How to buy a Dreamcast SD card reader from China

[MAXIMUSpowers]

Possibly an ideal news post or sticky? I found this out through another source and have just bought one.

This is how you buy an SD card reader from China. The total including the middle man services and shipping comes to just under $15. This might seem a little pricey but its worth it considering how rare these items are!



What you need:
- a PayPal account
- $15(can be in your native currency)

What to do:
- go to this URL: http://buyfromtaobao.com/ShoppingCart.aspx
- copy and paste this URL: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=7818275499 into the input field
- pay with PayPal

Explaination:
Basically there is a website called 'Buy from Taobao' that acts as a middle man to get items for you from the Chinese website Taobao. You enter the Item URL that you want and pay for it through them. They obviously add a service charge.

[WhizzBang]

Does anyone here have one of these? Are they any good? What do you use them for?

[wraggster]

bloody hell 15dollars is cheap. soon as i get some cash in my paypal ill buy one

[MAXIMUSpowers]

Yeah quite a few people should have them here. They are used for things like: loading roms off, playing music, saving data... its relatively new so support is only just starting to appear for it. Chui has updated many of his emulators to support the SD card adaptor. Dreamboot is what ud benifit most from. Its an OS for the Dreamcast

[wraggster]

I remember those Dreamcasts modded with an sd adapter and was it a Broadband adapter, i wonder what they fetch in conversion

[Iceman^2]

Thanks for this! I have been wanting one of these for a long time now, and I ordered one as soon as I saw the link.

[JLF65]

I've just ordered one as well. Don't forget that the initial price isn't the final price - you will be charged for Intl. shipping once they receive the product and ship it out to your address; so depending on where you live, it will be another $5 to $10 which will be charged to your PayPal account when they ship it out.

[wraggster]

its times like this that i wish lik sang were still around, you would have paid a lot less i reckon, but still they are decent, no more burning ruddy cds makes up for all that cash spent on the SD adapter

[JLF65]

its times like this that i wish lik sang were still around, you would have paid a lot less i reckon, but still they are decent, no more burning ruddy cds makes up for all that cash spent on the SD adapter

I know what you mean - I burned perhaps 80 CDRs while working on my port of Doom for the DC. Granted CDRs are cheap, but they add up after awhile. The SD adapter will allow me to do my testing off the SD card, and only at the key releases burn a CDR to make sure that is working properly as well.

[wraggster]

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=9661485967 - is this the same only cheaper ?

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=8...&cm_id=&pm_id= - vga box and sd adapter together ?

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=3497818359 - dreamcast with built in sd and vga, says its 350 so how much is that in dollars or pounds