Dreamcast-Thread

[Anonymous No.4652623]

“Why isnt there a cheap ODDE?”-Edition

>GDEmu not available for preorder (as always)
>USB-GDRom-Controller is sold by a dickhead
>Opensource “iceGDRom”-board still in development. https://github.com/zeldin/iceGDROM/blob/master/README.md
>discussion thread https://assemblergames.com/threads/open-source-fpga-based-gdrom-emulator.62761/
>G1-ATA (IDE-Mod) has a questionable game compability.

In other news:
>Every Dreamanon should get himself a DreamPi
>Setup guide: http://blog.kazade.co.uk/p/dreampi.html?m=1
>See who is online (and visible) here: http://dreamcast.online/now/
>DreamPSU is sold out. Will be available again at a later date. Discussion thread https://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10444&sid=5139f8b6d4f1544431e5f55969990a19

Other useful links:
>pre-patched PSO for the sylverant-server
http://psopalace.sylverant.net/frameset.html
>build your own pico-psu http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/dreamcast-psu-using-picopsu/
>add an internal VGA port to your Dreamcast http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/dreamcast-internal-vga-mod/

[Anonymous No.4652637]

Pasta 1

[Anonymous No.4652645]

Pasta 2

[Anonymous No.4652647]

Burn compatible dreamcast models NTSC

[Anonymous No.4652650]

>another useful link
>recommended games with description
http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki/Dreamcast

[Anonymous No.4652652]

>>4652637
wow NTSC-U covers are trash. Why did SOA used two different inlay designs?

[Anonymous No.4652660]

>>4652652
Wasn’t that almost always the case during that time period?

[Anonymous No.4652667]

>>4652623
>“Why isnt there a cheap ODDE?”-Edition

When was the last time an ODE for any system cost less than $150? It's still a new technology for consoles and mostly in the "garage kit" stage.

Also, is the consensus for maintaining GD-ROM drive longevity to not burn games at all? Or is there a widely accepted "low-wear" setting that games should be burned at to avoid wearing down the laser?

Also would strongly recommend adding a link to a boot disc ISO like Utopia or Codebreaker for future threads if possible. A lot of games are noticeably cheaper in NTSC-J format, including low-text games such as Capcom fighters.

[Anonymous No.4652685]

>>4652667
>When was the last time an ODE for any system cost less than $150? It's still a new technology for consoles and mostly in the "garage kit" stage.
Good point. I remember the x360 ODDE being prices similarly.
>Also, is the consensus for maintaining GD-ROM drive longevity to not burn games at all? Or is there a widely accepted "low-wear" setting that games should be burned at to avoid wearing down the laser?
As far as I know, you should only use “good dumps” and burn at a slow speed to not get any errors. “Good dumps” are dumps with a dummy-file, for smaller games, so the laser is working more on the outside of the CD.
>Also would strongly recommend adding a link to a boot disc ISO like Utopia or Codebreaker for future threads if possible. A lot of games are noticeably cheaper in NTSC-J format, including low-text games such as Capcom fighters.
Agreed. Will do that next time. I will also add links to different guides, such as the regionfree-biosmod and the serial-to-usb Adapter.

[Anonymous No.4652692]

More useful links

>add a regionfree bios to your Dreamcast http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/sega-dreamcast-region-free-bios/
>get/build yourself a Serial-to-SD-Adapter for loading homebrew and (limited) games loading http://theisozone.com/tutorials/dreamcast/hardware-and-modding/how-to-buybuild-a-dreamcast-sandisk-adapter/
>How to download/burn yourself an utopia-bootdisc, to play out-of-region games on your console, without a bios-mod or flashchip https://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/app.php/page/utopia

[Anonymous No.4652719]

Bump for Shenmue 1 and 2.

[Anonymous No.4652739]

Ah hell yeah, DC has a general now? I don't have anything to contribute, but I love you fuckers.

[Anonymous No.4652754]

>>4652739
I’ll try to keep one up. I found the lack of one quite sad.

[Anonymous No.4652767]

Do people still play PSO on these things?

[Anonymous No.4652786]

>>4652767
They do!
You can see some of the players online here: http://dreamcast.online/now/

>http://psopalace.sylverant.net/frameset.html
Even has cross platform gameplay with the Nintendo GameCube and PC.

>http://www.dreamcastlive.net/mobile/schedule.html
This are the play times when most people come online.

[Anonymous No.4652805]

>>4652786
That's amazing I can't believe I never looked this up before. Those broadband adapters are pricey as hell though.

[Anonymous No.4652814]

>>4652805
Then I’m happy that I have created this thread today.
>pricy as hell
You don’t need them. In fact, most games don’t even support them. Look up the “DreamPi”-project in the OP. It fakes an dial-up connection and tunnels the connection trough your internet connection.

[Anonymous No.4652840]

>>4652685
>>4652692
You don't need a boot disc or region free mod if you're burning games or have an ODE. You typically only need one if you want to play legit imports, or if you have a legit game that needs tricked into VGA mode.

[Anonymous No.4652847]

>>4652840
Oh. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll mention this in the next OP.

[Anonymous No.4652864]

>>4652840

That was kinda the point behind me bringing it up. Physical NTSC-J games are still relatively affordable to collect right now, so I felt pointing out info for anons going that route was worthwhile.

[Anonymous No.4652874]

Thinking about going into dreamcast.

What are some things i should know,what should i avoid,and overall what is the price tag for going into dreamcast.

And yes i plan to play burned games.Any and all advice is welcome

[Anonymous No.4652883]

>>4652874
Look onto the downside of the console. There must be a 0 or 1 in a circle for it to be capable of playing burned games. Consoles with the number 2 aren’t capable to play burned games, without a modchip, as far as I know. Luckily, the number 2 consoles aren’t very common.

The price for a console varies, depending on its condition and accessories. 40€ for a console + controller and VMU, and the TV cable seem fair, imo. If you want one now, that is. I’ve seen them even cheaper too.
You can snatch up pretty good deals if you keep your eyes open. I paid 100€ for a DC, with 4 controllers, 4 VMU’s, some extra accessories such as rumble packs and so on, a mouse and keyboard and a fuck-ton of games.
Buying local might be your best bet.

That’s all that I remember for now. Someone might add sth to look out for.

[Anonymous No.4652885]

Keep an eye out for new NoBS-DC soon.

[Anonymous No.4652887]

>>4652874
Things you should avoid: The Ring - Terrors Realm

[Anonymous No.4652898]

>>4652883
i guess ill try my luck and shop locally becuase the prices on ebay are insane.Also how long do dreamcasts last until they stop reading disks?

