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Is there any modern games you wonder what it would've been like on the dreamcast?

I used to think about this. But now that we're 20+ years on, modern games are just too different to visualize how they would work on DC without enormous cut downs. All that large open world stuff that's popular these days wouldn't work out so well with 16MB of ram.

The thing is, the Dreamcast is so old and technology has advanced rapidly. Essentially every modern game today would have to be de-made to some extent to even run properly.

If you're talking about modern games being made during and for the Dreamcast era, I'd say Sonic Mania could possibly run. The game is 186MB, which I believe can fit on a CD. Issue is it uses 2GB of ram, so it'd need to be cut down in that department. Maybe even Sonic Origins could run.

Maybe Portal 1? Though I don't know if the portals would be able to run on the system, at the very least I'd expect some frame drops while looking into one.

Maybe even a shooter like Team Fortress Classic could run.

the otherway around XD

There's a whole trend of "demaking" games to PS1 style for either humor or challenge, so it's not really dreamcast but it gets sorta close?

The biggest one is definitely Bloodborne PSX: https://b0tster.itch.io/bbpsx

Humor wise I really love Jarl Balgruuf from Skyrim as MGS' Psycho Mantis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz34Jc3eKSY

Not really a modern game, but I always wondered what City of Heroes (2004) would have looked like on Dreamcast, with the broadband adaptor, mouse and keyboard of course. It would've been even better than PSO if done right!

Londinium wrote:
Maybe Portal 1?

Check out James Lambert on YouTube. He's built a functional engine for the Nintendo 64 with functioning portals. They render 3 worlds deep while managing to maintain 20fps. There's builds that render portals infinitely that still run about 10fps depending on the scene. It's really wild to try out.

dark wrote:I used to think about this. But now that we're 20+ years on, modern games are just too different to visualize how they would work on DC without enormous cut downs. All that large open world stuff that's popular these days wouldn't work out so well with 16MB of ram.

certainly true, but stuff like Deathsmiles shouls still be possible I think

Londinium wrote:If you're talking about modern games being made during and for the Dreamcast era, I'd say Sonic Mania could possibly run. The game is 186MB, which I believe can fit on a CD. Issue is it uses 2GB of ram, so it'd need to be cut down in that department.

Sonic Mania doesn't do anything that strictly requires that much RAM. If SEGA hadn't made the mistake of wasting their efforts on the never-completed Sonic Xtreme, Sonic Mania is exactly what Sonic could have been like on the Saturn. Dreamcast could run it without breaking a sweat.

Also limbo and cuphead would be cool and . With sonic mania are the ones that could be more feasible on dreamcast