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**MAXIMUSpowers** · September 23rd, 2009, 18:31

Hi Alex. does this cable fit in perfect to the DC without any modification? If it does i will try to buy quite a few of these to make up and sell to people.

**аlex** · September 23rd, 2009, 18:59

Originally Posted by MAXIMUSpowers

Hi Alex. does this cable fit in perfect to the DC without any modification? If it does i will try to buy quite a few of these to make up and sell to people.

No, it needs to be modified

**MAXIMUSpowers** · September 23rd, 2009, 20:08

Hi alex. thanks for the reply. In what way does the connector need to be modified? sides trimmed?

**spinksy** · September 24th, 2009, 00:14

http://www.dc-
swat.net.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=1759

from last page alex's post MAXIMUSpowers - anymore luck on the ones you were thinking of making?

I might have a go at one of these but doubt ill be able to do it.

ALSO - anyone know where I could translate that site into English?

**StryfeDc** · September 24th, 2009, 00:17

Originally Posted by chupathingy

Hey all, I just have one quick thing to say about the "can I load romz on it?" situation.

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People, it's gonna happen one way or another. Hell, if someone didn't crack the dreamcast's protection scheme, we wouldn't have homebrew at all. So, while piracy isn't exactly good for business, I view it as a necessary evil.

I wasn't trying to start a warez discussion with my comment, but was trying to point out a technicality.

1.) You will not be able to load GD-Rom dumps of games, regardless of whether they are legal or not.

2.) You will not be able to use any SD Card loader without a working disc drive on your Dreamcast, so hopes of running things off of DC's with failed drives is a bust.

Those two issues are due to the way the Dreamcast handles it's BIOS, and the speed limitations of data transfer from a SD card to the DC.

**JLF65** · September 24th, 2009, 06:26

Originally Posted by spinksy

http://www.dc-
swat.net.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=1759

from last page alex's post MAXIMUSpowers - anymore luck on the ones you were thinking of making?

I might have a go at one of these but doubt ill be able to do it.

ALSO - anyone know where I could translate that site into English?

Google Translation

**MAXIMUSpowers** · September 27th, 2009, 11:44

Hi spinksy. I am still waiting to receive the components for the mod. I have ordered 10 of each so I will be doing a few tests!

Alex can you explain what the potential new possibilities are with using an SD card like "It can be used as virtual RAM so it can load larger data and bigger maps..."

Thanks

***quzar*** · September 27th, 2009, 13:25

It's not quite realistic to use it as virtual RAM. AFAIK at its fastest the serial port cannot transfer data faster than the GD drive.

The biggest thing this gives us is the ability to save data. The VMU is *extremely* small 122Kb of usable space at best. This could allow any number of functions that require larger amounts of persistent data space, not least of which would be a VMU save management tool.

**JLF65** · September 27th, 2009, 21:08

Originally Posted by quzar

The biggest thing this gives us is the ability to save data. The VMU is *extremely* small 122Kb of usable space at best.

QFT

That's why much of the DC homebrew compresses the data before saving it to the VMU. Things like settings and save games often compress really well.