Even 2gb of storage for the dreamcast would be massive, and 32 gb would be unheard of. I want one!
Even 2gb of storage for the dreamcast would be massive, and 32 gb would be unheard of. I want one!
That´s great! I´m also interested in one of those!
i would like to purchase you when will they be aking orders.
ELF/BIN loader from JJ1ODM!
http://f17.aaa.livedoor.jp/~takotako...m.php#dcsdload
FG
what a shame the bios cant be hacked and a DVD drive be used instead.
back on topic i cant wait for the adapter to appear, it will be interesting to see what can be done via the adapter
Think you could get him to release the sources as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by -=FamilyGuy=-
This looks amazing and I definitely want one. Please reserve me one. Been waiting for this development for years. Keep up the great work!
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If Dreamcast can reconginze bigger storrage from SD card(for example 5 or 6 giga)
it would be possible to run DVD files from the SD card to dreamcast?
if not then a program to help dreamcast play them?
No. This will not add any processing power to the dreamcast, the SD interface will be slower than a DVD's streaming, and the Dreamcast can't even do SVCD at 100% speed, so it wouldn't quite be able to do DVD without massive rewrite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cast128dreams
You can definitely count me in:)
This would be great for linuxsh
So what about IDE interface?Do we have any hope from the IDE hard drive?Quote:
Originally Posted by quzar
I think that a hard drive conected to G2 bus would be faster than the GD rom drive and the Sd card.
Right?
It would also be massively more expensive, and the Dreamcast still wouldn't be able to play back DVD content.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cast128dreams
Think of it this way: we could just put 15 minutes of DVD content onto a CD. There's nothing special about the physical DVD. The Dreamcast still wouldn't be able to play back the encoded material beacuase of the compression.
What about Divx compresion?will we get any boost up from and ide interface?Quote:
Originally Posted by quzar
I though that the G2 bus its a fast port and that its possible to run comercial dreamcast games from there.
Do you know what transfer rates we can get from the G2 bus and from the dreamcast serial port?
No, this will not help multimedia playback in any way. This will not increase the processing power of the Dreamcast. The G2 port is fast, but I don't know of anything on the Dreamcast where the bottleneck is the reading off the GD. If someone were to design a new IDE interface with DMA and some other features, then *MAYBE* you could have slightly faster loading times in homebrew. That's it.
This does two things: 1) allows a person to very easily move data to/from the DC (faster than burning a CD, or uploading vmu stuff to the internet). 2) gives us rewritable media (as opposed to write-once CD-Rs).
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to be totally negative about this project. It's not going to change the sorts of things we do on the DC by much though, the biggest thing it will do is allow a DC homebrew user to only have to ever burn one CD-R (similar to what someone with a Coder's Cable or BBA does) and not worry about burning bad discs from then on. I'd hate to see the folks at emuforge sink a small fortune into link cables and effort, and after the first stuff comes out and people realize this won't let them magically play N64 or Saturn fullspeed they don't buy it or people get disillusioned and the scene collapses again (ala all the GOAT games, or the DreamON magazine, or even PSX4ALL which ya'll never got to try).
I'll take one!
Wise words. This is a device for rewritable storage (which could be among some of the best things to ever happen to the Dreamcast, and more than we see right now could come from this), but it is certainly not a magic wand that makes every emulator go full speed.Quote:
Originally Posted by quzar
Please reserve one for me, I´ll take one !
I posted a response to this at dreamcast.es also because i really hope this gets a release! What an awesome new development for the dc scene. Definately mark me down for one! :)
Oh my :D. I will buy one immediately when it comes out. Now if only we could figure out a homebrew BBA...
I'll be buying one when it's available!
I want one! been waiting for this for ages.
Hello,
I'm very interessting by this item !!!!
How can pre-owned this ?????
please help me
Even with just homebrew I would happily cough up some cash for one of these beauties. Put me down as interested. Maybe I would be able to get one before my Pandora arrives :)
Was the quoted kb/s likely capped by the serial interface itself or the card used?
Probably the interface, the Class 6 SD cards can go to about 750KB/sec.
yea I want one!!!!
Yes, i Really (with a capital freaking R!!) want one!
This seems to be really nice to code with this. I'm fed up with coders cable... So, I want one SD Adapter!
Sorry, I have barely posted on this forum, andboth my dreamcast's GD drives have died :( and left the scene and started to use the xbox 360 ever since.
BUT if I am able to get this working (without the need of ever running the gd drive) this would be absolutely FANTASTIC to use!
If that's the case, first day purchase! Just release it quick, lol!
ok, I'm ecstatic about this, and definatley want one.
I'm actually pretty handy with my soldering iron and am competent at soldering temperature sensitive surface mount components.
also, I'm not entirely sure about the dreamcast not being able to play back video, what about some incredibly raw format that doesn't require much decompression to play and is put on a large sd card? that plus the vga output this console has would make it so incredibly awesome.
Oh, and wasn't someone working on a dreamcast divx player? if a project like that could be done on an sd card it would be much more useful.
I definately want one of these, I really need 1 place for all my save games
i want ONE!!!
Hi all, I find it great that this thing is coming out, but I'm afraid the speed is overrated.
Looking at the circuit, the serial port is used in asynchronous mode, it means the top speed is 1,5Mbps (maybe I'm wrong there and there's a serial configuration I don't know).
Did the spanish guys do real speed tests on this ?
Because the circuit was easy, it tried.
The dump speed of BIOSROM was four seconds or less though details of the communication were not understood. (There is 500KBytes/sec or more. )
Picouser did you make your one making diagram shematics?
sd card adaptor circuit:
http://f17.aaa.livedoor.jp/~takotako...dcard_if_2.gif
It was easier than the corder cable.
(I used the microSD=>SD conversion adapter.)
it was easy to solder the Dreamcast motherboard?
It is possible to do easily by using the masking tape even in the small place.
What do you mean MASKING TAPE?
I mean its the tape that we fix electical wires?
Can this hold the tiny wire to the Dreamcast motherboard?
Looks like a buy for me. Hope it take SDHC.