School Net Experimental Disc

[mrneo240]

What the heck is this?!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265612236933

Anyone heard of this?!

[SMiTH]

my guess is its some web browser/ edu hybrid bs that is worth as much as a used car apparently.

[Ragfish]

Don't mind me, just gonna attach all the images from that ebay listing into this thread for preservation, since I don't think we've seen this many photos of it in detail and ebay listings get wiped after a few months

[Spleet]

I'll match 5k if anyone dares to buy. Problem is, it's likely useless and even for the sake of preservation, it could be even more useless without whatever server it connected to. As soon as I found it I dug deep and discovered its pretty well known in terms of rare dreamcast items, and there are different variants for different schools. Couldn't find any info regarding rips or capture, however. So maybe the number in actual circulation is in single digits as implied by forum posts. Either way, my stance remains that it's probably useless and aside from being really anal about archiving all things Dreamcast... It'd likely be a let down, even for the exploration factor lol.

Edit:

mentioned at sonic retro years back:
https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php ... ost-945471

Listed among undumped discs under not-for-sale heading, along with several others
http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title= ... sing_Games

[dark]

Yep looks like a jazzed up web browser. The back of the case talks about doing things like visiting various websites and doing "network life", which I assume probably means things like using chatrooms or sending e-mails.

[ateam]

Here's a blog post from 2018 talking about it:

https://translate.google.com/translate? ... ent=webapp

Seems quite rare, indeed!

[Ragfish]

Here's a blog post from 2018 talking about it:

https://translate.google.com/translate? ... ent=webapp

Seems quite rare, indeed!

So let me get this straight, they sent out Dreamcasts to the students at his school, and this guy just says "nice, time to play sakura wars!"

[Spleet]

Unlisted as of April 11. No record of sale. Dang. Anyone catch the seller name? I can't believe I forgot to check.

[mrneo240]

Unlisted as of April 11. No record of sale. Dang. Anyone catch the seller name? I can't believe I forgot to check.

https://m.ebay.com/seller?sid=retroalph ... 561.l49544

[Spleet]

Unlisted as of April 11. No record of sale. Dang. Anyone catch the seller name? I can't believe I forgot to check.

https://m.ebay.com/seller?sid=retroalph ... 561.l49544

Awesome. Thank you. Worth keeping an eye on just in case there's more oddities and rarities.