[Anonymous No.4652904]

>>4652898
Impossible to tell with used consoles. The shortest life on a Dreamcast for me was about a month. The longest was 14 years with my Black Sports Edition. It's a gamble, but really worth it.

[Anonymous No.4652910]

>>4652885
New dumps?

[Anonymous No.4652914]

>>4652904
alrite thanks for the advice

[Anonymous No.4652920]

>>4652910
Seems so. Check the DC thread over at eight chan /vr/

[Anonymous No.4652947]

>>4652920
Will do. Thx.

[Anonymous No.4652992]

>>4652874
>What are some things i should know,what should i avoid

On top of what's already been mentioned:

- Don't plug in/pull out controllers while the console is on, you will damage the fuses in the controller ports and potentially kill it outright
- The internal battery of your console will most likely be dead, while not relevant for 99% of games, games dependent on accurate RTC like Seaman will not work properly unless you replace that
- GD-ROM drives and their components are not cheap or easy to repair/replace, be sure to follow the points in >>4652685 when burning games unless you like buying multiple consoles or sinking 2-3 Dreamcasts worth of money into an ODE
- If your Dreamcast's original shell was not either white or black, it's Japanese. Be mindful if picking up a colorful DC from online

[Anonymous No.4652993]

Does anyone have experience with this chink device?

[Anonymous No.4653005]

>>4652993

I don't, but I can't imagine the games loaded on it would work all that well since they're being read through the serial port. The port has about half the data transfer bandwidth of reading discs from the GD-ROM, which is why no one has bothered trying to develop a serious ODE using it.

[Anonymous No.4653035]

>>4653005
thats what i thought. Seems to be nothing more than a sdcard and vga-adapter combo.

[Anonymous No.4653064]

>>4652645
I think there should be some sort of symbol added to this infographic for regional differences as well. Project Justice and Dead or Alive 2, for example, have significant content that isn't present in the American versions of the games, such as full character customization and an extra Sugoroku-based mini-game in the JP version of Project Justice and more characters/costumes in the Limited Edition of DOA2.

[Anonymous No.4653107]

>>4653064
I just copied these images from the pastas.
I didn’t know about these differences. If you know them, you can help and update the images, anon.

[Anonymous No.4653118]

I was going to post the Google Doc with all the CDI releases that /vr/ compiled a couple years ago, but it can't get by 4chan's spam filter.

[Anonymous No.4653128]

>>4653118
I wonder if that will get our thread deleted again, by our beloved mods.

[Anonymous No.4653209]

>>4653118
Why not just do a pastebin instead? Numerous other boards have such arrangements and even the retro FPS threads here have them. It can't be some sort of ban on piracy since it happens on the site as a whole without repercussion, thankfully.

[Anonymous No.4653241]

Dreamcast has the definitive version of sarges heroes.

[Anonymous No.4653248]

>>4652645
Good list, just needs Four Wheel Thunder added.

[Anonymous No.4653293]

I have a DC that I've burned a few games for and like it a lot.

But why does the DC library seem especially experimental/quirky compared to other 6th gen consoles? Even the controller and VMU is weird. Was Sega desparate for attention after the saturn flopped?

[Anonymous No.4653313]

>>4653209

It's a Google Sheets doc that's way too complicated to paste into pure text. It's got several sheets separated by release group with multiple mirror links for each game, .nfo files, release details, etc.

[Anonymous No.4653323]

>>4653293

It was released well before the other 6th gen consoles. The modern controller hadn't been standardized yet. Sega was still doing well in arcades, so they designed a console favorable to arcade-to-console conversions. That's why a lot of the games are short-lived wacky stuff, the sort of games you would find in arcades.

[Anonymous No.4653330]

>>4653293
this is it as much it gets

[Anonymous No.4653349]

>>4652874
Just emulate especially if you’re gonna play burned games

the Dreamcast has an awful life expectancy. Systems go haywire in all sorts of ways

[Anonymous No.4653361]

>>4653293
>But why does the DC library seem especially experimental/quirky compared to other 6th gen consoles? Even the controller and VMU is weird. Was Sega desparate for attention after the saturn flopped?

Sega was desperate and throwing stuff against the wall in search of something that click and catch fire with the public.

[Anonymous No.4653369]

>>4652637
This one is trash.
>>4652645
This is one is good. Can't see a single game missing. I dislike how games that were ported years afterwards are listed as multiplatform though, especially when most of the ports were inferior.

[Anonymous No.4653447]

Any new releases for this year?

[Anonymous No.4654049]

I bought this real cheap off of eBay thinking this was a game. Damnit. You need a completed save of Gundam 0079 on your VMU to open it, don't make the same mistake I did kiddos.

[Anonymous No.4654052]

Bump for the last good 3D sonic game

[Anonymous No.4654076]

What VMU pic do you have set, /vr/?
Don't forgot a tool named Dream Explorer can do a lot with these things.

[Anonymous No.4654118]

>>4652647
That's wrong though.

[Anonymous No.4654126]

>>4653035
How much is it though?

[Anonymous No.4654127]

>>4653313
He just means put a link to the spreadsheet in the pastebin.

[Anonymous No.4654131]

>>4654049
If you have DreamPi it's not unreasonably difficult to load savedata from the internet onto your VMU.

[Anonymous No.4654147]

I've gone through 20 cds trying to get Power Stone 2 to work. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong

[Anonymous No.4654151]

Because noone care about this dead stripped down xbox apart from sega crazies, special kids who weren't born at the time and can't like what everyone else likes and ponytail-tier hipsters.

[Anonymous No.4654152]

>>4652623
Nice find on the internal VGA mod. I already have a USB GDROM and PicoPSU mod so this looks like the next thing I'll tackle. I love the fact that it has the ability to turn it on and off.

By the way, I'll add my buying experience on the USBGDROM. You pay the guy, then hear absolutely NOTHING from him. In about a month and a half, it shows up on your doorstep with no fanfare. The whole ordering process seems shady, but the guy does deliver the board. As far as I know, he's never ripped any individuals off, and in a niche market like this, if he had, you would hear about it. He had some issue with stoneagegamer.com, but I think it was just too much demand for him to keep up with. English isn't his first language, which might be why you won't hear a word once you order.

Again, it looks shady as fuck and is pretty nerve wracking while waiting, but you will get your product in a month or month and a half.

[Anonymous No.4654160]

>>4654052
Bump for the first bad 3D Sonic game

[Anonymous No.4654167]

>>4654147
Download from a different source.

>>4654151
>talks shit on the DC by describing N64 fans
triplekek

[Anonymous No.4654176]

>>4654127

Oh. That's clever.

