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Simply put. I have a Gray Shell with a Black Triangle on it and I'd like to give it more visual cohesion by taking the controller port cover, power/reset buttons from a Black Shell.

How should I go about this if it is doable?

Just as i was about to close, i realize there’s white stuff coming from this (cap?) and also 1 near the ribbon, is this normal?

Hi there! Can someone help me?

I just finished playing shenmue 1 on the dreamcast and I absolutely loved it, so I wanted to give shenmue 2 a try. However, I have had a hard time while trying to get the images files into a cdi.

I "did the homework" and tried to search on the internet, and failed at it... I came across with two versions: the PAL cdi version of the game or the dub version with the xbox dialogues.

I downloaded the PAL-cdi version first and apparently it was bigger than the stardard cd (although it should have worked according to the site) and it overwrote the info on the disc. To my surprise, when I put it in the disc, the disc drive went CRAZY (I got a little scared, to be honest cause it sounded like something was really wrong).

So once I failed trying to play the PAL version, I tried to download the xbox dubbed version. However, it comes in the .cdh extension (and as long as I am concerned, you cannot burn it directly to a standard cd, no?)

I am kind of lost, so if anyone could help me, I would really apreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

A fellow Dreamcast enthusiast

Anybody had any issues with these clones? First time I’ve seen a 5.20 for under $50. Figured it was too good of a price to pass up.

Also, found somebody that has what looks like every US, US Friendly JP releases, homebrew, and Atomiswave games…makes it easier to grab instead of spending all the time finding all the games and spending the time setting up the SD card and everything. Is there anything missing? Obviously I can always add games if there’s anything new or anything they missed.

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I’m hearing impaired and just starting to get into Dreamcast emulation. The only info I can find on any games with subtitles is related to Shenmue. I know back when the Dreamcast was released, captions as an option wasn’t really a thing in gaming, so I kind of doubt there’s any out there but wondering if anyone knows.

Aliexpress has some good sales today. Is the 5.20 gdemu really worth the extra cost? Also is it essential to get a dream psu if you use a gdemu?

Missing the vol3 disc, no clue where vol6 and vol9 went, and these all look too scratched to play... Still, I'm pretty happy to have found these. I'll try to get them resurfaced this weekend.

Hey guys , does anyone know where i can send in my dead optical drive dreamcast to get fully modded ? Gdemu , fan , 12v powersupply changed, battery mod etc etc. Any info would be greatly appreciated

Just found my Dreamcast and games in my parents loft. Needs a bit of cleaning (and I need to test if it still works). Doesn’t have the memory rumble thing that used to go in them though.

What is something like this worth (presuming it still works)?

Was there a change to the mechanics of the game when doing the crazy dash when they re-released this game on the XBLA? I can play the DC version and rip through the game and go for 30-40-50 minutes and get crazy scores and cash, on the 360 version I can’t ever pull off the crazy dash at all basically…

So I know some games were able to be patched to work in 480p while others were not. Is there a way to do that but for 240p? I recently found out about how a small handful of games let you hold Start + L/Z to put them into a 240p mode and looking at my CRT I tended to prefer the 240p image over the 480i. For something like Garou which was 240p on neo geo or even something like CVS2 or Marvel 2 which weren’t 240p would a patch be possible? I’m guessing you’d have to go into the hex code and stuff but I don’t really know how that all works.

What’s your favorite game to play this time of the year?

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

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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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