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Hello, so I bought a modded Dreamcast off a friend, it’s got a GDEMU and the DC Digital installed, I have this weird issue with it.

So upon booting the console, it’ll output video just fine, every setting video wise works fine too, but 95% of the time it won’t output any sound and then the GDEMU bugs out and doesn’t play any games, I have to constantly restart the console until it finally gives me sound and THEN the GDEMU will play games no problem!

There is no X’s on the OSD test screen, it’s all love hearts. I’ve tried googling to see if anyone has this problem but sadly not so I haven’t really got much to go off. I have also tried different cables and different TV’s/Monitors and the issue will still persist.

Please if anyone can assist me with this it would be more than appreciated. Thank you 🙏

I got a 5.15b gdemu clone but I've been having trouble getting it to work. I've formatted my card correctly and used gdmenu to load it, but when I start up my dreamcast it skips the intro animation and goes straight to the regular DC menu. My VMU doesn't say openmenu/gdmenu and resetting, reformatting, and plugging my sd directly without the extender hasn't helped. The card is a Samsung EVO Select 512 gb sdxc microsd formatted to fat32 and 32mb allocation. The console is the circled 1 NTSC U model with 3.3V disc drive which stopped working recently.

Has anyone had similar issues? I've been looking all over online and can't really find any examples of this issue and I'm starting to get really frustrated.

I've been wanting to get into Street Fighter and I've heard many fans say that the best ports of the games are on the Dreamcast. Which game is the best and which one is the best one for me to get into the series as a whole?

Has anyone noticed oddities with the Cake BIOS when it comes to compatibility with certain games? I have an NTSC-U Dreamcast modded with the Cake BIOS, and it plays all of my PAL titles fine, but for disc 1 of Skies of Arcadia and NFL Blitz 2000 it won’t boot at all and either black screens or kicks me back out to the system menu. Disc 2 of SoA works, and it and Blitz work fine on my friend’s PAL Dreamcast using a Codebreaker (which won’t work with mine). Also, Shadow Man constantly loops the Sega boot screen if the cable I have is NOT set to VGA mode.

I finally managed to buy myself a dreamcast in 2024. The Dreamcast’s weren't often found in stores where I come from, but I've always been curious about trying one. I found one in the Jap version but living in Italy the energy transformer had already been changed by the previous owner with a 220v one, furthermore it also has the region free modification. Hello to everyone! 🙃

I finally managed to buy myself a dreamcast in 2024. The Dreamcast’s weren't often found in stores where I come from, but I've always been curious about trying one. I found one in the Jap version but living in Italy the energy transformer had already been changed by the previous owner with a 220v one, furthermore it also has the region free modification. Hello to everyone! 🙃

Crave published quite a few titles for Dreamcast and most were super solid to fantastic titles in my opinion.

The Day of the Dead, Halloween, is the perfect opportunity to present and offer to you an early Illbleed Dreamcast prototype, used to promote the game of Shinya Nishigaki and Climax Graphics at E3 2000. This very difficult demo contains many differences.

https://www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/illbleed-dreamcast-e3-prototype-iso-gdi

https://preview.redd.it/jx0np2dur4yd1.jpg?width=6912&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08b802c6b2f56c7ae2c76e0b4dd930814dab9c6f

A good number of people know you can add Heatsinks to a Gdemu as it can get a little bit warm but I haven't heard of anyone adding Heatsinks to their HDMI mods.

To those who know a bit about this stuff, is it do-able, worth the fuss and what Heatsinks would you suggest?

I'm just wondering as newer fans have come out since the Noctua Fan took hold.

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Is there a half decent scart cable that isn't £40? I have had issue with rgc before. Would a crappy one be noticable worse apart from some noise?

Recently got a VA2 Dreamcast for real cheap locally and installed an older bios chip to restore MIL CD support for burns.

The chip is installed correctly and no damage was done to any components but I keep running into problems trying to lose burned discs. They will all get past authentication (Show Licensed by/Produced by SEGA) which indicates to me the mod was successful, but then the screen just stays white indefinitely.

The only burn I've been able to get to work is the Utopia boot disc. Any suggestions on what might be going wrong? Writing ok Verbatim CDRs and on Imgburn with the CDI DLLs.

Is this a good psu replacement for the dreamcast?

