Dreamcast Hard Drive

Anyone still working on this? :confused:

Had an idea : (Im not hardware oriented so please forgive me).

How about replacing the interface cable between the GD rom and DC mainboard with one that has two connectors?

Placing the GD Rom on one and a HDD on the other.

To make things easier there could be some sort of switch that allows it to see the GD or the HDD but not both.

The HDD loading some sort of daemon to boot into a homebrew disc that starts up a file manager or something to that effect?

What about NAS through the BBA?

that seems simple enough

The only problem is the limited availability of DC LAN adaptors :(

There was talk of another production run a while back, I wonder what came of that :(

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Originally Posted by Tachikoma_Pilot

The only problem is the limited availability of DC LAN adaptors :(

There was talk of another production run a while back, I wonder what came of that :(

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It is already documented how to create your own. Since any hard drive addition would require a greater even modification to the Dreamcast it would be easier to work it through this way.

Also, as discussed earlier in the thread, an interface has already been designed for a Dreamcast hard drive, it simply doesn't work the way you want it to.

Personally, I already have a Dreamcast with a hard drive that I can play my games off of: a Set 5 dev box.

So lucky you are ;_;

Gieb dev box ;_;

I'm an electronics engineering student and wouldn't mind helping.

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Originally Posted by Kevin Beckman

I'm an electronics engineering student and wouldn't mind helping.

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What kind of standard IC, PIC, or such would it take to take the one data line 12 bits per cycle and the clock and output 24 bits (concatenation of two 12 bit data sets) and a halved clock?

Sorry, I'm not that far into my studies yet, but if I had to guess it would be a PIC.

Sorry if I'm interupting, (I'm new here), but I want Sonic Adventure 3 to be made 4 Dreamcast and I think a hard drive would be a perfect way to give the Dreamcast more RAM and make SA3 have up to 7 mil polys and awesome textures, just to heighten the game's quality. I dunno much about technical stuff, but giving the DC more system RAM could lead to more advanced games. Would it be possible to increase the RAM like this?!

Any chance someone could give a link to the instructions on how to build your own LAN?