Are these things worth purchasing? It kinda feels like you're not getting the real deal from a collector side of things but it is still a lot cheaper and easier than acquiring all the physical copies of the games you want
Emulator Consoles
Are these things worth purchasing? It kinda feels like you're not getting the real deal from a collector side of things but it is still a lot cheaper and easier than acquiring all the physical copies of the games you want
Learn the words you want to discuss before posting so I don't have to guess what you mean from your picture.
The one in the pic is a Dreamcast with the Optical Drive replaced with an SD card and GDEMU
This guy is so fricking dumb.
This. Anyone who can't magically divine what words personally mean to some random zoomie is a complete fricktard.
It's not hard if you're over 30 IQ. Very rare for this board, I know.
>It's not hard if you're over 30 IQ.
You can stop posting already, imbecile.
ODEs? Yes they're absolutely worth it if you actually like playing lots of video games
The first thing i do with any console i have is find a way to play pirated roms. game prices are fricking moronic nowadays.
Just buy a Raspberry Pi.
>is this thing which saves me hundreds of dollars for the exact same experience worth purchasing?
>the exact same experience
It really isn't that but it kind of is for most games. I've had audio issues in Jet Set Radio with cutscenes that can go out of sync with the left and right audio channels. It happens when you end a level the exact moment you hit another character and take damage. It happens a lot in the last level, with Goji in the cage, which can ruin the ending cutscene. It's a seek time issue, since GDemus have no seek time limitation and any GDemu below 5.20 has no ability to adjust artificial seek time. Plus the older ones have issues with Skies of Arcadia and CVX, which I know there are fixes for. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more issues, Fur Fighters has frozen on me once or twice. You're also missing the seek noise entirely which is enough to say the experience isn't exactly the same.
You're still saving hundreds of dollars for the exact same experience in the games where it doesn't have any issues. Which is probably the majority of Dreamcast games.
and with the added benefit of running Atomiswave ports! They can run on disc but you get hit with massive lag.
Playing Metal Slug on DC is a real pleasure.
Take every game this device is 100% compatible with. Games with no issues. Now add up the cost of acquiring those games on the used market vs how much this thing costs.
You don't have to own literally every single game. I have nothing against emulation but having access to the entire library of a console for free instantly makes me somewhat less invested in the games I play
ok but we weren't really talking about cost, we were talking about having the exact same experience
Obviously these are cost effective
But they do deliver the exact same experience for hundreds of games.
And it also doesn't offer that for some of them too, that's all I'm saying
Isn't Dreamcast piracy already trivial though
>Now add up the cost of acquiring those games on the used market vs how much this thing costs.
>kills your drive in weeks
no thanks
So ripping out the disk drive entirely is better solution?
the best solution is to have an unmodded one and a modded one
What are some other things you know that are true be ause you read them on the internet.
Not all of us are zoomer idiots who spew non-stop bullshit online, you projecting moron.
I went through 2 Dreamcasts, one with the supposedly specific japanese dye discs before I realized it was killing the lens no matter what.
Looking online showed many others had similar results.
I salvaged one with an optical drive mod and then I bought a 4th at a flea market as a backup that i will never mod unless it's a lens replacement. go frick yourself
I haven't played a retail disc on mine since like 2003/2004
I was just playing on a Fanatec speester 2 force feedback with rumble tracing wheel and pedals on a PS2 slim a little gem called g-surfers
None of you seem to like my retro games hobby I don't visit this board often. Seems more like poorgay emulator crap than actually enjoying retro games and hardware. I have nothing against poorgays and emulators but you are not going to be playing CRT light gun games on them without spending far money money than just getting the original setup
pretty sure the Dreamcast warez had issues because the guys making the images were moving shit around from lazily compressing and editing said images that made the laser have to go back and forth between sectors like crazy. it doesn't have much at all to do with having to read dye vs pressed pits and lands.
fake news.
lrn2dummy
>Emulator Consoles
What did the zoomie mean by this?
NOOOO!!!!! gdemu has 100% compatibility. Dozens of simping children have sworn that is a fact.
>You're also missing the seek noise entirely
You need pic related, the Authentic Sound Perfect Immersive Experience. When connected to a gdemu it simulates the noises of the original drive. V2 (pictured) includes an RTC so it can adjust the sounds to simulate your drive slowly and inevitable dying over time.
is this real?
No.
Yes. Obviously it's a bit of a troll but I actually built it. That's v2, which adds the RTC. It uses an attiny and a PC speaker for 1 bit sound like on a PC. The RTC has an aging array so the device can adjust which noises it plays and how often depending on how old it is. It also plays a short tune the first time it's powered on if the date is 6-Feb.
>The RTC has an aging array so the device can adjust which noises it plays and how often depending on how old it is
Why
Because you can't have the authentic Dreamcast experience without the drive slowing dying and making all kinds of strange noises. It was actually a request from someone on /vr/.
tl;dr
autism/lulz
I believe you and would buy one.
