I don't think I've ever seen one of these taken apart before.

@@Crux161 A feature the stock dreamcast did, had a built in 56k modem that could be swapped for a broadband or LAN adapter (I have no idea what the difference between the two latter are, since both are Ethernet).

@@_MasterLink_ they're probably just different names for the BBA

@@avegee24tv I had to look it up, they are different. Broadband adapter is 10/100, LAN adapter was 10Mbps only. LAN adapter only works with one title and is Japanese only and runs on a Fujitsu chipset, whereas the Broadband adapter runs on a Realtek.

@@_MasterLink_ You serious? With the modem you dial a number, with Ethernet you join the local network...

They were the perfect size for foot rests

@@the_mancavewithjacobon the side or standing up, based on foot height preference

I’m using an Osborne 1 computer from 1984 as a footrest right now and this post is very relatable

Doing God's work.

Yeah, that never happened.

Yes, dd would deffo have been better

What is "DD"? I know about Macrium and Acronis but not that

@@mitlanderson Data destroyer lol. It's a command that comes from UNIX.

​@@RossComputerGuyData duplicator feels more apt nowadays

@@TylerFurrison That's it's other name. It's called data destroyer if you're destroying data or messed something up.

I have a plextor drive on the way to do this as the redump tools spin the drive down which means I can load a good TOC and then read the high density region, so thats my best bet I think.

Having to burn off and send gold masters discs of to Sega was a pain the the ass,

@@johnwells558same with Sony (was it 9 copies?) 😉

@@frioglobal yes matey, it was a pain when the project was finished, had to archive the entire code, graphics and drawings. CD drives wasn’t that fastest back then.

nope. its industry standard for devkits lol, i mean how else are you gonna make sense of all the data that's produced from the cpu executing binaries compiled for it. not only that for rapid prototyping, youre gonna have to have a way to load newly compiled games without manually flashing them onto re-writable flash carts or worse burning a new cd-r every time! (imagine how much would a dev studio be spending in cd-r's if they had to do that!)

its probably not the case for more modern consoles like the xbox series x or ps5 since they can just connect via ethernet and do everything that way.

Out of the dev kits ive owned here are how they worked with or without a pc: The Nintendo NDEV (wii dev kit) needs a pc to even start and loads everything over usb very similar to the dreamcast to a degre. The Nintendo IS-NITRO-EMULATOR does not need a computer to boot and can play GBA games in this mode. To play DS games a computer is required to load a rom file but also needs a ds cart for saves only, this can be a dev cart or a retail cart with a compatible eeprom for the rom The Sony PSP Dev kit does not need a pc to do anything other than debug stuff. you can boot and use the menu as usual and even toss in a retail psp game in the UMD drive. The CD/DVD drive can also be used just fine as long as its a master disc. The SONY PS Vita dev kit does not need a pc to boot or to play games but does need a pc for debug stuff. Retail games could be played. I also had a test kit for ps3 and ps4, both could boot and run but the ps4 could do basically nothing unless it had proper game files for test kits. EDIT: Sony stuff used ethernet or usb for stuff depending on what was happening. PS4 could do menu things and such i just mean "nothing" for playing games unless they were the right package or disc type.

Learned something new

​@@generic6099It could be done since the 8-bit consoles.

What kind of stuff did you make?

@@SonicBoone56 Yh I'd like to know :P

Me neither!

I believe that's how the first games were dumped. Somehow pirates got Katana devkits and would use it to dump roms.

@@BurritoKingdom Would be cool, but too much of a stretch IMO

@@RadikAlice nope. It's a true story. The homebrew group utopia got a Katana dev kit back in 2000.

@@BurritoKingdom Well that explains why they were among the first, if not outright the first to crack a game for the console! Cool!

Dont do this, you’ll end up with alcohol poisoning and I cant in good conscience recommend that!

The hard drive and other components still use 12v which sure will be less than a modern PC but its still enough for most modern supplies to regulate properly

Lol 🌀

Maybe thats a Spiral Magic symbol since its name is Dream Cast as in "cast a spell" on you, to make you dream. 🌟 😅

Make sure to share it around so we can achieve that!

It will certainly not be speaking IDE as that was only used for hard drives, all other PATA drives use ATAPI to tunnel SCSI commands as SCSI supports media like CD drives. But it’s probably deliberately made to not work with conventional IDE controllers so bootleggers couldn’t easily rip and replicate discs.

The good news however is the game files are confirmed to work and its a very early version!

@@NaokisRC what a shame there's a crack on that "GD-R". You did an amazing job!

I just saw your post about someone managing to boot the beta on an emulator! So cool!

