If my Dreamcast is modded will it.....

LoyalistRevolt · Post by **LoyalistRevolt** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:50 pm

1. Die faster

2. Disc lens burn out faster

I'm just scared for the future it about a I bought it from this guy and it play Cd's but i would like to know for how long?

jedi knight · Post by **jedi knight** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:03 pm

1. No
2. No
Hope that helps

LoyalistRevolt · Post by **LoyalistRevolt** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:39 pm

jedi knight wrote:1. No
2. No
Hope that helps

THANKS!

11up · Post by **11up** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:05 pm

Your Dreamcast won't burn out anytime soon, like jedi knight said, no matter what mod you do, just be careful modding the disk drive. Things like increasing the lasers strength on the disk drive for instance read CD-RWs will eventually cut the laser's life short. Although it is a handy mod for trial and error burning Home Brew and backups, encase you don't want to waste a ton of CD-Rs trying to burn a CD-R right the first time

. Other than that, have fun modding your Dreamcast.

LoyalistRevolt · Post by **LoyalistRevolt** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:44 am

anyone have a tutorial on how I could make on run cds?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:32 am

If you mean run CD-Rs, like burned games. Google it, things like making copies of games really can't be discussed here, and you can do a simple search and find everything you need.

Or if you meant replacing the GD-ROM with a CD-ROM. What I've heard/read, which isn't much, it's almost a simple replacement. Just put the CD-ROM in there and away you go. It does have the disadvantage of locking you into only using backups from there on.

project_failure · Post by **project_failure** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:40 am

Or if you meant replacing the GD-ROM with a CD-ROM. What I've heard/read, which isn't much, it's almost a simple replacement. Just put the CD-ROM in there and away you go. It does have the disadvantage of locking you into only using backups from there on.

I hope I understand correctly what your saying. I use Backups/copies interchangeably with my originals with no problem. Burning games is simple once you get the hang of it. There are plenty of instructions on google.

-=FamilyGuy=- · Post by **-=FamilyGuy=-** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:44 am

project_failure wrote:
Or if you meant replacing the GD-ROM with a CD-ROM. What I've heard/read, which isn't much, it's almost a simple replacement. Just put the CD-ROM in there and away you go. It does have the disadvantage of locking you into only using backups from there on.
I hope I understand correctly what your saying. I use Backups/copies interchangeably with my originals with no problem. Burning games is simple once you get the hang of it. There are plenty of instructions on google.

I understand what you mean, but sparkfish is right, if you change the LENS assembly for one your took on a cd-rom drive, you won't be ble to play gd-rom games, only backups. This is due to the gd-rom format with pitch written closer and the a-bit-smaller wavelenght needed to read it properly.

Some dvd-drive (plextor or lite-on notably) can actually retreive data from gd-rom using swapping techniques, so thses drives' lens ***might*** allow you to read gd-rom if you're a lil' lucky folk.

The best thing to do to replace a gd drive to be more slim and/or tray/slot would be to take a real drive "structure" and fit a whole gd-rom drive assembly in it. it'd be really hard but it might works pretty damn well if done properly.

Good luck to anyone trying this !

@LoyalistRevolt: If you always play the SOA backup with "nothing ripped" and compressed files to fit the cd, it might damage your cd-lens, because it'd read data each 2 sec for 1 sec. Playing any gd-rom or well-formatted cd-r (most of those avaiable *where you find them on the net* are just ok) is not at problem for your gd-drive.

FG

LoyalistRevolt · Post by **LoyalistRevolt** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:43 pm

FG YOUR BACK!

Grandmasterjimmy · Post by **Grandmasterjimmy** » Tue May 13, 2008 3:29 pm

It doesn't need modded to play CD's. It plays CD-R's right out of the box. It's why the Dreamcast is so popular as you can play copys and homebrew with no mods.

EDIT:

I think I missunderstood now, you meant it played burnt CDs before you got it, or are you saying it plays your normal games now, but your worried about it not working in the future?

I've played burnt disks for about 6 years now and never had a problem.

LoyalistRevolt · Post by **LoyalistRevolt** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:26 pm

Would it be possible to make it run on a dvd lens I want to be able to watch DVD's on it

-=FamilyGuy=- · Post by **-=FamilyGuy=-** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:38 pm

LoyalistRevolt wrote:Would it be possible to make it run on a dvd lens I want to be able to watch DVD's on it

Dvd lens would require too much conversion or work. The EFM patterns of dvd aren't the same as on cds (aka pits on the surface) and i don't htink the protocols are neither. So aÃ¹ big forget it

That AND dc would probably not be fast enough to "stream" the imaes as reading and process mpeg-2 video file on the fly reading the dvd.

BUY a 29.99$ dvd player for movies

and since we're on benheck.com, add a psone screen and a NOAC in it !

Cheers

FG

LoyalistRevolt · Post by **LoyalistRevolt** » Tue May 13, 2008 8:44 pm

The only problem is that My dreamcast is hooked up to a Pc and I'm putting it in an arcade cabinet I thought it would be cool to watch the DVD's in there to. o well you can't have everything

. Also I would like to thank you for the help on my arcade pad...I made some change and the trigger work

Evan3585 · Post by **Evan3585** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:57 pm

Have u been to http://dcemulation.com/ ? best place for emulation info:)

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:08 pm

ah, to run emulators on a dreamcast. I remember those days...
more seriously, though, the last time I ran emulators on my DC, they were pretty slow. NES was kinda buggy if i remember, SNES was pretty slow, and genesis was pretty good as long as you had the right settings, depending on the game. but have fun with it. My friend and I had been planning on overclocking our dreamcasts for better emulation for a while, but we never got around to it. He's got a setup where he installed a parallel cable into his dreamcast controller so he can plug in various controllers he spliced to work with it.