Reserved.

I'll post when I get home from work - I have a lift outside.

Update:

I may pretty soon be the proud re-owner of a Sega Dreamcast complete with Broadband adapter and Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2.

My last Dreamcast system died. Apparently they have a tendency to just break according to the friendly fellow from R Games in Gloucester. I was just talking to him about how it broke, and how I've been feeling a little nostalgic recently, and that I was upset about not having the console to play on any more. He told me not to worry because he has a brand spanking new one that I can buy.

Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2. Well, that's a funny one. My mate has the disc at the moment with my broken console also, but I have a feeling the disc was pretty roughed up when I last had it 3 or 4 years ago. I've put in an insanely high bid on a copy of this on Ebay because it's one of the very few copies that I have been able to find, and it appears to be in a good condition, and also comes with the Dreamkey software.

I do still have a good working keyboard for the Dreamcast.

The annoying thing is that the broadband adapter costs £100.

That is all.

the dreamcast is an awesome piece of hardware.

GC > DreamCast > PS2 > Xbox



But the Dream Cast rocked. It was doing things the Wii isn't even doing all that time ago with moveable controllers and stuff! It was such a shame it flopped so hard

Wasn't this that game you got obsessed with ages ago?

the dreamcast was indeed amazing! in fact, thinking about it. its possibly my favourite console ever

Yes, I became completely obsessed with PSO. I had played the game for over 2000 hours if you combined by PSOv1 and PSOv2 time.

The Gamecube version PSOE1&2 was a huge failure. The keyboard required for chat was non-English, and there was no official GC keyboard, although there were rumours that they would create a controller with a keyboard between the two hand pieces, and several prototypes were released, but it never came to be unfortunately. This ruined the game. PSOE1&2 was a better game than PSOv2 - it had the hacks removed - but the console and peripherals seriously let it down.

Also, PSOv2 was 100% free to play online.

I'm currently playing PSOBB on the PC, connected to the SCHTHACK private server, and it is making me feel good already. I may not go ahead with purchasing the DC, although it is undoubtedly the best console ever created (sorry, I'm not accepting disputes, you can't budge me on this one)... I will still purchase the PSOv2 GD from eBay as it's a future classic. I might get the DC when I have a bit of spare cash just eating its way through my pocket, but for now I might pass. The thing is, I'd need to get the broadband adapter, which is roughly £100 imported from Japan.

Anyway.

I'll keep you updated on this one.