make a DC DVD addon?

[OneThirty8]

This makes me very happy to hear
Both my dreamcast consoles will be happy enough to try 'em once its released.
Keep up the good work:thumbup:

Thanks. :-) There are still a number of bugs to fix. I'm probably going to rewrite most of the VCD-specific stuff. And the code is a real mess at this point, so I need to clean it up a lot and get rid of all the stuff I have commented/#ifded-ed out, move things like synchronization code to new modules... stuff like that.

[Moonfrost]

I made a post in here...what happened? I didn't talk about piracy at all!!

[reliantkcar]

the dreamcast was built to play dvd's as it turns out. read the last 2 things the graphics chip can do

http://www.segatech.com/technical/gpu/index.html

[dcdood]

most GPUs of the late 90s supported DVD Encoding, so this didn't come of a suprise, just the fact that shenmue would have such a higher sound rate over compressing for GDs

2 issues would still be transfer rate and sound. I'd imagine that if anything, you'll have to work via BBA|Modem Bus over Serial to have DVD Playback. and Sound maybe compatable, the SPU has many channels so DD might be possible, i had no problems with DVD on ps2 with stereo.

If you hack the bios and insert DVD code, than GD-Roms and DVDs can live together. or just use cd-r to access DVD like Linux or NetBSD

[NeverGoingBack]

what if you just wanted to use it to load more homebrew stuff on one disc. say you wanted to load it up with about 3g of stuff rather than 700mb

this would be a great and simple use for dc dvd drive.