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Hello, first of all, sorry about my bad english, I'm from Brazil.

I had a Dreamcast in 2001 and was very happy, the best video game I ever had. But thieves entered my house (yes, I live in Brazil) and stole my video game

Now, 15 years later I bought another one! The game came without power cable and AV Cable, but no problem, power cable is universal and for video I bought a VGA Cable that is working.

My problem begin when I tried to play, I still have the games that I bought in 2001, only backups, except the Demo disc and Browser disc.

The games don't work

I read of lot of stuff about laser calibration and I tried to do it, I have some knowledge in electronics because I am technician in electronics. I begin rotate the Trimpot to right to decrease the resistance and test a game, I do it until the resistance is 800ohms and no games worked (not even the demo disc and browser) and I stopped because I was afraid of burning my laser.

I tested the flat cable and it is ok, the power supply voltages is ok too.

So I remember that I have a 2001 Compaq Cd-rom Drive, I opened it and took the lens. The lens is almost identical to the Dreamcast, but have 17 ways (is correct to say 17 ways?). I put it in Dreamcast and tried decreasing the Trimpot little by little and... no games worked again. But I can see the a light flashing in the laser lens, so it is working, even with one way of flat lacking.

My doubt is : is there any other component that is preventing my game to work? What else can I try?

Here are some photos:


































The lens:
Left is DC and right Compaq


Left Compaq and right DC


Left Compaq and right DC


Compaq lens


Someone can help me?

I suspect your copies to be not working any more.

Anything on a CD-R that is older than 10 years can safely be thrown away (well, most discs anyway)...

Get a cheap retail game (or try the demo/browser disc) and try that.

Have you tried to play an audio disc? (Music CD)

I only have one retail game, and it doesn't work. But my DC plays music cd's just fine.

Thanks for the replys!

I tried with the original discs and audio discs, but not worked too.