--- In DreamcastBrowsers@yahoogroups.com, Cyber_Shinobi <fac_29@y...>
wrote:
> Well heres a statement from a friend in the USA who i
> know has Dreamkey v2.0. I asked him how did he get it
> and he said "I ordered it from Sega Europe"
> Surely if they sent one to him in the USA they would
> send one to anyone in Europe who ordered it from their
> Website?

well i admit thats strange sega europe send european browsers to usa
resident but maybe they accept to do that now that they have
undistributed stocks. about the sega-europe website i never read
anywhere on their site a form you could fill to ask for dk2.0

>It wasnt released in Dreamcast Console Packs
> like Dreamkey v1.0 and Dreamkey v1.5 thou thats for
> sure, well not in the UK anyway...

not in france neither, and you couldn't ask for it like i did for
dk3.0 from sega-europe website, not when it was released anyway

> One thing, you are assuming that Dreamkey v2.0 allows
> you to choose your own ISP, why do you think that?

because i know some russian people who actually have dk2.0, and i
also heard about dk2.0 before dk3.0 was released, now the infos i
have heard could be wrong but thats what i believe till i dont have
one in my hands, what will probably wont happen anyway

> Are
> you positive on that?

i cant swear of nothing but im quite confident on that info

> I remember when Dreamkey v3.0
> was announced it was announced a the first Dreamkey to
> allow you to choose your ISP.

yes thats it, actually thats why i told you i dont think dk2.0 was
released in uk because you would have heard of it and everybody would
have get it before dk3.0, not only because of the ability to change
the isp but also because when a new browser is out its normal people
are curious to use it and would have asked it to sega europe, a lot
of people would have it now if it would be the case. it never
happened in france afaik

> I came onto the DC Scene in January 2002, about 2
> months before the end of DreamArena and a matter of
> weeks before the release of Dreamkey v3.0 so anything
> before then i aint really sure of but from everything
> i've heard i'm pretty certain it got a Full European
> release but only if you bothered to order it from Sega
> Europe. I also think that Spain, Norway etc got it
> released in their Dreamcast Console Packs because
> obviously they wouldnt have got Dreamkey v1.0 and v1.5.

im not sure at all spain and norway didnt have their dk1.0 and 1.5
but if they didnt its quite logic they got dk2.0, i dont know about
them. like you said dk3.0 was released just before the end of
dreamarena, and from what i heard it has been created in a rush,
actually dk2.0 and dk3.0 could be very close, prooving that sega
could have distributed it a long time before they did, if dk2.0
allows you to choose your isp its an evidence sega just wanted to
keep dk2.0 "secret" til we could use their service as our default
isp, now theres no more dreamarena isp i can understand they dont
care about sending extra dk2.0