Thunderbird98

I don't know if this counts as a thrift but I think I got a good deal. I won a lot of 2 toaster NESes and games from my local auction. I payed a total of 80 bucks for the lot.

That second one is a really good idea. I will try that.

And then there's this https://gamerant.com/xbox-sega-acquisition-hedgehog/ I think a Microsoft acquisition of Sega is possible, but It might ruin the Sonic series.

Probably.

I know Sega is making an announcement on December 2nd regarding Sonic. I think it might be Sonic Mania 2, Sonic Forces 2, or Sonic Adventure 3. What do you think?

My ZipCD is also a USB burner, but I can't get it to work with ImgBurn. I might eventually look for another one, but this one seems to work fine with Diskjuggler. I would either buy a Dreamcast clone (I don't think they exist) or keep playing off of disks. I like to preserve original hardware and hate to mod a perfectly working system. If my DC laser dies again, I might consider GDemu, but even then I might just get a replacement.

Yes I am. I did try cleaning the cable contact points and got nothing. I'm still going to keep it though.

It is a model 4P, and I have a little backstory on it. I got it from a retired amateur radio operator who used it between 1984 and 1990. It came with a ton of software (this guy seemed to have updated his OS every time a new one came out), and a five-meg disk system hard drive. The hard drive has a key-lock power switch (I don't have the key but the lock is stuck in the ON position.) I don't know if the hard drive works, but I get a screen full of jumbled characters when I try to boot from it. The TRS-80 works though! I made a review on youtube of the TRS-80, you can watch it here:

I will admit that DKC2 does have some frustrating stages, and there are some really annoying gimmicks, but I still prefer it over DKC1. After I completed DKC1, all of a sudden it became too easy. I still get tripped up on many DKC2 stages. That is only my opinion though and I respect everyone's votes.

Hello, here are a few pictures of my retro game collection. I do have a Tandy TRS-80, but I didn't include that. It's not much and I only started collecting in 2017.

I've gone through 2 DCs. The first one was a '99 model and my current one is a '00 model. My current one is pretty shiny, but I got it off of Craigslist so I don't know how it was used. Do you know if burning with diskjuggler is bad for the DC? I would burn with ImgBurn, but my old CD writer isn't supported.

Interesting. I have read that the DC should read at 16X, but when I burn at 16X, my DC wont read it.

Donkey Kong Land is a great portable, I should have added that as an option.

My order of favorites are: 1. DKC2 2. DKC 3. DK64 4. DKC3 I do like Donkey Kong Country Returns a lot as well, so that would go between DKC and DK64.

What is your favorite Donkey Kong Country Game?

I wonder why your DC was able to read at 16X. What software did you use?

Saw several reviews saying that there was a quality difference between CMC and JVC Taiyo Yudens (Taiwan vs Japan.) Didn't hear anything bad about JVC. Didn't want to risk it. I could be totally wrong about that though.

I will also have to try alcohol 120%.

After much research, I decided to go with JVC Taiyo Yuden, not CMC Taiyo Yuden. Apparently Taiyo Yuden stopped making CD-Rs in 2016 and CMC made "with TY technology" Cd-Rs that are actually trash. I went on Ebay and bought an unopened 100 pack of JVC Taiyo Yudens for around 30 dollars. Now about the burning. I needed a slow, old CD writer to burn disks. Although my Taiyo Yudens haven't arrived yet, I tested this out with some cheap CDs. My modern DVD/CD burner only supported burning at speeds greater than 8X. I tried burning games with Imgburn and Diskjuggler at 8X and my Dreamcast wouldn't read them. Then I went to my computer recycling center and picked up a USB Iomega ZipCD 650 (not related to Zip disks, its just an old CD burner.) It supports writing at 2X speed. When I tried burning with Imgburn, I got errors (probably because the ZipCD is so old.) However, when I tried Diskjuggler burning at 2X speed, CD-XA mode, and raw write, the DC was able to play the burned game just fine. It did take around 45 minutes to burn, but it was worth the wait. I will still wait for my Taiyo Yudens to arrive in the mail. So, I might be wrong, but it looks like the best way to burn DC games is on high quality CDs with very low burn speeds. That's just what I have observed.

Probably wasn't the way to go, but you do these kind of things when you're obsessed with old tech. I did get it as a collectible, and I might get an everdrive some day. But hey, you can't argue with Jackie Chan. Thanks for the advice!

Just to clarify, this does work on American O2s, right?

Isn't Gd emu the one where you remove the gd-rom and replace it with a hdd or sd card slot? I don't want to do that. If I had a DC with a dead laser, I might consider that, but not with my good working one. Someone connected a hard drive to the DC's expansion port back in the day, but I can't find much info on how to build one. This is all I could find http://www.fuzzymuzzle.com/Kiyoshi/IDE_HDD.htm I'm looking for something like that.

How much do you want for it?

Is there another way to play games, say, via the serial port? I don't like modding my consoles.

So I got my first DC about a year and a half ago. I wanted to burn games for it, and after much trial and error, I succeeded in making a burned copy of Army Men. However, I think I did it wrong. After about a month, the DC's laser died. I bought another DC earlier this year and haven't used it much because I'm afraid to burn disks. There must be a right way to do it, I just haven't found it out. I think my three mistakes were: 1. I burned it at too fast of a speed. 2. I used Diskjuggler (not Imgburn), and 3. I used cheap disks. I want to know: What are the absolute BEST brand of CD-Rs to buy, and should I use Imgburn, and at what speed should I burn?