Dreamcast ide pcb

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StepoDC
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Dreamcast ide pcb

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https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005004117158852.html

Found this. Looks interesting to me. Do anyone have experience with this?

Looks like the pcb i saw at dcswat long ago
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Lexlucifer
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Dreamcast Games you play Online: Personally none but I've wanted to play PSO since the game came out but always was unable to.

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Yes, I use it along with a Japanese Cake dual bios VA1 and the HDD they sent with it. It is pretty awesome. A few games they packed with it didn't work for one reason or another and they unexplainably used a lot of the Japanese region games despite me saying US English NTSC. Even stranger was some cases PAL games were present (sometimes with US and JPN versions).As for the hardware itself, couldn't recommend more. You can even use SATA with a converter which opens up the possibility to hold the entire collection on a drive (possibly SSD in an adaptor) for less than the gdemu is now with similar compatibility (possibly better) and without janky software transfers etc.
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wilfrido16
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Dreamcast Games you play Online: Pso ver. 2
Alien front online
Quake 3
4X4 evolution

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Post by wilfrido16 »

Interesting. It appears this ide adapter board allows you to retain the gdrom drive attached. The top case probably wont fit due to the added height.
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Lexlucifer
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Dreamcast Games you play Online: Personally none but I've wanted to play PSO since the game came out but always was unable to.

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Post by Lexlucifer »

I just noticed that! It works more similar to a Naomi. That looks to be the only thing that differs from the one I own. They apparently have some which work with VA0 as well. It makes sense if the only thing stopping it initially is a voltage tolerance discrepancy.
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protivakid
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Dreamcast Games you play Online: Phantasy Star Online

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Post by protivakid »

Lexlucifer wrote:Yes, I use it along with a Japanese Cake dual bios VA1 and the HDD they sent with it. It is pretty awesome. A few games they packed with it didn't work for one reason or another and they unexplainably used a lot of the Japanese region games despite me saying US English NTSC. Even stranger was some cases PAL games were present (sometimes with US and JPN versions).As for the hardware itself, couldn't recommend more. You can even use SATA with a converter which opens up the possibility to hold the entire collection on a drive (possibly SSD in an adaptor) for less than the gdemu is now with similar compatibility (possibly better) and without janky software transfers etc.
Does this board allow the top of your case to fit back on? Or is the OP right about added height?
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