EDIT: Mark wants me to let you all know he's very sorry for soldering the fuse in the wrong place and he is flogging himself with a soldering iron 100 times as penance. Thank you to those who spotted it. ---- Thanks for watching! What do you think of our build? Would you change anything? Do we need to get the Terraonion MODE or have we got all bases covered? Let me know your thoughts! Here are the episode links below, and if you enjoyed it why not give Mark a sub, he's just 200 away from the big 10k! ● Episode Links MarkFixesStuff: kzfaq.info Coaster2K items: www.ebay.co.uk/sch/coaster2k/m.html BitFunx Items: bitfunx.aliexpress.com/store/1406602 RMC Patreon: patreon.com/rmcretro Neil - RMC

The Dreamcast is like the one console that is quite far ahead of it's time that it ages pretty well even till today wow.

You guys forgot to cover one little essential mod to the dreamcast and that's the fan replacement with a Noctua NF-A4x10 5V fan as shown on 12:40 . For those who don't know, the original fan on the Dreamcast is very noisy and does little into cooling down the dreamcast, that mod pretty much makes it quiet and cool. There are various sites out there that have kits and it comes to £9 with the 3d printed mounting molds & electrical wires and £54 with the full kit (Noctua fan included).

Just a tip: you can leave the game and go back to the Dreamcast system menu by pushing the four colored buttons and start at the same time. You might have to do it multiple times because in many games it first goes back to the game's main menu.

Given the broadband adapter is way out of most people's reach, the addition of a raspberry pi to support DreamPi would be nice. DreamPi makes the raspberry pi function as a dial up server so the Dreamcast modem can effectively call it up and connect to the internet via the pi's wi-fi. Getting the dreamcast back online and playing Phantasy Star would be a nice lockdown treat.

One problem with blue LEDs is that our peripheral vision is really sensitive to blue. Red isn't noticeable out the corner of your eye but blue stands out a mile and can get a bit annoying.

The Dreamcast is my all time favourite console, it was so ahead of its time no it holds up well on 2021

LED is orange in all regions from factory

If you use the SD card maker software for the gdemu you won't have to wait on every start-up. It creates an index file which would be read when starting the DC and it would directly start on the game list.

Dreamcast is one of my favourite consoles, got it around its launch time,all the love its getting over the years online just shows how great and ahead of its time the console was.good video

Dreamcast is still my favourite console, closely followed by the Saturn

The Dreamcast is so cool. I need to get one soon! Interesting and entertaining video guys! :)

I just love this channel. Great content in exquisite detail.

Great video both! I think the Dreamcast is my favourite ever console, some amazing games and some you mentioned here that I wasn’t aware of. So many great memories, including in about 2003, we had expensive lcd screens at work that could rotate 90degrees. Playing Ikaruga in landscape mode through VGA out was immense. Loved Phantasy star online, going on hours long sessions and getting booted out when someone in the house picked up the phone!

Great video, love to see the support the Dreamcast gets still in 2020, Iv also been working on modding my dreamcast, and covering some video on that, one thing I reccomand is the Brooks controller adapter that includes 200 blocks and wireless controller connectivity, I like to see one of those internally connected, also retro bit are apparently working on a wireless dc controller, enjoyed the video and hope for the best.

This is the α-Dreamcast. Jolly good work lads! Keep the Dream alive.

My old Dreamcast used to have the official Sega millenium crystal yellow top shell but I lost it when I moved... :-(

Well done Mark, and a special mention to the Cameraman.

I'd personally sooner have it hooked up to a CRT, as with pretty much all my consoles, but the rest of it looked fab. Always wanted to have a go on a Dreamcast.

Love my DC, great episode!

I love it when Marks Fixes Stuff.

Over two decades old and is definitely going to go for two more. This thing could out live the rest of it's siblings, if the capasitors and the silicon hold out.

