Posted 24 October 2010 - 04:07 PM
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QUOTE (TmEE @ Oct 24 2010, 01:56 PM)
QUOTE (shana @ Oct 24 2010, 11:03 PM)
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http://www.amazon.com/Europe-Adapter-conve...s/dp/B002TZBW74A superior condom for a superior power type. Suck it Europe. (In other words, power problem solved. Let's get some Dreamcasts.)
What about the 100% difference in voltage?
The DC will make a loud pop sound and you'll notice some magic blue smoke leaving the console with that little adaptor :P
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US$45.12, but you're going to need a PAL TV if you're in the US.
Don't 99.9% of TVs support all systems (NTSC/PAL/SECAM) nowadays? I know my 20+ year old Sony TV does...
From what my friends have told, US sets don't seem like 50Hz, new and old... where as in EU, nearly all TVs support everything imaginable
All I know is I have an RCA tv and when I accidentally put my Xbox in PAL mode, everything was black and white and flickery.
Posted 26 October 2010 - 09:59 AM
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QUOTE (Mad Echidna @ Oct 24 2010, 10:07 PM)
QUOTE (TmEE @ Oct 24 2010, 01:56 PM)
QUOTE (shana @ Oct 24 2010, 11:03 PM)
QUOTE (Tanks @ Oct 23 2010, 05:31 AM)
http://www.amazon.com/Europe-Adapter-conve...s/dp/B002TZBW74A superior condom for a superior power type. Suck it Europe. (In other words, power problem solved. Let's get some Dreamcasts.)
What about the 100% difference in voltage?
The DC will make a loud pop sound and you'll notice some magic blue smoke leaving the console with that little adaptor :P
QUOTE (shana @ Oct 24 2010, 11:03 PM)
QUOTE (Andlabs @ Oct 22 2010, 06:30 AM)
US$45.12, but you're going to need a PAL TV if you're in the US.
Don't 99.9% of TVs support all systems (NTSC/PAL/SECAM) nowadays? I know my 20+ year old Sony TV does...
From what my friends have told, US sets don't seem like 50Hz, new and old... where as in EU, nearly all TVs support everything imaginable
All I know is I have an RCA tv and when I accidentally put my Xbox in PAL mode, everything was black and white and flickery.
The exact same thing happens with my friend's scart connection on his Wii. For some reason his TV at first thinks it's NTSC when it's on 60 Hz, and sometimes take a few minutes to figure out it's PAL. I would SO want one of those modded Dreamcasts if it wasn't for the method and lack of money. I miss my old Dreamcast, brother traded it in years back.
Posted 26 October 2010 - 12:40 PM
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How does the SD card reader work? Does the Dreamcast skip the standard boot sequence when the reader's plugged in, or does it trick the Dreamcast into thinking whatever ISO's on the card is in the disc drive, or is it something else I haven't considered?
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Can you use SDHC with this cable? I'm just drooling at how much I could jam onto a 32GB card. That's awesome.
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That's the other thing. There's gotta be software loaded onto the device to allow that sort of thing, cause if not, the Dreamcast would likely just boot the first game on the card.
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I'm just hoping you don't need a modded DC for this to work.
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http://www.dcemu.co.uk/sd-adapter-for-drea...sed-337873.htmlThat SD adapter is nothing special, it just converts the USB plug into a serial plug (I have that same SD->USB adapter, got it from Nintendo at a local game expo). It comes with a software disc that lets you launch stuff off the SD card.
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Apparently this sort of thing has been around since mid/late 2009. Sounds like China is just trying to rip off someone else's idea for a quick buck. From what I've found through quick searches, the software needed is called Dreamshell. You'd still need to hack the wiring together yourself though.
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Posted 28 October 2010 - 05:29 PM
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Here is the creators website:
http://www.dc-swat.ru/blog/dreamshell/17.htmlAnd here is a page on making USB > Serial:
Clicky
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Posted 28 October 2010 - 06:27 PM
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I'm honestly more interested in the LAN Adapter than the SD card, if it works with PSO and other DC games, I think I might make one.
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Looking for more information about this. I have two not-so-dead Dreamcast lying around, both with a defective GD-R drive.
Could such a product / mod work with those, or is a drive necessary? Are they any other means of loading the software that the GD-R drive (ie. swapping it with some form of internal mass storage)?
Can you run commercial games with it, or is it limited to homebrews?
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Posted 18 April 2011 - 07:58 PM
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From what I understand...
Your disk drive needs to work in order to boot up dreamshell. It can be used to play backups of commercial games, but they need to be converted to work, and some games have issues or do not work. (but from what I have heard, most games do work.)
Also you can now order these on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/SEGA-DreamCast-card-re...=item3f091a705b
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Nice, but not all games are VGA compatible and they seem to have omitted the normal video connector, so you can't get rgb scart on that.
Also, no optical audio out either.
Posted 19 April 2011 - 08:00 AM
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28$, without even the inclusion of a Dreamshell disc or a flash card? Wow.
Anyone has the schematics to build one from a regular USB SD Card reader? I have the same one used for the modification right in front of me, and it cost only 1 to 2 bucks.
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