Anyone know about the history of DC homebrew?

[RetroRevival]

So are you saying that all UK PAL machines will play non official software, irrelative of the date of manufacture (even after October 2000)?

Does anyone know when the UK PAL mahcines had their production stopped?

Regards
Simon

[curt_grymala]

Heh. We posted at the same time. ;D

[curt_grymala]

[quote author=RetroRevival link=board=homebrew;num=1102703283;start=0#10 date=12/17/04 at 21:25:32]So are you saying that all UK PAL machines will play non official software, irrelative of the date of manufacture (even after October 2000)?

Does anyone know when the UK PAL mahcines had their production stopped?

Regards
Simon[/quote]

Basically that's what I'm saying. All PAL machines (whether they're from the UK or not) should play CD-R's. I've heard rumors about a small number of factory reconditioned DC's that ended up getting the new bios installed, but I don't know for sure if any of those were PAL machines.

I don't know when UK production stopped.

[RetroRevival]

Basically that's what I'm saying. All PAL machines (whether they're from the UK or not) should play CD-R's. I've heard rumors about a small number of factory reconditioned DC's that ended up getting the new bios installed, but I don't know for sure if any of those were PAL machines.

I thought you was, just wanted to clarify it.

As it is a UK based fanzine, the article is UK biased, hence the reasoning for asking the question.

Thanks again (hope you do not mind me aksing all these questions!)

Regards
Simon

[curt_grymala]

[quote author=RetroRevival link=board=homebrew;num=1102703283;start=0#13 date=12/17/04 at 21:33:02]Thanks again (hope you do not mind me aksing all these questions!)[/quote]

Not at all. I'm always glad to see the DC getting a little bit of publicity, and I'm always happy to help.

[Eric]

I heard with the NTSC machines if you had that problem now running a CD-R make an image that is Data-Data instead of Audio-Data and that should fix it?

[curt_grymala]

[quote author=Curtiss Grymala link=board=homebrew;num=1102703283;start=0#9 date=12/17/04 at 21:25:19]There are a lot of theories out there about getting it to work, and there are even quite a few tutorials, but a lot of respected members of the scene (MetaFox included) try with a small gleam of hope each time we come across one of these theories, and always find out that those DC's still will not boot CD-R's.[/quote]

Eric - believe me, that's been tried. It simply isn't true, unfortunately. :'(

[Darksaviour69]

[quote author=RetroRevival link=board=homebrew;num=1102703283;start=0#10 date=12/17/04 at 21:25:32]

Does anyone know when the UK PAL mahcines had their production stopped?

Regards
Simon[/quote]

from reading from my old official dreamcast mag (issue 17)

Sega,....have confirmed that the production of the Dreamcast console, in its current form, will be suspended at the end of March.

the whole "current form" thing was that pace had bought rights to produce set-box dreamcasts (like you sky box), but that never happened :-/

[curt_grymala]

I'm guessing that means March of 2001?

[Mental2k]

Didnt they manage to reduce the DC to one chip or somethin, i think i remember reading that in a magazine, and they could put it on a pci card or somethin, so in conjunction with a pc gd-rom unit you'd be able to play your dc games on the pc.