I have a GDEMU clone in one of my Dreamcasts with a 256GB card and 200+ games. It boots instantly because I used a tool called SD CARD MAKER for GDEmu 1.10 by MadSheep. Google it. It makes the experience so much better / easier. Also, if you didn't know, you can press A, B, X, Y and START simultaneously to take you back to the title screen in 95% of games. Do it again to take you back to the GDEMU menu. You don't have to press the 3D printed button in the tray or even be near it. If you used the tool I mentioned above there's zero waiting / loading. Finally, check the Dreamcast Talk forums. In the last week, a bunch of AtomisWave games were ported to the Dreamcast and they are INCREDIBLE. Cheers, guys! ❤️

Excellent video. Absolutely need to get that rechargeable battery installed into mine.

You guys make a good team. Great video. I don’t have a Dreamcast, but if I did I think I would forego the expensive case. All the other mods improve the functionality, the case is just for show.

Pretty common mods, but cool nonetheless. Thanks for including REZ in your footage reel! Cheers guys!

Love your work guys

The fave console i ever had was The Panasonic 3DO FZ1, I bought it new in 1994, Need for speed on that was something that no one had ever seen before. i never forgot my friends face when they saw 3D graphics for the first time. Awesome Memories.

Great vid, I think i'll be doing some of that to my Dreamcast! Have been meaning to do the memory card mod for ages, but it needs a small repair first though as the lid doesn't stay shut. I agree with some other comments here though, as sharp as it looks through HDMI i'd only ever be using mine on a CRT (probably one of my ex-broadcast CRTs, or maybe a normal TV via scart), same as all my other computers/consoles!

Got a terrainion mode in my Japanese Dreamcast with a 500gb HDD, also done the battery mod. Using a beharbros akura for hdmi. The mode works a treat and I get a great picture using the akura

You installed the fuse in the wrong spot. The fuse is labeled 'F1'. You installed the fuse in place of resistor R1.

Mark is nuts 😁👍

nice build!

yes!!! RMC and japanese consoles is just a pure WIN!

Excellent video chaps - I had one back in the day but sold it to a mate to pay off some debts! Was lucky enough to pick up a good example about two years ago now - it too has the battery problem...I'll get around to fixing that one day!

I love the tiny Noctua fan.

The two of you make a good duo 🙂👍

I add my humble vote for the crisp picture.

My Portuguese model had an orange LED. I also had a VGA adapter which made the output super crisp. Good times!

I like crisp and clear, I can never understand fixing a machine or using an emulator for a better image only to the turn on scan line effects etc to make them fuzzy again.

I love the Dreamcast. I've flush mounted one to the side of my MAME arcade machine. Soulcalibur with arcade controls is pretty fun.

another great mod and another one saved from the dump

Gotta love that Noctua fan cooling it. 👍👍👍

This is my kind of collaboration! I've done the rechargeable battery, Pico psu and GDemu in mine so far. A new shell and HDMI out would be nice though.

Why didn't you guys use a terraonion MODE? I'm interested in getting the cable, can you edit video settings with that version as well, or is that only for the built in cable mod.

Great video. Thanks for the book, it's great and arrived very quickly. Will you be writing a volume 2?

The only thinkg the dreamcast needs is wireless controller mod and a broadband adaptor (1gb if possible) clone and were golden.

Not a fan of that hdmi mod seems like the cable is the vastly better option all around, I also would have kept the optical drive but maybe I'm just a pedant and like to have the physical media to hand, I approve of the psu upgrade shame there aren't more kinds for different systems available or maybe there are and I don't know about it yet.

My dream Draemcast build would have gdemu and the optical drive with the option to switch between them. So you can play originals or backups of your originals.

Damn cool case!

Awesome machine, Soul Calibre, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi and Le Mans were awesome. Very under rated console.

To speed up loading with the GDEmu use the SD Card maker for GDEmu. The HDMI mod looks very nice, fake scanlines on a digital display never look right (too dark). I use a cheap VGA cable and a VGA CRT monitor for the DC, it looks beautiful in 640x480p with natural scanlines. Not really a mod, but something to add would be a DreamPi, to get that 33k modem connected to the internet for online play. Thanks for the video Neil & Mark. Long live the Dreamcast.

