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Help with the AV/Composite cable pin-out.
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Gollot »
Mon May 30, 2022 2:29 pm
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Hello people, I'm trying to improve my Dreamcast composite (RCA composite) cable with an original Xbox 360 composite cable that is in much better...
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and then with the VGA it works, but only if I unplug/ then replug in the AV cord
do you start the game with a VGA cable and unplug and plug the...
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Thu Feb 23, 2023 11:10 am
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Last post by aldair
Tue Feb 21, 2023 4:57 pm
Dreamcast A/V Out Sync Issue
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Odyssey113 »
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:11 pm
I've been working on a second-hand DC i picked up on the cheap a few weeks ago, one sold as-is with disc loading issues from ebay, I was hoping to...
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Last post by Odyssey113
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:11 pm
Dreamcast "crashed" and now resets after a few seconds
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Stewcumber »
Sat Nov 26, 2022 4:34 am
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I was playing MSR for about 15 minutes and I lost all video and sound. The console reset itself but would crash with a glitchy screen as soon as it...
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I had similar symptoms on my modded dreamcast(gdemu+dreampsu+noctua fan), but in addition to that fan wouldn't always spin on boot. Upon taking...
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Last post by Hellmizer
Sun Feb 19, 2023 2:33 pm
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Last post by Ryo_Hazuki
Sat Feb 18, 2023 7:52 pm
Help me fix my Maracas!
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Piers »
Wed Feb 08, 2023 5:18 pm
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I hope someone can help me or provide me with some information. I had a bit of an impulse purchase of the Samba de Amigo Maracas on Mercari. Usually...
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It's interesting that mine have 2 different plugs and the one I am going to fix is the weird one with the arrow on it(non stock one). I think I...
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Last post by Piers
Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:53 pm
Information on Blue Swirl hong kong dreamcast
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delta gray »
Mon Feb 13, 2023 10:37 am
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Hello I have managed to acquire a dreamcast, the seller has said it is from hong kong but I don't know anything about it, I have tryed to look it up...
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Probably a manufacturer thing. Maybe different factories would use different molds, but they all just wanted to achieve the same goal
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Last post by Londinium
Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:35 pm
GDEMU of mistery: works, then refuse to load games
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schermodream »
Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:16 pm
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Hallo i have one of this (i think) original GDEMU mod for my dreamcast:
First time the system booted (with a sandisk micro sd 32G inserted) all...
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i used also guiformat and FAT32/64kb options but nothing, i have this results:
Your gdemu is a chinese clone, not upgradeable via firmware or you...
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Last post by Dakangel
Sun Feb 12, 2023 4:38 am
Issues Building Modded 0GDTEX.PVR GDIs
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CORE316 »
Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:14 am
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As Title says im having issues Rebuilding these Three Games Draconus - Cult of the Wyrm v1.000 (2000)(Crave)(US) and DragonRiders - Chronicles of...
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How are you adding art to your games? I tried using the Extract GDI Image file from the 0Extract Rebuild GDIs but every time I get a message that...
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Last post by Redboff
Sat Feb 11, 2023 10:04 am
DreamPSU, is it safe?
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Meathax »
Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:29 am
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I have my Dreamcast arriving soon asking with a GDEmu & DreamPSU, now I'm reading some stuff about the DreamPSU not being the best for the console?...
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Can't comment on the DreamPSU, but I do have the ReDream PSU which is supposedly better.
No issues, no freezing, works as intended. I'm in Australia...
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Last post by Dreamcazman
Fri Feb 03, 2023 7:10 am
Strange sound problems on my new Dreamcast
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BertieWooster »
Thu Feb 02, 2023 1:48 pm
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I got my first Dreamcast in the post today, but I've been plagued with problems with the sound.
Basically, games load but there is no sound at all....
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Thanks, that's what I thought. No sound at all in the menus. I've tried everything, so I suppose it's going back :(
Not getting sound on the bios...
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Last post by BertieWooster
Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:07 pm
Need help with GD-IDE
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DeanBMT »
Mon Jan 30, 2023 8:42 am
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Hopefully someone can help.
I have a GD IDE installed from Dragoncity with a IDE to SATA converter with a 512GB SSD.
I have tried using retro...