Here it is then. /vr/'s Dreamcast release archive. Lots of good stuff here.

https://pastebin.com/iRQBrk0u

[Anonymous No.4654179]

>>4654118
Elaborate.
>>4654126
49 usd on AliExpress
>>4654147
Use the correct program stated in the OP. Burn at slow speeds. Don’t use a laptop burner if possible
>>4654152
I’ve thought about doing the mod too. Dunno if it’s worth it though. The picture quality won’t increase. Have you used the guide in OP? I find it a bit lacking desu.
1,5 moths? I read that some people waited 6 months for theirs.

[Anonymous No.4654225]

>>4652645
I just want to point out that the PC port of Soul Reaver is trash and you should either play the DC or PS1 version depending on how you feel about the updated graphics.

[Anonymous No.4654235]

>>4652637
>>4652645
Neither one has Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes, wow what useless lists these are that have been made for no reason.

[Anonymous No.4654242]

>>4654049
I have 2 complete saves.
Now if only I could load my vmu data up to the internet.

[Anonymous No.4654261]

>>4654152
>You pay the guy, then hear absolutely NOTHING from him. In about a month and a half, it shows up on your doorstep with no fanfare. The whole ordering process seems shady, but the guy does deliver the board.
I have heard this multiple times before. Almost verbatim. Do you post that a lot?

[Anonymous No.4654269]

>>4654179
>Elaborate.
Units with a can't play burned games.

[Anonymous No.4654272]

>>4652645
Is this all?, almost nothing good on this list, except the ports all the exclusive games are shitty

[Anonymous No.4654275]

>>4654179
>Elaborate.
Units with a '2' can't play burned games. '1' and '0' are fine. I think that pic is actually supposed to show the difference between CD-R compatible models and otherwise.

>49 usd on AliExpress
Meh, too much for that. If it was as cheap as the other chink Serial-SD dongles, with the added VGA adapter, it would be a deal.

>>4654242
Is this not it? https://bswirl.kitsunet.org/vmu/save/public/liste.php?lg=en&menu=&path=G%2Fgundam%2520side%2520history%25200079

[Anonymous No.4654292]

>>4654261

I've posted it i think 2 times before over the course of a year or so.

[Anonymous No.4654672]

>>4654160
Truth

[Anonymous No.4655026]

>>4654275
>Units with a '2' can't play burned games. '1' and '0' are fine. I think that pic is actually supposed to show the difference between CD-R compatible models and otherwise.
Oh well. I’d delete the image if 4chen would let me
>Meh, too much for that. If it was as cheap as the other chink Serial-SD dongles, with the added VGA adapter, it would be a deal.
Agreed. In waiting for my chink as Adapter currently. The sticker is the same as it is on the „combo adapter“

[Anonymous No.4655036]

>>4654147
Could it be the discs you're using or the CD-burner? I was doing evrerything correctly and still getting coasters until I switched to a different PC, I guess my burner was fucked. Make sure you're using imgburn with the extra dreamcast files

[Anonymous No.4655065]

>>4653293
In Japan, Sega did some really cool things with Dreamcast that no other company had tried before. Look at El Derado Gate: It's a capcom 7-disc RPG that was sold bi-monthly for $30 for each disc/chapter. I don't know how long each chapter is, but it was still a novel idea. Unfortunately, chapters 4-7 are literally unplayable now on anything other than a legit Japanese Dreamcast and burns of them do not work.

As someone who picked up a Dreamcast in mid-2000, it was a really fun system. It was so far ahead of anything at the time and even though the PS2 launched in late 2001, it took well over a year for PS2 to get any really good games. I was having a blast with Dreamcast with my friends who also had them because they were so cheap by 2002 when Sega pulled the plug. We had burns of every game over the next two years.

I miss those days

[Anonymous No.4655106]

>>4655065
>chapters 4-7 are literally unplayable now on anything other than a legit Japanese Dreamcast and burns of them do not work.

Those dont work on any bootdisc? I do know that Grandia II PAL on JP console crashes at certain load screen everytime using codebreaker.

[Anonymous No.4655107]

>>4655036
>imgburner
Eh..

[Anonymous No.4655110]

>>4655065
What about regionfree bios consoles?

[Anonymous No.4655280]

>>4655036
Use discjuggler.

[Anonymous No.4655287]

>>4655280
Bad advice, don't use 15 year old software just because it was what people had to use back then. Today, imgburn is a better tool for burning DC games.

[Anonymous No.4655397]

>>4655287
Discjugglers compatibility is better than the one from imgburn

[Anonymous No.4655796]

>>4655065
Is EDG actually a good series, or is it a meme that is only valuable for the novelty of how it was released? Am asking since the complete set usually costs $250-$300 to put together and I've heard that each disc only has something like 2 hours of gameplay a pop.

[Anonymous No.4656707]

This game would be a 10/10 if it were more balanced. It's still fantastic though.
Redeemer's the GOAT

[Anonymous No.4656717]

>>4656707
Fuck yeah, anon. It was originally an arcade game but its perfectly ported and the number of unlockable characters is quite impressive. I actually have a large (and kind of shitty) tattoo of Spawn on my back. I know he's 90s grimdark shit but that was the era I grew up and collected comics in and I always thought this was the only Spawn game that got it right.

I asked for a DC specifically for this game. I eventually got other stuff that I played much more (PSO and Quake 3 over dial up). Man, those were the days.

[Anonymous No.4656829]

>>4656707
>>4656717
Added to my playlist

[Anonymous No.4657021]

I tried Sonic Shuffle. That game is absolute trash. The board is crap, the mini games are crap, the shuffle mechanic is crap. Don't play it

[Anonymous No.4657235]

>>4657021
That surprises me. I heard it was nice..

[Anonymous No.4657250]

>>4657021
I want to like it so bad. It's still a comfy game for me

[Anonymous No.4657356]

>>4657021
Yeah, it was my first Dreamcast game. Nothing about it is fun.

[Anonymous No.4657618]

>>4655106
From what I checked on the little information there is about this game, Capcom used some form of copy protection that even the people at Echelon were unable to break for chapters 4-7. It has to be a legit Japanese Dreamcast and a legit copy of the disc for it to work correctly.

>>4655796
I know the game as a whole isn't that long. If you can read Japanese and want to own a weird ass series, go for it. There is so little info for this series, here is some archived link

http://archive.thegia.com/dc/eldorado/eldorado.html

Might be 15 - 20 hours total for all the games combined

[Anonymous No.4657668]

I have a GDEMU and its fucking great. Waiting on a Akura hdmi box to show up in the mail soon. Going to try for a Pheobe for saturn.

[Anonymous No.4657681]

>>4652623
dreampsu is absolute garbage!
instead of a simple cord for power, now you have a bulky brick power box.
because mah space inside the dreamcast for the psu!
so what was the advantage then?

