Do there exist Dreamcast mysteries?

[megavolt85]

Does the expansion slot have enough bandwidth to use a DVD player?

expansion??? may be G1

[Cass]

I don't know if this qualifies as a mystery but the proposed VMU MP3 player was a cross bar moment for Sega.

https://segaretro.org/VMU_MP3_Player

I'm speculating here but imagine if this concept had been delivered at launch in Japan with an online store. What would have been the future for Sega and the Dreamcast?

I don't think a prototype has ever appeared so it's difficult to know how realised the concept was.

[SMiTH]

if you guys can track down zac morris..
he used to post info here about various sega patents for ringedge and prototype dreamcast peripherals.

[beanboy]

Yes there are a few.

In Soul Calibur just before you fight the final boss, Xianghua's Chinese Jian sword turns into the Soul Calibur sword, which you can use to fight the last boss Inferno. It has been rumoured for two decades, that you can unlock the soul calibur sword, to be used at anytime. Up to this day, no one has ever figured out, how to unlock that sword, or if it is possible to unlock.

If anyone has done it, please tell me.

[DC-One]

I used this hardware dongle remote controlled VCD-Player back in the days. It could play higher resolutions and bitrates than normal VCD was. I achieved near DVD quality and it ran without stuttering.

[deluxux]

I used this hardware dongle remote controlled VCD-Player back in the days. It could play higher resolutions and bitrates than normal VCD was. I achieved near DVD quality and it ran without stuttering.

How did it? higher resolutions and bitrates would be on the disc...

[Londinium]

if you guys can track down zac morris..
he used to post info here about various sega patents for ringedge and prototype dreamcast peripherals.

There's a chance he got that info from patent/trademark lookups and web archives. I remember seeing a trademark for an unused Dreamcast logo, so no doubt there might be more undiscovered content waiting to be unearthed, both known and unknown...

[Ian Micheal]

I used this hardware dongle remote controlled VCD-Player back in the days. It could play higher resolutions and bitrates than normal VCD was. I achieved near DVD quality and it ran without stuttering.

Limited by bitrate of vcd transfer on milcd not on a gdrom you not going to get above 1400kb bit rate ever from a mil cd that's just how it is hardware limit normal or sweet spot for block 1 and 2 is 600kb yo 800kb a sec no matter what the dongle does..or the software..

Does not matter about the software or hardware the gdrom drive playing a cdrom cant get a fast enff transfer speed..

4xm can do DVD quality on gdrom but a cdr no

so that's all bunk trust me spent months looking into this..

[DC-One]

I used this hardware dongle remote controlled VCD-Player back in the days. It could play higher resolutions and bitrates than normal VCD was. I achieved near DVD quality and it ran without stuttering.

How did it? higher resolutions and bitrates would be on the disc...

I used a software to manually encode DVDs to VCDs. I guess it was TMPGEnc (sorry, it has been a long time ago). So I could set the resolution and bitrate I wanted to use by myself. It was a long testing period until I found the max settings for both values. Don't ask me about the values. Too much time has passed so I don't know anymore. I bought the player at Lik-Sang. I only remember that the quality I achieved was way better than any other videofiles I saw on Dreamcast. No artifacts, no stuttering. And I could use a remote control. And it could compete with DVD quality, but remember it was the time of tube televisions. That player was awesome!

[DC-One]

I used this hardware dongle remote controlled VCD-Player back in the days. It could play higher resolutions and bitrates than normal VCD was. I achieved near DVD quality and it ran without stuttering.

Limited by bitrate of vcd transfer on milcd not on a gdrom you not going to get above 1400kb bit rate ever from a mil cd that's just how it is hardware limit normal or sweet spot for block 1 and 2 is 600kb yo 800kb a sec no matter what the dongle does..or the software..

Does not matter about the software or hardware the gdrom drive playing a cdrom cant get a fast enff transfer speed..

4xm can do DVD quality on gdrom but a cdr no

so that's all bunk trust me spent months looking into this..

That is why I post it in the mysteries section. =)

I do not say that I got actual DVD bitrate. I just say that I could achieve very, very good video quality.