I know it's hard to believe that you're in 2025 sometime with the articles I write here on Retro Dodo, but trust me, you've not gone back in time. The Dreamcast is having a resurgence like we could never have imagined, making more of an impact today than when it arrived on the scene back in 1998. And now, it's played host to a game that came out for the PC in 2009, 11 years after the Dreamcast's release date.
Yes, a Minecraft server on the Dreamcast - who would have thought it, huh? Developer @Mephiles38 hosted the Minecraft server from his Sega Dreamcast and connected it using a PC client in a brilliant example of epic software engineering.
Can we get a HELL YEAH for developer @Mephiles38, who was just able to host a Minecraft server on his Sega Dreamcast (right) and connect to it successfully using a PC client (left)!?
— Falco Girgis (@falco_girgis) September 13, 2025
This epic feat of engineering was made possible by porting @p2r3_'s work on bareiron, a… pic.twitter.com/BMYv31pyfl
According to Dreamcast aficionado Falco Girgis, this was all made possible by utilising the minimalist Minecraft server 'bareiron', which was specifically made for memory-restricted embedded systems. @Mephiles38 ported the work done by @p2r3_ on bareiron to get Minecraft running on the Dreamcast, with its 200MHz of CPU and its 16MB of RAM. Considering that most of us played this game on the Xbox 360 with its 3.2GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM, that's a great feat!
Head to GitHub to check out more about bareiron!