I’m still glad I bought one on a whim for $20 they’re absolutely epic

Dope, but was always waiting for someone to make a DC that plays DVDs too lol

The amount of LE in HDMI and SD FPGA is probably bigger than in dreamcasts' chip itself :)

"Let's move on swiftly, shall we" hahaaaaaaaaa

Looks like you've got a jedi knight with you today Neil

blue led's make my eyes go weird.. something about the blue affects my eyes.

Very well done! A good base to start from for having a "real" monster Dreamcast. Some additions you might enjoy to reach the "next level": Terraonion MODE in replacement of gdemu, dreampi for connecting it to the internet and enjoy games such PSO or Quake Arena, wifi controller dreamconn for enjoyng games and get rid of cables, lightconn gun for playing best DC shooters on +65 inches oled screens (wifi). It will cost perhaps extra 1000 bucks but will be all worth it!

Nice mods. My PAL model had an orange LED. I swapped it out for the Blue

I've been eyeballing a DCHDMI so i can actually use my dreamcast in my living room. I have a nice RGB CRT downstairs in the basement when i want some classic style play, but sometimes you just want to sit up on the couch with friends and play some Rush 2049

I use RGB or S-Video on a CRT on all my older systems 50 or 60hz, NTSC and PAL not a issue.

i was waiting for them to talk about the fan mod

Sweet. I need all these mods. Especially the GDMU since my disk drive is going out on both my US and Japanese DCs...

A nod to the pair of my favorite youtube presenters.

Always tape the bits around the soldering area. It will save you so much hustle

It's beautiful :')

Great graphics! Consoles really came into their own in the late 90s. Without being too perfect and uninteresting like nowadays.

Completely forgot about the blue startup logo so used to the red one here in Canada

I've never been so jealous in my entire life.

the sd solution is great for most users, though i rather liked the add in card that uses an ide interface, there is also an addin card that has usb

I didn't do the HDMI solution because I dont trust my soldering skills enough for that so I bought a pound HDMI cable. I did do all the others and the fan replacement is very satisfying! Man that old fan was loud! The cd drive was loud as well though.

And I dreamed about Dreamcast 20 years ago...

Great video.Just wondering about the standalone HDMI cable. How does it compare to similar ones by companies like Pound? Ive been looking for an affordable way to hook up my Dreamcast to a reciever without some of the glitchyness that happens with cables by Pound

Great work friends. Might I suggest some clear smoke black controllers to better match the shell? Sorry if it’s been suggested already. I didn’t feel like reading through all the comments to check.

Don't know why my favourite colour Poy-Pull Err-Purple is hardly ever used for an LED Indicator, but Man O Woman once you've seen a neon Purple LED indicator, I swear you too will love it!

Never new that there was a LED there when I had my Dreamcast.

Perhaps consider painting or wrapping the outside of the light pipe in foil then tape, so the LED only lights up the triangle on top and doesn't bleed of of the front? (Personal preference thing). The smoke-clear case for my Dreamcast was a lot cheaper back in the day :)

For anyone playing on a CRT, the DCHDMI makes no sense. For everyone else that wants to play on their 60 inch 4k OLED, you're going to want to look into this! The fan mod should be installed in all Dreamcast's, to be honest. I've heard people say to refurbish the original PSU, instead of putting a pico in, but I haven't really poured over the data. The clone GDEMU is pretty much the only option, as the original creator seems to be missing in action, although being able to support the inventor would be rather nice. Either way, you guys did it! That really is the ULTIMATE DC!

Yeah yeah Dreamcast whatever, where do I get one of those charming Fallout inspired RMC masks? That's adorable!

@ 12:20: That was not the fuse! That was the current limiting resistor for the battery charging (R1). Did Mark wrongly replace that with a fuse? The actual fuse is F1 as seen at 12:14.

Now I need lots of Dream cast stuff🤔

It's a cult console. I personally love it.

The dreamcast was such a fun system.

13:40 I saw a bit of tearing at the top of the screen. Did the original hardware have that present?