Yes, I've searched around and it seems like the 3D printed trays not fitting perfectly flush is a fairly common problem with GDEmu clones, however on mine, I seem to just barely be able to close the disc tray with an SD card inserted, then after opening it up again, I can take the SD card out without having to push it in first (since I assume it's getting pushed by the tray being closed on top of it), and then when I wanna put it back, I need to click it in twice.

Haven't had much time to actually play on it yet, however from what I tried, it does seem to be working fine... just thought I'd check in and ask if this is normal behavior, or if I installed something incorrectly?

I've been playing a bunch of dreamcast games for the first time and just having an absolute blast. Out of all the games I've played so far my favorites are SoulCalibur, Power Stone 1&2, Dead or Alive 2, Hydro Racer, and Cannon Spike.

What other games would you recommend to me?

Hey everyone,

OG Dreamcast owner here. I bought the console to play Shenmue I & II back in the days but quickly became the fan of other games such as Grandia, PSO, Jet Set Radio, Headhunter, RE Code Veronica, Crazy Taxi, REZ, DOA, Sonic Adventure 2 etc. Due to my terribly financial situation, I was stupid enough to sell around 2004.

20 years passed and my thoughts to own a Dreamcast came back when I visited Dobuita Street in Yokosuka, Japan. I popped a can of Shenmue soda and that was it, literally.

I also would like my daughter to play with my favourite games in a few years.

I recently joined this group and learned that you can buy and install Gdemu with relative ease. You can then download games for free and add tge ISOs to SD Card. I also learned that when I'll buy ( ill probably ebay it or use CEX in UK) then I'll need to look for a number 1 on the sticker and check for voltage stamp near the CD ROM. I also learned that once you install Gdemu, you will need to adjust certain things to cool the unit down otherwise the overheating might affect other parts.

That's all I learned so far. I feel like my knowledge before buying is far from decent to say the least so asking you the following: is there any step by step buying and installing guide or could you guys help me understand every step before the purchase?

Much appreciated in advance!

Godzilla Generations (1998)

Blue Stinger (1999)

Shadow Man (1999)

Dino Crisis (1999)

Sonic Adventure DLC (1999)

Soul Fighter (1999)

Unreal Tournament (1999)

Zombie Revenge (1999)

Expendable (1999)

Sword of the Berserk Guts Rage (1999)

Death Crimson 2 (1999)

Godzilla Generations: Maximum Impact (1999)

The House of the Dead 2 (1999)

Nanatsu no Hikan: Senritsu no Bishou (2000)

Carrier (2000)

Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm (2000)

D2 (2000)

Vampire Chronicle for Matching Service (2000) Dark Stalkers in NA

Evil Dead: Hail to the King (2000)

Kiss: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child (2000)

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (2000)

Spawn: In the Demon's Hand (2000)

Maken X (2000)

MDK2 (2000)

Nightmare Creatures II (2000)

Omikron: The Nomad Soul (2000)

Quake III Arena (2000)

Rainbow Cotton (2000)

Resident Evil 2 (2000)

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (2000)

Resident Evil Code: Veronica (2000)

The Ring: Terror's Realm (2000)

The Typing of the Dead (2000)

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (2001)

Illbleed (2001)

Record of Lodoss War (2001)

Stupid Invaders (2001)

Sonic Adventure 2 DLC, and Pumpkin Hill Zone (2001)
Get Halloween DLC Here, still working download

Death Crimson OX (2002)

Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles (2002)

Unreleased and Homebrew

2D House of Terror

Half-Life

They Hunger

Paranoia

Crisis Evil 2

Castlevania: Symphony Of Destruction

Alien vs predator aftermath

Revolver

Xeno Crisis

Ghoul Grind: Night of the Necromancer

The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia

Postal

Plus these systems emulated on Dreamcast

Sega Master System Games for Halloween

Sega Genesis Games for Halloween

I've finally decided to mod my Dreamcast with both HDMI and GDEMU. The option I found for purchase is this: Dreamcast HDMI DCHDMI Kit - 8bitmods.

I also came across the Retro GEM Universal HDMI Upscaler Kit - PixelFX Shiny Version, which seems to be from the same manufacturer. However, I haven’t found a site that ships this one to Sweden.

Is there any significant difference between the two?

Just finished modding the dreamcast with the GDEMU unit and played one game to test it, it appered to be working good except for choppy sound, one i restarted it i got this error and it has been like this for the last 30 min. Does anyone know what is wrong and how to fix it?