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JKKDARK
September 14th, 2007, 00:45
OMG someone please check this prototype, the owner says it actually works. There are also various pictures in the link.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250163670619

:drool: :drool: :drool:
Cyberman
September 14th, 2007, 04:11
I only buy things I can use. Although hacking the heck out of a Dreamcast might be fun it's a pointless endevor if you want to get new DC games (example).

10K bucks is a lot for a 100m disk drive:D

Cyb
revl8er
September 14th, 2007, 04:52
You would have to be a completely crazy collector to pay 10k for something that won't even work on the games. Kinda makes you wonder that if the DC wouldn't have flopped then would it have been implemented?
Cyberman
September 15th, 2007, 00:25
Sega had a huge credibility issue because of there stupidity with the Saturn and prior generation units. 3dFX also caused MAJOR problems for themselves and SEGA when they decided to go public. As a consequence they wasted money sueing SEGA and wasted SEGA's money as well. Why? They announced the plans they had with SEGA, when the later company had specifically stated secracy. 3dFX failed by the end of 2001. SEGA was not much far behind.

Bottom line was SEGA doomed itself by prior carelessness and poor choices. The PS2 was merely it's death nell as people didn't want to deal with the system due to SEGA's prior nastyness with the Saturn. Technically speaking both 3dFX and Sega were doomed by the Dreamcast mostly 3dFX doomed it and themselves for that matter.

Cyb
JKKDARK
September 15th, 2007, 06:57
There are new pictures
blizz
September 15th, 2007, 17:21
Alas poor DC, for you had many good games.
EmuFan
September 16th, 2007, 11:57
Jeebus! Only prototype or not, that is waaaay to much to pay...You can barely, if at all, use the fucking thing...
JKKDARK
September 16th, 2007, 21:36
The price lowered to $4,000
blizz
September 16th, 2007, 23:07
We do not need rolling updates of the price.
JKKDARK
September 17th, 2007, 00:43
We do not need rolling updates of the price.

There is a big difference between $4000 and $10000, how do you know really no one here wants this prototype?
blizz
September 17th, 2007, 20:37
I would have thought any mildly interested ebayer, would have saved it to their favourites to keep an eye on :)
zaba_3
September 17th, 2007, 21:13
There is a big difference between $4000 and $10000, how do you know really no one here wants this prototype?

how much he pays for you for advertising this?
JKKDARK
September 18th, 2007, 00:33
how much he pays for you for advertising this?

How many Dreamcast Zip Drives did you see?
t0rek
September 18th, 2007, 09:25
ah let JKKDARK alone... we don't get too many activity here in ET as some years ago after all :P
JKKDARK
September 19th, 2007, 00:41
The price lowered again to $500


ah let JKKDARK alone... we don't get too many activity here in ET as some years ago after all :P
Thank you
zaba_3
September 19th, 2007, 15:05
How many Dreamcast Zip Drives did you see?
One...???
Cyberman
September 20th, 2007, 01:39
There is only one zip drive for all Dream casts he was just posting at this oddity.
Aparently the Dream Cast still has titles being developed for it (comercially).

Maybe the PS2 will be the same way? Who knows. :)

Cyb
Jaz
September 20th, 2007, 09:39
Wow. I'd really like this in my collection! :)
_Zack_
September 20th, 2007, 14:50
It sold for over a thousand :huh:

Says reserves not met though so maybe it wont even go for that.

If it does go for that though, lets hope some dreamcast hacker/developer got there hands on it :D
sytaylor
October 18th, 2007, 20:14
Sega had a huge credibility issue because of there stupidity with the Saturn and prior generation units. 3dFX also caused MAJOR problems for themselves and SEGA when they decided to go public. As a consequence they wasted money sueing SEGA and wasted SEGA's money as well. Why? They announced the plans they had with SEGA, when the later company had specifically stated secracy. 3dFX failed by the end of 2001. SEGA was not much far behind.

Bottom line was SEGA doomed itself by prior carelessness and poor choices. The PS2 was merely it's death nell as people didn't want to deal with the system due to SEGA's prior nastyness with the Saturn. Technically speaking both 3dFX and Sega were doomed by the Dreamcast mostly 3dFX doomed it and themselves for that matter.

Cyb

A tad sideways and unessasary rant at 3dfx. SEGAs issues were financial. They actually did ok on the Dreamcast, especially initially. It had a similar first year to the original Xbox. The difference is it never had a Halo like system shifter. The lack of mass market appeal and mounting debt from the previous generation meant sega had to wind down their hardware ambitions.
JKKDARK
October 31st, 2007, 02:31
The item appeared again!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250181741840