[Anonymous No.4657685]

>>4657668
I just ordered the usb-gdrom controller board. Waiting for a chance for the phoebe too
>>4657681
>Less heat inside the DC.
>Cheap PSU replacement in case the powerbrick dies
>can use the DC in the US and EU with the correct powerbrick

[Anonymous No.4657712]

>>4657685
Nice. Ive had the gdemu for a while now. The usb board looks nice. I like the idea of having all the games on 1 hdd/ssd conpared to 6 sd cards. I could just get one giant sd card but these were cheaper at the time.

I also ordered some 3d printed fan housing of ebay. It lets you fit a small noctua fan in place of the loud stock dreamcast fan. Waiting to install it as soon as my new system clock battery holder comes in. So i can do both at once.

[Anonymous No.4657860]

>>4657618
You’re right about El Dorado Gate. One of the better hackers out there now took a crack at it and he couldn’t get it working either. Capcom tried a ton of different methods of copy protection over the course of the Dreamcast’s life. It’s odd that they didn’t apply the one in El Dorado Gate to everything since it worked so well.

[Anonymous No.4657997]

>>4657681

When you replace the drive with a drive emulator the power supply runs too hot. Without a load to the drive it outputs 14v constantly. You can remove the 12v rail which pretty much fixes it, but it still gets hotter than it should. The picopsu/dreampsu solves the problem. You can get 3d printed power ports so you don't have to drill holes in your console.

[Anonymous No.4658012]

>>4657712
>I also ordered some 3d printed fan housing of ebay. It lets you fit a small noctua fan in place of the loud stock dreamcast fan. Waiting to install it as soon as my new system clock battery holder comes in. So i can do both at once.

I have those 3d printed fan kits as well as the 3d printed surround for the optical bay, they really make it look clean and quiet down the fan.

[Anonymous No.4658017]

>>4657997
Having to use a wall-wart is still a dealbreaker.

[Anonymous No.4658028]

>>4654049
Just use the tools and saves over at blue swirl to load them on.
>>4654076
Dream explorer is the vmu manager.

[Anonymous No.4658042]

>>4657021
Nah, it's okayish. The main issues I have with it are the long loading times and the sleep-inducing music (it's not bad, but it makes the game feels even slower than it already is).

In multiplayer modes, make sure all players have a VMU so only them can see their stack of cards. It's an interesting gameplay idea.

[Anonymous No.4658068]

I'm sad no one ever translated the create a character board game in Project Justice. I always wanted to make a character but I never had any idea what I was doing.

[Anonymous No.4658174]

I don't understand anything you guys are talking about itt. I'm a total tech brainlet. Cam you not just pic up a DC anymore and just buy games and play it like a n64? Whats all this extra stuff for?

[Anonymous No.4658192]

>>4657860
Which really sucks because this series, even if it is only a 15-20 hour RPG, is pretty much lost to anyone who can't read Japanese and doesn't want to shell out $200-$300 for the 7 disc set. Maybe one day Capcom will re-release it but it's likely never going to be played again because of the copy protection.

>>4658174
Every dreamcast system out there is at least 17-20 years old and their drives are failing. N64 is cart based and has no moving parts so those systems could probably last for decades just like the NES and SNES have. At this point, any CD-based retro system needs to have some form of emulation that works well because they will 99% all be dead over the next 10-20 years. A workaround is to get the system to read roms from a SD card instead of CDs which lowers the amount of moving parts.

[Anonymous No.4658193]

Currently working on IDE mod for the DC. got a Free flowing ribbon, gonna try to hollow out the modem to make the 80gb HDD Fit.

[Anonymous No.4658204]

>>4658174
You can. Even better you can just burn games to CD-Rs and play them in an unmodified console, which you obviously can't do with an N64.
The extra stuff not necessary. The drive-replacement stuff is for people who want to load games without burning discs, so it's like the equivalent of an EverDrive for CD-based systems.
DreamPi is for connecting to the internet without needing to have real dialup service at your house.
The PSU thing is stupid, just another mod for people who have already modded their DC so much that the original power supply isn't suitable anymore.
The VGA mod is just because the highest quality video signal the console produces is VGA, but the cable that uses it is expensive. It's simpler than the RGB mods people do on other consoles, more like just adding standard video ports to your consoles so that you don't have to use the special A/V port cables most had.

>>4658192
>their drives are failing
Some are, some drives failed 15 years ago. Most are still fine, this is not as much of a problem as some people who bought a gdemu seem to insist it is.

[Anonymous No.4658207]

>>4658193
Without the modem how will you dreampi? Come on man. If you are only going to put in 80GB drive, you might as well just use a 64GB or 128GB Compact Flash card which is tiny and uses hardly any power compared to a spinning drive.

[Anonymous No.4658209]

>>4653349
I have had my dreamcast for 19 years.

[Anonymous No.4658213]

>>4658192
>>4658204
Thank you for the very quality replies. I'm actually learning stuff I care about. On 4chan of all places. I just really want to play old horror gems on dc like D2, shadowman or carrier.

[Anonymous No.4658215]

>>4658209
People who say "oh DC reliability is terrible" are just people who have owned one, maybe two consoles and are judging the rest of the population by the tiny sample they have experienced. It's an understandable bias, but people who have never owned one should be aware that it is a bias and be careful to experiment and form their own conclusions. Anecdotes don't make good evidence since your dreamcast is not my dreamcast, and neither one is going to be Anon's dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.4658226]

>>4653349
This is bullshit. The Dreamcast is well known to be one of the sturdiest consoles ever made. Like any disc-based console there are potential issues with faulty lasers and the like, but by and large the thing is a fucking tank. There's a video on YouTube of guys doing stress tests on all sorts of consoles, and even after being dropped, hit, and having fucking soda poured on it, and it still worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA_uS4nMvtA

[Anonymous No.4658229]

>>4658207
Well i considered that i could just do an ide to CF converter...i went with the cheaper option though lol.

[Anonymous No.4658231]

>>4658209
better lube up those tracks for the laser..

[Anonymous No.4658234]

>>4658226
>Like any disc-based console there are potential issues with faulty lasers and the like, but by and large the thing is a fucking tank.
It's like pretty much any other mechanical device. Some are lemons and some aren't. They are more likely to fail in the first 5 years than in the second 5 years. Any machine that has worked for a long time without any problems is more reliable than a brand new machine, because you never know if the new one will break down tomorrow. Some Dreamcasts surely had problems and stopped working long ago, some recently. But most of the ones that are still alive are clearly "good eggs" that lasted this long. We'd need a lot of data to produce a failure-rate curve that we can extrapolate into the future, but it's safe to say that at least some DCs will keep working for many more years to come.

