don't know.

MeanMF

@ErskinPig: why would it be optional the games are on plu ray, and seeing as some games are filling them up already, and that 360 games have already come on multidisks, whats your point exactly? how is it not a worthy addition, much like dvd was to ps2/ technology has to step forward sooner or later, stop being a baby about it

kommanderk

Of course, I do along with Power Stone 1,2 and the rest.
Best games ever on the Dream cast. It really fulfilled its name.

Wait

I am going to go look for mine now.

BohlBERG