You're one sick puppy. If I ever decide to make some more and sell them I'll be sure to shill them here.
What do you think would be better for such a brilliant invention? Kickstarter or Patreon?
kysagiow
>exact same experience
You're not really playing Dreamcast if the optical drive isn't louder than the game.
Thank god I don’t have nostalgia for annoyances
Just emulate on your PC. If you have a good enough computer you can basically emulate all but the most cutting edge games and a few edge cases. I have never had an issue with just emulating and getting a controller to USB upto my computer. 100% free.
This is hwta most people should do, but emulation does come with issues that playing on real hardware won't present. Having a real console modded to play ISO's or a flashcart gives you the same experience as the real hardware, but with none of the cost of buying the games, so it is the ideal middle ground between emu gays wanting everything free and hardware gays wanting authenticity and hoarding plastic.
I generally just emulate everything 6th gen and older, but PS2 emulation is still fricky. Modding a PS2 to run ISO's from an internal hard drive won't cost hardly anything and gives the same experience as the real DVD's. So you get to play Kuon on rel hardware and not pay $1,000.
Generally no. I have a not huge biut decent collection of PS1/PS2/XBox360 and some older stuff but I will stick to those as examples, I have the consolves and the following peripherals
CRT Light Guns
EyeToy Cams and Games
Kinects adn Games
Dance Mats
Lips Microphones and Games
Rock band games and controllers
Guitar Hero Games and controllers
Racing wheels and race games
etc
So I have 40 PS2 race games and a wheel and pedals for example, or three light guns and 30 titles between the xbox one or 2 or the ps2 singstar microphones and games. So its about the wierd peripherals and the games that go with them. Really the only way you can be sure that stuff will work is the original consoles and in the case of the light guns an original CRT TV. Do I have hundreds of other games like the tomb raiders, silent hills resident evils etc etc yes, sure.
>Just emulate on your PC.
I enjoy my hobby I don't enjoy weeks of fricking around with drivers for hardware that was sold 30 years ago for a console and the last PC driver was for XP and would only work on specific USB controllers 15 years ago. Also get this, I enjoy the experience, I enjoy having the shelves lined with games and choosing one, I like popping the disc in and picking up a dual shock 2. You do your thing I'll do mine.
>game prices are fricking moronic nowadays.
I bought most of mine from charity and thrift shops and the rest from online estate auctions. 200$ still gets you a console controllers and a stack of games for PS2 or XBox360. Its probably the tight time for people to pick up an couple of xbox360s and accessories and games, PS2 is still doable both games and hardware but it is definitely about to jump, the games for the PS1 are through the roof. I only find the odd one in charity shops these days, the consoles and hardware and accessories are still just about affordable.
i guess there's a charm in using the real thing, but i don't see why you wouldn't just emulate on a laptop or something with a controller.
If you want to play ISOs on a dreamcast just get the earlier models, you could literally burn the ISOs onto dvds and play them as normal games
This. I haven't looked at the price of a Dreamcast lately, but assuming they're still less than $100 just buy one and burn a big ass pile of games for it, no hardware mods needed. The only sorta difficult part is sourcing blank discs since they arent as ubiquitous as they were in the 2000s.
I collect consoles, not games.
My Sega Saturn's disc drive was dying on me. It stopped reading the games I had for decades, and it had occasional issues with not loading CD-Rs. Installing an ODE has been the best purchase I've made for it, just barely beating out the all-in-one Pseudo Saturn cart.
Other systems I use ODEs for are the PS2 and the PC Engine CD. Once my Sega CD dies, I'll be getting a mega overdrive pro. My Dreamcast and PS1 are packed away since I prefer emulating those games.
How big of a deal is it to remove the power rail regulator if I use a GDEMU? I don't know how to solder or even what a good solder is to use in the first place.
if you don't know how to solder then don't bother you'll probably mess it up, desoldering really isn't that easy and you risk destroying important parts of the board by using cheap irons that run too hot.
It's not incredibly difficult either but it takes time and effort to get right, also a good iron, flux, and solder, because the best way to desolder something is by adding flux and fresh solder to it first. From the power board you're only removing one screw and desoldering two points, I believe. You could also add resistors to the GDemu to achieve the same effect
https://www.delta-island.com/index.php/en/tutorials/gdemu-power-supply-mod
or to the power supply itself. If you install them at the power supply you don't even need to solder them in, you can twist them up and connect them to the right points with friction on the power supply pins, so that's probably your best bet if you don't want to learn soldering. Pic related. I do not recommend doing it this way, as if it becomes dislodged you could create serious problems. Soldering is best but I'm showing you this so you understand this can be done without soldering, if you're willing to take the risk.