[Anonymous No.4658235]

>>4658207
Well i do have 4 dreamcasts. so i feel i could afford to hollow one out.

[Anonymous No.4658237]

>>4658229
CF is literally a subset of IDE. Plus it would be dramatically easier to remove the card and load it with different games when you tire of the 100 or so that you will have on the drive.

[Anonymous No.4658245]

>>4658237
Well i do have the enclosure. but ill consider it for my other mod. im just gonna see how this works. got any resources on CF?

[Anonymous No.4658252]

>>4658245
Nothing specific that I would swear by, but CF->IDE is a very common mod that people use in all kinds of devices. Just googling "CF" and "IDE" together will show how popular it is.
What do you mean by enclosure though? If you are putting the drive inside the dreamcast, why do you need an enclosure?

[Anonymous No.4658257]

Oh. I see, he mentioned the enclosure because he can use it to load different games onto the hard drive.

[Anonymous No.4658267]

What is the easier way to repack a game in CDI after extracting it? I'm trying to translate/change some games, but now I don't know how to build the game image to run it and test

[Anonymous No.4658269]

>>4658252
Yeah just did some googlefu, shits popular as fuck. might get like a 32 or something a dick around with a few games.

[Anonymous No.4658274]

>>4658017

It's not a wall wart, it's a power brick in the middle of the line like the ones on laptops. It plugs into a single outlet.

[Anonymous No.4658284]

>>4658274
Makes no difference. You are still increasing the volume of the console by 50% for no good reason. I love that the Dreamcast is essentially portable. It's already a very compact console, and the fact that it uses only a simple power cord makes it even better.

I know that the replacement PSU is better with certain mods, but if it were me I would consider modifying the original PSU instead. If leaving the 12V line unloaded causes it to overheat, maybe you could just put a large resistor across it (or something, I dunno, that's probably so simple that everyone would do it if it worked).

[Anonymous No.4658580]

>>4657712
That’s why I ordered the usb-Gdrom. I’ve lots of empty HDDs here.

Heh. Same here. Got the 3D printed parts and the new fan from eBay lying here. Just waiting for my battery adapter to arrive.

[Anonymous No.4658584]

>>4658274
>>4658284
One should be able to fit everything inside the console again, I think.

[Anonymous No.4658595]

>>4658012
as well as the 3d printed surround for the optical bay
I should grab me one of those. They look nice.
>>4658580
Ha. I ended up chosing black. Didnt want it to be seen from the fan vent. Wondering if i should of chosen white instead. Yeah my battery adapters i ordered from ebay were given a time frame of 1.5 months to get here.

[Anonymous No.4658604]

>>4658595
I’ll get the 3D printed parts for the drive bay later this week I think. There is no hurry, as the Usb-gdrom will take a few weeks/months to arrive anyway. I haven’t paid yet either. I wonder when I’ll get the PayPal invoice.
>Ha. I ended up chosing black. Didnt want it to be seen from the fan vent. Wondering if i should of chosen white instead. Yeah my battery adapters i ordered from ebay were given a time frame of 1.5 months to get here.
I chose the white version. If it’s visible it’s no problem, as the DCs back usually isn’t visible.

[Anonymous No.4658617]

>>4658284
I have the USB-GDROM and when I installed it I ran a resistor from the 12v line to one of the grounds. It was a simple and quick fix and while the console still gets a little warmer than I remember, it doesn't build up more an more heat like it would without.

[Anonymous No.4658717]

I’d there a step-by-step guide for building a pico-psu? The guide from mmmonkey doesn’t cut it for me.

[Anonymous No.4659184]

>>4658584
Oh, if the DreamPSU is actually meant to fit inside the console, then I retract my complaints.

[Anonymous No.4659591]

>>4658604
>as the DCs back usually isn’t visible.
Sorry i was talking about the 3d print fan housing.

[Anonymous No.4659793]

>>4659184
The DreamPSU itself, yes, it fits inside the console. The power brick though, usually sits outside of the console. Like it was with the ps2 slim.
What I meant was, that there should be a way to stuff everything back into the DC casing. (But nobody does because it requires work..?) There are power bricks available that should fit inside. I have a few lying around here, from my laptops.

[Anonymous No.4659795]

>>4659591
This thing? Won’t the case go over it?

[Anonymous No.4660013]

>>4659795
Yeah it does. Just didnt want to see any color through the vents

[comradesnarky No.4661535]

Hey guys, I don’t want to be a tripfag but I’ll namefag for the purpose of this thread. I’m going to start working on some Dreamcast stuff again. I want to put some kind of database on my website for games that I’ve ripped that includes the NFO files at the bare minimum. I don’t want to actually link the files because I’m just using Neocities for that sweet Web 1.0 hosting. Right now it seems just sort of a list of games and the NFOs, what other info would be helpful? Keep in mind that I just do all of my HTML by hand so I’m not looking to have an individual page for each game or anything.

[Anonymous No.4661583]

>>4661535
docs DOT google DOT com SLASH spreadsheets/d/1cjxt5ih2gEuh2wE99wx6_5tMboFbre00L4r-5hFZRRg/pubhtml

[Anonymous No.4661591]

>>4661535
What is the point of having a page that is just a list of games that have been ripped? Like what would anyone do with that?
Or do you just want to keep a record of what you have done?

[comradesnarky No.4661631]

>>4661591
Well that’s what I’m asking for some guidance on. I’d like to put together some kind of a useful resource but I’m not sure what else would be beneficial to people.

[Anonymous No.4661994]

>>4661631
Hasnt ever game already been ripped though? Aside feom that newly found shitty """demo""" that isnt worth anyones time?

[comradesnarky No.4662075]

>>4661994
Ripped poorly, yes. My goal has always been to make NoBS-DC a mostly complete set of rips. One consistent set that you know what has been done with each game. I took a longer break than I planned on and I’m picking it back up again.

[Anonymous No.4662080]

>>4662075
My gta2 rip had no menu music. Not sure how that's possible.

[comradesnarky No.4662096]

>>4662080
I didn’t think that game had any menu music? I ripped that for ReviveDC and nothing needed to be ripped or changed to fit it to disc. It was early enough that there wasn’t any protection at all. Can you try to find a YouTube video or something being run off an original disc of it and see if it has any?

[Anonymous No.4662161]

so i got a vga modded ntsc dreamcast this week, installed a USB GDrom in it, a pal psu (uk here) and it came with a hdmi converter. I'm awaiting a fan mod, a lid for the usb gd rom and an akura, even treated myself to a backlit rechargeable VMU unit.

