bleem!

by Bleem

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• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002SV5B
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,433 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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40 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bleem for PC or Bleem for Dreamcast?, September 9, 2000

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SHU-HAO HU (Los Angeles, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: bleem! (CD-ROM)

Most of you should know that you can play PlayStation games on your PC with software like Bleem. But did you know that Bleem will release its new software that will allow you to play PlayStation games on Dreamcast with much improved graphics and sound. Recently, I have sent in my questions concerning Bleemcast, and I received their replies within a few hours.

Q: I wonder which one of them will give me the best graphics, is it Bleem for PC or is it Bleem for Dreamcast? My computer is equipped with Pentium II 233 MHz CPU, 32mb TNT2 video card, and 128mb RAM.

A: Well, bleem! for the PC has the potential to have the best graphics. If you were to upgrade to a very high-end CPU, with a good motherboard, and GeForce 2 GTS video card, the graphics would probably be slightly better than on bleem! for Dreamcast. And, with a Sound Blaster Live! or Aureal Vortex2 sound card, the sound quality will probably be about the same as with the Dreamcast. With the system that you list, bleem! for Dreamcast will definitely have higher-quality graphics, than bleem! would. However, remember that PC's are easily upgraded, and within a few months will probably be capable of quite a bit better graphics than the Dreamcast.

Both bleem! and bleem! for Dreamcast are a LOT higher quality in terms of graphics than the games being played on a PlayStation. The same goes for PlayStation games being played on the PlayStation 2, since the PlayStation 2 hardly improves the graphics at all. The actual PlayStation 2 games, for the most part, will look better than PlayStation games, no matter how much enhanced they are. Because PS2 games will be directly programmed to use more polygons, smoother textures, etc.

However, there is a couple other things to consider when comparing bleem! to bleem! for Dreamcast. Each pak for bleem! for Dreamcast will support 100 games, and will not be able to play any games but those 100. All of those 100 will be fully supported, with no problems (Other than those that are in the game itself, of course). On the other hand, bleem! allows you to try any of the more than 3000 PlayStation games that have been released in the past 6 years, as long as we have not already tested the game, and knew it to not be supported. However, only some of those are fully supported. Some have flaws, and some are not playable at all in bleem! So, if you would prefer to at least have the possibility at more games, and the ability to upgrade your graphics, bleem! is the better choice. If you'd rather have the best graphics at this time, and have completely supported games, bleem! for Dreamcast is the better choice.

Q: Although I have never tried Bleem on PC, from the look of your game list there are very few games that run 100% smoothly on PC. So I wonder what will happen with the new Bleemcast?

A: I'm not sure what makes you think very few that run at perfect performance. Of the 1069 games on the list, 359 of them are fully supported (More than a third of them), and 369 are partially supported. That means that less than third are not supported!

However, to answer your question about bleem! for Dreamcast, there will be no partially supported games. All the games on each pak will be fully tested to make sure they have no flaws. If we cannot fix the flaws that are there, it will not be included on that pak.

Q: Can you please make the later version of Bleemcast to support Space Battleship Yamato and Space Battleship Yamato 2 in the near future?

A: Well, at this time, we are only planning on including games that have a US version in the first 4 bleem! for Dreamcast paks. We do however, plan on releasing paks in the future that will include games that are popular in other regions!

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You have a computer, why buy a playstation!, June 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: bleem! (CD-ROM)

Bleem is an excellent item. You can play games you have on your PC or you can even download them from a web site (EVEN THEIR'S AT http://www.bleem.com). They are also working on a dreamcast version of bleem that they might allow you to upgrade to or buy seperatley. it works with 300+ games now and it is still growing. You don't even need to have a playstation. You can use most pc joystics or gamepads. even keyboards if you want.

23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wait a second, July 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: bleem! (CD-ROM)

First I would like to say that Bleem! is an excelent idea, and works well on almost all computers. I would also like to say that you don't need a fast computer to really take advantage, or even use the games. I have a 4 year old computer, with a K6 233 processor, and I ran Bleem! with FF7, and it worked as well as my playstation. I also got to the movie sequences, and it did not even slow down. This means that contrary to another writer, you do not need a 900 Pentium 3 to run simple games, or complicated games.