Your Dreamcast is going to run hotter without modification definitely. I don't recommend leaving it that way, it may not be 100% necessary to do but heat is bad for components, could you find anyone that knows how to solder? If not you should learn to do it by practicing on junk first.
I don't know anyone that knows how to solder sadly. I have a pinecil v2 if that helps when they came back on sale, but the solder itself is what I have a hard time figuring out what to get. Some people say get it with lead while others say lead free and it needs to be a certain mm or something. I do thank you for the in depth helpful advice!
>Some people say get it with lead while others say lead free and it needs to be a certain mm or something
I use tin/lead mix solder, alpha fry rosin core, it's great quality, just don't breathe it in or inhale any flakes if you're using those cheapo desoldering pumps because lead can frick you up.
mm doesn't matter so much for the entry level hobbyist, at the end of the day you're melting metal to metal, it's all molten before it hardens, thinner mm can offer more control over how much you flood a joint, or for when you need exact small amounts of solder to not bridge anything. Obviously use thinner mm for smaller joints or joints with less clearance if you don't want to have to clean up excess solder mess because thicker mm like 0.7 - 1.0 can more easily flood or bridge joints. When desoldering the power supply components in the Dreamcast mm isn't really something you need to worry about. If using the desoldering pumps seems a little too complicated, like you don't have enough hands to do it, try using desoldering braid. I've had more luck with the pumps on average though.
cant you just leave the lid open?
I don't understand this product. If you are going to rip a Dreamcast apart, tear out the CD drive, and mod it to this extent....you might as well just emulate the games on a computer. The computer will do it better.
Buy a "Dreamcast to PC" controller adapter if you must use the Dreamcast controller.
>I don't understand this product.
Obviously. Or even how to use a screwdriver apparently.
Mate that’s like saying removing a HDD in a PC is mutilating it
Wtf are you on about, the disc drive is literally just sitting in that console with a plug and all it does is read data off discs
What is the point? Why stop at the disc drive? You might as well rip everything else out and put a micro PC in the Dreamcast case and run an emulator.
Are you ok?
ODEs and flashcarts are the only way to play in this day and age if you absolutely must have the original console.
What a horrible way to ruin a perfectly good Dreamcast
It's just a plastic shell with an SD card now. Why bother
Ah yes, putting a Dreamcast disc into a cd player allows it to play games
Isn't there a more elegant way of doing this without ripping out the disc player?
>how can i plug a device into the disc drive port without unplugging the disc drive
You're asking for too much.
>Isn't there a more elegant way of doing this without ripping out the disc player?
Exactly. Couldn't they have put the SD reader in another spot. I've original Xbox mods that had an SD reader that didn't rip out the disc drive. Unlike This Dreamcast mod which seems barbaric.
Xbox is HUEG, Dreamcast is not hueg. Hueg difference.
The fact that you’re worried about something that simply reads data is concerning
There’s dreamshell of you want
Modding should be as least intrusive as possible. It should be subtle. Not removing half the console. They should have found a way to put in the SD reader while still keeping the disc drive as a secondary option.
It’s literally just a disc drive, that I guarantee you just played burned shit on
You’ll also be happy to know I replaced the shitty fan inside the console and now it runs quiet as opposed to a jet engine
>You’ll also be happy to know I replaced the shitty fan inside the console and now it runs quiet as opposed to a jet engine
Uhh based.
Replacing a fan with a quieter fan is very different compared to ripping out the ENTIRE disc drive.
The design and look of THE WHOLE Dreamcast is based around the disc drive being front and center.
You should be begging Sega to make a Dreamcast mini. Not destroying older (and increasingly rare) Dreamcast consoles.
>destroying
you're an idiot
I don't like it. It removes too much original hardware from the Dreamcast.
This image is very comfy. Something nice about a console that is upgraded and will live for decades to come.
Ugly Amateur looking mod.
At least the Gamecube version actually covers the hole and doesn't leave a huge gap.
Amateurs
The Dreamcast one is actually much better than that because it’s injection moulded, not 3D printed
>ripping it out
Mate it’s literally a plug, you can put it back in without any issue if you want
There are plenty of covers for gdemu mods. There are plenty of people who don't bother with covering the hole left in the GC by removing the drive. Epic irony that your pic is such an ugly amateur looking print.
>There are plenty of covers for gdemu mods.
Irrelevant. OP has none.
>There are plenty of people who don't bother with covering the hole left in the GC by removing the drive.
Cavemen
>Epic irony that your pic is such an ugly amateur looking print.
What color is your Bugatti
>cope
That's ok kiddo. We can't all avoid saying stupid things and embarrassing ourselves.
Should I desolder that 12v power line on the PSU or put resistors on it instead? I read that the power line also acts as a swap between RGB and VGA, so it coyld frick up the image output.
>Should I desolder that 12v power line
yes, unless you don't have the tools
>so it coyld frick up the image output.
I haven't had an issue