Talk:List of Dreamcast games

Archived Discussion
Discussions no longer relevant to the active maintenance of this page have moved to a discussion archive subpage. Kolano 02:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Dreamcast VCD Player
There is an entry in the list for "Dreamcast VCD Player". This needs more detail and possibly to be split up, as I believe there were a few different commercial VCD players.

Kolano (talk) 19:37, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

WP:VG Assessment
--User:Krator (t c) 14:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't reference Google image search. Reference individual game covers.
 * Get rid of the HUGE amount of red links - and no, don't go and create stub articles. Basically, every red link will need a non-list (i.e.: a page specifically about the game, like a review by a notable gaming website) reference stating the notability for inclusion - the notability for games already on Wikipedia (and thus have a 'blue link') should be established on the article about the respective games (not here). Wikipedia doesn't list every silly flash game for Windows, so a list as this should be kept to the at least somewhat popular titles -> Listcruft.
 * Kept start, High.

Resolving red links a larger project, though I'm not sure why the incompleteness of other portions of Wikipedia effect the status of this list. One source to flush out the numerous unlisted Japanese games is the Japanese Wikipedia site. Here's a list of titles they cover but are absent in English: Kolano (talk) 04:16, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * alumni 2 again and refrain
 * DreamStud!o (ドリームスタジオ)
 * Gakkyu-o-Yamazaki
 * Let's Golf
 * Hundred Swords
 * Idol Janshi wo Tsukucchaou
 * Iris
 * Jet Coaster Dream
 * Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2000: Dreamcast Edition
 * Jojo's bizarre adventures
 * Yukyu Gensoukyoku 3: Perpetual Blue
 * Yume no Tsubasa: Fate of Heart

Handling of Games with Multiple Names
There are a number of games with varying names depending on their region. Their name variations place them at different alphabetic locations in the list so listing them as a single item seems problematic, but listing them separately seems to go against having a single line per game.

There is some similar discussion on the main "List of Games" discussion, but no clear decision around how to handle. Kolano 02:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

One other thing to consider here is that games do not always share release dates between regions. Some way to clearly indicate that would be good. I'd suggest removing the "Year" and "Release Date" columns and replacing with a three release date columns, one per region. Kolano (talk) 17:08, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Non-Games/Unreleased games?
The Dreamcast had a few titles that would not be classified as "games". For instance:
 * Web Browsers:"Broadband Passport Web Browser"
 * Video Players: "Dreamcast VCD Player"
 * Email App: Hello Kitty: Otonaru Mail (へーロキティ音なるメール)
 * Magazine Pack-in Disks: Dreamon 1-22, Dorimaga, Dreamcast Express 1-7
 * Various Bleamcast titles

Should these be included on this list? Kolano 02:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
 * In my opinion they don't really belong. And it's also unlikely they'll ever have articles.  Anyone else have a take? --SubSeven 03:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * To my thinking it comes down to if this is a list of "games" or a list of "titles". Having a complete list of titles seems like a good idea, even if this isn't it.Kolano 04:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Also there are a number of canceled games excluded from this list. A few of these have seen seen the light of day, though not through "official" channels. Kolano 04:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Japanese Titles
I have added a near complete set of Kanji titles for Japanese games. Though this should be an English language resource, having the Kanji helps clearly identify Japaneses titles preventing duplication of games with multiple English translations. Though certain Japanese releases simply have English names, there are a few Japanese releases I suspect have Kanji titles that I have thus far been unable to find/work out. Investigation into filling these gaps would be appreciated. To help with this here's a list of Japanese titles missing Kanji some with the Kanji shown but not shown as text, please update as we make progress on this:

Japanese Games with unknown Kanji: Kolano 21:28, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Japanese Chess Gold
 * Sure Win Pachisuro V-Pachi
 * Virtua Fighter 4 Passport
 * Virtua Fighter 4 History

Whew, almost done. Kolano (talk) 03:00, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

The set of Kanji titles used to clearly distinguish Japanese titles appears to have been purged from this article. I'm uncomfortable with this as in many cases there are multiple "English" translations of titles, so the ones used may not clearly identify entries. Kolano (talk) 01:38, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Developer / Publisher Cleanup
If anyone is looking for direction regarding help to provide in completing this article, I would suggest adding articles for the following developers/publishers, which will resolve multiple red links each:

Title (# of addressed links)  Kid Genius Pty Ltd. (7) Ecole (6) Fujicom Co., Ltd. (4) Hack Berry Co., Ltd. (4) StarFish, Inc. (4) Athena Co., Ltd. (2) DaZZ (2) OLYMPIA Co., Ltd. (2)</li> <li>Mass Media Inc. (2)</li> <li>Media Entertainment Co, Ltd. (2)</li> </ul>

Kolano (talk) 01:08, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Splitting up the article
The whole article is very large and an not the cleanest looking thing, is it at all possible to create three articles with each only relevant to those games released in its region?