One issue im having is the screen is off centre in both vga and hdmi? It's a small hd television with VGA i bought recently just for older systems. Is this a common thing? The main menu of the usb gdrom appears to be fine, but games are off centre and i need to adjust the picture manually to centre it.

Think it's the tv? not tried it on my 55'' but may have to now.

[Anonymous No.4662457]

>>4658068
Someone, pretty please?

[Anonymous No.4662598]

>>4662161
Try turning the tv off then back on after everything is set up. My vga/hdmi upscaler has an auto button which centers the image so i dont have that issue.
>vga modded console
>akura
Why even bother with the vga modded console when you have an akura on the way?

[Anonymous No.4662621]

>>4661535
Excited to have you back. I would be most interested in the behind the scenes process of creating these releases, mostly the technical.
As for the website, a scalable vector of your logo would be cool for future use.

>>4662457
The english hack was put together by yzb? I get the feeling applying a translation might be more involved than usual.
What other dreamcast games have received an english translation? Nanatsu no Hikan is the most recent beung worked on iirc.

[Anonymous No.4662642]

>>4662621
I'm translating Nanatsu no Hikan myself anon, but I don't know how to repack the game image to see if anything is wrong/out of place

[comradesnarky No.4662651]

>>4662621
I've actually been keeping a notepad full of details for hacks on games, so that's something I could add to my site too.

>>4662642
Yo. Get in touch. I think the only email I have now that doesn't have my actual name in it is [e-mail] I can at least put together some kind of selfboot pack for you that will work for that game well.

[Anonymous No.4662657]

>>4662598
i'll be honest, i bought the console before i found out about akura, that's the only reason

[Anonymous No.4662660]

>>4662651
I'm glad for your help, but you've said "that will work for that game well", this task is different from game to game?

[comradesnarky No.4662675]

>>4662660
Mainly I mean getting it set up for you as far as sort file, any needed downsampling and whatnot so you can basically have a preconfigured pack where you can change anything you need to then run a batch script to build a new image. Also, are you working off of a GDI of the game or another rip? I don't seem to have a GDI of this game.

[Anonymous No.4662682]

>>4662675
Got it. I'm using the CDI version of the game. Mail sent btw

[Anonymous No.4662690]

>>4662642
Are you part of the Aria/MrNobody team? If you need a script editor for English, feel free to ask for one. I won't personally have time to boot a dreamcast game any time soon, but I'm very excited to see it come to fruition.

[Anonymous No.4662701]

>>4662690
Nope, I'm doing this translation by myself. I accept any help I could get, if you could upload the editor here this would be great anon

[Anonymous No.4662753]

>>4662701
Sorry, I meant an editor as in the role held by a person. It would be a shame to do all that work only to end up with unnecessary typos and engrish.
If you have not seen the work done by the other team yet, check them out. They have gone to the length of decompiling the game and recompiling with an english script, and are about 40% done. You might get some ideas.

[Anonymous No.4662758]

>>4662753
I'll, thx for the suggestion anon

[Anonymous No.4662813]

>>4662657
Ah that sucks. Oh well, enjoy it. My Akura should be here in a week or so.

[Anonymous No.4663009]

Why does Rainbow Six not have the typical "Sega Dreamcast" on the left side of the case like all the other white case games? Anyone else find that odd?

[Anonymous No.4663112]

>>4662813
cheers man you too!

[Anonymous No.4663619]

>>4662657
>>4662813
I have an Akura. It doesn't fit the DC video out well at all. Feels like it's bending hell out of the pins. Makes a very bad connection. I have 4 TVs and it only works on 2 of them. I went back to my official RGB scart and have returned to watching for an official VGA box.

[Anonymous No.4663806]

>>4663619
>Feels like it's bending hell out of the pins. Makes a very bad connection.
More of that famous Behar Bros. "quality" I've heard so much about.

[Anonymous No.4663909]

>>4652647
I was under the impression that 0 and 1 models read burns, not 2

[Anonymous No.4663912]

>>4663909
You are correct. The image is supposed to show "this kind works, that kind doesn't" not "both of these kinds work." The person who posted it just explained it wrong.

[Anonymous No.4663938]

>>4652885
how many different dc-dumping projects are there?

[Anonymous No.4664063]

>>4663938
Not enough

[Anonymous No.4664639]

>>4663619
>bending the hell out of the pins
Like too tight of a fit? How does it only work on 2 of them? I dont get that. Do your tvs support 480p over hdmi?

[Anonymous No.4664679]

>>4663912
Speaking of the 0/1 NTSCs - what exactly makes them able to read burns? Is it the boards used in those models specifically? I’m just getting into cleaning and stuff

[Anonymous No.4664991]

>>4664679
Correct. The boards/gd-drive themselves don't have any copy protection on them. Which means that when you put in a cd it will just load whatever files are on it. Be it music or game files.

[Anonymous No.4665163]

>>4664991
Fuck, can we stop saying there was no copy protection on the Dreamcast already? There was. It was cracked. It doesn’t just load whatever you give it.

[Anonymous No.4665179]

>>4652623
Because many of us have been burning discs for nearly two decades. Others have been using other cheap options that have less compatibility but more features. And no one is interested in making a cheap ODE for an underage too retarded to figure out how to burn discs. If you want something a Russian enthusiast made because you're too stupid/lazy/autistic to just burn a disc pay the stupid/lazy/autistic tax.

[Anonymous No.4665182]

>>4665179
Who and what the fuck are you talking about

[Anonymous No.4665238]

>>4665182
>“Why isnt there a cheap ODDE?”

[Anonymous No.4665295]

>>4665238
Wanting an odde has nothing to do with not wanting/knowing to burn discs. Having every US game on 5 sd cards compared to 240 discs is alot more convenient. Not to mention the space.

[Anonymous No.4665564]

>>4665182
I'm talking about a little tard being assmad because he's too poor to afford an ODE.

[Anonymous No.4665773]

>>4665179
>being this assblasted about nothing

[Anonymous No.4665781]

>>4665564
Unitonically neck yourself for getting this triggered.

[Anonymous No.4665794]

>>4665564
>I'm talking about a little tard being assmad because he's too poor to afford an ODE.
Because 20-30 blank dvd/cdr still cost less then some meme disc drive emulator.

[Anonymous No.4666346]

>>4665794
Depends what your time is worth to you.

[Anonymous No.4666356]

>>4666346
I kind of enjoy the ritual of preparing a disc and labeling it. I'd still like to get some alternative when I feel like spending the money though.

[Anonymous No.4666549]

Anyone know the value of this?

[Anonymous No.4666552]

>>4666549

[Anonymous No.4666682]

>>4666356
I do too! Unless I’m burning trough a bunch of CDs because the game won’t play.

