Dreamcast purchase considerations

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Why? Why place the extra wear an tear on a GD drive, when you can play the same games faster and easier through other methods (say on your PC, an emu box, etc)

I had no idea that emulators for the Dreamcast run on CDs, and I don't have an idea of how convenient it is or isn't. I had read that the Dreamcast was a good means of emulation so it seemed liked a worthwhile means of playing emulation on a TV over a computer monitor.

There are tons of controller adapters for the Dreamcast. A quick google search would have told you that
https://www.google.com/

I posted this thread at 3:30 am after about two or so hours of various Dreamcast research. Emulation and controller adapters were an afterthought. I was fairly certain there were adapters of some kind for newer generation controllers, but I was hoping for recommendations/ or acknowledgement that there were some for older systems (Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, etc). I would have been more specific, but, in addition to being very tired, I believe that open-ended questions sometimes get better responses. By the way, embedding a Google url is far more prickish than clever. If you can't be funny when being a jerk, be civil.