im tellin you guys.. BUY MORE DREAMCASTS! its worth it to feel secure about playing shenmue for the rest of your life. i have 4 dreamcast's so im not worried at all.
Good advice. Still, 20 years down the road, no matter how many you buy, they'll all break. Sad reality. The only hope is future development of reliable emulation software
by the time my dreamcast dies, my spare one will kick in, also by that time, shenmue might have been remade or sumetin, and there is always emulation unless Trusted Computing kicks in fully and stops emulation.