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I'm tearing my hair out. I bought a DC, bought the LAN adapter. Feken DC doesn't do CDs. Am I doing something wrong. How can you ID a new DC? Can I replace the Bios, there seems to be so much conflicting opinions on all this. I just want to run linux, or netbsd. Why does it need to be so difficult? :( I just bought another DC off Ebay. Yet again it doesn't work with CDRs. :cry: Anyone got one that does? Care to trade? 2 for 1? :)
Meh wrong forum I know. Should have been hardware...
I could make you a modchip to play CDs but then I would have to have access to those particular bootroms.
Feel like desoldering a 44-pin chip and sending me? ;) Or sending a whole Dreamcast? :D
before you go and do anything so drastic
STOP! and THINK for a moment
it could well be your cd writer, lots of cheapo writers dont burn dreamcast cds
do you have one of those crappy ones like lite-on, acer, or anything like that?
or do you have a 'good' cd writer?
Oh yeah, make sure you can actually create a correct Dreamcast CD! Not only the CD-writer may be at fault here ;)
Will it play a music CD?
To test check to see if it will play a music CD-R.
Also, look on the bottom, on the silver sticker, see the box in the bottom right, that has either PAL or NTSC in it, what number is next to it? if it is 0 or 1 then the DC should read CD-R's perfectly, only if it is 2 will it not read CD-R's.
Wait, are you saying a Dreamcast that won't boot CDs won't even play an audio CD-R? If so, I withdraw my offer about a modchip; it would require a lot more effort than I'm prepared to expend...
There is no such thing as a Dreamcast that won't play commercial music CD's. All revisions will play normal CD's but Rev.2 DC's will not play copies/CD-R's of music or games, therefore they're useless for homebrew.
What happens when you try to play an audio CD-R in a rev.2 machine? Does it complain or CDROM just can't read (spinning, seeking etc)?
In any case, offer of modchip hereby rescinded!
Wow loads of replys, and I thought I'd get maybe 1 in three months!
My writer is an LG tri-media DVDR, IE it does DVD RAM as well as the other types. I have a plextor CDR around somewhere, and another DVD-R somewhere.
The CDR audio is a good idea, I never thought of that. Both DCs are type 1's, and PAL. Inside they have the new type large heatsink plate, not the heat pipe thingy.
I tested both with an Audio CDR and they both work. I still don't believe this automatically translates to working audio/data hybrids though.
Unsoldering a 44 way chip is no problem. Can they be reporgrammed? If so got any info?
All the cds I've burned have been the nero images versions of ISOs. So it shouldn't be a problem. Should it?