Thunderbird98
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That second one is a really good idea.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Yes I am. I did try cleaning the cable contact points and got nothing. I'm still going to keep it though.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Donkey Kong Land is a great portable, I should have added that as an option.
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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.
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What is your favorite Donkey Kong Country Game?
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I wonder why your DC was able to read at 16X. What software did you use?
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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.
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I will also have to try alcohol 120%.
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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.
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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!
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Just to clarify, this does work on American O2s, right?
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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.htmI'm looking for something like that.
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How much do you want for it?
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Is there another way to play games, say, via the serial port? I don't like modding my consoles.
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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?
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