Hi there. I have a Japanese Dreamcast which I owned for a year. A mouth ago, I got Sakura Wars 4.
As I played it, I got to the epilogue, explore the imperial theater and talked to Glycine until midway throught the dialogue, the game freeze but the music continue as if nothing happend.
I turn the DC off and turn it on. The led is on, the fan spine, the controller ports works as my VMUs beeps, the GD-ROM drive fuction but ther's no video or sound, and my monitor doesn't detect anything. I took it apart to see anything suspicious but see nothing.
I leave the DC for a week without turning it on and it reworked as I tried anothe game. I put Sakura Wars 4 to finish the game. I avoid the Glycine scene and try other places. I go to the diner hall and it freezed again, with the music still playing. I turn it off and on, no video and sound again. I leave it for a week but it didn't reworke this time.
I also noticed that the VMU doesn't show their icon, VMU A-1 should show a penguin icon I set myself but it doesn't. I wondered if my cables had problem but I tried them on someone else European DC and they still works.
So at this point I don't know if my copy of Sakura Wars 4 killed my DC or if time got to my unit. Is Sakura Wars 4 for DC able to kill a unit?