[Anonymous No.4666837]

>>4666549

Hello Kitty model with hello kitty decal scrubbed off... probably not worth as much as one someone hadn't ruined. Even if you're not a hello kitty fan, why destroy the thing that made the console version unique?

[Anonymous No.4666881]

Why are people trying to emulate the GD Rom when you can just burn the games to a CD?

[Anonymous No.4667030]

>>4666881
All games on one hard drive > games scattered on random cdrs from various quality rips.

GD rom emulators play GDI not some shitty patched together CDI missing audio tracks and various features.

[Anonymous No.4667039]

>>4665773
>>4665781
Irony: The Post

[Anonymous No.4667108]

>>4656707
This was sooooo much fun online.

MY only complaint was how much text was on the screen at once. I wish I could go back in time when everyone was playing this.

[Anonymous No.4667114]

>>4658209
I gave my brother my original. I was a shitty 16 year old who tried unlocked car doors while walking down the street. This one car had a backpack in the back. Took it around 10pm at night in Tucson AZ. Rode my bike down the street and opened the back, nearly shit myself. Don't think I would have experienced it without coming upon it. I felt guilty, but elated at the same time.

Bought another and left it behind the backseat of my truck too long and the cold weather killed it.

Bought another online. Rekindled my love for the system. Best controller ever designed.

[Anonymous No.4667127]

>>4666837
Hello kitty models were pink and green where they not? This is yellow. Its also a NTSC model if that helps.

[Anonymous No.4667142]

>>4667127
Could be a faded pink

[Anonymous No.4667147]

>>4667142
I'll post up some more photos after i get home from work. Picked it up off craigslist for 50 bucks with 2 controllers, vmu and some bad sports games. Figured it was one of those official sega shells they sold for a while but can't find much information about those.

[Anonymous No.4667149]

>>4667114
YOUR A SINNER AND I HOPE YOU BRUN IN HELL

[Anonymous No.4667163]

>>4667114
>stole a DC from a little kid with cancer, just wanting to play some jet set radio.
You were not acting like the person Mr. Rogers knew you could be.

[Anonymous No.4667192]

>>4667127

It looks just like a yellowed pink hello kitty. If you look in the center of the door in that photo you can just make out the hk logo. Maybe you bought a region modded jap console or a recased us one.

[Anonymous No.4667314]

>>4667192
Bottom label says ntsc and all the usual things like my other dreamcasts have. Ill look closer at where the HK logo would be when i get home.

[Anonymous No.4667318]

>>4666837
>Why destroy the thing
Not me. Bought it this way.

[Anonymous No.4667390]

>>4666346
Your time must be worth nothing if you have nothing else to do except sit there and watch a disc burn. Confirmed it's worthless because if it takes more than a couple minutes for the biggest game your a "burn at the slowest speed" tard. Must be even more wortless since your an underage bandwagoner who didn't burn everything years ago.

[Anonymous No.4667972]

>>4667142
>Could be a faded pink
>>4667192
>It looks just like a yellowed pink hello kitty.
1/4

[Anonymous No.4667976]

>>4667972
2/4

[Anonymous No.4667979]

>>4658204
is there anything wrong with just using a vga cable that the dreamcast can use vs the mod?

[Anonymous No.4667981]

>>4667976
3/4

[Anonymous No.4667987]

>>4667981
4/4. Googled a couple faded pinks but none look like this. Not this uniform.
>>4667979
No. Some of those cheap cables can be crap though. I ended up with a decent one but it varies.

[Anonymous No.4667993]

>>4667987
Oh good, I just had some arrive in the mail and I have it hooked up to an old crt monitor now. Going to mess around with dreamshell a bit to see how that goes.

[Anonymous No.4667997]

>>4667993
Granted most people who do vga mods add a toggle switch fir games that dont offer vga support or need to be tricked into it. The cable doesnt offer that but there is ways around it. And of course theres a few games that cannot be played in vga no matter what.

[Anonymous No.4668007]

internal VGA mod is absolute pointless and waste of time

[Anonymous No.4668250]

>>4667979
Not at all, like I said the only reason for it is that the Dreamcast VGA cable is expensive. If you are the kind of person who solders and has connectors and a dremel tool lying around, you can mod VGA yourself and avoid the cost. If buying all that stuff would cost you more than $50 anyway, just use the cable.

[Anonymous No.4668254]

>>4668007
It saves time if you have all the parts and tools to do it on hand. There's no other advantage, it's otherwise exactly the same functionality as the cables.

[Anonymous No.4668274]

>>4667390
>implying
>everyone who has another opinion is underage

[Anonymous No.4668343]

>>4667987
This is the official Sega case that were sold long ago. There was, if I recall, clear yellow, clear blue, clear black, and clear. I own the clear case. Mine yellowed years ago but retrobright reversed that. Good fine, they're pretty expensive.

[Anonymous No.4668371]

>>4667192
>>4667314
>>4667987
My money is on recased. While I can't find it right now I know I've seen that color of dreamcast shell available on ebay before. And while it is a nicer one with the logos and everything I'm pretty sure there was never an official console in that color. There were controllers made in translucent yellow though. Maybe someone modded their console to match their controller.

[Anonymous No.4668929]

>>4667987
this >>4668343

>>4668371
>never an offical console in that color
Correct. But sega did make offical shells in different colors as the other anon pointed out.

[Anonymous No.4669527]

>>4668929
Yeah. I should have updated the thread before posting. But oh well you learn something new everyday. I need to see if they made a clear blue that matches my millennium 2000 controller.

[Anonymous No.4669532]

>>4667997
wat way around that

[Anonymous No.4669554]

>>4669527
They had a clear blue. Not sure if it matches the shade of blue on the Millennium controller though. And good luck. They are incredibly rare, and expensive when you find them.
>>4669532
Google

[Anonymous No.4669590]

>>4669554
Eh, we will see. I work full time and make decent money with videogames being one of my main hobbies. It's also the main one I spend money in so I can probably swing it. If it even exists in the right shade.

[Anonymous No.4669914]

>>4669590
The only offical one i see on ebay right now is a yellow one for 500

[Anonymous No.4671585]

>>4669914
>The only offical one i see on ebay right now is a yellow one for 500
How have people on Etsy not just flooded the market with 3D-printed replacements yet? If the things are selling for 500 bucks, there's obviously a much bigger demand than there is supply.

[Anonymous No.4671682]

>>4669914
Yeah. The more I look I get the feeling that my particular color choice isn't really made anywhere. And I'm definitely not going to trust and pay some random person to try and get the color right for a 3rd party one.

