sn8k Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Not every game needs to be english either. House of the dead is 100 bucks in the American version, 20 or 30 in japaneae version or cheaper and the game is in english anyway. Zombie revenge is over a 100 dollars. I paid 30 bucks for a mint japanese copy that plays exactly the same. I just require a gameshark to boot japanese games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydro Thunder Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 I have been getting a bunch of super nicely made repros from a guy who does great work (both in terms of the discs and the packaging). I hope it doesn't ruin my DC (launch console, never failed me up to this point!). Eventually I'd love to get a TO or GDEMU with DCHDMI (something like what Metal Jesus got custom made), but I'm not any good at self modding so it would cost me a pretty penny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0078265317 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 On 12/18/2020 at 9:44 PM, Austin said: It's a TDK, not a "52X". ?♂️ tdk brand 52x speed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightbit Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 (edited) While I do not burn games anymore (my DC is modded with a USB GDROM and an internal 500GB hard drive now) when I did I never had any issue. There was always talk that the GDROM would die if you used backups. I call BS on that. I had three Dreamcasts (all launch units) and used backups for years and years. This one I own included. The GDROM drive was perfectly fine when I removed it too. If you use quality media you will be fine. If you use quality game images (images that are dummied to fill the entire disc you will be fine. The burning speed matters too sometimes. The Echelon rip of "Skies of Arcadia" would glitch if not burned at 4X or lower speed. That may be hard to do nowadays however unless you have an old computer with a burner that supports those slow burning speeds. And Discjuggler was and still is the defacto standard to burn .CDI images. Alcohol 120% can burn them as well...and just as well. Or, if you want to use Nero you can use the command line tool "cdi2nrg" (google it) and then they will be perfectly converted to Nero images to burn using that software. I used to convert them so that I can burn them in Linux (using Nero Linux). Edited January 17, 2021 by eightbit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird98 Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 I would really like something that doesn't involve taking the Dreamcast apart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted February 13, 2021 Share Posted February 13, 2021 On 1/16/2021 at 10:28 PM, eightbit said: While I do not burn games anymore (my DC is modded with a USB GDROM and an internal 500GB hard drive now) when I did I never had any issue. There was always talk that the GDROM would die if you used backups. I call BS on that. I had three Dreamcasts (all launch units) and used backups for years and years. This one I own included. The GDROM drive was perfectly fine when I removed it too. If you use quality media you will be fine. If you use quality game images (images that are dummied to fill the entire disc you will be fine. The burning speed matters too sometimes. The Echelon rip of "Skies of Arcadia" would glitch if not burned at 4X or lower speed. That may be hard to do nowadays however unless you have an old computer with a burner that supports those slow burning speeds. And Discjuggler was and still is the defacto standard to burn .CDI images. Alcohol 120% can burn them as well...and just as well. Or, if you want to use Nero you can use the command line tool "cdi2nrg" (google it) and then they will be perfectly converted to Nero images to burn using that software. I used to convert them so that I can burn them in Linux (using Nero Linux). Same here. Never had an issue with the drive - it still works like new. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn8k Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Original games or nothing for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted April 17, 2021 Share Posted April 17, 2021 On 4/5/2021 at 8:13 AM, sn8k said: Original games or nothing for me. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Whatever floats your boat, man. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 MODE paired with an SSD is the way to go these days. Did it for my Saturn and Dreamcast is up next; Oh so convenient! Now i just need to get off my ass and start selling my hard copies before they start getting disc rot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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