Dreamcast SD Adaptor Coming Soon - Show Your Interest to Reserve One

[Cast128dreams]

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.

So what about IDE interface?Do we have any hope from the IDE hard drive?

I think that a hard drive conected to G2 bus would be faster than the GD rom drive and the Sd card.

Right?

[quzar]

So what about IDE interface?Do we have any hope from the IDE hard drive?

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.

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.

[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?

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?

[quzar]

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).

[dutchwombat]

I'll take one!

[SnoopKatt]

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).

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.

[Gleere]

Please reserve one for me, I´ll take one !

[enfilade000]

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!

[Sonic the Plumber]

Oh my . I will buy one immediately when it comes out. Now if only we could figure out a homebrew BBA...

[descender2]

I'll be buying one when it's available!