A Dreamcast Games (Japan) list article, a Dreamcast Games (US) list article & a Dreamcast Games (EU) list article? 82.3.48.129 (talk) 19:33, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

We could, but it would mean maintaining information on games released to multiple regions in multiple places which seems prone to result in misalignment amongst the information provided. Also, how would that split result in the page being "cleaner", what are you using to qualify clean vs dirty? Kolano (talk) 17:02, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * It just needs to be smaller, not "cleaner". I think that the article should be divided into List of English region Dreamcast games and List of Non-English region Dreamcast games

If someone could do that, there is no real need for further discussion, as the page is obviously much too long.

Cosprings (talk) 16:42, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Per my original objection. Should games released in multiple regions be duplicated amongst such pages? Does "English" include European releases with English text/language? Kolano (talk) 01:35, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

So the list is full of games and has a whole load of games, why not have "List of Dreamcast games (A-F)"? Jeremjay 24  ''' 13:50, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Primarily because then the list can only be sorted by name. Currently it can be appropriately sorted by: name, year, developer, publisher, and region; which provides a variety of analysis not possible in a split format. Such could still be provided in a split format but rather than one page there many would be needed (/w duplicate entries), which would become difficult to maintain.Kolano (talk) 04:34, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe it might help if the hundreds of unlicensed games were removed. At the very least, they should be marked or moved to their own table.  TJ   Spyke   14:13, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

misinformation on page
i dont really think happy lesson is released in europe because i cant find any other page mentioning euro release 80.221.148.55 (talk) 19:29, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Corrected Kolano (talk) 01:31, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Missing Games
Here is a small list of games which are absent from the list but should be in it:
 * Aikagi
 * Acyumare! Guruguru Onsen BB
 * Atelier Marie And Elie
 * BikkuriMan 2000 Viva Festival
 * Blue Sky Blue
 * Bomber Hehe
 * Buggy Heat
 * Cafe Little Wish: Mahou no Recipe
 * Climax Landers
 * Resident Evil Code: Veronica (there is a wikipedia page on the game already, just not added to list of dreamcast games).

So as you can see there are still many games missing.

I've added the missing items listed, though some of them are not "missing". Some have different names across regions. For example "Buggy Heat" is known as "TNN Motorsports Hardcore Heat" and is included as such (see section regarding games with multiple names above). The same for "Climax Landers" which is known as "Time Stalkers". Kolano (talk) 01:30, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Resident Evil Code: Veronica is still missing, under any name 86.145.215.90 (talk) 23:48, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Games exclusively released in Japan
There should be a special section for games released exclusively in Japan, and removed from the general list. - Billybob2002 (talk) 01:19, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Wrong Link for Seaman
Somebody should edit the link for Seaman, as it doesn't go to the article for the game. 2001:5B0:24FF:CF0:0:0:0:3A (talk) 01:12, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Genre clean up needed
Me and user got engaged in edit war over how Genre was formatted, reasons appear to be relating to words wrapped into brackets to become like other wikilinks, and that considered to be overlinking and many have reintroduce to disambiguation pages. More importantly, it's still in need of cleanup and these problems will be sorted out. I don't think I fully understand how genre works but I feel that it's not how genre works. Rukario -sama  ^ㅈ^ -(...)  09:01, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Overlinking / excessive number of links to disambiguation pages
I would request more eyes on the edits of User:Rukario-sama. To my opinion, this user is repeatedly and deliberately overlinking the article. And not only that, he is also adding an excessive number of links to disambiguation pages (already several time 45+ links). To my opinion, that is no constructive editing. <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 19:30, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Never mind, he finally got the point. <span style="font-family:'Old English Text MT',serif;color:green">The Banner <i style="color:maroon">talk</i> 08:40, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Fixing publishing from the Japanese releases
It needs a very fix for any cetains that Japanese games we're published by a different company and or self-published by developers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.220.94.160 (talk) 07:53, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Genres are a mess
Silver is not a shooter, it's a hack-and-slash. Bangai-O is not a Rail shooter, it's a 2D shooter. Spawn is not a shooter, it's a hack-and-slash. The reference given for these is a list of canceled games. We need a better reference for this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.169.71.120 (talk) 20:04, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Convert to table
I want to convert the list of games to a table that we can sort by Title, Publisher, Release Date, Genre, whatever we want, by clicking the top cell of the table where it says "Title" or "Release Date" etc... 2607:F280:3005:497:3D67:C1D0:65AC:125C (talk) 22:29, 28 April 2024 (UTC)