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startech. com is generally good. Make sure the adapter has a slave setting
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Last post by rudiment
Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:18 pm
Sega Memory Card 4X not working
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VirtuaShenmue »
Wed Aug 03, 2022 4:32 pm
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I bought a 4X memory card (the Sega official one).
Unfortunately it doesn't work, it doesn't appear in the memory manager at all (so I can't even...
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Id say your best bet is to reflow the whole board, just make sure to add flux to all the contacts and give it a good even sweep with a head gun and...
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Last post by killer-elite
Wed Feb 01, 2023 7:00 pm
New type of PSU or??
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Terranir »
Tue Jan 31, 2023 3:31 am
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Hi!
Recently I've seen a new type of Dreamcast PSUs popping up on Ebay and AliExpress.
Does anyone have any more information about them? They...
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Thanks :-)
I'll order one and analyse it further. I'll post my findings here once it arrives.
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Last post by Terranir
Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:08 am
Needed for DC half life PVRStudioMDL v.1.0
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Ian Micheal »
Sat Jan 21, 2023 6:24 pm
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Wow I mixed up HL Grunt as your mod my bad! As I didn't join the online community until 2009 I dodm't know all the details. Damn that is an awesome...
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Last post by Anthony817
Tue Jan 31, 2023 1:15 pm
I think I might have messed up big time...
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wheeze »
Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:21 am
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okay, so, first off, I accidentally touched the laser thingy...it seemed to wiggle, and now none of my games are reading. do I need to mess with the...
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Curious, did you end up getting it to work?
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Last post by rudiment
Mon Jan 30, 2023 4:32 pm
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Last post by aldair
Thu Jan 26, 2023 3:49 pm
PSO Ver. 2 - Save on quit results in "Attempt to save was unsuccessful." message
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fukuhara »
Wed Jan 25, 2023 9:57 am
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Hey, guys-
I've recently started playing PSO on my dreamcast for the first time (Version 2 NTSC-U). Offline or Online, when I go to exit the game...
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The server doesn't get your storeroom data to save it and it can't restore it either. It just doesn't touch it all. If your character file gets...
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Last post by BlueCrab
Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:52 pm
SF2 Mix (BR) with MAME
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Ro Magnus Larsson »
Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:17 pm
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I need help to make the new SF2 Mix work with MAME for DC. I tried with MAME WOW Pack version but it is difficult with DS IDE, it does not recognise...
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I need help to make the new SF2 Mix work with MAME for DC. I tried with MAME WOW Pack version but it is difficult with DS IDE, it does not recognise...
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Last post by Ro Magnus Larsson
Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:41 am
Best microSD card speed for GDEmu?
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tonysantana »
Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:31 pm
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Hey guys. I am a little confused here. What is the best microSD card speed for the GDEmu 5.15b clone?
I am thinking of getting this Sandisk Ultra...
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Speed is only going to make a difference in the time it takes to copy all the games to the SD card. Even the slowest SD is faster than a GDROM
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Last post by deluxux
Sat Jan 21, 2023 6:04 pm
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Sat Jan 21, 2023 6:29 am
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Last post by Smokey
Tue Jan 17, 2023 9:40 pm
GDemu not properly playing games
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SanicTeam »
Thu Nov 03, 2022 6:22 pm
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I had recently gotten a GDemu clone to mod my Dreamcast as a gift for my brother. But something weird happens whenever I load a game. I have 267...
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Alrighty! Ive finally figured out my solution! I've found out about openMenu and one of the features that caught my eye was using GDMENU loader for...
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Last post by Ian Micheal
Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:37 am
translating a DC game - where to begin?
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skull_diggery »
Sat Dec 31, 2022 6:07 am
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Hi there!
So I've been somewhat inspired by the translation patches that people have managed to develop and was looking at attempting an edit of my...
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Yes, it can extract the track1.bin file but not 2,3 or the GDI for some reason.
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Last post by skull_diggery
Sat Jan 07, 2023 2:40 pm
Fishing Rod fried my Dreamcast?
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Want2Fish »
Sun Jan 01, 2023 4:27 am
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Hoping that somebody here will know more about DC repair/troubleshooting than I do & this will make sense because I'm at a loss. I have one of those...
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you need to check if the blue wire connects to any other wire inside the insulation.
Thanks, gonna check it out this weekend.
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Last post by Want2Fish
Thu Jan 05, 2023 5:21 am
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