>>4671585
Because china had them beat the moment sega stopped producing them. It's not expensive to get a fake shell. Though it does cost as much as a dreamcast does to pay for the goods and shipping.

[Anonymous No.4672087]

>Dreamcast has always been faulty, have to tape lid forward for her to work
>Finally decide to open my baby up, enough is enough
>open her up, find pic
>oh
>spend a minute wondering why

I've heard of people extending the lever in case it becomes weak, but why tape it like this? Dreamcast doesn't need disc switching really.

I removed it after and it worked, but due to her old age, she stopped reading a bootleg half-life dc disc mid game, so she's better but it still pains me to see her fumble

[Anonymous No.4672115]

>>4672087
Thats odd. Not sure but maybe some of the old tricks of getting it to play imports needed a quick disc change. Just a wild guess as im not sure how all that worked.
As for reading the game, the dreamcast i keep and play in the garage usually needs me to give the disc a good spin as it cant get it going on its own. Never had it give up on me mid game though.

[Anonymous No.4672117]

>>4672087
>her

[Anonymous No.4672140]

>>4672117
>his dreamcast is male
Pathetic

[Anonymous No.4672649]

What's my best option for a PAL Dreamcast outputting to a modern TV?

[Anonymous No.4672695]

>>4672649
Do you want quality or something cheap?
Vga to hdmi for quality. If your tv has component inputs, you should still be able to use composite cables.

[Anonymous No.4672713]

>>4672695
I want it to not look like shit. I've 3 HDMI ports and a VGA input, and component. I'm guessing VGA but I read not all games output VGA?

[Anonymous No.4672795]

>>4672713
Then use vga. Especially since your tv has a port for it you wont need to fuck with a converter box. For the few games dont support it just keep a composite or scart cable handy. Look up the non vga list of games online to see if it even affects you.

[Anonymous No.4672983]

>>4652623
>Opensource “iceGDRom”-board still in development.

It's open source, you are free to improve it if you want something better.

[Anonymous No.4673676]

>>4672983
OP never said it wasn’t good enough. This sentence looks just like an info to me.

[Anonymous No.4673693]

>old EU unit finally bites the dust
>few months later, some mates go to Japan
>based bastards bring me back a Jap unit with JoJo Heritage and Crazy Taxi
>hotswap the PSU from the EU after nearly blowing the house up because I wasn't thinking straight

I feel so happy fellas, she's back in my arms.

[Anonymous No.4673752]

>>4672649
>best option
>composite cables

[Anonymous No.4673753]

>>4673752
>>4672695

[Anonymous No.4673863]

>>4673752
>reading comprehension

[Anonymous No.4673898]

>tfw can talk about dreamcast all day long
>general slow as fuck
It hurts bros.

[Anonymous No.4673912]

where my hassy lads at?

[Anonymous No.4674150]

>>4673912
My nigga.

[Anonymous No.4674209]

>>4663009
Bumping for a possible answer.

Bonus points if you know the game underneath.

[Anonymous No.4674214]

>>4674209
This packaging doesn’t look legit.

[Anonymous No.4675058]

>>4674214
Mine or the game in general?

[Anonymous No.4675346]

>>4675058
Yours.

[Anonymous No.4675385]

>>4675346
Thats the US release. They all looked like that.

[Anonymous No.4675446]

>>4675385
Wew, they looked shitty..
>F

[Anonymous No.4675521]

>>4675446
Never seen JP or US cases before? They are just standard jewel cases. Only PAL territories got those funky blue ones.

[Anonymous No.4675675]

>>4675521
>Never seen JP or US cases before? They are just standard jewel cases. Only PAL territories got those funky blue ones.
No I didn’t. Which is quite surprising to me, as I’ve only seen all the cases online. Never saw games in rl before I ordered my DC.

[Anonymous No.4675709]

>>4675675
That's funny. I like the cases because they are easier to replace when damaged and you can buy tons of them brand new for cheap.

[Anonymous No.4675854]

>>4675709
That’s true.

[Anonymous No.4677150]

bumperino

[Anonymous No.4678083]

What's the consensus on Slave Zero

[Anonymous No.4678086]

I don't own any 480p compatible monitors. Anyone know where to find a good RGB SCART cable?

[Anonymous No.4678191]

>>4672795
So I bought the VGA cable. My Samsung TV doesn't want to recognise it. FML.

[Anonymous No.4678202]

>>4678191

My TV is the same way. A lot of LCD TVs don't support resolutions that low over VGA. Feels bad.

[Anonymous No.4678204]

>>4678083

I think it's a pretty cool game, but the controls are odd. It's in a time before controls were standardized and it's pretty strange. IIRC you use the face buttons for movement and the left stick to aim, but there was something else oddd about it. It's got a really cool setting though, pretty neat to feel like a huge mech.

[Anonymous No.4678260]

>>4678191
Sucks. My Polaroid lcd has vga and recognizes it. But it puts into 640x480 instead of 720x480.
Find a vga to hdmi converter box.

[Anonymous No.4678307]

>>4678191
My Samsung T200HD didn't like it either.

[Anonymous No.4678847]

My dreamcast is dead. Should I buy a PAL dreamcast if i'm in PAL region and only playing Japanese region games?

[Anonymous No.4680321]

What sort of monitors do you guys use for your Dreamcast?

Right now I'm just using S-Video on a nice consumer model CRT, but I'd like to do better. I do own a VGA cable, but right now I don't have any VGA monitors. What's the sweet spot in terms of price and quality? I'm not looking for HDMI converters or anything like that, nor am I looking for some studio-quality monitor. Just a sensible solution to make my Dreamcast games look better.

[Anonymous No.4680505]

>>4678847
Buy a pal Dreamcast and use an import enabler. For a japanese console you’d need a voltage converter, or get another PSU for your DC, depending on where you are from.
>>4680321
Using a 70” Sharp Aquos here. Connected via VGA, trough a cheap vga cable.
I think RGB should give you a better picture on your current setup. I’m no expert though.

[Anonymous No.4680769]

Started playing HeadHunter recently.

>part near end of disk 1 where you have to spend 10 minutes defusing bombs
>fuck up once near end, game over, restart
>have to do them ALL again

>get to last bomb again
>game freezes

I dont think I was meant to finish this.

[Anonymous No.4680909]

>>4678202
>>4678307
Some quick Googling brings me to believe the issue is with Samsung TVs in general. I was looking to buy a bigger set anyway.

[Anonymous No.4680942]

so is it possible to watch videos on the dreamcast?

[Anonymous No.4681086]

>>4680942
Yes. Fuzzcast does DcVD releases.

[Anonymous No.4682973]

For those with an Akura, how long did delivery take?