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dudex77 wrote:Hell SEGA could finally get their crap together and make a HDDVD player with the ability to play dreamcast games. Hell it could combat it's old enemy for a final showdown. Thats what we need, an HDreamcast

sounds awesome dude!

i want one!

(i wouldnt mind a prototype of such a thing either)

my way of getting a hdd on my dreamcast:

BBA + NAS + DC LINUX

works great

i found importplayer light to be the solution and make my pal copies display in 60hz, but the swapping somehow sucks if you have to do it all the time.

i have the following problem:

i have a chipped pal psone and the original sony lcd screen (but american version)

when i run my ntsc copy of metal gear solid everything displays fine.

but when i run any given pal game the screen flickers and you cant see a thing (but its in color)

my question ...

You didn't search very hard.

And for size, I believe 2" maybe 3" I haven't measured it for a while so I forgot, the gd-rom drive without modding its like 2.8"

As for things to add, with the link I gave you on ebay, a wireless controller for ps2 works, so I would say build that inside, and with a ...

4) how about a wireless ethernet bridge? you could connect this to the bba and have a wireless-bba, but it would of course consume more battery power!

PeglegJimmy wrote:I said a portable cd drive, not a slot loader, just the cheap laser from like a cd player for a $1.50

sorry, my fault!

was more wishing than thinking ;-/

PeglegJimmy wrote:I know that you can replace the gd-rom drive with a normal portable cd drive, but then it only reads backups.

you wrote that here: http://benheck.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=19380

and now, you are telling me this:

PeglegJimmy wrote:Ya I'm like 99% sure that that will not work..

what should i believe now?

dudex77 wrote:what the hell kind of drive do you want?

something like this:

http://www.ultradrives.com/images/panasonic_cw8122.JPG

or whatever else you can offer me

i want to have a slot in drive in my dreamcast,

is it by any chance possible to use a slim laptop drive in exchange for the original gd-rom drive? i dont mind if i cant use original gd-roms anymore.
just cd-r's would be fine, if not possible in any other way!

or, apart from a laptop drive, any ...

PeglegJimmy wrote:I've never tryed to do it, but I assume, that you just pop the old drive out and put the new one in. Search Google if that doesn't work.

everything i find is just speculation, it has never been done...

PeglegJimmy wrote:I know that you can replace the gd-rom drive with a normal portable cd drive, but then it only reads backups. I have no idea about a laptop hard drive,

i ALWAYS wanted to do that, is there a proper guide for this?

please, tell me more about it!

thanks in advance!