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Posted: **Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:00 pm**

I was told people with 16 GB sdhc card work so... it could work.
I still don't have mine so I can't test it.

Posted: **Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:13 pm**

http://www.amazon.com/Syba-SD-CF-IDE-Co ... B000YUMLPI convert an IDE drive to compact flash so you can get a cf to sd adapter and use an IDE hardrive. That would be sweet if it worked!

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:49 pm**

Big announcement folks! My SD Adapter came in, and I tested my 32GB SDHC card on it, and guess what? It friken works man!!!

I am so happy right now, and this is the koolest thing I have that most likely nobody else has, or they havent reported they have tested such large cards!

Complete emulator collections are going first, and then all the NTSC games I can throw at it!

Imagine a NTSC-U collection of all compatible working games on a single SD card! I know not all games would work, but the prospect of it is so amazing sounding!

I'll have a full review of it in 2 or so days, after I get more alone time with the device and test more games out.

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:54 pm**

I envy you right now Anthony, mine is yet to come...

Make sure to make a great review, but don't get too excited making sdisos, at least wait for a new version of dreamshell.

Posted: **Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:17 pm**

Yeah, I am just using the ones I found over at the FTP we have at the SWAT forums. The downloading time is just too damn slow...

Man, just wait, it is going to be even better when Dreamshell 5.0 comes out!

Anyway, you should get yours in no time. You said you ordered it a month ago correct? Should have only 1 month more to go I hope.

Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:21 pm**

So, I said I was going to do a review of this thing, and how well the build quality is, and my experiance with my new 32GB SDHC card.

Here is the packaging it comes in.

Ok, so the first thing I noticed when I was opening one of these, is the actual serial port connector has been fashoned with a peice of plastic to act as a spacer to keep the device firmly placed in the serial port. This is not a bad thing, and actualy looks quite nice if you ask me. You will never notice it when it is plugged in anyway.

I did order an orange one, to keep the NTSC theme going with my Dreamcast, but apperiantly the orange ones sold out first, as I did specify to them I wanted the orange one, but they gave me an email saying that option was not available.

So far, I have gotten retail games Gigawing and Mars Matrix working, the later of which had some stuttering issues duing the Capcom logo, but once in game it worked fluidly as expected with full audio.

As far as homebrew goes, in my experiance with Neo Geo CD games, it works great, Double Dragon was fine by me. Aes4all should be updated in the future to be more compatible with the SD cards and use them as ram for the carts, so arcade games MIGHT work full speed in the future, but as of now, the low ram the DC has has kept emulation very slow for that system.

Dcplaya2.0 was updated with a SD card plugin, so you can browse the media directly from the SD card, but this hasn't worked for me with either my 2gb or 32gb card, and could be a common bug, but it should get worked out in the future I hope.

In the future Dreamshell will get updated with more features that I can't elaborate on just yet, but I assure you it will be more than worth it, and time spent waiting on these to come to your house. Mine took a little over 2 months, and you can do what I did and get a 32gig card on Ebay for $42 and fill it up with all kinds of GDI, CDI and homebrew binaries.