Trust me I like Gauntlet Legends/DL, I used to own the original arcade PCB ;)

It just skips to an illegal opcode when i tried

Bad news, I'm afraid. There are quite a few files missing. Though, if you move all the WDL files under the DATA directory at the root of the last MODE1 track, you should at least get it running under the Time Trial mode. Anything with AI characters seems to cause a read error in memory (looks to be a bad or uninitialised pointer). There's a performance graph on the right-hand side that doesn't appear in the PtoPOnline video and seems to be the main difference (except for the missing character models).

Three members of the DC community have gotten in touch and I am actively working with them to get the contents all archived 🙂

Thank you so much for your support!

Send it to someone on KZfaq who repairs game consoles

@@Keepskatin nah. It costs far too much to risk shipping and there’s not a ton in it to fix. It’s not a normal GameCube so part swapping won’t work and it’s a lot of fpga stuff. I hope one day to try with a known good IPL rom but until then it just rots.

I already retrobrighted it once before

Possibly but it wasnt the scope of the video and would require coding to show off breakpoints etc

If you mean the compaq, it was cleaned up by myself. If you mean the katana then yes I think it was not used all that much!

The disc wont read due to the crack. I am getting someone more professional to look into it

Yes ATAPI is tunnelling SCSI over ATA Packets (hence the name ATA Packet Interface), but my comment was that the GD-ROM drive was an IDE/ATAPI standard when most consoles prior and of the time (excluding the OG Xbox) used custom and proprietary interfaces. That and the fact the fact could tie it to the GD-ROM system for the Naomi.

AFAIK there is no CE desktop and CE apps have to be built to run on the SH4 CPU so you can’t just use any ordinary apps

@@NaokisRC do you mean windows ce exe have to be for windows ce and right arch? But idk if desktop is hackble with platform builder and build with desktop environment(this does not come with sega)

This is the second time it’s yellowed. I retrobrighted it back in 2018. But what’s strange is that it’s even yellowed on the inside of the plastic, not just the outside like they usually do.

Absolutely something I want to do, but have a lack of skill!

I didn’t have one to hand and didn’t want to order that in. I had the stuff you see in the video already at the time of recording.

Indeed. But I felt a need to clarify in case people suggested it

Its my own rendition of After Burner 2’s second stage music. I will look to putting it up for listening in future

Sure, but you either need to rewrite the entire source code or had the original and modified it. But time spent vs end product is probably why it hasn’t happened

Probably not a lot. Sega already had enough troubles with cash, getting a DVD license would put costs up, Sony would also have tried to stall production of the Dreamcast and even then the hardware in the DC was just not competitive with the rest of 6th gen consoles as GPU tech was accelerating fast. Sonic adventure 2 battle uses twice the amount of polygons for Sonic’s model on the GameCube compared to the Dreamcast, for example.

Technically not cds, but a halfway in terms of tech, they packed more than 750mb on the disc, and only the first bit of the disk counts as basically a mini cd, with the rest being GD and unreadable by most regular cd drives, without firmware hacks iirc it’s not possible even with compatible drives, but it’s been awhile. All I know is when you burn larger games to cd, you often sacrifice FMVs or music (quality lowered or removed/replaced by the smallest file. Sonic Adventure with every track being Station Square I remember VERY clearly……)

Thank you for letting me know, they should be fixed now

Indeed it is!

It’s not impossible, i just don’t think anyone has tried.

Now I’m tempted. When I got more time and money, I may need to buy a dev kit and/or GD rom drive to try this out with.

You could probably do it just with software - the GD-ROM electrical interface is PATA with a few additions (33.8868MHz clock output, a pre-emphasis enable line for CDDA and a serial transport stream that's basically I2S except the it has LRCLK lined up with first bit of each word rather than one bit cell earlier like Philipps I2S) - the software interface is sort of like ATAPI, but incompatible. Annoyingly, Sega called it "SPI" (for "Sega Packet Interface"), so searching for information on it tends to generate a lot of hits for the other better known "SPI" interface). Try searching for "cdif131e.pdf" - that should turn up the official Sega documentation for the command set.

Yes. Service sticker for Sega Amusements in the UK

Its a custom version of one of the songs from Hang On or Super Hang On I made a few years ago. I cant remember the track name, sorry.

@@NaokisRC Thank you, it’s a pity that you couldn’t remember the name of the song, but I’ll try to look for the original. Thank you very much for the answer.

The software and hardware works on Windows NT 4.0

No need, its all available on github 😅

Sí, lo haría

@@NaokisRC increíble!

It's not emulating anything, it *is* a Dreamcast.

@@NaokisRC Oh.

@@NaokisRC So you can develop dc games?

It was working when i checked before it went live, im sorry if its not worked. I will check this now