Damn, I need to grow a beard just to get the distinguished retro-gentleman look :) More Mark coops! BTW: my RMC 2020 calendar is slowly running out, any chance of 2021 version being on sale soon?

I would never use PCBway myself but FFS, the fact that this company exists and at such a compelling price point is mental. Its'an e'ffin ridiculous time for CREATIVES in this arena.

Another possible alternative for DCHDMI is a VGA cable + VGA box. You can also connect your DC directly to a VGA monitor. If you have an old CRT PC monitor, you can even get crisp video output AND lightgun compatibility.

I had to order a second cable from the original designer when I put my DCHDMI mod. But is worth the price.

One (expensive) mod that might be worth it, if you can find it, is the USB GD-ROM. When you have a large number of games (e.g. the whole library), GDEMU takes a very long time to load the menu (even if you use the Create Menu option in the SD card maker tool). In contrast, USB GD-ROM loads instantly no matter how many games you have. It's also a lot easier to add/remove games on USB: simply copy them directly to the flash drive with the folder structure and name you want. GDEMU essentially requires a separate program to add/remove games.

Great video! Loved every minute of it! This is in my opinion the prettiest Dreamcast ever, especially with that blue led shining through! So what is the difference between the HDMI options and VGA in terms of quality? Did you compare that? Judging by your excitement seeing the HDMI, I suspect you did not. Because the VGA output of the Dreamcast is bloody glorious. Quite funny that the consoles after the dreamcast: ps2, GC and xbox don't have such a good quality video output as the dreamcast. Even the first 360 only had component I think. Even though HDMI should be a little bit better than VGA, I doubt anyone could see any difference. Not sure, but I wonder. And if you use VGA use a good VGA breakoutbox like th Hanzo or something and use a thick VGA cable, not one of those puny thin ones. Wait, this is Mark from Mark fixes stuff? cool! The case is actualy not that expensive compared to other (transparant) cases Ultimate Dreamcast would have: MODE Have the hdmi out be a normal size hdmi out, by fitting that hdmi converter or a cable wrapped inside more software orientated so not really applies to ultimate build, but: Widescreen patches applied to the games that have patches made available. Probably too recent to be added, but as of right now 4 Atomiswave games have been ported! Lastly, that sound it makes when you close the lid on that unmodded DC, do you think that there was some actual engineering going on to make it sound that good? Or is it just a coincidence? Kluunk! brilliant! Should've had Ferrari F355 in the showcase there, that game is so beautiful! Don't feel bad about playing Zero3, it's almost impossible to play fighting games on DC with the standard controller. I cricged when I saw you physically playing with the standard controller, hahaha

Back in the day I worked at a game store and I set up a large format CRT with a DC using the VGA cables and some 3.1 speakers, it was more popular than the PS2 or xbox for in-store play. :D :D

I am assuming that another advantage of the internal HDMI mod is simultaneous use, right? Could one have it plugged into a good old CRT while streaming through an HDMI capture card?

how about a list of where to get parts... I want that case.

I wouldn't call GDEmu epic when much better alternatives like M.O.D.E. and USB-GDROM exist, but awesome build and video nonetheless! On a side note, Atomiswave arcade games are now being converted to the Dreamcast since the hardware is almost identical, I've been uploading videos of these games running on real hardware in case anyone's curious.

Could maybe choose a Terraonion mode if you prefer to use a hardrive or SSD. and also a striker DC controller for more comfortable play

@RMC - The Cave are there any VMU MODS for the Dreamcast... Maybe a Full color screen & an SDCard for the VMU as well to have all of the VMU games portable?

What I'd like in mine (and I am 100% certain this does not exist) is the ability to shift between the original CD's and a SD card solution in my Dreamcast that way the games (the few I own) I collect aren't destined to permanently sit on the shelf.

To fix the 2 minutes loading time because of the big sd card, use the SD Card Maker tool to adjust your games. Check the Menu checkbox in the tool, and save. It will load GDmenu instantly.

The big question I have, has anyone come up with a third-party broadband adapter yet?